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Preface | p. xi |
Introduction: The Birth of the Quant | p. 1 |
Characterizing the Quant | p. 3 |
Active versus Passive Investing | p. 6 |
Desperately Seeking Alpha | p. 11 |
The Beginnings of the Modern Alpha Era | p. 16 |
Important History of Investment Management | p. 18 |
Methods of Alpha Searching | p. 20 |
Risky Business | p. 27 |
Experienced versus Exposed Risk | p. 28 |
The Black Swan: A Minor ELE Event-Are Quants to Blame? | p. 34 |
Active versus Passive Risk | p. 38 |
Other Risk Measures: VAR, C-VAR, and ETL | p. 49 |
Summary | p. 52 |
Beta Is Not "Sharpe" Enough | p. 55 |
Back to Beta | p. 64 |
Beta and Volatility | p. 65 |
The Way to a Better Beta: Introducing the g-Factor | p. 67 |
Tracking Error: The Deviant Differential Measurer | p. 75 |
Summary | p. 77 |
Mr. Graham, I Give You Intelligence | p. 79 |
Fama-French Equation | p. 81 |
The Graham Formula | p. 89 |
Factors for Use in Quant Models | p. 90 |
Momentum: Increasing Investor Interest | p. 96 |
Volatility as a Factor in Alpha Models | p. 113 |
Modeling Pitfalls and Perils | p. 123 |
Data Availability, Look-Ahead, and Survivorship Biases | p. 124 |
Building Models You Can Trust | p. 127 |
Scenario, Out-of-Sample, and Shock Testing | p. 131 |
Data Snooping and Mining | p. 139 |
Statistical Significance and Other Fascinations | p. 140 |
Choosing an Investment Philosophy | p. 148 |
Growth, Value, Quality | p. 149 |
Investment Consultant as Dutch Uncle | p. 152 |
Where Are the Relative Growth Managers? | p. 154 |
Testing the Graham Crackers ... er, Factors | p. 159 |
The First Tests: Sorting | p. 160 |
Time-Series Plots | p. 173 |
The Next Tests: Scenario Analysis | p. 182 |
Building Models from Factors | p. 193 |
Surviving Factors | p. 194 |
Weighting the Factors | p. 197 |
The Art versus Science of Modeling | p. 200 |
Time Series of Returns | p. 210 |
Other Conditional Information | p. 215 |
The Final Model | p. 217 |
Other Methods of Measuring Performance: Attribution Analysis via Brinson and Risk Decomposition | p. 220 |
Regression of the Graham Factors with Forward Returns | p. 228 |
Building Portfolios from Models | p. 233 |
The Deming Way: Benchmarking Your Portfolio | p. 235 |
Portfolio Construction Issues | p. 247 |
Using an Online Broker: Fidelity, E*Trade, TD Ameritrade, Schwab, Interactive Brokers, and TradeStation | p. 249 |
Working with a Professional Investment Management System: Bloomberg, Clarifi, and FactSet | p. 251 |
Barguments: The Antidementia Bacterium | p. 255 |
The Colossal Nonfailure of Asset Allocation | p. 256 |
The Stock Market as a Class of Systems | p. 258 |
Stochastic Portfolio Theory: An Introduction | p. 266 |
Portfolio Optimization: The Layman's Perspective | p. 276 |
Tax-Efficient Optimization | p. 282 |
Summary | p. 282 |
Past and Future View | p. 285 |
Why Did Global Contagion and Meltdown Occur? | p. 292 |
Fallout of Crises | p. 297 |
The Rise of the Multinational State-Owned Enterprises | p. 301 |
The Emerged Markets | p. 310 |
The Future Quant | p. 311 |
Notes | p. 317 |
Acknowledgments | p. 325 |
About the Author | p. 327 |
Index | p. 329 |
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