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The Big Investment Lie

What Your Financial Advisor Doesn't Want You to Know

By: Michael Edesess

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The Big Investment Lie

What Your Financial Advisor Doesn't Want You to Know

By: Michael Edesess

An insider’s account of how consumers are scammed by the investment advice industry, and how to avoid throwing your money away. The investment advice and management industry is built on fraud: the idea that professional advisors can predictably and consistently help you get a better rate of return on your investments. The industry sells us on this lie using manipulative tactics that are studied, refined, Wall Street-minted, Madison Avenue-packaged—and extraordinarily effective. Here, Michael Edesess exposes the shocking truth that, in fact, behind the success of nearly every prosperous investment professional lies not the ability to procure higher rates of return on investment for his or her clients but the ability to procure astoundingly high fees from those clients and nothing more. Through fascinating and sometimes humorous anecdotes and straightforward explanations of investment theory and scientific evidence, Edesess reveals just how badly investors are being scammed by The Big Investment Lie. He examines how the master salespeople that make up the industry sell their cleverly concocted distortions of truth—to the tune of $200 billion a year—to unsuspecting consumers who swallow them hook, line, and sinker. He then shines a spotlight on the true cost of the industry’s useless advice, showing that a prudent independent investor, following a conservative strategy, can reap anywhere from forty percent to over one hundred percent more than an investor who falls for The Big Investment Lie. Detailing the Ten New Commandments for Smart Investing—practical advice for how, where, and when to invest your money to maximize wealth—The Big Investment Lie provides the guidance you need to secure your financial future without throwing your hard-earned money away on the fraudulent investment advice industry.

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1609943198

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The Big Investment Lie

What Your Financial Advisor Doesn't Want You to Know

By: Michael Edesess

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What Your Financial Advisor Doesn't Want You to Know

By: Michael Edesess

Michael Edesess learned early in his career that the investment industry's claims that it could beat market averages were simply not true. Professional investors, it seemed, could not predict stock prices better than the nearest cab driver. The Big Investment Lie helps readers cut through the thicket of hype in this perilous area, showing ho...

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1459626621

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9781459626621

The 3 Simple Rules of Investing

Why Everything You've Heard about Investing Is Wrong — and What to Do Instead

By: Michael Edesess,Kwok L. Tsui,Carol Fabbri

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The 3 Simple Rules of Investing

Why Everything You've Heard about Investing Is Wrong — and What to Do Instead

By: Michael Edesess,Kwok L. Tsui,Carol Fabbri

Managing your money can be stressful. And confusing and complicated advice from the financial industry just makes it harder. But as the authors of this clear, practical, and enlightening book—part financial guide, part exposé—prove, there are just three simple rules you need to follow and only a few investment products that are necessary for an ideal portfolio. That's it. And the authors dispense with all that “expert” advice by deftly debunking what they call investing's Seven Deadly Temptations. By embracing commonsense solutions and rejecting investments that seem enticing but are needlessly complex, overpriced, and risky, you'll put not only yourself in a stronger position but the entire economy as well.

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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162656163X

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9781626561632

Least Risk Investing

More Wealth, Less Worry, Greater Confidence

By: Michael L Gay Mba Cfp

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Least Risk Investing

More Wealth, Less Worry, Greater Confidence

By: Michael L Gay Mba Cfp

While investing theories introduced decades ago have been repeatedly validated and have stood the test of time, our understanding of the financial markets has made huge advances in recent years. To benefit from these advances, however, most investors will need to unlearn much of what they think they know about investing. They will also need to learn to ignore most of the "wisdom" that spews from the hallowed halls of Wall Street, its salesmen posing as "advisors," and its agents in the media. Contrary to popular "wisdom," investing isn't about P/E ratios, or technical patterns, or momentum plays, or "5 star ratings," or the latest conflict in the Middle East. Investing is about probabilities and statistics: It's about maximizing the probability of meeting the goals you have set for the only life you have to live on this planet; it's about avoiding the (many) risks that have negative expected payoffs; and it's about exposing yourself only to those risks that have positive expected payoffs - and then, only to the extent that taking those risks buys you something of value (like a secure retirement, or a cabin in the woods). In investment management, there "IS" a right answer. There "IS" a best way to invest. There "IS" a proven methodology based on objective research which can vastly improve your odds of investment success. Most who take the time to review the research will significantly increase the probability of achieving their most valued financial goals, significantly decrease the level of risk in their portfolios and, ultimately, get more out of this grand experiment called life.

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iUniverse

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1475943571

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9781475943573

The Subsidy from Nature

Palm Forests, Peasantry, and Development on an Amazon Frontier

By: Anthony Bennett Anderson,Peter Herman May,Michael J. Balick

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The Subsidy from Nature

Palm Forests, Peasantry, and Development on an Amazon Frontier

By: Anthony Bennett Anderson,Peter Herman May,Michael J. Balick

Nature subsidy; The regional setting; The natural history of babassu; Babassu in the household economy; Babassu in the market economy; Propects for development; Nature subsidy revisited.

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Columbia University Press

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0231072228

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9780231072229

The 3 Simple Rules of Investing

Why Everything You've Heard about Investing Is Wrong — and What to Do Instead

By: Michael Edesess,Kwok L. Tsui,Carol Fabbri

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The 3 Simple Rules of Investing

Why Everything You've Heard about Investing Is Wrong — and What to Do Instead

By: Michael Edesess,Kwok L. Tsui,Carol Fabbri

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Book's by Michael Edesess

The Big Investment Lie

The Big Investment Lie

The Big Investment Lie

The Big Investment Lie

The 3 Simple Rules of Investing

The 3 Simple Rules of Investing

Least Risk Investing

Least Risk Investing

The Subsidy from Nature

The Subsidy from Nature

The 3 Simple Rules of Investing

The 3 Simple Rules of Investing

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