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What do professional money managers offer to the individual investor, and to what degree can they be expected to outperform the market? Investors increasingly choose mutual funds, themselves run by money managers, as a preferred way to invest in securities. How should an investor come to terms with the dizzying number of choices available, and how can we anticipate the future performance of a manager or mutual fund? |
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Discover the Ideal Investment Strategy for Yourself and Your Clients "To enhance investment results and boost creativity, Jim Ware replaces the maxim know your investments with know yourself. And he gives us specific testing tools to do the job."-Dean LeBaron, Founder, Batterymarch Financial Management, Chairman, Virtualquest.company, and investment author and commentator |
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Investors are waking up to Wall Street¿s biggest secret: the majority of actively managed mutual funds will regularly underperform the S&P 500 index. Index investments are a new class of easy-to-use investment tools¿WEBs, SPDRs, and others¿that trade like shares of stock, even as they reflect the market indexes they track and the fund-topping performance those indexes provide. Outpacing the Pros provides today¿s independent investor with a detailed introduction to stock indexes as a key element in either short- or long-term investing strategies. |
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If you knew exactly how much money you would need at retirement, you could figure out how much risk you'd have to take to get there. You could stop focusing on finding the next hot investment and set about building your overall net worth. You'd develop a plan to manage your existing assets and future resources to meet your anticipated needs. Private Money Management: Switching from Mutual Funds to Private Money Managers supplies a blueprint of investment objectives that does just that. |
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An in-depth look at strategies and techniques of five of the country's best money managers In Five Key Lessons from Top Money Managers, Scott Kays taps into the investment knowledge of five of the nation's foremost money managers-Bill Nygren, Andy Stephens, Christopher Davis, Bill Fries, and John Calamos. Through extensive interviews with these investment experts, Kays found five principles that are common to all of them. |
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First, David Remnick of The New Yorker magazine and Andrew Nagorski of Newsweek, discuss Boris Yeltsin's health and its implications for the future of Russia. Then, Michael Price, one of the nation's best-known, top-ranking money managers talks about the stock market's recent erratic behavior and his recent selling of his firm in a deal that could ultimately total $800 million. |
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