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Bernd Scherer (Author)
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1904339697 978-1904339694 February 1, 2007 3rd
Building on the solid foundation of the first two bestselling editions, this significantly extended third edition updates previous content and incorporates three new chapters. Expanding on the comprehensive treatment of alternative portfolio construction techniques and discussing the area of risk budgeting from an asset management perspective, you are given a critical review of a range of portfolio techniques.

This revised third edition provides you with:

  • key concepts and methods to implement quantitatively-driven portfolio construction;
  • knowledge of satellite investing, estimation error heuristics, scenario optimisation, mean variance investing, Bayesian methods, budgeting active risk, non-normality and multiple manager allocation;
  • practical applications and accessible problem-solving skills;
  • quantitative analysis that is supported by extensive examples, tables and charts to help practitioners adopt the subject matter in their day-to-day work.

    The new chapters bring you up-to-date information on portfolio optimisation, with differentiation of alpha and beta testing, covariance estimation, showing estimation error vs. model error and fundamental vs. statistical models.

    This book is highly recommended for practitioners including portfolio managers, consultants, strategists, marketers and quantitative analysts. It would also give an edge to final year undergraduates and MBAs looking to expand their knowledge beyond the mean-variance based solutions commonly taught in business schools.


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This book makes an important contribution to asset management and I recommend it very strongly. --Dr Steven E Satchell, Editor of The Journal of Asset Management

About the Author

Dr Bernd Scherer heads the Advanced Applications Group in Europe and the Middle East at Deutsche Bank's Asset Management division, offering cutting edge investment solutions to a sophisticated institutional client base.

Before joining Deutsche Bank, Dr Scherer globally headed fixed-income portfolio research at Schroder Investment Management in London. During his 10-year career in asset management he has held various positions at Morgan Stanley, Oppenheim Investment Management and JP Morgan Investment Management.

He publishes widely in relevant asset management industry journals and investment handbooks and is a regular speaker at investment conferences. Dr Scherer's current research interests focus on asset valuation, portfolio construction, strategic asset allocation and asset liability modelling. Dr Scherer holds MBA and MSc degrees from the University of Augsburg and the University of London, as well as a PhD in finance from the University of Giessen.


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  • Hardcover: 300 pages
  • Publisher: Risk Books; 3rd edition (February 1, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1904339697
  • ISBN-13: 978-1904339694
  • Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #897,667 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars A good but dangerous book, October 5, 2003
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Apparently, the book is a collection of papers written by the author. Some chapters are clearly on portfolio construction and risk management, while others are remotely related. The links in between chapters are therefore weak, and the flow from one chapter to another is not as smooth as one would typically see in a text book. The author deserves congratulations for putting together a collection of very advanced materials. Many of them are not his original work, but that's not important.

The book has numerous, unforgivable typos and mistakes in equations. It appears that no one other than the author has ever reviewed the materials before it was published. It is truly disappointing to see that, as both the publisher and the author are highly regarded. This can be an extremely dangerous book if an average reader just takes the results and equations at face value and apply them. Unless you work through all the derivations yourself, you never know which equation has mistake, and which does not, except for those mistakes that are too obvious for anyone to miss. As a result, this book is most useful for one type of readers: those with math skill nearly as good as the author's but don't have the time to solve these problems themselves. Only these readers can apply the results with peace in mind, because if they are willing to spend the time to work through the math, most of them should be able to spot those many mistakes. But how many readers have this level of skill?

Suggestion to the author: IMMEDIATELY, do the readers and the profession a favor, go publish a second edition with correction; better to use a new publisher which is willing to hire a reviewer, if it doesn't violate your contract. You have done a very good job indeed. Too bad you ruined it with all these careless mistakes and typos. Two stars were taken.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Read it, but ..., August 28, 2003
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This is a good book, full of ideas, aimed mainly at practitioners or at students planning to practice. Some of the areas it covers are well known (portfolio construction and investing against benchmarks), but the results are generally not covered in standard academic-type sources; others are known only piecemeal (Black-Litterman is ubiquitous but Bayesian portfolio construction in general is less popular; risk budgeting is a buzzword but its specifics are somewhat dispersed across the literature and sometimes hazy); still others were largely unknown to me (scenario analysis).

The pro is thus that there are lots of information, mostly of practical relevance, mostly well explained, much of it previously unknown even as regards its existence.

The fifth star is taken away by the cons, of which in my judgment there are three: (1) a LARGE number of typos, mostly innocuous, some not, always annoying. For a $90 book this is bad slippage from the publisher and should be remedied in a second edition. (2) The material is somewhat disconnected; especially in large topics we have more a smorgasbord of things than a smooth discourse; (3) some details are not worked out in a totally kosher fashion. Two examples: (i) on risk budgeting, attention should be paid to singular covariance matrices (since passive managers will have near-zero tracking error volatility) which means violating the equality of marginal return/risk ratios. This crops up in the examples but is not explained in the text. (ii) Black-Litterman is not explained in full generality. See Litterman's new book or Lee for that.

Overall, however, you should buy and read this book and end up the wiser.

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2 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Practitioners Bible, October 16, 2002
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The author does an excellent job at explaining technically challenging concepts clearly and consisely along with easy to replicate examples. Book is ideally for all practioners producing / selling /consulting on financial products. The author should be congratulated for such a superb effort
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portfolio resampling, resampled efficiency, based portfolio construction, resampled frontier, structural bet, risk budgeting, optimal equity allocation, long only constraint, implied alphas, linear transaction costs, scenario optimisation, return realisations, maximum return portfolio, lower partial moments, beta neutrality, robust optimisation, portfolio optimisation, optimal portfolio construction, beta bets, manager allocation, optimal portfolio weights, rolling volatilities, information ratio, shortfall probability, risk neutral distribution
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