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Author Weigand, Robert A

Title Applied Equity Analysis and Portfolio Management + Online Video Course : Tools to Analyze and Manage Your Stock Portfolio
Published Wiley, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Applied Equity Analysis and Portfolio Management; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Perspectives on Active and Passive Money Management; Terminology: Investors, Investment Vehicles, Risk and Return; Relative versus Absolute Return Investing; Alpha and Beta: Excess Returns and Market Risk; The Top-Down Fundamental Analysis Process; Why Stocks with Solid Fundamentals Outperform over Long Horizons; The Record of Professional Money Managers; Why Do Active Managers Underperform?; Market Efficiency, Behavioral Finance, and Adaptive Expectations; Market Efficiency; Behavioral Finance
The Adaptive Markets HypothesisAdditional Perspectives on Investing; John Bogle: An Index Fund Fundamentalist (2002); Charles Ellis: "Levels of the Game" (2000); Charles Ellis: "The Winner's Game" (2003); Dorn, Dorn, and Sengmueller: "Why Do People Trade?" (2008); John Maynard Keynes: Chapter 12 of the General Theory; Professional Investment Policy Statements; Morgan Stanley Focus Growth Strategy Profile (2013, Edited); A Sample Investment Policy; Summary; Questions; Answers to Selected Questions; References; Notes; Chapter 2 Analyzing the Macro-Finance Environment
Economic Analysis: The First Step of a Top-Down Fundamental ProcessSector Rotation; Writing Guidelines; Data Considerations: Nominal and Real Time Series; National Income, Corporate Profits, and Job Creation; Leading Economic Indicators; LE-1. The Average Length of the Manufacturing Workweek (weight = 27.8%); LE-2. Institute for Supply Management New Manufacturing Orders Index (weight = 16.5%); LE-3. University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index (weight = 15.5%); LE-4. Interest Rate Spread, 10-Year Treasury Yield Minus Fed Funds Rate (weight = 10.7%)
LE-5. Manufacturers' New Orders for Consumer Goods and Materials (weight = 8.1%)LE-6. Chicago Federal Reserve's National Credit Conditions Index (weight = 7.9%); LE-7. Stock Prices, S & P 500 Index (weight = 3.8%); LE-8. Manufacturers' New Orders, Nondefense Capital Goods (weight = 3.6%); LE-9. Average Weekly Claims for Unemployment Insurance (weight = 3.3%); LE-10. Building Permits, New Private Housing Units (weight = 2.7%); Coincident Economic Indicators; CO-1. Nominal and Real Total Retail Sales (weight = 53.2%); CO-2. Employees on Nonagricultural Payrolls (weight = 26.0%)
CO-3. Personal Income Less Transfer Payments (weight = 13.6%)CO-4. Index of Industrial Production (weight = 7.3%); Lagging Economic Indicators; LA-1. Average Prime Rate (weight = 28.2%); LA-2. Ratio of Consumer Installment Credit/Personal Income (weight = 21.0%); LA-3. Consumer Price Index for Services (weight = 19.6%); LA-4. Inventory to Sales Ratio, Manufacturing and Trade (weight = 12.6%); LA-5. Commercial and Industrial Loans (weight = 9.7%); LA-6. Unit Labor Cost, Manufacturing (weight = 6.2%); LA-7. Average Duration of Unemployment (weight = 3.7%); Supplemental Economic Indicators
Summary A ""hands-on"" guide to applied equity analysis and portfolio management From asset allocation to modeling the intrinsic value of a stock, Applied Equity Analysis and Portfolio Management + Online Video Course offers readers a solid foundation in the practice of fundamental analysis using the same tools and techniques as professional investors. Filled with real-world illustrations and hands-on applications, Professor Weigand's learning system takes a rigorous, empirical approach to topics such as analyzing the macro-finance environment, sector rotation, financial analysis and valuation, asse
Notes Print version record
Subject Portfolio management.
Technical analysis (Investment analysis)
Stocks.
Portfolio management
Stocks
Technical analysis (Investment analysis)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1306412331
9781306412339
9781118819180
1118819187