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Elements of Investing Easy Lessons for Every Investor

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ISBN-10: 1118484878

ISBN-13: 9781118484876

Edition: 2nd 2013

Authors: Burton G. Malkiel, Charles D. Ellis

List price: $28.95
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The Elements of Investing has a single-minded goal: to teach the principles of investing in the same pared-to-bone manner that Professor William Strunk Jr. once taught composition to students at Harvard, using his classic little book, The Elements of Style. With great daring, Ellis and Malkiel imagined their own Little Red Schoolhouse course in investing for every investor around the world-and then penned this book. The Elements of Investing hacks away at all the overtrading and over thinking so predominant in the hyperactive thought patterns of the average investor. Malkiel and Ellis offer investors a set of simple but powerful thoughts on how to challenge Mr. Market at his own game, and…    
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Book details

List price: $28.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/11/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English

Burton G. Malkiel is the Chemical Bank Chairman's Professor of Economics at Princeton University.

CHARLES D. ELLIS is a recognized expert on investment management. For thirty years, he was managing partner of Greenwich Associates, the leading worldwide strategy consultant to the investment industry, where he developed close working relationships with senior executives at most of the major investment firms in the United States, Canada, England, Japan, Germany, and Australia. His other activities have included teaching the investment management course at both the Yale School of Management and Harvard Business School; and chairing the CFA Institute. He currently serves as a Director of Vanguard; advising some of the world's largest Investing institutions; and chairing the investment…    

Preface to Updated Edition
Foreword
Introduction
It All Starts with Saving
Save
First Do No Harm
Start Saving Early: Time Is Money
The Amazing Rule of 72
Savvy Savings
Small Savings Tips
Big Ways to Save
Let the Government Help You Save
Own Your Home
How Do I Catch Up?
Index
Nobody Knows More Than the Market
The Index Fund Solution
Don't Some Beat the Market?
Index Bonds
Index Internationally
Index Funds Have Big Advantages
One Warning
Confession
Diversify
Diversify Across Asset Classes
Diversify Across Markets
Diversify Over Time
Rebalance
Avoid Blunders
Overconfidence
Beware of Mr. Market
The Penalty of Timing
More Mistakes
Minimize Costs
Keep It Simple
Review of Basic Rules
Asset Allocation
Asset Allocation Ranges
Investing in Retirement
Getting Specific
Timeless Lessons for Troubled Times
Volatility and Dollar-Cost Averaging
Diversification Is Still a Time-Honored Strategy to Reduce Risk
Rebalancing
Diversification and Rebalancing Together
Index at Least the Core of Your Portfolio
Fine-Tuning a Bond Diversification Strategy
A Final Thought
A Super Simple Summary: KISS Investing
Appendix: Save on Taxes Legally
Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs)
Roth IRAs
Pension Plans
Tax-Advantaged Saving for Education
Recommended Reading
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Index