Zvi Bodie, Rachelle Taqqu

Risk Less and Prosper

Your Guide to Safer Investing

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A practical guide to getting personal investing right Somewhere along the way, something has gone very wrong with the way individuals save and invest. Too often, households are drawn in by promotional suggestions masquerading as impartial investment advice. Consumers get saddled with more risk than they realize.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9781118014301
• ISBN-10: 1118014308
• Artikelnr.: 33629186

Autorenporträt

ZVI BODIE is the Norman and Adele Barron Professor of Management at Boston University. He holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has served on the finance faculty at the Harvard Business School and MIT's Sloan School of Management. In recent years, Bodie has been a prominent advocate for the financial protection of small investors and has written widely on this subject. Professor Bodie has worked closely with numerous professional institutions, including the CFA Institute, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Retirement Income Industry Association, and the Society of Actuaries. RACHELLE TAQQU is a financial consultant with many years of experience in the financial services industry. In recent years, she has worked closely with several nonprofit institutions on their endowments.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword ix
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xxv
Part I All About You 1
Chapter 1 Changing the Game 3
Chapter 2 Picturing Your Destination 17
Chapter 3 Paying Up 31
Part II Risk Matters 47
Chapter 4 The Mismeasure of Risk 49
Chapter 5 The Allure of Hope 65
Chapter 6 Your Personal Risk Profile 85
Part III Building Blocks 99
Chapter 7 Finding the Safe Investment Zone 101
Chapter 8 The Art of Matchmaking 125
Chapter 9 Investing Safely for Education 139
Chapter 10 Choosing Risky Investments 147
Chapter 11 How to Choose an Advisor 167
Epilogue 175
Notes 181
About the Authors 189
Index 191

Rezensionen

"Bodie and Taqqu have staked out important ground in terms ofreconsidering the basic paradigm for long-term saving and investingand presenting a new approach in an engaging and thoughtfulmanner." (Portfolio.com, February 2012)

"...a good read for those of you who are skeptical of investingin today's stock market. But it is a must-read for those of you whoactually think that you know what you are doing." (HuffingtonPost, January 2012)