Portfolio Construction, Measurement, and Efficiency

John B. Guerard, Jr., Ph.D. is Director of Quantitative Research at McKinley Capital Management, in Anchorage, Alaska. He earned his AB in Economics from Duke University, MA in Economics from the University of Virginia, MSIM from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Texas, Austin. John taught at the McIntire School of Commerce, the University of Virginia, Lehigh University, and Rutgers University. John taught as an adjunct faculty member at the International University of Monaco and the University of Pennsylvania. He worked with the DAIS Group at Drexel, Burnham, Lambert, Daiwa Securities Trust Company, Vantage Global Advisors, and served on the Virtual Research team at GlobeFlex Capital. John co-managed a Japanese equity portfolio with Harry Markowitz at Daiwa Securities Trust Company. While serving as Director of Quantitative Research at Vantage Global Advisors (formerly MPT Associates), Mr. Guerard was awarded the first Moskowitz Prize for research in socially responsible investing. Mr. Guerard has published several monographs, including Corporate Financial Policy and R&D Management (Wiley, 2006, second edition), Quantitative Corporate Finance (Springer, 2007, with Eli Schwartz), The Handbook of Portfolio Construction: Contemporary Applications of Markowitz Techniques (Springer, 2010), and Introduction to Financial Forecasting in Investment Analysis (Springer, 2013). John serves an Associate Editor of the Journal of Investing and The International Journal of Forecasting. Mr. Guerard has published research in The International Journal of Forecasting, Management Science, the Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Investing, Research in Finance, the IBM Journal of Research and Development, Research Policy, and the Journal of the Operational Research Society.

Foreword No.1.- Foreword No.2: Jack Treynor: An Appreciation.- Foreword No.3: Jack Treynor and the Q-Group.- Ch 1 The Theory of Risk, Return, and Performance Measurement.- Ch 2 Origins of Portfolio Theory: Selection and Evaluation.- Ch 3 Market Timing.- Ch 4 Returns, Risk, Portfolio Selection, and Evaluation.- Ch 5 Validating Return-Generating Models.- Ch 6 Invisible Costs and Profitability.- Ch 7 Mean-ETL Portfolio Construction in U.S. Equity Market.- Ch 8 Portfolio Performance Assessment: Statistical Issues and Methods for Improvement.- Ch 9 The Duality of Value and Mean Reversion.- Ch 10 Performance of Earnings Yield and Momentum Factors in US and International Equity Markets.- Ch 11 Alpha Construction in a Consistent Investment Process.- Ch 12 Empirical Analysis of Market Connectedness as a Risk Factor for Explaining Expected Stock Returns.- Ch 13 The Behavior of Sentiment-Induced Share Returns: Measurement when Fundamentals are Observable.- Ch 14 Constructing Mean Variance Efficient Frontiers Using Foreign Large Blend Mutual Funds.- Ch 15 Fundamental versus Traditional Indexation for International Mutual Funds.- Ch 16 Forecasting Implied Volatilities for Options on Index Futures.- Ch 17 The Swiss Black Swan Bad Scenario: Another Casualty of the Eurozone Crisis.- Ch 18 Leveling the Playing Field.- Ch 19 Uncommon Value: The Investment Performance of Contrarian Funds.