Dick Davis

The Dick Davis Dividend (eBook, PDF)

Straight Talk on Making Money from 40 Years on Wall Street

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A pioneer in the financial media, Dick Davis has interacted with the investing public for over forty years. With his new book, he continues this trend. The first part of The Dick Davis Dividend contains an easy-to-read, yet profound discussion of the essentials of investing--focusing on the savvy veteran's often unconventional, core beliefs. While the second part of this engaging guide makes a compelling case for combining both passive investing via index funds and active investing via stocks and mutual funds.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470225813
• Artikelnr.: 37291133

Autorenporträt

Dick Davis is one of the most widely known and highly respected market commentators of his time. He founded The Dick Davis Digest in 1982, one of the nation's largest investment news-letters, and pioneered stock market reporting via television and radio. Davis also wrote a stock market column for the Miami Herald--which was syndicated to over 100 newspapers--for over ten years. Born in Yonkers, New York, Davis lived in Miami for forty-five years and in Boca Raton since 1992.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Acknowledgments. About the Author. Introduction. Can 95 Million
Investors Be Wrong? A Challenge: Blunt Honesty without Turning Off the
Investor. Where I'm Coming From. Housekeeping Notes. Chapter 1: Personal
Background. Pre-Wall Street. One-of-a-Kind Career on Wall Street. Post-Wall
Street. Modesty Adds Credibility. Part One: Deepest Convictions About
Successful Investing After 40 Years On Wall Street. Chapter 2: The Three
Best Things to Have before Starting to Invest. Luck. Longevity. Deep
Pockets. Chapter 3: Six Absolutes. 1. Nobody Knows the Answers. 2. There's
Always an Exact Opposite Opinion. 3. We're Predisposed to Fail, But Not
Predestined. 4. There Is Symmetry in the Market. 5. The Market Is
King--News Is Mostly Irrelevant. 6. The Durability of Major Trends Is
Underestimated. Chapter 4: Seven Core Convictions. 1. Asset Allocation Is
Key to Managing Risk. 2. Proper Entry Level Is Crucial. 3. Be Aware of the
Negatives: There's Always a Column A and a Column B. 4. The Best You Can Do
Is Put the Odds in Your Favor. 5. The Worst You Can Do Is Be Totally and
Instantly Informed (A Critique of CNBC). 6. Many Strategies Can Work--The
Key Is Consistency. 7. Index Funds: The Answer for Most, But Not the Whole
Answer. Chapter 5: Thirty-Five Nuggets. 1. After You Buy, It'll Always Go
Lower. 2. CEOs on Their Own Stock. 3. Conventional Wisdom Is More
Conventional than Wisdom. 4. Humility Is Sadly Lacking on Wall Street. 5. A
Sure Thing If Y ou Have the Patience. 6. No Single Stock Has to Be Bought.
7. The Sticky Question of When to Sell. 8. Mergers Are Good for Everyone
Except Stockholders. 9. Get Children Started Early. 10. Don't Rebuke
Yourself. 11. Face It, It's History; Put It Behind You. 12. Investigate,
Then Invest--Hogwash. 13. Cramer versus Kirk. 14. How to Answer Questions
about the Market. 15. Giving Advice to Relatives--Tread Lightly. 16. When
Greed Paid Off. 17. Losses Are Inevitable--A Big Loss Unacceptable. 18.
ETFs Are a Beautiful Thing. 19. Rising Dividends Are More Important than
Big Dividends. 20. The Broker and the Case for Discretion. 21. All
Investors Are Not Created Equal. 22. Low Commissions Make Online Trading
Hard to Resist. 23. Understand Your Own Temperament. 24. The Upside-Down
Stock Market. 25. Every Group Has Its Day. 26. "When" Is More Important
than "What". 27. No Place to Hide for the Investor. 28. The Rarity of
Inside Information. 29. What's a Reasonable Return? 30. The Market Is
Typically Dull and Indecisive. 31. Interest Rates--The Most Diffi cult of
All to Forecast. 32. The Brilliant Market Call. 33. Your Results Will
Differ From Your Fund's. 34. You Can Make Money in a Down Market. 35. No
One Has a Monopoly on the Right Answers. Part Two: Ok ay, So What Do I Do
With My Money? Chapter 6: Active versus Passive Investing. The 80-20
Solution. Passive Investing--An Overview. Index Funds: What's Most
Important To Know. Chapter 7: Passive Investing: Twenty-Eight Model Index
Fund Portfolios. Setting the Table. Paul Farrell: Lazy Man Portfolios.
Twenty-Eight Model Index Fund Portfolios. Chapter 8: Active Investing with
Mutual Funds. Ways for Do-It-Yourselfers to Outperform the Market:
Introduction. Life-Cycle/Target Retirement Funds. Mutual Funds: 18 Key
Points. Chapter 9: Active Investing with Stocks. Newsletters. "My One
Favorite Stock" Lists. Piggybacking the Masters. Virtual Investing. Stock
Screens. Brokerage Focus Lists. Stock-Picking Columnists. The CAN SLIM
Approach: William O'Neil. The Magic Formula: Joel Greenblatt. Jeremy
Siegel's Dividend Approach. Private Money Managers. Best Web Sites and
Blogs. Chapter 10: Conclusion. Great Investment Books: The Right Kind of
Homework. Sayings and Quotations. Wrap-Up: What I Hope You Take Away.
Index.