Peter Stanyer, Author
Guide to Investment Strategy:
How to Understand Markets, Risk, Rewards and Behaviour

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The book explores the controversies that surround the management of wealth and provides guidance on how to construct investment strategies that are appropriate for each investor.

With its detailed analysis, supported by data and anecdotes drawn from investment experiences, it is intended above all to be a practical guide. It shows how the insights of behavioral analysis are widely reflected in investor behavior. It also emphasizes the importance of basing recommendations for investment strategy on the principles of traditional finance. And it takes into account new research into behavioral and traditional finance which has created new understandings of what investors want to achieve and investors' customary mistakes.

Peter Stanyer has over fifteen years' experience advising individuals, families, endowments, pension funds, and insurance companies from around the world on asset allocation and investment risk management. He is now chief investment officer of New York-based Overture Investments, a position he has held since taking a year off to write this book after leaving Merrill Lynch's Global Private Client division in London, where he was managing director.

Prior to this, he headed the portfolio risk and client advisory service for Merrill Lynch's European fund management business (and previously for Mercury Asset Management). Before that he was investment director of the United Kingdom's Railways Pension Fund, and he has also worked as an economist for the Bank of England and the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. When at Cambridge University, he won the Adam Smith Prize for economics.