Investing do's and don'ts from some of the most recognizable voices in personal finance
It's been a tough year for investors. Many have seen their retirement accounts dwindle dramatically and are looking for a safe way to protect what they have and make back some of what they've lost. That's why the bestselling author team of Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth have created The Little Book of Investing Do's and Don'ts.
When you invest, there are essential things you should do and many things you shouldn't. The Little Book of Investing Do's and Don'ts addresses this issue and shows you how to utilize the fundamentals of finance to achieve success in today's market. This practical guide contains proven advice on navigating today's treacherous financial landscape and will put you in a better position to make more informed investment decisions.
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<li>Includes street-smart advice for the individual investor uncertain about their investment and retirement portfolios</li>
<li>Written by a experienced team of bestselling authors whose investment advice is accessible to everyone</li>
<li>Outlines the steps you must take to protect yourself from the financial calamities of modern life</li>
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The Little Book of Investing Do's and Don'ts offers quick, easy-to-follow, and entertaining advice for anyone looking to get back on the right investment track.

The Little Book of Bulletproof Investing: Do's and Don'ts to Protect Your Financial Life

Business & Money

Stein, Ben

DeMuth, Phil

Investing

wiley

Praise For THE LITTLE BOOK OF ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS"Ben and Phil have done it again. Another lucid, insightful book, designed to enhance your wealth! In today's stock-addled cult of equities, there is a gaping hole in most investors' portfolios...the whole panoply of alternative investments that can simultaneously help us cut our risk, better hedge our inflation risk, and boost our return. This Little Book is filled with big ideas on how to make these markets and strategies a treasured part of our investing toolkit." —Robert Arnott, Chairman, Research Affiliates
"I have been reading Ben Stein for thirty-five years and Phil DeMuth since he joined up with Ben ten years ago. They do solid work, and this latest is no exception." —Jim Rogers, author of A Gift to My Children
"If anyone can make hedge funds sexy, Stein and DeMuth can, and they've done it with style in this engaging, instructive, and tasteful how-to guide for investing in alternatives. But you should read this Kama Sutra of investment manuals not just for the thrills, but also to learn how to avoid the hazards of promiscuous and unprotected investing." —Andrew Lo, Professor and Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering Q&amp;A with Co-Authors Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth Co-Author Ben Stein The book discusses the 60/40 portfolio – what are the good and bad sides of it? The 60/40 stock/bond portfolio has evolved by natural selection to be the default preference for many investors. Since 1976 it has offered about 93 percent of the returns of the entire stock market with only about 65% of the risk. That's a pretty good trade-off. On the other hand, the vast majority of the risk comes from the stock side. It is basically riding the stock market with a shock-absorber from the bonds. This is the impetus to our search for alternatives -- the desire to spread our risks so we don't get jerked around as much. Why do you say in the book “Luck is a terrible strategy” ? If you scratch the surface, most investors are terrified. They know the pain of losing money, yet they have to do something with their savings, so they are led by the financial services industry to throw it at whatever has done well lately and then cross their fingers. Wall Street's basic strategy is to post impressive performance numbers by taking on added risks that are not visible until it is too late. This is what lures the suckers into the tent. It works most of the time, because most of the time the market is up. When it collapses, if investors move at all, it is simply to the next guy with a great recent track record. This is not a profitable way to invest. Co-Author Phil DeMuth Why are you against gold (i.e. If you are a king or pirate, you need a chest of gold. If not, you don’t) Most assets are supported by underlying earning power. Gold is supported by other people's fascination with gold. This is a circular argument. Gold is extremely difficult to value rationally, which means that its price is wildly susceptible to fanaticism and gold metaphysics. By definition, most people will get most interested precisely when the price is highest and the expected future returns are lowest. That said, we do believe that a small allocation to a broad basket of commodities (including precious metals) can be a useful portfolio diversifier. Why are hedge funds the ultimate alternative investment? Hedge funds are the ultimate alternative investment because they set out to be. They set out to 'hedge" or bet against whatever is the prevailing wisdom or trend. Their whole purpose is to go against whatever the general market feeling is: so, if people are loading up on crude oil, they sell crude; if people are going long on real estate, they go short on real estate. If the market generally is optimistic, they short the market. That is at least what hedge funds are supposed to be. Some are really just managed investment pools, but their goal is to be contrary.

The Little Book of Alternative Investments: Reaping Rewards by Daring to Be Different

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Yes, You Can Time the Market!

Economist, actor, author, and former quiz show host Ben Stein teamed up with investment psychologist Phil DeMuth to examine a century of stock market data and discovered a profound and original investment truth: Yes, you can time the market! In their instant investment classic Yes, You Can Time the Market!, Stein and DeMuth show investors simple, readily available measurements that tell them when it's time to invest in stocks, bonds, real estate, or cash. Written for the investor who wants to preserve capital and build wealth steadily, this book offers prudent, bedrock advice for anyone who can no longer afford to play games with their money.

