Equity Valuation and Portfolio Management

Understanding the intricacies of equity valuation and portfolio management is essential for both practicing financial professionals as well as those aspiring to enter this field. But finding truly helpful information on these issues can be difficult. That's why you need Equity Valuation and Portfolio Management. Led by financial experts Frank Fabozzi and Harry Markowitz, the contributors to this -successful practitioners with experience as equity portfolio managers and/or equity strategists-discuss state-of-the-art methods for implementing equity valuation models, trading models, and portfolio management strategies. And with key points and questions found at the end of each chapter, you???ll quickly discover how well you know each topic covered before moving on to the next one. Written to reflect the challenges you'll most likely face in 's dynamic market environment, Equity Valuation and Portfolio Management contains insights on the most essential aspects of this discipline as well as the tools you'll need to make more informed financial decisions. Along the way, you'll become familiar with: The fundamentals of quantitative equity investing and the most common techniques used by quantitative equity managers Relative valuation methods for equity analysis A framework for equity portfolio management that includes an outline of the relationships between stocks and investment approaches as well as the potential rewards and risks How to build and test factor-based models that can be used as the basis for trading strategies The use of equity risk factor models in various applications, namely the analysis of portfolio risk, portfolio construction, scenario analysis, and performance attribution Quantitative formulations of portfolio allocation problems used in equity portfolio management And much more While many of the chapters of this book cover the motivation for quantitative equity investing and actual quantitative equity models, an informative chapter reviewing three -based on surveys and interviews of market participants regarding their experience with quantitative equity techniques-is also included to help put things in perspective and address the challenges that lie ahead. Accessible and engaging, Equity Valuation and Portfolio Management is the guide you need to excel at this difficult endeavor.