Charles Jackson – Active Investment Management Finding and Harnessing Investment Skill –

Active Investment Management looks at where active management has come from, where it is today, what problems it faces and where the answers to these questions are leading it. The book addresses the major issues concerning the key groups within the industry.

Charles Jackson’s wonderfully readable book will be essential reading for the practitioner and is broken down into five sections covering the whole spectrum of active investment management:

* asset classes and products
* balancing risk and return
* active product selection
* the nature of skill
* the price of skill

Author Information

CHARLES JACKSON holds an MA from Oxford University and an MBA from Stanford University, where he was a Harkness Fellow. He has 25 years experience in the investment management industry. For 13 years, he was the Head of the Fixed Interest and Currency Division of Mercury Asset Management, for most of the period the largest publicly quoted firm in Europe specialising exclusively in active investment management. He also served on Mercury’s Asset Allocation Committee and Chairman’s Committee. He was appointed a Vice Chairman of Mercury’s Main Board in 1993. He is married, with two children, and lives near Oxford.

Reviews

“Good introductory books on investment are hard to find – but Active Investment Management by Jackson falls into that rare category.” (Professional Investor, May 2004)

“…analyses investment and business strategies that he (the author) says will shape the future fund management.” (Stanford Business, May 2004)

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