"Take a look at the business section next time you’re in a bookshop and the chances are the smiling, bespectacled face of Warren Buffett will be looking at you from multiple book covers, advocating the merits of value investing. It is not quite the same with low-volatility strategies.
Although low-volatility investment strategies have steadily gained popularity among institutional investors worldwide in recent years, there are no ukulele-playing sages who have made this form of investing a key topic in the popular investment genre.
Pim van Vliet, Managing Director of Conservative Equities at Robeco, thought it was time to change this and has published a book that explains the history, methodology and application of the low-volatility anomaly in simple terms."
