Bernd R. Fischer - Böcker

This Second Edition of Performance Evaluation and Attribution Volume One: Asset Pricing and Models, presents an updated, comprehensive exploration of portfolio performance evaluation. Based on the authors’ Performance Evaluation and Attribution of Security Portfolios (2012), this volume of the second edition adds four new chapters and updated content throughout in its practical approach to measuring manager skills and using recent statistical techniques to solve investment problems. Added are new factor models, including the newly developed q-factor model, new examples, and new work on qualitative considerations that can be used in identifying skilled fund managers. This highly detailed new edition combines academic rigor with insights and guidance for real-world applications of diverse approaches to identifying skilled professional portfolio managers

Adds four new chapters; every other chapter has been expanded and updatedAdds detailed derivations of the mathematics of mean-variance asset pricing, making the book suitable for an investments course at the Ph.D., Master’s, and (advanced) undergraduate levelsPresents new material for target date funds as well as a comprehensive survey of fund ratings servicesA solutions manual for all chapter-end problems is available from the author: russwermers@gmail.com

Just how successful is that investment? Measuring portfolio performance requires evaluation (measuring portfolio results against benchmarks) and attribution (determining individual results of the portfolio's parts), In this book, a professor and an asset manager show readers how to use theories, applications, and real data to understand these tools. Unlike others, Fischer and Wermers teach readers how to pick the theories and applications that fit their specific needs. With material inspired by the recent financial crisis, Fischer and Wermers bring new clarity to defining investment success.

Gives readers the theories and the empirical tools to handle their own data Features practice problems formerly from the CFA Program curriculum.

This Second Edition of Performance Attribution and Evaluation Volume Two: Analysis and Reporting explains the practical aspects of building or interpreting a top-to-bottom performance attribution system applicable to many asset classes, providing a toolkit of attribution techniques for analyzing the performance of portfolio managers. Requiring a familiarity with the principal concepts of portfolio analysis, it features standard methodologies and alternative approaches to the attribution of diverse assets, including derivatives, fixed income, and hedge funds. Based on the authors’ Performance Evaluation and Attribution of Security Portfolios (2012), this volume‘s concentration on the ethical standards embodied by GIPS includes a summary of provisions for the presentation of risk in a firm’s investments.. Features new changes to Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS). Expands and updates all chapters, including new sections on the return calculation of derivatives. Embodies a practical point of view and clear division of chapters