Investing Amid Low Expected Returns, Antti Ilmanen
Investing Amid Low Expected Returns, Antti Ilmanen
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Investing Amid Low Expected Returns
Making the Most When Markets Offer the Least

Author: Antti Ilmanen

Narrator: Tim Lounibos

Unabridged: 10 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 08/01/2023


Synopsis

Investing Amid Low Expected Returns provides an evidence-based blueprint for successful investing when decades of market tailwinds are turning into headwinds.

For a generation, falling yields and soaring asset prices have boosted realized returns. However, this past windfall leaves retirement savers and investors now facing the prospect of record-low future expected returns. Emphasizing this pressing challenge, the book highlights the role that timeless investment practices—discipline, humility, and patience—will play in enabling investment success. It then assesses current investor practices and the body of empirical evidence to illuminate the building blocks for improving long-run returns in today's environment and beyond. It concludes by reviewing how to put them together through effective portfolio construction, risk management, and cost control practices.

In this book, listeners will also find: the common investor responses so far to the low expected return challenge; extensive empirical evidence on the critical ingredients of an effective portfolio: major asset class premia, illiquidity premia, style premia, and alpha; discussions of the pros and cons of illiquid investments, factor investing, ESG investing, risk mitigation strategies, and market timing; and coverage of the whole top-down investment process.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michae;l on November 17, 2022

Well written and analyzed book attempting to solve the issue of investing in a low return world, the world of zero rates and high equity valuations we left as the Fed raised rates. Rates and equities have readjusted to now provide a more appropriate start point, but his points are all well reasoned......more

Goodreads review by Ludo on August 09, 2022

Quite a long book but with a lot of really good points. Good sections on what is alpha, and also the need to give up returns for green investing......more

Goodreads review by Peter on December 09, 2022

This book is a follow-up to Ilmanen's prior book, Expected Returns. Ilmanen has gotten nerdier in the decade between the two books. This book is for professional investors who want more extensive analysis than what Expected Returns provided. This review is also written for professional investors. Sk......more

Goodreads review by chris mukhar on July 07, 2022

One of the best finance books I have read in some time. The author uses loads of data to provide a robust investing framework. Although low expected returns (hint: low treasury yields) are featured, this book is more broad than just that issue. I highly recommend it. Part I: Setting the Stage Figure......more

Goodreads review by Sere on April 05, 2024

Every year, once a year, I read a finance related book. This is so I can potentially land on ideas on how to better manage my personal finances. I chose this book as I have had a pervasive market-crash feeling since October 2020...which means I've been proven wrong by facts many years over...lollll Th......more