Managing Equity Portfolios

The Disciplined Trader meets Moneyball. This book is a worthwhile read for any portfolio manager, analyst, or trader focused on continual improvement and even greater success.

Warren Touwen, Core Product, Bloomberg

For fund managers seeking to improve their investing skills there are many publications offering tantalizing but fragmented paths for progress. In this book Michael Ervolini brings together topics such as fast and slow thinking, checklists, and self-awareness to construct coherent and pragmatic solutions. Using the principles of the scientific method he shows how a successful investment process can evolve through time, improving the consistency of decision making and keeping investing skills relevant in an ever-changing world.

Simon Savage, Asset Manager, GLG Partners

Michael Ervolini is a clever man in touch with reality. Recognizing that portfolio management is a tough, challenging business full of conflicts, he gets it that rationality is easy to talk about but difficult to implement. It requires recognition of deep uncertainty and the human resource that is emotion. Since passive investing puts you at the mercy of the market, active portfolio management has to be made to work. It can be, Ervolini says, if there is proper feedback. It requires a willingness to be curious about what we do and to create ways to learn from experience. This is what he does in this book. Read it!

David Tuckett, Director, Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty, University College, London

After years of deep, questioning research into the biases and beliefs that can undermine the 'normal' behavior of equity portfolio managers, Michael Ervolini skillfully tells us how to improve our choices. He does this by providing practical ideas for learning how to do more of what we already do well and how to identify and fix what is not working. No asset class and no asset manager are immune from human fallibility when it comes to portfolio decisions, and with the help of this book you can learn how to showcase your skills while modifying behavioral tendencies.

Arnold S. Wood, President and Chief Executive Officer, Martingale Asset Management

Ervolini's analytical work will…appeal to professional portfolio managers looking for performance help and readers who aspire to such a career. Both groups will find his generally jargon-free insights instructive.

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