Trends in Quantitative Finance

by Frank J. Fabozzi, Sergio Focardi, Petter N. Kolm

This introduction to recent developments in modeling equity returns provides a plain-English, formula-free review of quantitative methods—in particular, the trade-offs that must be made among model complexity, risk, and performance. The monograph also includes the results of a 2005 survey of the modeling practiced at 21 large asset management firms.

146 pages, Paperback

First published April 21, 2006

About the author

Frank J. Fabozzi is a Professor in the Practice of Finance and Becton Fellow in the Yale School of Management. He is well known as the author of numerous books on finance, both practitioner-focused and academic. Professor Frank J. Fabozzi will be joining Edhec Risk Institute on August 1, 2011. EDHEC-Risk Institute is part of EDHEC Business School, one of Europe’s leading business schools.

Reviews

[Ci · Rating 4 out of 5]

A succinct review of quant investing.