In Search of Returns: Making Sense of Financial Markets

Financial markets span an asset risk spectrum from risk-free assets at one extreme to their riskier counterparts at the other, with the returns on offer reflecting the potential gain or loss from bearing risk. 

Financial markets are fascinating but successful investing is not easy. While the future looms as unknowable as ever, IN SEARCH OF RETURNS will help you to:

• Evaluate the relationship between ‘expected’ risk and returns in financial decision-making;
• Understand different investment asset classes and investment strategies;
• Appreciate the influence of cognitive biases in asset pricing and investment behaviour.

It’s a timely guide to making sense of the financial markets.

CONTENTS

Introduction

1: The Asset Risk Spectrum

2: Diversification & Portfolio Theory

3: The Case for Active Investing

4: The Case for Value Investing

5: Nassim Nicholas Taleb & The Value Investing Mindset

6: The Dumb Money Effect

7: Banks Are Different

8: Managing Foreign Exchange Rates & Exposure

9: Looming Challenges

10: The Under-valued Option to Hasten Slowly