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Mutual Funds: Risk and Performance Analysis for Decision Making

by John Haslem

ISBN-10: 9780631215615
ISBN-10: 0-631-21561-1
ISBN-13: 9780631215615
ISBN-13: 978-0-631-21561-5
Hardcover
2003-03-14
Wiley-Blackwell


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Product Description
This authoritative book enables readers to evaluate the various performance and risk attributes of mutual funds, while also serving as a comprehensive resource for students, academics, and general investors alike. Avoiding the less useful descriptive approach to fund selection, this book employs a balanced approach including both technique and application. The chapters combine clear summaries of existing research with practical guidelines for mutual fund analysis.

  • Enables readers to analyze mutual funds by evaluating a fund's various performance and risk attributes.
  • Includes templates, which provide an efficient, sound approach to fund analysis, interpretation of results, buy/sell decisions, and the timing of decisions.
  • Combines clear summaries of existing research with practical guidelines for mutual fund analysis.

Book Description
This authoritative book enables readers to evaluate the various performance and risk attributes of mutual funds, while also serving as a comprehensive reference for students, academics, and general investors alike. Providing a balance of theory and application, the chapters combine clear summaries of existing research with practical guidelines for mutual fund analysis. The chapters cover a broad range of topics, including understanding the advantages and disadvantages of mutual funds and long and short-term investing, evaluating stock/bond allocations within fund portfolios, assessing fund diversification risk, measuring fund returns and risk, and making fund buy/sell decisions. Throughout the text, step-by-step decision checklists guide readers in the analysis and selection of various mutual funds. Treating all the major theoretical issues in mutual fund analysis and portfolio management, this book is both a thorough resource and a practical guide.


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