Description

Smarter Investing introduces you to a simple and powerful set of rules for successful investing, helping you to build an investment portfolio that suits your needs, stays the course when markets get rough and quietly gets on with the job of generating better results. Smarter Investing will help you:

• Establish what you want your money to do for you
• Avoid the mistakes that generations of investors have made
• Build a balanced portfolio that’s right for you, using a simple set of understandable and accessible building blocks
• Select robust and transparent investment products easily and effectively

  

Table of Contents

• Part One: Smarter investing basics
• 1. Simplifying the confusion
• 2. Covering the basics
• 3. It only takes a minute
• Part Two: Smarter thinking
• 4. A smarter investment philosophy
• 5. Smarter investment behaviour
• Part Three: Building smarter portfolios
• 6. Smarter risk insight
• 7. Smarter portfolio structures
• 8. Smarter portfolio choice
• Part Four: Smarter implementation
• 9. Smarter product choices
• 10. Hire an adviser or do it yourself?
• 11. ‘On-menu’ asset class insights
• 12. ‘Off-menu’ asset class notes

Back Cover

‘A book of investment wisdom.’ John C Bogle, Founder, Vanguard

 

‘Delightfully clear thinking.’ Charles D Ellis, Founder of Greenwich Associates

 

‘This book is a “must-read” for anyone with personal, trust or pension assets to invest.’ Mark R Richardson, former CEO Chase Asset Management

 

Simple yet effective advice for anyone who wants their money to work harder than they do.

 

Most investment books offer a bewildering array of complex strategies for how best to invest your money. But often the chances of success are remote and the rules are impossible to follow in practice.

 

Smarter Investing introduces you to a simple and powerful set of rules for successful investing, helping you to build an investment portfolio that suits your needs, stays the course when markets get rough and quietly gets on with the job of generating better results. Smarter Investing will help you:

 

• Establish what you want your money to do for you
• Avoid the mistakes that generations of investors have made
• Build a balanced portfolio that’s right for you, using a simple set of understandable and accessible building blocks
• Select robust and transparent investment products easily and effectively

  

Author

Tim Hale spent over 15 years in the active investment management world, working in London, New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Today he provides consulting and training to the investment and wealth management industry through his firm, Albion Strategic Consulting.