Equity Management: Quantitative Analysis for Stock Selection

Equity Management: Quantitative Analysis for Stock Selection includes a foreword by Harry M. Markowitz, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his pioneering work developing modern portfolio theory.

Praise for Equity Management:

Equity Management should be mandatory reading for any equity investor interested in quantitative techniques.” - Richard Bernstein, Chief Quantitative Strategist, Merrill Lynch & Co.

“Demonstrates how investors can combine economic and company fundamentals and qualitative factors successfully in the investment process.” - Jon A. Christopherson, Research Fellow, Frank Russell Company

“A book that every serious student of stock selection and portfolio management should read and devour.” - David K. Whitcomb, Professor Emeritus of Finance, Rutgers University and Founder and CEO, Automated Trading Desk, Inc.

“This insightful book demonstrates how the exceptional investor can profit by taking advantage of the cognitive errors of normal investors.” - Meir Statman, Glenn Klimek Professor of Finance, Santa Clara University

“The thoroughness and originality of Jacobs and Levy’s thinking should inspire and challenge every investment manager.” - Wayne H. Wagner, Chairman, Plexus Group, Inc.

“Jacobs and Levy combine rigorous academic research with valuable insights into the real world of investment practice.” - Edward M. Miller, Research Professor of Economics and Finance, University of New Orleans

"An abundant source of ideas for any investor interested in winning stock selection techniques." - Brian Bruce, Editor, The Journal of Investing

“A virtual encyclopedia of techniques and strategies to outperform the market, it's destined to take its place among the classics.” - Frank J. Fabozzi, Adjunct Professor of Finance, Yale University, and Editor, The Journal of Portfolio Management

Bruce I. Jacobs holds a Ph.D. in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Too Smart for Our Own Good: Ingenious Investment Strategies, Illusions of Safety, and Market Crashes, and Capital Ideas and Market Realities: Option Replication, Investor Behavior, and Stock Market Crashes, and co-editor, with Ken Levy, of Market Neutral Strategies. He serves on the advisory board of the Journal of Portfolio Management.

Kenneth N. Levy holds an MBA and an MA in applied economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is co-editor, with Bruce Jacobs, of Market Neutral Strategies. A Chartered Financial Analyst, he has served on the CFA Institute's candidate curriculum committee.Bruce I. Jacobs and Kenneth N. Levy are cofounders and cochief investment officers of Jacobs Levy Equity Management, which manages $8 billion for a prestigious global roster of corporate defined benefit and defined contribution plans, public retirement systems, subadvised funds, and endowments/foundations.