Active Investment Management by Charles Jackson

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Active Investment Management by Charles Jackson

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Active Investment Management by Charles Jackson

Active Investment Management looks at where active management has come from, where it is today, what problems it faces and where the answers to these questions are leading it. The book addresses the major issues concerning the key groups within the industry. Also

Charles Jackson’s wonderfully readable book will be essential reading for the practitioner and is broken down into five sections covering the whole spectrum of active investment management:

Asset classes and products Also
Balancing risk and return
Active product selection Also
The nature of skill
The price of skill

About Author

Charles Reginald Jackson (April 6, 1903 – September 21, 1968) was an American author who wrote the 1944 novel The Lost Weekend.

Charles R. Jackson was born in Summit, New Jersey on April 6, 1903, the son of Frederick George and Sarah Williams Jackson.^[2] His family moved to Newark, New York in 1907, and nine years later his older sister, Thelma, and younger brother, Richard, were killed while riding in a car that was struck by an express train.^[2]^[3] He graduated from Newark High School in 1921.^[4] He attended Syracuse University, joining a fraternity there, but left during his freshman year after a “furtive sexual encounter with a fellow member of his fraternity, who then spread word of the incident in such a way that only Jackson came in for public disgrace”; a fictionalized version of that experience was later incorporated into The Lost Weekend.^[3]