Capital Ideas and Market Realities: Option Replication, Investor Behavior, and Stock Market CrashesISBN: 978-0-631-21555-4
Paperback
424 pages
August 1999, Wiley-Blackwell
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"Bruce Jacobs, an investment manager who predicted before the
1987 crash that portfolio insurance would trigger chain-reaction
selling, recently forecast that option-strategies ('the sons of
portfolio insurance') would play a similar, though more muted, role
in a future debacle. Monday [October 27, 1997] provided damning
evidence." The Wall Street Journal
"Every fiduciary should read this book. Investors have too often
been taken in by promotions appealing to their basic human
instincts of fear and greed. Bruce Jacobs shows how supposedly
low-risk, seemingly infallible, investment strategies can backfire.
His views on portfolio insurance helped steer our profit-sharing
fund away from that craze in 1987. Today, especially in light of
the long-term Capital Management fiasco, investors should know what
Bruce has to say about derivatives trading strategies and market
crashes." John E. Stettler, Vice President - Benefit
Investments, Georgia-Pacific Corporation
"Bruce Jacobs demonstrates effectively that trend-following
strategies like portfolio insurance are fair-weather techniques
that may add to, rather than minimize, troubles when a major crash
occurs." Charles P. Kindleberger, author of Manias, Panics, and
Crashes: A History of Financial Crisis
"Bruce Jacobs has created an instant classic. Capital Ideas and Market Realities demonstrates how products that appeal to investors' fears of short-term losses often ignore prudence and long-term value. This book is a must read for every investor." The Journal of Investing