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Efficiently Inefficient
How Smart Money Invests and Market Prices Are Determined
Lasse Heje Pedersen5
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About
Lasse Heje Pedersen is a finance professor at Copenhagen Business School and New York University's Stern School of Business, and a principal at AQR Capital Management. A distinguished financial economist, he has won a number of awards, notably the Bernácer Prize, awarded to European economists under forty who have made outstanding contributions in macroeconomics and finance.
Financial market behavior and key trading strategies-illuminated by interviews with top hedge fund experts
Efficiently Inefficient describes the key trading strategies used by hedge funds and demystifies the secret world of active investing. Leading financial economist Lasse Heje Pedersen combines the latest research with real-world examples and interviews with top hedge fund managers to show how certain trading strategies make money-and why they sometimes don't.
Pedersen views markets as neither perfectly efficient nor completely inefficient. Rather, they are inefficient enough that money managers can be compensated for their costs through the profits of their trading strategies and efficient enough that the profits after costs do not encourage additional active investing. Understanding how to trade in this efficiently inefficient market provides a new, engaging way to learn finance. Pedersen analyzes how the market price of stocks and bonds can differ from the model price, leading to new perspectives on the relationship between trading results and finance theory. He explores several different areas in depth-fundamental tools for investment management, equity strategies, macro strategies, and arbitrage strategies-and he looks at such diverse topics as portfolio choice, risk management, equity valuation, and yield curve logic. The book's strategies are illuminated further by interviews with leading hedge fund managers: Lee Ainslie, Cliff Asness, Jim Chanos, Ken Griffin, David Harding, John Paulson, Myron Scholes, and George Soros.
Efficiently Inefficient effectively demonstrates how financial markets really work.
Free problem sets are available online at http://www.lhpedersen.com "Pedersen's book can be recommended to a wide spectrum of readers interested in financial markets in general and hedge funds in particular."---Jacek Klich, Central Banking "Encyclopedic in its cataloguing of active management strategies and authoritative in its analysis of the practical issues of their implementation. Pedersen grounds his exposition in landmark scholarly articles and, where quantitative analysis is required to elucidate a concept, conveys his message without resorting to arcane mathematics."---Martin S. Fridson, Financial Analysts Journal "This is an interesting and stimulating book for finance scholars combining the skills of an active funds manager and educator at some of the world's premier business schools."---Kevin Daly, Economic Record "Despite the author's high level of understanding he manages to deliver a high quality but also easily understandable guide to the strategies."---Mats Larsson, Investing by the Books "This valuable and intriguing book provides a contemporary survey of investments across a wide spectrum of asset classes and strategies. Combining a wonderful narrative with a rigorous analytical structure, Efficiently Inefficient serves the needs of students, serious investors, and professionals. It is an important contribution to the investment literature."-Gary P. Brinson, CFA, GP Brinson Investments "For a book on investments, Efficiently Inefficient sets a completely different and higher standard. Pedersen blends the best and latest research, accessible to both MBA students and professionals, with the insights of some of the world's leading hedge fund managers. It works beautifully."-Darrell Duffie, Stanford University "Efficiently Inefficient is a truly modern and masterful introduction to how finance will be studied and practiced in the twenty-first century."-Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University "How are markets e
Financial market behavior and key trading strategies-illuminated by interviews with top hedge fund experts
Efficiently Inefficient describes the key trading strategies used by hedge funds and demystifies the secret world of active investing. Leading financial economist Lasse Heje Pedersen combines the latest research with real-world examples and interviews with top hedge fund managers to show how certain trading strategies make money-and why they sometimes don't.
Pedersen views markets as neither perfectly efficient nor completely inefficient. Rather, they are inefficient enough that money managers can be compensated for their costs through the profits of their trading strategies and efficient enough that the profits after costs do not encourage additional active investing. Understanding how to trade in this efficiently inefficient market provides a new, engaging way to learn finance. Pedersen analyzes how the market price of stocks and bonds can differ from the model price, leading to new perspectives on the relationship between trading results and finance theory. He explores several different areas in depth-fundamental tools for investment management, equity strategies, macro strategies, and arbitrage strategies-and he looks at such diverse topics as portfolio choice, risk management, equity valuation, and yield curve logic. The book's strategies are illuminated further by interviews with leading hedge fund managers: Lee Ainslie, Cliff Asness, Jim Chanos, Ken Griffin, David Harding, John Paulson, Myron Scholes, and George Soros.
Efficiently Inefficient effectively demonstrates how financial markets really work.
Free problem sets are available online at http://www.lhpedersen.com "Pedersen's book can be recommended to a wide spectrum of readers interested in financial markets in general and hedge funds in particular."---Jacek Klich, Central Banking "Encyclopedic in its cataloguing of active management strategies and authoritative in its analysis of the practical issues of their implementation. Pedersen grounds his exposition in landmark scholarly articles and, where quantitative analysis is required to elucidate a concept, conveys his message without resorting to arcane mathematics."---Martin S. Fridson, Financial Analysts Journal "This is an interesting and stimulating book for finance scholars combining the skills of an active funds manager and educator at some of the world's premier business schools."---Kevin Daly, Economic Record "Despite the author's high level of understanding he manages to deliver a high quality but also easily understandable guide to the strategies."---Mats Larsson, Investing by the Books "This valuable and intriguing book provides a contemporary survey of investments across a wide spectrum of asset classes and strategies. Combining a wonderful narrative with a rigorous analytical structure, Efficiently Inefficient serves the needs of students, serious investors, and professionals. It is an important contribution to the investment literature."-Gary P. Brinson, CFA, GP Brinson Investments "For a book on investments, Efficiently Inefficient sets a completely different and higher standard. Pedersen blends the best and latest research, accessible to both MBA students and professionals, with the insights of some of the world's leading hedge fund managers. It works beautifully."-Darrell Duffie, Stanford University "Efficiently Inefficient is a truly modern and masterful introduction to how finance will be studied and practiced in the twenty-first century."-Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University "How are markets e