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Active investing in the age of disruption

Outperforming the market'or 'alpha creation' as it's sometimes called'is very possible with the proper investment discipline and methodologies. But the market-beating strategies that will work today are not the same as those that worked in the past. Central bank intervention...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jones, Evan L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • PART I Market Environment: The 2010s and 2020s
  • Chapter 1 Challenges to Active Investing
  • Active investing alpha has been falling
  • Self-reinforcing cycle driving poor performance
  • Why do these forces pressure investment decisions?
  • Key investment tenets
  • Chapter 2 Global Central Bank Intervention
  • Unprecedented global central bank intervention
  • Fundamental investing overwhelmed by central bank intervention
  • Low rates and the US consumer
  • Chapter 3 Accelerated Pace of Technology &equals
  • Disruption
  • Innovation adoption tipping point
  • Innovation and Financial Capital
  • Outperformance potential with unprofitable but disruptive companies?
  • Private markets overheating?
  • Contrarianism and paradigm shifts
  • Chapter 4 Passive Investing
  • Factor investing
  • How far can passive investing go?
  • Are the losers quitting the game?
  • Financial product creation and passive alternatives
  • Chapter 5 The 2020s
  • Economic drivers of the 2020s
  • Continuation of technology-driven disruption
  • American dream
  • Populism
  • The biggest downside risk: Loss of faith in central banks
  • Consequences for active investing
  • Is value investing dead?
  • PART II Creating Alpha
  • Chapter 6 A Cohesive Strategy
  • Aligning pieces of the puzzle
  • Benchmarks and security selection universes that are too narrow or broad
  • Diversification and performance goals
  • Assets under management (AUM) relationship to strategy
  • Matching the time horizon of the strategy to the investor base
  • Fees in relation to the strategy return potential
  • Shorting and your strategy
  • Academic analysis and investment reality
  • Firm incentives
  • Executing the strategy
  • Chapter 7 Investment Process
  • Process evolves
  • it is not stagnant
  • Functions served by process
  • Documenting and memory
  • Investment thesis
  • Deep work: Trying to avoid the noise
  • Channel checks
  • Management meetings
  • Systems and technology
  • Chapter 8 Security Selection
  • Superior business models
  • Idea generation: Top down to narrow the universe
  • Timing business cycles
  • Roll-up acquisition strategy
  • Other types of companies to be wary of
  • What to look for in a company: Sales growth
  • What to look for in a company: Operating margins
  • What to look for in a company: Market power sustainability
  • Management teams
  • Being contrarian and time horizon
  • Chapter 9 Valuation
  • Importance of valuation in fundamental versus value investing
  • Fundamental investing: Big picture
  • Owner's yield
  • Free cash flow as an important metric
  • Company balance sheet leverage
  • Price target creation and channels
  • Chapter 10 Capital Allocation
  • Capital expenditures (capex) and research and development (R&D)
  • Acquisitions and corporate strategy
  • Stock buybacks, dividends, and debt pay-down