Frank K. Martin

A Decade of Delusions (eBook, PDF)

From Speculative Contagion to the Great Recession

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Produktbeschreibung

The proven strategies rational investors require for success in an irrational market When the dot-com and real estate bubbles of the 1990s and 2000s burst, few were spared the financial fallout. So, how did an investment advisory firm located in Elkhart, Indiana--one of the cities hit hardest by the economic downturns--not only survive, but also thrive during the highly contagious speculative pandemics. By remaining rational. In A Decade of Delusions: From Speculative Contagion to the Great Recession, Frank Martin founder of Elkhart, Indiana's Martin Capital Management offers a riveting and real-time insider's look at the two bubbles, and reflects on how investors can remain rational even when markets are anything but. * Outlines strategies the average investor can use to wade through the endless news, information, and investment advice that bombards them * Describes the epidemic of market speculation that gradually infects feverish investors * Details how investors can spare themselves the emotional devastation and accompanying paralysis resulting from shocking financial losses Investors are still reeling from the instability in the market. A Decade of Delusions: From Speculative Contagion to the Great Recession provides the information investors need to achieve safety, liquidity, and yield.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118078143
• Artikelnr.: 37485371

Autorenporträt

FRANK K. MARTIN, CFA, founded Martin Capital Management in 1987 after twenty years of experience in municipal finance and, later, mergers and acquisitions. Martin's post-secondary degrees are from Northwestern University and Indiana University. He resides in northern Indiana with his wife, Marsha. He has three adult children. Additional biographical information can be found at www.mcmadvisors.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Preface. Chapter 1 Lead Us Not into Temptation. May Reason
Prevail. Patience and Persistence. The Dean of Wall Street Revisited. The
Investor's Dilemma. It's a Numbers Game. The Supremacy of Earnings.
'Stealth Compensation'. Conclusion. Chapter 2 Techno Babble, Techno Bubble.
A Tale of Two Markets. Back to the Future? Warren Buffett on the Stock
Market. Is the Internet the Answer? What's a Long-Term Investor to Do?
Investment Redefined. Chapter 3 'Pop!!'.com. Risk: No Longer an
Afterthought. Investment Strategy: Is It Time for Technology? Is There a
Snowball Rolling Our Way, Gathering Mass and Speed? The Art/Science of
Managing Risk. Baby Boomers: Whither Goest Thou? The Internet and IPO
Frenzy. Fool's Gold. Goliaths Slain. Chapter 4 Swimming against the
Current. Prelude to Our Investment 'Strategy'. Interest Rates: It Had
Better Be Uphill from Here. The Power of Popular Delusions. The Mind of
Crowds. Investment Consultants: The Great Middleman Myth. Chapter 5 Limbo
World: How Low Can You Go? Investment Strategy. The Reckoning. Sober in the
Morning. Bottoms Up. The Margin-of-Safety Paradox. Waiting Patiently for
Those Hanging Curves. Chapter 6 Only Fools Rush In. The Rogues Gallery,
2003 Vintage. Making Progress in the Post-Bubble Environment. How Did We
Get Here in the First Place? The Apogee of the Mutual-Fund Boom. The Great
Abdication of Fiduciary Responsibility: The Defined-Contribution Plan.
Where the Buck Really Stops. Chapter 7 Expanding Concern: A Bigger Bubble?
Maybe the Markets Are Not Random? A Short History of Financial Euphoria.
Fully Deluded Earnings: Penance(?) in the Cuff-Links Cooler. Run for the
Roses: Of Pawns, Guinea Pigs ... and 'Retail Investors'. 'Swing, You Bum!'
Marathon Endurance. Chapter 8 What History Teaches. Free Markets: Popular
Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Aspiring to Rationality by Overcoming
Heuristic Biases. Today Is Not Tomorrow: Cycles and Differing 'Opportunity
Sets'. Inverting the Traditional High-Risk/High-Return Paradigm. The
Inevitability of Regression to the Mean. There Are No Called Strikes in the
Investment Ballgame. Focus on the Important. The Malevolent Mathematical
Mystery of Modern Money Management (a.k.a. MPT). The Absurdity of the
Collective Wisdom of Individual Irrationality. Diversification and the Myth
of Safety in Numbers. The New-Era Error. Chapter 9 Contagious Speculation.
The Means to the End. The Perfect Storm? Viewing the Vista Through the Lens
of History. The Blossoming of the Financial Economy: The Cataclysm in the
Creation of Credit. Bubbles Are Indigenous to the Financial Economy. If
Housing Prices Roll Over. A Remarkable Story of Risk Management--Run Amok.
The Perfect Storm Redux. Capitalism: When 'Financial' Overwhelms
'Commercial'. Minsky: A Prequel? The Evolving History of Economics,
Finance: Reflections. Chapter 10 The Tipping Point. Excerpt from Quarterly
Capital Markets Review, July 2007. Draft of Letter to MCM Clients, July
2007. Quarterly Capital Markets Review, October 2007: What's Up, Doc?
Cyclical or Secular? The Current Crisis in the Larger Context of Cause and
Effect -- Connecting the Dots through Time. The Misalignment of Incentives
and the Opaque World of High Finance. Conclusion. An Early Epitaph for the
First Decade of the New Millennium. Credit-Default Swap Alchemy:
Transmuting Junk into Gold. Counterparty Risk. Chapter 11 The End or the
Beginning? Origins of a Crisis: Decoupling Risk and Return. The Question on
Which the Future of Investment Hangs. Stockdale Paradox: What Do Survivors
Have in Common? Know Thyself. Harsh Realities and the Snowball Effect. The
Future of Risk Aversion. Price is What You Pay, Value is What You Get. The
Lost Decade. The Most Powerful Force in the Universe. Value Investors: A
Rare Breed. Risk--Once Again a Four-Letter Word? Analysis and Intuition:
The Yin and Yang. Epilogue 'This Time Is Different'. Those Who Don't
Remember History... The Insidious Disappearance of Accountability. The
Intersection of the Philosophical and the Pragmatic. Respect for Risk ...
Just for a Fleeting Moment. Index.