Economics

Newcomers to financial investment can find dozens of advice books written especially for them, but this brand-new title is a book with a difference. It speaks directly to you--if you're an investor with a portfolio worth $100,000 or more. The well-known investment advisor and bestselling author Phil DeMuth addresses the bread-and-butter issues facing that underserved segment of the equities investment community. He will tell you-- 
<li> How to custom tailor your asset allocation to your personal circumstances </li>
<li> How to capture the recognized outperforming market anomalies in your portfolio </li>
<li> How to keep what you've got and avoid Wall street's wealth extraction machine Author DeMuth also passes along some invaluable retirement investing advice learned from Warren Buffett, and he explains the primary asset protection and tax minimization strategies that work for those in the high-net-worth bracket. Here are investment strategies for the affluent, as well as for those who are approaching affluence and are trying to take that big step forward.</li>

Affluent Investor: Financial Advice to Grow and Protect Your Wealth

Barrons Educational Series

Taxes Come First
The 2017 Trump Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has lowered tax rates for the beleaguered American taxpayer. We live in a Golden Age of Taxes. The clock is ticking. The Trump tax cuts are slated to expire in 2025, while a regime change in Washington could undo them as early as 2021.
Like grave robbers opening King Tut's tomb, Congress -- with no debate or public discussion -- plans to raid your retirement accounts for even more money under the so-called "SECURE" Act. Hang on to your wallet.
Nationally recognized investment advisor Phil DeMuth decrypts the 73,954 pages of tax code to show you where the trip-wires lie. He offers simple rules of thumb to navigate the minefield, all in sparkling English.
If you aren't playing the long game with your taxes now, you are sending a valentine to the U.S. Treasury every April 15 with a needlessly fat check attached. DeMuth shows how to safely pare your investment tax bill down to the legal minimum requirement. It adds up to a small fortune that would be better spent on your life, your family, and your retirement.

The Overtaxed Investor: Slash Your Tax Bill & Be a Tax Alpha Dog

Cwm LLC

With the bursting of the stock market bubble, and after 13 rate cuts by the Federal Reserve, yields on CDs and Money Market funds tread at historic lows—a negative return after inflation. With smaller savings coupled with lower returns on what savings remain, retirees and others living on fixed-income investments watch in horror as their income checks shrink with each passing month. However, there are investments that still earn a significant rate of return—and do so reliably and consistently. These fixed-income securities include bonds, real estate investment trusts, preferred stocks, and emerging market debt, among others. As 70 million Americans reach retirement age in the next 15 years, fixed-income investing will become a sociologically inevitable megatrend. This bookshows you how you can safely secure the highest possible yield from your savings.

Yes, You Can Be A Successful Income Investor!: Reaching For Yield In Today's Market

Stein, Benjamin

New Beginnings Pr

Offers a conservative view of the purported anti-American threat from those found left of the political and cultural spectrum, in places such as college campuses, foundations, and liberal fund-raisers, and a look at the psychological reasons behind this unpatriotic behavior.

Can America Survive? The Rage of the Left, the Truth, and What to Do About It

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

HAY HOUSE *

Life is not lived all at once—it’s lived in moments, days, months, years, and decades. This means that the financial plans and actions we all have to take to meet our responsibilities sensibly must be organized by years and decades. Ben Stein wrote the original guide to this subjectalmost a quarter century ago. Now, Ben, along with Phil DeMuth, the eminent financial planner and writer, have gotten together to update the book, incorporating the massive changes that have occurred in the economy in the past 25 years. This book tells you what and when to save, how much to save, what to save it in, when to spend, and when to say no to your present and yes to your future. Yes, You Can Get A Financial Life! is a time-traveling guidebook on how to organize the money side of your life for all of the decades of your life.

Yes, You Can Get a Financial Life!: Your Lifetime Guide to Financial Planning

Finance

Life is not lived all at once—it’s lived in moments, days, months, years, and decades. This means that the financial plans and actions we all have to take to meet our responsibilities sensibly must be organized by years and decades. Ben Stein wrote the original guide to this subject almost a quarter century ago. Now, Ben, along with Phil DeMuth, the eminent financial planner and writer, have gotten together to update the book, incorporating the massive changes that have occurred in the economy in the past 25 years. This book tells you what and when to save, how much to save, what to save it in, when to spend, and when to say no to your present and yes to your future. Yes, You Can Get A Financial Life! is a time-traveling guidebook on how to organize the money side of your life for all of the decades of your life.

Yes, You Can Get a Financial Life!

Most investors spend their time worrying about selecting individual stocks and mutual funds: big mistake! Modern Portfolio Theory—developed in 1952 by economics Nobel Prize winner Harry Markowitz—shows that it’s more important to focus on how our securities interact as a whole. Astonishingly, most investors—including many professionals—still run their investment accounts the same way people did back when "How Much Is That Doggie In the Window" played on the Hit Parade. It’s time to apply what we’ve learned in financial economics over the past 50 years to bring your portfolio into the rock-’n-roll era.Armed with a computer, you, the investor, can use sophisticated tools to analyze your holdings—tools that would have been the envy of the biggest money managers only a decade ago. First among these is the Monte Carlo simulator: the better mousetrap that investors have been waiting for.With their trademark wit, Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth show you how your current portfolio is radically underdiversified, costing you money. They offer step-by-step instructions to supercharge it across a variety of investment situations to get you the best risk-adjusted returns.

Yes, You Can Supercharge Your Portfolio!: Six Steps for Investing Success in the 21st Century

Hay House, Inc.

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