Handbook of Investment Analysis, Portfolio Management, and Financial Derivatives

This four-volume handbook covers important topics in the fields of investment analysis, portfolio management, and financial derivatives. Investment analysis papers cover technical analysis, fundamental analysis, contrarian analysis, and dynamic asset allocation. Portfolio analysis papers include optimization, minimization, and other methods which will be used to obtain the optimal weights of portfolio and their applications. Mutual fund and hedge fund papers are also included as one of the applications of portfolio analysis in this handbook.

The topic of financial derivatives, which includes futures, options, swaps, and risk management, is very important for both academicians and partitioners. Papers of financial derivatives in this handbook include (i) valuation of future contracts and hedge ratio determination, (ii) options valuation, hedging, and their application in investment analysis and portfolio management, and (iii) theories and applications of risk management.

Led by worldwide known Distinguished Professor Cheng Few Lee from Rutgers University, this multi-volume work integrates theoretical, methodological, and practical issues of investment analysis, portfolio management, and financial derivatives based on his years of academic and industry experience.

Professor Cheng Few Lee is a Distinguished Professor of Finance at Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University and was chairperson of the Department of Finance from 1988–1995. He has also served on the faculty of the University of Illinois (IBE Professor of Finance) and the University of Georgia. He has maintained academic and consulting ties in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, and the United States for the past three decades. He has been a consultant to many prominent groups including the American Insurance Group, the World Bank, the United Nations, the Marmon Group Inc., Wintek Corporation, and Polaris Financial Group.

Professor Lee founded the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (RQFA) in 1990 and the Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies (RPBFMP) in 1998, and serves as managing editor for both journals. He was also previously a co-editor of the Financial Review (1985–1991) and the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance (1987–1989).

In the past 42 years, Professor Lee has written numerous textbooks ranging in subject matters from financial management to corporate finance, security analysis and portfolio management to financial analysis, planning and forecasting, and business statistics. In addition, he edited five popular books, Encyclopedia of Finance (with Alice C Lee); Handbook of Quantitative Finance and Risk Management (with Alice C Lee and John Lee); Handbook of Financial Econometrics and Statistics; Handbook of Financial Econometrics, Mathematics, Statistics, and Machine Learning; and Handbook of Investment Analysis, Portfolio Management, and Financial Derivatives. Professor Lee has also published more than 250 articles in more than 20 different journals in finance, accounting, economics, statistics, and management. Professor Lee was ranked the most published finance professor worldwide during the period 1953–2008.

John C Lee is a Microsoft Certified Professional in Microsoft Visual Basic and Microsoft Excel VBA. He has a bachelor's and master's degree in accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

John has worked in both the business and technical fields as an accountant, auditor, systems analyst, and business software developer for over 20 years. He is the author of the book on how to use MINITAB and Microsoft Excel for statistical analysis, which is a companion text to Statistics of Business and Financial Economics, 2nd and 3rd edition, of which he is one of the co-authors. In addition, he has also coauthored the textbooks Financial Analysis, Planning and Forecasting, 3rd ed (with Cheng F Lee and Alice C Lee), and Security Analysis, Portfolio Management, and Financial Derivatives (with Cheng F Lee, Joseph Finnerty, Alice C Lee, and Donald Wort). He also coauthored two forthcoming books entitled Microsoft Excel VBA, Python and R for Financial Statistics and Portfolio Analysis and Microsoft Excel VBA, Python and R for Financial Derivatives, Financial Management, and Machine Learning. John has been a Senior Technology Officer at the Chase Manhattan Bank and Assistant Vice President at Merrill Lynch. Currently, he is the Director of the Center for PBBEF Research.