In volatile markets, controlling downside risk is critical in order to achieve strong returns and market-neutral investing has emerged as a leading method for achieving this goal. In this book, U.S. investment expert Joseph G. Nicholas explores important new market-neutral approaches to return enhancement and risk reduction. Market-neutral strategies help in eliminating certain market risks through offsetting long and short positions and can be used with all the different asset classes. The complexities created by the combination of longs, shorts, and leverage, however, make market-neutral strategies very different from conventional investments. Getting to know how these strategies work involves breaking them down into their basic components and then examining how those parts interact as a system with specific risk and reward characteristics

An inside view of what makes market neutral strategies tick and how they can be implemented Market neutral strategies have gained attention for their potential to deliver positive returns regardless of the direction of underlying markets. As these strategies have built a record of good performance in recent years, their benefits have become apparent. Market Neutral Strategies draws on the wisdom and experience of professional practitioners to describe strategies that are being utilized by some of today's leading institutional investors. This book provides readers with an insider's view of what makes these strategies work and how they can be implemented successfully. Topics covered include long-short equity and convertibles, fixed income and merger arbitrage; the tax and ERISA implications of market neutral investing; and the failure of two notorious "market neutral" ventures, Askin Capital Management and Long-Term Capital Management. Bruce I. Jacobs (Florham Park, NJ) and Kenneth N. Levy are cofounders and principals of Jacobs Levy Equity Management, in Florham Park, New Jersey. They are coauthors of Equity Management: Quantitative Analysis for Stock Selection. Bruce Jacobs holds a PhD in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the author of Capital Ideas and Market Realities: Option Replication, Investor Behavior, and Stock Market Crashes.

It is the best investment strategy you've never heard of. The stock market still intrigues people, but shell-shocked individual investors have learned to be more savvy and realistic with their investments. There is no way to eliminate risk when stocks fluctuate, but risk can be reduced and even controlled. Geared to individual investors, Eric Stokes unravels the mysteries behind using market neutral investing principles, enabling readers to make money by using his proven low-risk, high-return balanced techniques. In addition to tips that cover beginning to intermediate investing topics, Stokes also presents the strategies behind market neutral investing in practical, easy-to-understand terms. Stocks go up and down, but investors shouldn't have to limit themselves to only one-half of the equation. Enter market neutral investing, where investors can take advantage of movement in both directions: long and short investing. Market Neutral Investing teaches investors: * How to implement this proven strategy, used since the 1940's by the most elite money managers. * What the three different types of portfolio risks are: company, sector, and market, and how to manage them. * How to sell a stock short and make money when a stock price declines. * What ""hedge funds"" are, how they operate, and what makes them attractive. * What the five simple measures of stock valuation are and how to use them.

Market Neutral: State-of-the-Art Strategies for Every Market Environment goes beyond the recent hyperbole and drama to present insightful, reasonable, and well-researched articles on this valuable and necessary tool. Far from being new and unproven, the market-neutral investing structure has been around in one form or another for at least half of a century. From its use as the cornerstone of the A.W. Jones 1949 investment partnership, considered the first hedge fund by investment historians, through the critical 1995 IRS ruling that long/short investing does not create unrelated business taxable income (UBTI), market-neutral investing has consistently weathered investment storms to earn its badge as a leading, fundamentally sound investment technique. Debunking the myths and half-truths that surround this often misunderstood topic, Market Neutral: State-of-the-Art Strategies for Every Market Environment contains 12 highly readable and definitive dissertations, edited by asset allocation series editors Jess Lederman and Robert A. Klein. The discerning reader is left with a clear and unequivocal portrait of market-neutral investing, the technique considered by many investment experts and scholars to be the most important single investment development rising on today's asset-building horizon.

