The Bold Truth About Investing

In times of economic uncertainty, it is vital to not only protect your hard-earned assets,but also to stay attuned to new investment opportunities. Mutual funds guru Adam Bold has distilled a back-to-basics approach to personal finance into ten streamlined commandments. Delivered in his signature down-to-earth style, these principles help both novice and seasoned investors navigate the markets to take back control of their financial investments. Armed with self-knowledge, a clear plan, and the tools to identify the good, the bad, and the best mutual funds, investors can follow Bold's savvy advice to build wealth through a solid understanding of good new investment choices.

Adam Bold, whose Mutual Fund Store concept and radio show are sprouting in cities across the nation, offers bare-knuckles advice on what to look for - and watch out for - when investing in mutual funds. Inside, you'll find Adam's 10 Commandments of Mutual Fund Investing - advice on everything from knowing yourself and your investment goals, to understanding the mutual-fund scandals that have plagued the industry. There are also hints on: picking a mutual fund, selecting your investment adviser, knowing how your adviser gets paid and creating and sticking to a plan.

This exclusive anthology, Bold Thinking on Investment Management, provides the collective wisdom of the most penetrating minds in the investment industry. Nobel Laureates Harry M. Markowitz and Clive W.J. Granger, and towering figures in finance such as John C. Bogle, Dean LeBaron, Martin L. Leibowitz, and Peter L. Bernstein use their decades of successful market experience to identify turning points in the industry's past, present, and future. A CD-ROM containing stimulating presentations from the FAJ 60th Anniversary Conference accompanies each anthology.

The new paradigm for investing and building wealth in the twenty-first century. The Future for Investors reveals new strategies that take advantage of the dramatic changes and opportunities that will appear in world markets. Jeremy Siegel, one of the world’s top investing experts, has taken a long, hard, and in-depth look at the market and the stocks that investors should acquire to build long-term wealth. His surprising finding is that the new technologies, expanding industries, and fast-growing countries that stockholders relentlessly seek in the market often lead to poor returns. In fact, growth itself can be an investment trap, luring investors into overpriced stocks and overly competitive industries. The Future for Investors shatters conventional wisdom and provides a framework for picking stocks that will be long-term winners. While technological innovation spurs economic growth, it has not been kind to investors. Instead, companies that have marketed tried-and-true products for decades in slow-growth or even declining industries have superior returns to firms that develop “the bold and the new.” Industry sectors many regard as dinosaurs—railroads and oil companies, for example—have actually beat the market. Professor Siegel presents these strategies within the context of the coming shift in global economic power and the demographic age wave that will sweep the United States, Europe, and Japan. Contrary to the popular belief that these economic and demographic trends doom investors to poor returns, Professor Siegel explains the True New Economy and how to take advantage of the coming surge in invention, discovery, and economic growth. The faster the world changes, the more important it is for investors to heed the lessons of the past and find the tried-and-true companies that can help you beat the market and prosper in the years ahead.

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"The Strategic Truth about Investing: How to Invest Profitably Using a Simple 50/50 Basis, plus a Non-Nonsense, Unorthodox Briefing on Current Global Economics" is relevant, timeless, and breaks away from the pack, bringing clarity to the investment industry, its practices, and professional reliability, and is written for individuals seeking reliable sources on how to invest profitably without the burden of advisor fees. In addition, balance sheets of public corporations are analyzed in a simple, yet very different manner, uncovering how some well-known blue chip stocks have Zero ($0) Equity - while some are negative.The book empowers non-financial individuals to take control of their investments, and outlines an easy to understand investment model using risk/reward ratio, commission/capital ratio, and simple to implement technical analysis tools, with a basis on a 50/50 probability.In addition, the book constructs non-academic, straightforward, unconventional, and non-nonsensical global economic analyses, blending the author's personal insight and experiences with publicly available economic data, historical facts, and current news - while injecting a small dose of humor and satire along the way, to remove the dryness often packaged with financially oriented books. To bring perspective to the U.S. and the global marketplace, a streamlined and focused examination of international social and cultural factors is added.Parallels are drawn to every day non-financial experiences to further strengthen the concepts being explained, while highlighting the common, frequently concealed fallacies associated with the investment industry. A number of questions are posed throughout - some rhetorical, others theoretical - to engage the reader and stimulate her/his own opinion construction process through critical thinking.

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