Style Investing: Unique Insight Into Equity Management (Frontiers in Finance Series)

Style Investing: Unique Insight Into Equity Management (Frontiers in Finance Series) by Bernstein, Richard. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780471035701.

Headed by Bernstein, the quantitative equity and equity derivatives strategies group at Merrill Lynch is noted for their proprietary research on market segmentation and style investing. In this book, he highlights the macroeconomic, microeconomic and expectational factors that can affect equity market segment performance. The first section focuses on the definition and identification of market segments and reviews the major equity market segments that concern todays institutional investors. Part two analyzes the historical result of each segment of style strategy within the context of the economic and expectational framework. Lastly, it describes current issues and problems in equity markets and their implications for pension plan sponsors.