Invest Outside the Box: Understanding Different Asset Classes and Strategies

by Tariq Dennison

Overview

This book is a practical and concise guide to major asset classes, investment strategies, and foreign markets. For investors familiar with one “box” of investments, this book serves as a non-technical introduction to other “boxes” worth diversifying into, such as bonds, real estate, private equity, crypurrencies, and Chinese A-shares. Readers with no prior finance background will find this book an accessible entry point to investing. Written by a practitioner, this volume can serve as course material for introductory investing classes or as an on-the-job guidebook for professionals and practicing investors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789811303715
Publisher:	Springer Nature Singapore
Publication date:	06/28/2018
Edition description:	1st ed. 2018
Pages:	299
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tariq Dennison is a Hong Kong based fund manager and pension advisor investing retirement accounts across global sk, bond, and alternatives markets. An American raised in Europe and long resident in Asia, Tariq has a lifelong natural interest in interest rates, foreign currencies, and frontier and out-of-favor markets. He has worked at Accenture, Commerzbank, Bear Stearns, J.P. Morgan, CIBC, and Société Générale in San Francisco, New York, Toronto, London and Hong Kong, before starting GFM Asset Management in 2014. Tariq teaches fixed income and alternative investments at ESSEC Business School in Singapore, CFA Singapore, and the Hong Kong Society of Financial Analysts, and holds a Bachelor’s degree from Marquette University and a Master’s in Financial Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

Table of Contents

1. Cash, bank deposits, and interest rates.- 2. Bonds, Fixed Income and Money Markets.- 3. Real Estate and Property.- 4. Equities and Sk Markets.- 5. Currencies and Foreign Exchange Markets.- 6. Alternative assets from gold, commodities, art, fine wine, and other collectibles to private equity and hedge funds.- 7. Diversification and Portfolio Construction: Maximizing Return and Minimizing Risk.- 8. Indexes, Benchmarks, Mutual Funds and ETFs.- 9. Blockchain and Crypurrencies.- 10. International investing, and the importance of breaking the country box.- 11. Conclusion.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“I give this book to my sales, trading, and legal teams as a great foundation to build market and product knowledge.” (Bill Bamber, Managing Director, Structured Investment Products, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, CIBC)

“An excellent logical and explanatory guide to the assets and strategies available to investors globally.” (Emanuel Derman, Columbia University)