The large-cap portfolio : value investing and the hidden opportunity in big company stocks /
The practical guide to finding value and opportunity in large-cap stocks using investor behaviorLarge-Cap is an abbreviation of the term "large market capitalization" and refers to the stock of publicly traded companies with market capitalization values of roughly more than 10 billion, lik...
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| Language: | English |
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Hoboken :
John Wiley & Sons,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- The Large-Cap Portfolio: Value Investing and the Hidden Opportunity in Big Company Stocks; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Parts of This Book; Notes; Part I: The Large-Cap Opportunity and Challenge; Chapter 1: Trends in Large-Cap Investing and the Opportunities They Present; Defining a Large-Cap Stock; Understanding the S & P 500 Index; Examining the Growth of Indexed Equities; Defining Active Management; So What Does This Mean for Investors?; Two Additional Considerations; Finally, Something Timely; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 2: Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Measures of Risk.
- Accounting Measures of RiskDifferentiating between Certain and Uncertain Cash Flows; Conclusions; Notes; Part II: Market Inefficiency; Chapter 3: An Introduction to Market Efficiency; The Basis for Market Efficiency; Efficient Markets Hypothesis; Empirical Support for the Efficiency of Markets; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 4: Evidence of Inefficiency in Investor Behavior and Market Behavior; Closed-End Fund Discounts and Premiums; Market Bubbles and Market Crashes; Investors vs. Their Investment ... or Investors vs. Themselves; Book-to-Market Effects and Other Value Criteria; Conclusions.
- NotesChapter 5: Individual Decision Making; That Thing about Our Being Rational . . .; Bayesian, Non-Bayesian--What Does This Mean?; Great Companies Always Make Great Stocks; Representative Sequences; Now That You Put It That Way . . .; Dropping an Anchor in a Sea of Information; Conclusions; Appendix: Utility Theory and Prospect Theory; Utility Theory and Rationality; Prospect Theory; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 6: Correlated Mistakes and the Failure of Arbitrage; Herding and Why We're Predisposed to Correlated Mistakes.
- Evidence of Herding in Securities Markets and in the Analysis of Common StocksFeedback Mechanisms and Mood Contagions; Smart Arbitrageurs Will Save Us! Won't They?; Some Related Considerations in Approaching the Active Management of Investments; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 7: Conventional Views on Sources of Market Inefficiencies; Structural Impediments to Market Efficiency; Pertinence to Large-Cap Universe; Conclusions; Appendix: Underexplained Market Phenomena; Notes; Part III: Research and Portfolio Management.
- Chapter 8: Identifying Large-Cap Stock Opportunities and Optimizing Research ProcessesIdentifying Large-Cap Stock Opportunities; Filters and Relative Assessments of Value; Subjective Identification of Overoptimism and Overpessimism; Overconfidence, Information Overload, and the Structure of Investment Firms; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 9: Approaching Growth in Large-Cap Stock Research; Are We Good at Predicting Growth?; Equity Valuation Basics; Limitations to Estimating Long-Term Growth Rates; Abnormal Growth Magnitude and Abnormal Growth Duration; Traditional Methods for Determining Growth.
