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“Hilda Ochoa is one of the great investors of the last 30 years and her book Delivering Alpha isa one-of-a-kind insightful journey into the facts, processes, and principles of deliveringsustainable value-added in investing. And it’s a pleasure to read.”―Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates and author of NYT #1 bestseller Principles â€œThe bible on risk management.”―David M. Smick, author of the NYT bestseller The World Is Curved“Highlights the value of being open to new approaches, adapting to perpetual, sometimes tumultuous changes. This is a good, thoughtful book."―Paul Volcker, former chairman, Federal Reserve â€œSmart, informative, intelligently wrought, and beautifully written.”―Marie Arana, Literary Director, Library of Congress, author of Bolivar and The Writing Life â€œThere is enough here to make anyone, in the words of the English proverb, ‘healthy, wealthy, and wise.’”―David G. Bradley, chairman, Atlantic Media“Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg expertly demonstrates not only why good governance matters, but also what it looks like and how it can be achieved.”―Arthur C. Brooks, president, American Enterprise Institute“Practical and battlefield-tested tools for investment committees and boards to raise their game to the highest standards.”--Douglas Peterson, President and CEO, S&P Global â€œHilda is one of the very few managers who have delivered alpha consistently over a long period of time. Pay attention …”―Jack Meyer, former President and CEO of the Harvard Management Company and founder CEO of Convexity Capital Management

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About the Author

Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg, CFA, is the lead founder and chairman of Strategic Investment Group and co-founder of Emerging Markets Management. A Fulbright Fellow and Fulbright Lifetime Achievement awardee, she completed doctoral studies, all but dissertation, in Business Administration in Finance at Harvard Business School and received a Master of Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Ochoa-Brillembourg served as the Chief Investment Officer at the Pension Investment Division at the World Bank from 1976 to 1987 and continued as a Manager of the World Bank Pension assets until 1996. She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the American Enterprise Institute Board, the Committee for Economic Development Board, Harvard’s Kennedy School Dean’s Executive Council and Dean’s Alumni Leadership Council, and was a longtime member of the World Economic Forum. She has served in multiple public company and non-profit boards, and she is the founder and chairman of the Orchestra of the Americas. 

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Product details

Hardcover: 320 pages

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education; 1 edition (December 3, 2018)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1260441482

ISBN-13: 978-1260441482

Product Dimensions:

6.3 x 1.1 x 9.4 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.3 out of 5 stars

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Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#57,732 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

