Investment Traps Exposed

Investment Traps Exposed helps investors and investment practitioners increase their awareness about the external and internal traps that they or their clients can encounter.

Investment Traps Exposed helps investors and investment practitioners increase their awareness about the external and internal traps that they or their clients can encounter.

H. Kent Baker and Vesa Puttonen show new investors how to avoid rash financial decisions and basic investing sins. They help them to recognize and avoid common investing mistakes, behavioral biases, and traps that can affect sound judgment and reduce wealth. Ultimately, they explain how to separate investment fads from time-tested principles.

One of the world's leading investment researchers runs the numbers on some of today's most widely touted strategies, objectively answering the questions brokers cannot answer and presents exactly what works and what doesn't.

Speculating in today's market is not a haphazard game of chance. Too many investors assume that investment decisions can be made solely on impulse, estimation, or financial "news." WALL STREET: ITS MYSTERIES REVEALED - ITS SECRETS EXPOSED contains everything from how insiders and skilled market professionals operate to the fundamental difference between stock speculation and long-term financial investment. In this helpful guide, Moore reveals stock market psychology and how to avoid the "crowd mind" as well as the dangers of mental suggestion when investing. Backed by compelling examples, WALL STREET: ITS MYSTERIES REVEALED - ITS SECRETS EXPOSED adds a new dimension in gaining an edge on the financial markets.

"With a focus on success, this handy, practical investing guide gives useful strategies, tips (and traps to avoid) to help investors choose among various investment types."

"How can institutional and private investors safely invest into private equity? Two experienced market practitioners provide you with a review of the private equity fund industry and a description of all the relevant management issues of fund investments, from a day-to-day and a portfolio persepective to indirect investment vehicles like funds of funds and securitised notes. Learn how to think independently and avoid succumbing to the traps of private equity. This book includes: A discussion of private equity as an asset class and its place within an alternative investment programme. Guidance on investment into funds, including a behind-the-scenes look at the relationship between the fund investor and the fund manager. Portfolio management of fund investments including the latest cash-flow models and their use to avoid liquidity squeezes and over-allocation. An examination of the different types of risks faced by private equity investors and how these can be minimised. An explanation of how investors can outsource these tasks - the relative merits of funds of funds and CFOs, listed products or secondary transactions. This is the first book to discuss the relationship between the limited partners and the general partner, providing an undisguised and independent look behind the scenes, and explain the core aspects of this industry from the perspective of two insiders. An indispensable reference for institutional practitioners and private equity lawyers, as well as students and academics who seek to understand the dynamics of the complex world of private equity."--Editor.