High Returns from Low Risk

A Remarkable Stock Market Paradox

Pim van Vliet, Jan de Koning

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John Wiley & Sons Inc
16 December 2016

Stocks & shares

HIGH RETURNS from LOW RISK

If you lie awake at night worrying about your retirement, paying for your children’s schooling or your general financial security, High Returns from Low Risk is your solution to a sound sleep. This unique wealth management guide is written by a fund manager who oversees billions of dollars in portfolio assets, and who wants to share his approach with individual investors, advisors, bankers and everyone interested in the stock market. Despite all the appeal exciting stocks have, his evidence-based strategy repeatedly proves low-risk stocks historically beat high-risk ones going back well over eighty years. By how much? Over eighteen times the returns!

Growing wealth doesn’t have to be stressful, and it shouldn’t be risky when you get High Returns from Low Risk.

‘The low-risk effect, that is the idea that historically, unlike many well-known theories, average return across stocks doesn’t appear to go up with most standard measures of risk, is one of the most important “anomalies” in modern finance. Pim van Vliet is one of the pioneers in studying this effect and using it to improve investor portfolios. Anyone interested in systematic equity investing should carefully read this important book.’

— Clifford S. Asness, Founder, Managing Principal and Chief Investment Officer at AQR Capital Management, USA

‘Pim van Vliet’s experience as one of the pioneers of low-volatility investing gives him unique insight into one of the most fascinating economic anomalies of our time. The idea that risk, properly defined, generates a positive return, is one of those ideas that becomes even more profound when we learn it is not true. There is no cosmic risk karma that pays people for taking risk, and this book will help people understand what types of investment risks generate premiums, and which will actually cost you money.’ —Eric Falkenstein, Author of The Missing Risk Premium: Why Low Volatility Investing Works, USA

By: Pim van Vliet, Jan de Koning
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 218mm, Width: 145mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781119351054
ISBN 10: 1119351057
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 16 December 2016
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

PIM VAN VLIET, PhD, is the Founder and fund manager of the multi-billion dollar Conservative Equity funds at Robeco. These low-risk funds are based on academic research and provide investors with a stable source of income from the stock market. Pim is a guest lecturer at several universities, the author of numerous financial publications and travels the world advocating low-volatility investing. JAN DE KONING, CFA, CAIA, CMT is an investment specialist for Robeco’s quantitative equities strategies and conducts client and consultant meetings, speaks at conferences, and gives seminars on low-volatility investing. In the past, he published regular investment updates and was an investment advisor, portfolio manager and fiduciary manager for institutional investors.

Reviews for High Returns from Low Risk: A Remarkable Stock Market Paradox

""A must-read for all institutional investors looking to reap investment rewards in an ever-increasing tough economic environment."" (Pensions Age, June 2017) ""... it's a great edition to any stock market investors library."" (Stockopedia, June 2017) ""This cleverly defined set of arguments poses an interesting challenge for those who remain intent on chasing higher premiums."" (Investment Europe, March 2017)