Stein / DeMuth The Little Book of Alternative Investments

Reaping Rewards by Daring to be Different
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-118-07524-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Little Books. Big Profits

Praise For THE LITTLE BOOK OF ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS
"Ben and Phil have done it again. Another lucid, insightfulbook, designed to enhance your wealth! In today's stock-addled cultof equities, there is a gaping hole in most investors'portfolios...the whole panoply of alternative investments that cansimultaneously help us cut our risk, better hedge our inflationrisk, and boost our return. This Little Book is filled with bigideas on how to make these markets and strategies a treasured partof our investing toolkit."
--Robert Arnott, Chairman, Research Affiliates
"I have been reading Ben Stein for thirty-five years and PhilDeMuth since he joined up with Ben ten years ago. They do solidwork, and this latest is no exception."
--Jim Rogers, author of A Gift to MyChildren
"If anyone can make hedge funds sexy, Stein and DeMuth can, andthey've done it with style in this engaging, instructive, andtasteful how-to guide for investing in alternatives. But you shouldread this Kama Sutra of investment manuals not just for thethrills, but also to learn how to avoid the hazards of promiscuousand unprotected investing."
--Andrew Lo, Professor and Director, MIT Laboratory forFinancial Engineering

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stein, Ben

DeMuth, Phil

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Are You Alternative? Dare to Expose Yourself.
Chapter One: Everything You Know Is Wrong: Classify YourInvestments the Alternative Way.
Chapter Two: Efficient Market Theory and Its Discontents: Outwith the Old, In with the New--Overhauling the 60/40Portfolio.
Chapter Three: Collectibles as Investments: Beauty in the Eye ofthe Marketplace.
Chapter Four: More Alternatives We Don't Love: The Elephant'sGraveyard of Financial Products.
Chapter Five: Conventional Alternatives I--Commodities: ToMake a Killing, Take Out a Contract.
Chapter Six: Conventional Alternatives II--Real Estate: InReal Estate We Trust.
Chapter Seven: The Ultimate Alternative Investments: HedgeFundamentals.
Chapter Eight: So Why Invest in Hedge Funds?: Okay, We Lied.
Chapter Nine: A Field Guide to Hedge Funds, Part One: The Longand the Short of It.
Chapter Ten: A Field Guide to Hedge Funds, Part Deux: Arbitrage,et al.
Chapter Eleven: One- Fund Solutions: Destroy AllReplicants--or Not?
Chapter Twelve: Hedge Funds Pigs in Mutual Fund Blankets: TheMutual Fund Beauty Pageant Begins.
Chapter Thirteen: Adding Alternative Investments to YourPortfolio: Finding Your Portfolio's G-Spot.
Conclusion: Quest into the Unknown.
Appendix: Fundamentals.
Acknowledgments.
About the Authors.

Über Autor(innen)

Ben Stein is a respected economist who is known to many as amovie and television personality, but has worked more in personaland corporate finance than anywhere else. He has written aboutfinance for Barron's, the Wall Street Journal, theNew York Times, and Fortune; was one of the chiefbusters of the junk-bond frauds of the 1980s; has been a longtimecritic of corporate executives' self-dealing; and has cowritteneight finance books. Stein travels the country speaking aboutfinance in both serious and humorous ways, and is a regularcontributor to CBS's Sunday Morning, CNN, and Fox News. He was thewinner of the 2009 Malcolm Forbes Award for Excellence in FinancialJournalism.
Phil Demuth is Managing Director of Conserv-ative WealthManagement LLC, a registered investment advisor to high-net-worthindividuals, institutions, and foundations. He has cowritten sevenbooks with Ben Stein and has also written for the Wall StreetJournal, Barron's, Louis Rukeyser's Mutual Fundsnewsletter, and the Journal of Financial Planning. Histelevision appearances include Ludlow & Company, Glenn Beck,Squawk Box, Forbes on Fox, and Wall Street Week.