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- ISBN-101119990726
- ISBN-13978-1119990727
- Edition1st
- PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons
- Publication dateMarch 14, 2011
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions7 x 1.5 x 9.7 inches
- Print length608 pages
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"This is the best book on active management ever written - and it achieves that status without mentioning a single stock or bond by name. Anyone who performs the rigorous analysis Ilmanen describes - admittedly a neat trick, since the world's most sophisticated investors struggle to do it successfully - will beat the market."
—Laurence B. Siegel, Former Director of Research, The Ford Foundation
"Antti Ilmanen shows the way forward for the investment management profession in this remarkable book. In a comprehensive and impressive way, he combines financial theory, historical performance data and forward-looking indicators, into a consistent framework for assessing expected returns and risk. His approach is both scientific and practical, based on decades of studies and his own trading experience. With a touch of personal wisdom and humility, Ilmanen's book is a fascinating and educational journey into the future of investment management."
—Knut N. Kjaer, Founding CEO of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund/NBIM and former president of RiskMetrics Group
"Ilmanen's wonderful book manages to be exquisitely readable while covering just about every aspect of the investment process. Filled with many, many fresh and useful insights. This volume deserves to be read and then kept close at hand - because it is sure to be needed again and again."
—Martin L. Leibowitz, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley, and former CIO, TIAA-CREF
From the Back Cover
"This is the best book on active management ever written - and it achieves that status without mentioning a single stock or bond by name. Anyone who performs the rigorous analysis Ilmanen describes - admittedly a neat trick, since the world's most sophisticated investors struggle to do it successfully - will beat the market."
―Laurence B. Siegel, Former Director of Research, The Ford Foundation
"Antti Ilmanen shows the way forward for the investment management profession in this remarkable book. In a comprehensive and impressive way, he combines financial theory, historical performance data and forward-looking indicators, into a consistent framework for assessing expected returns and risk. His approach is both scientific and practical, based on decades of studies and his own trading experience. With a touch of personal wisdom and humility, Ilmanen's book is a fascinating and educational journey into the future of investment management."
―Knut N. Kjaer, Founding CEO of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund/NBIM and former president of RiskMetrics Group
"Ilmanen's wonderful book manages to be exquisitely readable while covering just about every aspect of the investment process. Filled with many, many fresh and useful insights. This volume deserves to be read and then kept close at hand - because it is sure to be needed again and again."
―Martin L. Leibowitz, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley, and former CIO, TIAA-CREF
About the Author
Antti Ilmanen is a Principal at AQR Capital Management, a leading global investment-management firm. Since starting as a central bank portfolio manager in Finland in 1986, Antti has worn many hats to bridge academic finance and practitioner investing. Having earned a finance PhD in 1994 from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, he spent a decade at Salomon Brothers/Citigroup as a bond researcher, strategist, managing director and a trader. Before joining Brevan Howard in 2004, Antti had published extensively in finance and investment journals and had received a Graham & Dodd scroll and the Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy award for his articles. Over the years, Antti has advised many institutional investors, most regularly Norway's Government Pension Fund Global on its long-run investment strategy.
Product details
- Publisher : John Wiley & Sons; 1st edition (March 14, 2011)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 608 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1119990726
- ISBN-13 : 978-1119990727
- Item Weight : 2.55 pounds
- Dimensions : 7 x 1.5 x 9.7 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #458,838 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #155 in Business Finance
- #187 in Business Investments
- #521 in Investment Analysis & Strategy
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About the author

Antti Ilmanen is a Principal at AQR Capital Management and the author of "Expected Returns" (Wiley, 2011) as well as its monograph, "Expected Returns on Major Asset Classes." Antti’s second book "Investing Amid Low Expected Returns" will be available in Spring 2022.
A renowned expert on financial investments, Antti has three decades of experience in the investment industry, where he has skillfully served as a bridge between practitioners and financial academic research. At AQR, Antti co-heads the Portfolio Solutions Group, the team responsible for advising institutional investors and developing the firm's broad investment ideas. Prior to joining AQR in 2011, Antti spent seven years as a senior portfolio manager at Brevan Howard and a decade in a variety of roles at Salomon Brothers/Citigroup. He began his career as a central bank portfolio manager in Finland. Over the years, he has advised many institutional investors, including Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global and the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation. Antti has published extensively in finance and investment journals and has received a Graham and Dodd award, the Harry M. Markowitz special distinction award, and multiple Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy awards for his articles. He also received the CFA Institute's 2017 Leadership in Global Investment Award.
Antti earned M.Sc. degrees in economics and law from the University of Helsinki and a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Chicago.
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That said, another book recently published, "Jackass Investing", provides a more down-to-earth analysis of the risk premia laid out in Expected Returns, and also includes more specifics on how to harvest these premia. For those who have a hard time parsing this book and it's copious amount of analysis, and just want to "cut to the chase", Jackass Investing might be a suitable alternative if you are willing to make a few leaps of faith on the author's conclusions.
I say all this as someone who does equities/credit/EM for a living and thus isn't a career systematic macro trader. For people like me this book is invaluable because it allows a more nuanced view of risk factors and sources of returns in an alpha oriented book that can easily become quite concentrated in ways that are not obvious at first. There is so much more to delve into with regards to integrating this into my work but suffice to say it is a small price to pay to learn some of the nuts and bolts of what allows Brevan Howard to manage risk so well.







