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Taming the Beast Larry Light

Taming the Beast By Larry Light

Taming the Beast by Larry Light


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Presents the various strategies, and shows you how the best strategy is to be both flexible and nimble. This book details the origins and evolutions of Wall Street's most popular trading strategies. It also describes who originated the strategy, and those who contributed to it; analyzes each strategy's strengths and weaknesses.

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Taming the Beast: Wall Street's Imperfect Answers to Making Money by Larry Light

A compelling financial narrative on flexible strategies investors can use to protect their assets Which is the best strategy for protecting your investments? Value investing? Indexing? Hedging? Growth investing? Asset allocation? It all depends upon the market because, although Wall Street has tried time and time again to devise a single system to tame the beast, the only thing that's constant about the market is that it's always changing and no one system will work perfectly to protect your assets each and every time. Taming the Beast: Wall Street's Imperfect Answers to Making Money presents the various strategies, and shows you how the best strategy is to be both flexible and nimble. * Details the origins and evolutions of Wall Street's most popular trading strategies * Describes who originated the strategy, and those who contributed to it * Analyzes each strategy's strengths and weaknesses As Benjamin Graham noted in the 1930s, investors would be well advised to avoid getting mired in one set of beliefs. Times change, and so do markets. The key is to be flexible. Taming the Beast shows you how.

About Larry Light

Larry Light has been the editor for personal finance at the Wall Street Journal, where he wrote finance stories for the paper on topics ranging from gold-buying mania to the plight of GM bondholders. Before joining the WSJ, he was the senior editor in charge of money and investing for Forbes magazine. Under his supervision, Forbes reporters uncovered hosts of Wall Street abuses, in particular, mutual fund shenanigans that prosecutors later pounced on. At BusinessWeek, he was part of a team that won a National Magazine Award. A well-known personality in the financial media, Larry regularly appears on CNBC, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, Bloomberg News, and NBC.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments. Prologue The Rosetta Stone. Chapter 1 Tarnished Gems: Value Investing. Chapter 2 Eternal Equities: Stocks Do Best? Chapter 3 On Autopilot: Indexes. Chapter 4 From Mild to Wild: Bonds Take Wing. Chapter 5 The Fast Lane: Growth Investing. Chapter 6 Over There: International Investing. Chapter 7 Un-Real Estate: Property's Pull. Chapter 8 Not Just for the Rich: Alternatives. Chapter 9 Spreading It Around: Asset Allocation. Chapter 10 Looking for the Bad: Short Selling. Chapter 11 Chess Masters: Hedge Funds. Chapter 12 The Madness of Crowds: Behaviorism. Conclusion Out of the Shadows. Bibliography. About the Author. Index.

Additional information

CIN0470602155A
9780470602157
0470602155
Taming the Beast: Wall Street's Imperfect Answers to Making Money by Larry Light
Used - Well Read
Hardback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
20110705
276
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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