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"Jason Zweig knows your financial demons, where they live, why they're making you poor, and how you can beat them."
?William J. Bernstein

With the value of the dollar sinking, bond yields drying up, giant investment banks collapsing, and stock markets crumbling, how can you ensure that your money will stay safe? By becoming better acquainted with the markets, the "professionals" who populate the field of finance, and, most importantly, yourself.

While this may sound like simple advice, author Jason Zweig?the investing and personal finance columnist for the Wall Street Journal?knows how difficult this endeavor can be. But as a trusted voice in the financial community, he has helped thousands of investors achieve this goal, and now, with The Little Book of Safe Money, he wants to help you do the same.

The Little Book of Safe Money is the perfect guide for those trying to make their way through today's tough markets. Topics covered include everything from investing behavior and why our minds come with their own set of biases that often prove harmful to the use of financial advisors. But this reliable resource goes one step further than the rest by questioning an investor's true appetite for risk. The Little Book of Safe Money also debunks many of the myths that whirl around Wall Street with chapters like "Hedge-Fund Hooey."

Page by page, this timely book:

  • Outlines strategies for satisfying our ever-changing investment appetites while focusing on a long-term financial plan
  • Discusses both the external and internal forces that can hurt your investment performance?and how you can better deal with them
  • Offers practical guidance, tools, and tips for surviving and thriving in a down market
  • And much more

In a straightforward and accessible style, Zweig peels away layer after layer of buzz words, emotion, and myths to reveal what's really going on in today's financial markets and how you can thrive under even the most adverse conditions. If you're serious about succeeding in today's turbulent markets, then The Little Book of Safe Money is what you should be reading.

"Jason Zweig knows your financial demons, where they live, why they're making you poor, and how you can beat them."
?William J. Bernstein

With the value of the dollar sinking, bond yields drying up, giant investment banks collapsing, and stock markets crumbling, how can you ensure that your money will stay safe? By becoming better acquainted with the markets, the "professionals" who populate the field of finance, and, most importantly, yourself.

While this may sound like simple advice, author Jason Zweig?the investing and personal finance columnist for the Wall Street Journal?knows how difficult this endeavor can be. But as a trusted voice in the financial community, he has helped thousands of investors achieve this goal, and now, with The Little Book of Safe Money, he wants to help you do the same.

The Little Book of Safe Money is the perfect guide for those trying to make their way through today's tough markets. Topics covered include everything from investing behavior and why our minds come with their own set of biases that often prove harmful to the use of financial advisors. But this reliable resource goes one step further than the rest by questioning an investor's true appetite for risk. The Little Book of Safe Money also debunks many of the myths that whirl around Wall Street with chapters like "Hedge-Fund Hooey."

Page by page, this timely book:

  • Outlines strategies for satisfying our ever-changing investment appetites while focusing on a long-term financial plan
  • Discusses both the external and internal forces that can hurt your investment performance?and how you can better deal with them
  • Offers practical guidance, tools, and tips for surviving and thriving in a down market
  • And much more

In a straightforward and accessible style, Zweig peels away layer after layer of buzz words, emotion, and myths to reveal what's really going on in today's financial markets and how you can thrive under even the most adverse conditions. If you're serious about succeeding in today's turbulent markets, then The Little Book of Safe Money is what you should be reading.

Über den Autor

JASON ZWEIG is the investing and personal finance columnist for the Wall Street Journal. Previously, he was a senior writer for Money magazine and a guest columnist for Time magazine and [...]. Before joining Money in 1995, Zweig was the mutual funds editor at Forbes. A frequent commentator on television and radio, Zweig is also a popular public speaker who has addressed the American Association of Individual Investors, the Aspen Institute, the CFA Institute, the Morningstar Investment Conference, and university audiences at Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford. He serves on the editorial boards of Financial History magazine and the Journal of Behavioral Finance. Zweig has a BA from Columbia College, where he was awarded a John Jay National Scholarship.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword xv

Introduction xxi

Chapter One The Three Commandments 1

Chapter Two Solid, Liquid, or Gas? 5

Chapter Three You are an Egg 19

Chapter Four Keeping Your Cash from Turning into Trash 31

Chapter Five Guarantees are Not All They're Cracked Up to Be 45

Chapter Six Fixing Your Fixed Income 53

Chapter Seven Stocks for the Wrong Run 67

Chapter Eight Rules for Stock Investors to Live By 77

Chapter Nine Little Things Mean a Lot 89

Chapter Ten How to Get Your Kids through College without Going Broke 99

Chapter Eleven What Makes Ultra ETFs Mega-Dangerous 107

Chapter Twelve Hedge Fund Hooey 117

Chapter Thirteen Commodity Claptrap 131

Chapter Fourteen Spicy Food Does Not Equal Hot Returns 141

Chapter Fifteen WACronyms: Why Initials are So Often the Beginning of the End 149

Chapter Sixteen Sex 157

Chapter Seventeen Mind Control 167

Chapter Eighteen Financial Planning Fakery 183

Chapter Nineteen Advice on Advice 189

Chapter Twenty Fraudian Psychology 199

Chapter Twenty-One The Terrible Tale of the Missing [...] Trillion 211

Chapter Twenty-Two How to Talk Back to Market Baloney 219

Acknowledgments 229

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Fachbereich: Betriebswirtschaft
Genre: Importe, Wirtschaft
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: 256 S.
ISBN-13: 9780470398524
ISBN-10: 0470398523
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 14539852000
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Zweig, Jason
Hersteller: John Wiley & Sons
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstr. 12, D-69469 Weinheim, product-safety@wiley.com
Maße: 189 x 136 x 34 mm
Von/Mit: Jason Zweig
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.11.2009
Gewicht: 0,292 kg
Artikel-ID: 101511737

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