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.

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

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"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)