Investment Management: Portfolio Diversification, Risk, and Timing--Fact and Fiction

A new look at the important issue of investment management in the 21st century
Written for professional and private investors-as well as fiduciaries who rely on investment professionals-this book presents the content of an advanced investment-management course in an easy-to-read, question-and-answer format.
Robert L. Hagin (Haverford, PA) is a 30-year investment management veteran who recently retired as Executive Director for Morgan Stanley Investment Management.

ROBERT L. HAGIN recently retired as an Executive Director for Morgan Stanley Investment Management. He is a former academic (UCLA and the Wharton School), a thirty-year veteran of the investment management industry, and the author of three books about portfolio management. Hagin is a longtime board member of the Q-Group, Wall Street’s premier association of quantitative investment professionals, and has been an editorial advisor to AIMR and to IMCA. He currently designs innovative hedging strategies, publishes his monthly Investing Insights, and consults with public and private pension funds and endowments in the United States and Europe. He is especially well known for his ability to cull academic research for insights that are useful to investment professionals, fiduciaries, and consultants, and to translate these insights into practical action-orientedadvice.