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Books : The Gone Fishin' Portfolio: Get Wise, Get Wealthy...and Get on With Your Life (Agora Series) |
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.6
EAN: 9780470112670
ISBN: 0470112670
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: September 09, 2008
Publisher: Wiley
Studio: Wiley
Sales Rank: 1419
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Outperform the vast majority of investment professionals while paying nothing in sales charges, brokerage fees, or commissions by modifying your investment strategy. Learn how to make your investment dreams come true with the advice in The Gone Fishin' Portfolio: Get Wise, Get Wealthy...and Get on With Your Life, a guide that’s based on a Nobel Prize-winning investment strategy yet takes just 20 minutes to implement. Gain an understanding of the fundamental relationship between risk and reward in the financial markets and get an insider's view of how the investment industry really works.
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Hoping for a new approach to investing, I purchased this book. However, it contained the same old advice that I read over 15 years ago! The worse part is that the author advises investors to put all their eggs in one basket. Sorry, but this chicken prefers to put his eggs in different baskets...
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Just read the book. As a retiree, doesn't seem to fit as well, i.e. long term horizon vs retiree short term. Couple of issues did arise: 1) Did Green reinvest dividends and if so how did that impact the 17.1% average return? I assume dividends did get reinvested, but if so, again how does that compare to the S&P benchmark? 2) Bigger problem, if you are investing money in both IRA, 401K, or other qualified plans and the rest in non qualified or after tax money, how do you rebalance? You can't shift ... Read More
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This book presents an interesting general approach for those that wish to manage their own portfolio and who don't want to spend a large amount of time reading and researching financial reports and publications. The two problems I have with it are:
1. It tends to be written for the North American market and some of the references and types of investment recommendations do not have direct equivalents or conditions here in the UK market.
2. Given the current global and general ... Read More
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This book is an excellent primer for someone who is an investment beginner. The author offers mostly good advise; although some of the assumptions he makes in the portfolio construction seem to be incorrect--i.e. using the Total Stock Market Index fund as a large cap domestic asset allocation and recommending the precious metals mining fund as an integral part of an efficient frontier portfolio.
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