Apart from their hedging functions, futures instruments may convey information concerning
market expectations of future spot prices. If

… Rzepczynski Martin S. Fridson, CFA, is chief high-yield strategist at Merrill Lynch &
Company in New York. … Fridson Martin S. Fridson, CFA, is chief high-yield strategist at …

While investor surveys have been conducted by accounting firms, banks, and consultants to
assess the choices for a specific alternative investment style, the general focus of these …

The development of a simple taxonomy for trading style based on a worldview can serve as
an important differentiation across money managers and provide insight into how many …

The quality of decision-making is often as important as the performance results when
distinguishing investment pro-fessionals, and it is fundamental for any due diligence analy-sis. The …

The Journal of Investing (JOI) is a scholarly journal for the financial services industry, appealing
to both the academic and practitioner audiences. The JOI offers practical analysis and …

Backtests often are discounted based on the expected failure between live and simulated (theoretical)
trading. These failures are associated with the modeling assumptions that …

The author of this book pinpoints the reasons for the overconfidence of traders and other
investment professionals about their trading skills and describes their inability to appreciate …

The Journal of Investing (JOI) is a scholarly journal for the financial services industry, appealing
to both the academic and practitioner audiences. The JOI offers practical analysis and …

The next step is to identify what is most impor tant and interesting in the material. Then comes
checking the reading level of the text and editing, all with an eye toward keeping it short …