Investment pioneer Len Zacks presents the latest academic research on how to beat the market using equity anomalies The Handbook of Equity Market Anomalies organizes and summarizes research carried out by hundreds of finance and accounting professors over the last twenty years to identify and measure equity market inefficiencies and provides self-directed individual investors with a framework for incorporating the results of this research into their own investment processes. Edited by Len Zacks, CEO of Zacks Investment Research, and written by leading professors who have performed groundbreaking research on specific anomalies, this book succinctly summarizes the most important anomalies that savvy investors have used for decades to beat the market. Some of the anomalies addressed include the accrual anomaly, net stock anomalies, fundamental anomalies, estimate revisions, changes in and levels of broker recommendations, earnings-per-share surprises, insider trading, price momentum and technical analysis, value and size anomalies, and several seasonal anomalies. This reliable resource also provides insights on how to best use the various anomalies in both market neutral and in long investor portfolios. A treasure trove of investment research and wisdom, the book will save you literally thousands of hours by distilling the essence of twenty years of academic research into eleven clear chapters and providing the framework and conviction to develop market-beating strategies. Strips the academic jargon from the research and highlights the actual returns generated by the anomalies, and documented in the academic literature Provides a theoretical framework within which to understand the concepts of risk adjusted returns and market inefficiencies Anomalies are selected by Len Zacks, a pioneer in the field of investing As the founder of Zacks Investment Research, Len Zacks pioneered the concept of the earnings-per-share surprise in 1982 and developed the Zacks Rank, one of the first anomaly-based stock selection tools. Today, his firm manages U.S. equities for individual and institutional investors and provides investment software and investment data to all types of investors. Now, with his new book, he shows you what it takes to build a quant process to outperform an index based on academically documented market inefficiencies and anomalies.

In today's volatile markets, managing risk is more important than ever. Investors are looking for downside protection while maintaining good returns--and market-neutral investing has become one of the hottest methods to meet that need. In this book, industry expert Joseph G. Nicholas explores new approaches to return enhancement and risk reduction through market-neutral strategies. Market-neutral investments are attractive because they have produced substantially better risk-adjusted returns than the market during the past ten years. The complexities created by the combination of longs, shorts, and leverage, however, make market-neutral strategies very different from conventional investments. Getting to know how these strategies work involves breaking them down into their basic components and then examining how those parts interact as a system with specific behavior characteristics. This book examines eight key strategies, revealing the source of their past returns and giving the investor tools with which to measure the possibility of repeat performance. Nicholas draws extensively on his company's database of over three thousand hedge funds and from the daily portfolio analysis conducted for hedge fund portfolios. He has also incorporated extensive input and actual investment examples provided by managers and practitioners of each of the strategies discussed in the book. This is the one book that looks at market-neutral strategies head-on, assessing those that have worked and some notable ones that have failed--and explaining why. Clear, insightful, and illustrated with numerous charts and graphs, Market-Neutral Investing is an invaluable guide for professional investors.

