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Quantitative Equity Investing: Techniques and Strategies (The Frank J. Fabozzi Series)

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Nice book for hardcore quants

By Hu Pan - September 7, 2010

In this Great Recession, quants have become notorious again, since Black Money, October 19th, 1987. At that time, it is called "program trading". Fast forward to May 6th, 2010, the "flash crash" happened, causing Dow to drop more than 1000 points in couple of minutes. Now, it is called high-frequency trading, which accounts for 40% to 70% of all trading on every stock market in U.S.. Regardless of program trading or high-frequency trading, it is based on quantitative techniques, which makes the book "Quantitative Equity Investing -- Techniques and Strategies" interesting, particularly so for these who want to understand what these "crazy" quants from Wall Street are doing and outsmart the markets or market makers.

Modern quantitative techniques are based on modern portfolio theory, introduced by Harry Markowitz in 1952,

in which he suggested that investors should decide the allocation of their investment funds on the basis of the trade-off between portfolio risk,... read more

Unexciting but solid

By Dimitri Shvorob - April 25, 2011

I will disagree with Hu's description of this book as one for "hardcore quants". Quants dealing with derivatives - my definition of "hardcore" - read very different books. Quants from algo arena cannot be satisfied with Chapter 11, the only one of relevance to them. Quants working with models of equity returns do stand to benefit - especially if they need a refresher on things like linear regression, VAR (and VaR), factor/canonical/principal-components analysis, mean-variance optimization (theory plus implementation, including "robust" techniques), CAPM and Black-Litterman, and prominent financial-economics research.

The authors themselves suggest the book for a graduate or advanced undergraduate course. (To me, command of basic matrix algebra appears to be the only pre-requisite). The pedagogical orientation is in line with other titles in the Fabozzi series. So is the quality, which can't be taken for granted in a Wiley book. Authors know the subject, go beyond "textbook"... read more

This book is not about quantitative equity investing

By Pseudo Intellectual - June 21, 2011

This is one of the worst qauntitative equity investing books I've seen. It reads like a collection of chapters taken from other books. Though I haven't done a side by side comparision, I wouldn't be surprised if many of the chapters were lifted directly from other Frank J. Fabozzi books. I am guessing the authors want the reader to believe that the first chapter makes this book about quantitative equity investing and that it ties the rest of the chapters together, but it doesn't. The first chapter describes investment professionals' responses to a survey. If you're trying to learn how to invest in stocks quantitatively, this survey is of little use. The remaining chapters are mainly short descriptions of econometric and optimization techniques. These subjects are better left to more comprehensive, specialized texts. On top of poor organization and shallow theory, the book reads like it was written by someone for whom English is a second language. This is not a fault of the authors, of... read more

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