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This book provides a good overview of market cycles and makes the case that for the next several years we face a “range-bound” market. I.E., the indexes will trade in a range and not grow at historical rates. Katsenelson covers a systematic approach to vaule investing, a strategy to profit when markets are range bound.
One of the most significant challenges facing today’s active investor is how to make money during the times when markets are going nowhere. Bookshelves are groaning under the weight of titles written on investment strategy in bull markets, but there is little guidance on how to invest in range bound markets. In this book, author and respected investment portfolio manager Vitaliy Katsenelson makes a convincing case for range-bound market conditions and offers readers a practical strategy for proactive investing that improves profits. This guide provides investors with the know-how to modify the traditional, fundamentally driven strategies that they have become so accustomed to using in bull markets, so that they can work in range bound markets. It offers new approaches to margin of safety and presents terrific insights into buy and sell disciplines, international investing, “Quality, Valuation, and Growth” framework, and much more.
Vitaliy Katsenelson, CFA (Denver, CO) has been involved with the investment industry since 1994. He is a portfolio manager with Investment Management Associates where he co-manages institutional and personal assets utilizing fundamental analysis. Katsenelson is a member of the CFA Institute, has served on the board of CFA Society of Colorado, and is also on the board of Retirement Investment Institute. Vitaliy is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Colorado at Denver – Graduate School of Business. He is also a regular contributor to the Financial Times, The Motley Fool, and Minyanville.com.
….Mr Bernstein has returned to the fray with a new volume in defence of his academic heroes. Although he accepts some of the theories’ limitations, he argues that the professors built the structure for today’s capital markets. Modern investors are much more sophisticated in the way they think about risk, in particular separating the returns available from market movements (beta in the jargon) and managerial skill (alpha)…. (more…)
Why do so many otherwise rational individuals make irrational decisions when it comes to money? Financial journalist Gary Belsky and Cornell University psychology professor Thomas Gilovich contend the answers can be found–and the deficiencies remedied–with help from a relatively new science called behavioral economics. (more…)
The Getting Started SIG topic for 9.30am 12 January will be:
“Sitting on your Assets – Constructing and maintaining a diversified risk-managed portfolio”
Abstract: If you are not Warren Buffett, then strategic diversification across a range of asset classes is the best way to balance risk and return. We look at the “Yale Model”, the equity-biased asset allocation strategy developed by David Swensen, the highly successful manager of the Yale University endowment.
The talk follows ideas in the excellent asset-allocation book Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment by David Swensen:
This is a profound book for understanding overall market valuation and how bubbles form and burst. If you lived through the dot-com boom/bust, and are currently enjoying the bursting of the real estate bubble, you will find this book very enlightening.
I updated the Bookshelf page of the website.
This is my attempt to catalog resources and references for the beginning (and experienced) investor. It is a work in progress, and I will be adding works as we go along. Check the main website under category “Books” for most recent addictions.
The sections of the Bookshelf page are:
by Michael J. Mauboussin
Very interesting collection of essays on investing, relating scientific research from diverse fields to the investment setting.