The Complete Guide to Managing a Portfolio of Mutual Funds

by Ronald K. Rutherford

Book Overview

This is a guide providing information on the process of selecting and managing a portfolio of mutual funds. It covers the statistical and non-statistical characteristics of assembling a balanced... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078631138X
• ISBN13: 9780786311385
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Book For Beginners And Gurus

Managing a Portfolio of Mutual Funds is a well written, entertaining, book that will help anyone better understand money management using Mutual Funds. The book starts with an excellent section on goals and planning, in which Rutherford makes a compelling argument about why this is a critical step towards effective financial management and explains how to best complete and document the plan. He follows this with a discussion of Asset Class Portfolio Design, which is the foundation for the rest of the book. Once this introductory material is finished, Rutherford discusses various investment strategies and how to implement and monitor each of them, starting from the more basic ideas of Passive Investing and Index Funds and moving to the more complex areas of Active Investing and Manager Style Analysis. Although the amount of detail gets a bit thin once he begins the chapter on Passive Investing and the book never regains the tight, lucid arguments and explanations of the first sections, it's a first-rate book on investing with Mutual Funds and should be read by every serious investor AND portfolio manager.