Performance Evaluation and Attribution Volume 1

Performance Evaluation and Attribution Volume 1: Asset Pricing and Models, Second Edition, presents an updated, comprehensive exploration of portfolio evaluation. Based on the authors' Performance Evaluation and Attribution of Security Portfolios (2012), this Second Edition adds four new chapters and updated content throughout in its practical approach to measuring manager skills and using recent statistical techniques to solve investment problems. Added are new factor models, including the newly developed q-factor model and the new models of Fama and French; new examples; and new work on qualitative considerations used in performance evaluation. Highly detailed, Performance Evaluation and Attribution Volume 1: Asset Pricing and Models, Second Edition, combines academic rigor with practical applications and guidance for applications of diverse approaches.