STOCK TRADING DOESN'T GET ANY EASIER THAN THIS. THE PROVEN TWOFOLD METHOD OF STOCK TRADING THAT HAS EVERYBODY TALKING Believe it or not, anyone can be a successful trader, even if you have no MBA, no financial background, and no interest in business. Bestselling author Thomas Carr (a.k.a. Dr. Stoxx) has developed a trading system so easy to use that virtually anybody can achieve steady growth whether the market is up, down, or sideways. How is this possible? By integrating the two most popular trading approaches--technical and fundamental analysis--into one easy-touse market-neutral system. Learn how to: Manage your stocks with one simple weekly routine Create a portfolio that reduces risk while increasing returns Maximize profit potential using a multistrategic approach Generate steady trading income over both short and long terms Build a million-dollar account that just keeps on growing Based on 12 years of historical testing and realmoney experimentation, this proven approach to successful stock trading provides seven strategic methods that anyone can master. You'll learn how to use the best available information to find the best possible stocks, positioning your money for growth no matter what happens in the market. You'll discover the easiest automated tools to build and adjust your stock portfolio--without wasting hours scanning through endless charts and financial reports. With Dr. Carr's system in place, you can show outsized returns in both bull and bear markets. Forget worrying about future market direction! With "market-neutral trading," you can profit like a pro whether the markets skyrocket or collapse. All you need is a little persistence to make these market-neutral systems work in any economy. Stock trading doesn't have to be complicated. Dr. Carr's Market-Neutral Trading is the simplest, smartest way to get more bang for your buck. PRAISE FOR MARKET-NEUTRAL TRADING: "From the first quote to the final words, Market-Neutral Trading is as highly inspirational as it is brilliantly educational. A phenomenal synthesis of all existing and often conflicting trading wisdom. Drink it in, follow its lead, and this book will help you to soar to the promised land of profitable trading, virtually guaranteed!" -- Garry Gladstone, U.S. Investing Championship Winner "I read many books regarding trading, but when I read [Dr. Carr's] Trend Trading for a Living, it became a must reference on my trading bookshelf. Market-Neutral Trading is another must-have book for the serious trader. Dr. Carr is again revealing new trading tools to navigate the ever-changing world of trading markets." -- Sam Chab, Financial Analyst, Defense Industry "Full of practical advice, Market-Neutral Trading is an easy-to-understand explanation of how technical analysis works for your living financially." -- Senuadi Tandun, MBA, CFP, QWP, AEPP, a member of the Financial Planning Advisory Board of Indonesia, practicing financial planner, and active investor "Market-Neutral Trading is a low-risk hedging strategy with strong consistent returns in volatile markets. The best part is that it only takes a little time each week with little monitoring." -- Randy Russell, CFP, Senior Financial Advisor, Metro Atlanta District, VALIC Financial Advisors, Inc. "I love Dr. Carr's unique take on the marketplace. His ability to blend technical and fundamental analysis in ways that work is simply unmatched." -- Jeffrey Gibby, Senior Vice President, New Business Development, Metastock

An updated guide to the theory and practice of investment management Many books focus on the theory of investment management and leave the details of the implementation of the theory up to you. This book illustrates how theory is applied in practice while stressing the importance of the portfolio construction process. The Second Edition of The Theory and Practice of Investment Management is the ultimate guide to understanding the various aspects of investment management and investment vehicles. Tying together theoretical advances in investment management with actual practical applications, this book gives you a unique opportunity to use proven investment management techniques to protect and grow a portfolio under many different circumstances. Contains new material on the latest tools and strategies for both equity and fixed income portfolio management Includes key take-aways as well as study questions at the conclusion of each chapter A timely updated guide to an important topic in today's investment world This comprehensive investment management resource combines real-world financial knowledge with investment management theory to provide you with the practical guidance needed to succeed within the investment management arena.

From a leading trading systems developer, how to make profitable trades when there are no obvious trends How does a trader find alpha when markets make no sense, when price shocks cause diversification to fail, and when it seems impossible to hedge? What strategies should traders, long conditioned to trend trading, deploy? In Alpha Trading: Profitable Strategies That Remove Directional Risk, author Perry Kaufman presents strategies and systems for profitably trading in directionless markets and in those experiencing constant price shocks. The book Details how to exploit new highs and lows Describes how to hedge primary risk components, find robustness, and craft a diversification program Other titles by Kaufman: New Trading Systems and Methods, 4th Edition and A Short Course in Technical Trading, both by Wiley Given Kaufman's 30 years of experience trading in almost every kind of market, his Alpha Trading will be a welcome addition to the trading literature of professional and serious individual traders for years to come.

This book is written for quantitative finance professionals, students, educators, and mathematically inclined individual investors. It is about some of the latest developments in pricing, hedging, and investing in incomplete markets. With regard to pricing, two frameworks are fully elaborated: neutral and indifference pricing. With regard to hedging, the most conservative and relaxed hedging formulas are derived. With regard to investing, the neutral pricing methodology is also considered as a tool for connecting market asset prices with optimal positions in such assets. Srdjan D. Stojanovic is Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at University of Cincinnati (USA) and Professor in the Center for Financial Engineering at Suzhou University (China).