Portfolio Indexing - Theory & Practice

The dominant paradigm in modern-day fund management remains the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). Originally developed in the 1960s as an explanatory and predictive model of capital market behaviour, it has subsequently acquired enormous significance in many fund-management institutions.

"Harold Hutchinson's Portfolio Indexing is a long-overdue theoretical and practical perspective on the 'managers versus trackers' debate. He concludes that the indexing solution to risk management is flawed and that individual judgment will always have a proper role to play in investment. This much-needed book will hopefully help to stop the current steam-rolling move of the fund management industry towards indexing in its tracks, and encourage a more balanced view of the benefits of the active manager, especially in volatile or falling markets." Phillip Keane, Director, Industrial Bank of Japan Asset Management International Ltd

"Portfolio Indexing challenges the growing consensus in favour of portfolio indexing as the optimal investment strategy. His devastating criticisms of the theoretical foundations underlying indexing, and his plea for a more modest inductive approach to portfolio management, have huge and as yet untapped implications for the asset management industry." Dr Andrew Allan, Vice President, Salomon Smith Barney

Professionals, students and amateur investors alike will profit from this enjoyable tract on how to maintain and navigate vehicles of investment.

Harold Hutchinson has degrees in Economics from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland and from St. Antony's College, University of Oxford. He began his career as a lecturer in finance at the University of St. Andrews. He then moved to the Swedish stockbroking group, Carnegie International, where he was European Head of Research. In 1992, he moved to live in Spain with the UK merchant banking group, Singer and Friedlander, where he helped set up from scratch an Iberian and Latin American equities business of which he was CEO. After a brief period at the Spanish banking group, Banco Santander, he is now Head of Sales and Research at the Spanish office of Credit Lyonnais Securities Europe. In addition to these positions, he acted for a time as adviser to the Liberty Newport Latin American SICAV. Besides his current executive role at Credit Lyonnais, Harold is also a Director at the Regulatory Policy Institute in Oxford, which is dedicated to independent policy advice on regulatory issues, and is a non-executive director at Quantum Partnership, a consultancy specialising in innovative solutions for operational and strategic problems in business. He is married with two young children.

A Random Walk Through Finance Theory-Essential Building Blocks.

The Capital Asset Pricing Model-The Dawn of Portfolio Indexing.

Difficulties-Financial Markets in the Full Light of Day.

An Alternative-Financial Market Strategy in the Twilight.

Bibliography.

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