Seek beginner's book on equity research and portfolio management

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Anyone can recommend some material? Some possible choices are listed as follows. The third one is actually a financial economics book with concentration on stocks, so its table of contents looks pretty comprehensive.

1)
Quantitative Equity Portfolio Management (McGraw-Hill Library of Investment and Finance), 2006, by Ludwig B Chincarini, Daehwan Kim
Table of contents can be found at:
Amazon Online Reader : Quantitative Equity Portfolio Management (McGraw-Hill Library of Investment and Finance)


2)
Quantitative Equity Portfolio Management: Modern Techniques and Applications (Chapman & Hall/Crc Financial Mathematics Series), 2007 by EE. Qian, RH. Hua, Eric H. Sorensen
Table of contents can be found:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Qu...-Management/Edward-E-Qian/e/9781584885580#TOC


3)
Quantitative Financial Economics: Stocks, Bonds and Foreign Exchange, 2005. by Keith Cuthbertson, Dirk Nitzsche.
Table of contents can be found:
Amazon Online Reader : Quantitative Financial Economics: Stocks, Bonds and Foreign Exchange

 

[alain]

Grinold and Kahn

Amazon.com: Active Portfolio Management: A Quantitative Approach for Producing Superior Returns and Controlling Risk: Richard C. Grinold, Ronald N. Kahn: Books

 

[echostate]

Grinold and Kahn

Amazon.com: Active Portfolio Management: A Quantitative Approach for Producing Superior Returns and Controlling Risk: Richard C. Grinold, Ronald N. Kahn: Books

thanks for suggestion, this one should also be one of the candidates.

but some people told me this one is classic ... but dry ... also, since it is published on 1999, will it be a little outdated?

3ks