Evolving Techniques in Investment Management

The investment process benefits from the availability of a multiplicity of variations which at the same time poses a dilemma of choosing the most appropriate. The book explains the different techniques and theories available and examines their advantages and disadvantages where relevant.

Issues covered include:

• Theories of market behaviour including examination of case for and against the efficient market theory
• Derivatives including exotic derivatives
• Immunisation
• Securitisation
• Recent advances, artificial intelligence and neural networks
• Comparative analysis of the different approaches and styles of the legendary investors, Sir John Templeton, Peter Lynch, Warren Buffet and George Soros