Richard Tortoriello is the aerospace and defense analyst in the equity research division of Standard & Poor's and has also conducted numerous quantitative investment studies for the company. He is responsible for buy, sell, and hold recommendations on twenty-five aerospace- and defense-related stocks, including General Electric, Boeing, United Technologies, Lockheed Martin, and Honeywell. He has been interviewed numerous times for Bloomberg Television, CNBC, BBC TV, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.

Alpha, higher-than-expected returns generated by an investment strategy, is the holy grail of the investment world. Achieve alpha, and you've beaten the market on a risk-adjusted basis. Quantitative Strategies for Achieving Alpha was borne from equity analyst Richard Tortoriello's efforts to create a series of quantitative stock selection models for his company, Standard & Poor's, and produce a road map of the market from a quantitative point of view.

With this practical guide, you will gain an effective instrument that can be used to improve your investment process, whether you invest qualitatively, quantitatively, or seek to combine both. Each alpha-achieving strategy has been extensively back-tested using Standard & Poor's Compustat Point in Time database and has proven to deliver alpha over the long term. Quantitative Strategies for Achieving Alpha presents a wide variety of individual and combined investment strategies that consistently predict above-market returns. The result is a comprehensive investment mosaic that illustrates clearly those qualities and characteristics that make an investment attractive or unattractive. This valuable work contains: