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Market Neutral Investing
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Market Neutral Investing

Build Consistent Low-Risk Profits by Creating Your Own Hedged Portfolio

Kaplan Publishing, 2004 mais...

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Editorial Rating

7

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Well Structured
  • Background

Recommendation

Any investor disposed to pick stocks should read this excellent short introduction to the esoteric discipline of market neutral investing. Author Eric Stokes provides a better introduction to investment risk than the usual explanations found in most popular investing books. He also discusses a variety of ways to use the underlying principles of market neutral investing without becoming a full-fledged market neutral investor. Indeed, the quantitative capabilities and research skills necessary to run a market neutral portfolio are far beyond the scope of all but the most well-staffed investment firms. But a simple strategy like purchasing shares in an index inverse fund to hedge the risk of a long index fund could make sense for many investors. To learn if this strategy is right for you, getAbstract recommends reading this book.

Take-Aways

  • Market neutral investors essentially bet that some stocks will go up and others will go down. Investors should short the ones going down and hold the ones going up.
  • A market neutral portfolio will have the same amount of money in long positions as it has in short positions.
  • If efficient market theory were true, market-neutral investing would be irrational.

About the Author

Eric Stokes is a money manager and publisher of Market Neutral Strategy, a quarterly newsletter. Previously, he was president of an independent, quantitative investment research firm. A graduate of Michigan State University, Stokes also holds an M.B.A. from Columbia University.


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