Managing Editor of the Financial Analysts Journal Heidi Raubenheimer provides an overview of the Third Quarter issue of 2019, featuring the following articles:

1. Are Passive Funds Really Superior Investments? An Investor Perspective
2. In Defense of Portfolio Optimization: What If We Can Forecast?
3. Choosing and Using Utility Functions in Forming Portfolios
4. Machine Learning for Stock Selection
5. The Impact of Crowding in Alternative Risk Premia Investing
6. Financial Statement Anomalies in the Bond Market
7. Brokers or Investment Advisers? The US Public Perception