In Delivering Alpha, Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg shares her experiences managing financial assets for several institutional and private clients over a three decade-long career. Structured as a series of topical discussions, the book attempts to answer the question: How should a money management operation be designed and run so as to generate superior investment returns? Ochoa-Brillembourg seems to be well qualified for this task, having produced an enviable level of long-term outperformance in her own company. Indeed, many of her insights involving topics such as asset allocation strategy, trading alternative assets, and firm governance principles are very illuminating. On the other hand, the order of the discussion is repetitive, quite poorly organized (e.g., illiquidity risk is described in a number of chapters), and often superficial, which greatly limits the effectiveness of the project. The biggest impediment, however, is that she has not really made a clear-cut choice in her target audience—the board-level fiduciaries who manage the organization or the investment staff who manages the assets.Indicative of this expositional problem is the very loose way in which the central concept of alpha is defined. Simply put, alpha is the difference between the actual return a portfolio generates and the expected return it should have earned. Since the first term is measurable, calculating alpha really comes down to how expected returns are measured. Economists tend to specify a formal risk model (such as the CAPM) for this purpose, while practitioners typically use the return to a benchmark index (or series of indexes) or the average return generated by a peer group. The main difference between these approaches is that the former measures the risk of the portfolio very precisely—hence the notion that alpha is a risk-adjusted return—but may not represent a directly investable alternative. Conversely, comparing actual returns to those of a benchmark, which is often a viable alternative to the manager being evaluated, does not take investment risk into account explicitly.Unfortunately, both definitions of alpha are used interchangeably throughout the book, which makes it difficult to understand how a portfolio’s outperformance is supposed to be delivered. In fact, the text is largely silent on exactly how someone should design a portfolio to beat expected returns, although there are a few examples of macro-oriented trades the author made in the past to help her firm achieve its results. Essentially, alpha comes from two types of active decisions: tactically adjusting the asset class weights in the portfolio or selecting superior securities within those asset classes. This fact is acknowledged with the following statement near the end of the book: “The divergence between sentiment and fundamentals is the most reliable long-term source of alpha.” However, other than some occasional vague directives that one should consider investing whenever securities are misvalued, Ochoa-Brillembourg never really explains how we might make those assessments.Several other topic discussions are flawed as well; I’ll mention two here. The author begins the book with a consideration of something she calls “fit theory”, which is just of way of saying that investors should consider how any potential new investment will affect an existing portfolio. This is not a new concept and she does not provide enough detail for the reader to implement the rule-of-thumb formula she suggests. (In fact, the high-yield bond example she offers as an illustration is not helpful because the correlation coefficient necessary for the calculation would not have been available at the time of the investment.) Particularly surprising was the extremely limited coverage on the topic of how to select (or terminate) the outside managers who are responsible for actually investing the asset class-specific portfolios. This is crucial because for an institution that follows the “external manager” model, all of the alpha delivered by security selection will come from these outside agents. Despite stressing that her firm was a pioneer of what is by now an industry-standard approach, the author devotes just two very brief chapters (i.e., about five pages each) to this essential subject.Of course, Delivering Alpha also contains a lot of good information, even if those discussions are not necessarily integrated into a cohesive whole. Notable among these topics are the process for creating an investment policy statement, how to manage portfolio volatility, responsible employee compensation arrangements, and a company’s organization and culture. The problem, though, is that these insights appear somewhat randomly and they are often interspersed with other points that are either misplaced, redundant, or far too terse to be useful. Perhaps the best way to assess this volume’s potential impact is as follows: If you handed the book to both a trustee and a staff member at an institutional investment firm, would either find a sufficient amount of information to execute their fiduciary duties effectively (to say nothing of producing superior investment performance)? Sadly, I think that the answer to that question is very likely “no”. As such, despite containing many thought-provoking points, the work ultimately falls short of its intended goal.

“Delivering ALPHA” is not a book on finance theory but about the methods utilized by the author, Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg, to deliver Alpha for decades, while Chief Investment Officer at the World Bank and, later, as CEO of her own firm. In the words of the author is “a practical guide to building intelligent, sensible, and sensibly managed portfolios that will deliver Alpha consistently over time”.This highly specialized subject would limit the reading of the book to financial experts, right? Wrong. Even the non-experts can enjoy this book because it also happens to be a guide on how to live sensibly. The lessons learned by Ochoa-Brillembourg in her World Bank career and, later, in running her company, have direct and evident application to the manner we choose to live our lives. The first one of these lessons says: Price is not value. In finance as in life there is a market price which is the same to all buyers but value is different to different buyers, being a function of its synergistic value when combined with your financial or human portfolio. The author tells us: “The largest factor influencing such value, other than price, expected return and risk, is the correlation of the asset to the rest of your portfolio”. This leads to the Fit Theory, according to which not only the price and intrinsic value of the asset are pertinent to our choice but equally important is the fit to our own needs and circumstances.Although the book is primarily written with the large investors in mind it can also be of great help to the small investors. I was particularly interested in her discussion on the Wisdom of Teams and Governing for Success, the product of her extensive experience in managing investment committees.One of the most important policy decisions the author contributed to her stay at the World Bank was the addition of junk bonds to the portfolio of the institution and how this decision contributed to delivering Alpha.There is much in this superbly written book which makes for compelling reading for all readers hoping to get a better grip on the subject.

This book is not a textbook or cookbook for institutional investors and fiduciaries but a highly readable compendium of investment wisdom gleaned during many years of overseeing pension, endowment, and foundation assets. Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg shares her unique insights on a very wide array of subjects, such as practical advice on the advantages and limitations of various investment strategies, how to construct a diversified portfolio that can withstand market crises, and how improve the decision-making of investment committees. This book should be of particular interest to anyone charged with high-level responsibility for overseeing complex diversified institutional portfolios, and especially members of investment committees.

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