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A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment
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Narrated by:
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Scott R. Pollak
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By:
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David F. Swensen
About this listen
The best-selling author of Pioneering Portfolio Management, the definitive template for institutional fund management, returns with an audiobook that shows individual investors how to manage their financial assets.
In Unconventional Success, investment legend David F. Swensen offers incontrovertible evidence that the for-profit mutual-fund industry consistently fails the average investor. From excessive management fees to the frequent churning of portfolios, the relentless pursuit of profits by mutual-fund management companies harms individual clients. Perhaps most destructive of all are the hidden schemes that limit investor choice and reduce returns, including pay-to-play product-placement fees, stale-price trading scams, soft-dollar kickbacks, and 12b-1 distribution charges.
Even if investors manage to emerge unscathed from an encounter with the profit-seeking mutual-fund industry, individuals face the likelihood of self-inflicted pain. The common practice of selling losers and buying winners (and doing both too often) damages portfolio returns and increases tax liabilities, delivering a one-two punch to investor aspirations.
In short: Nearly insurmountable hurdles confront ordinary investors.
Swensen's solution? A contrarian investment alternative that promotes well-diversified, equity-oriented, market-mimicking portfolios that reward investors who exhibit the courage to stay the course. Swensen suggests implementing his nonconformist proposal with investor-friendly, not-for-profit investment companies such as Vanguard and TIAA-CREF. By avoiding actively managed funds and employing client-oriented mutual-fund managers, investors create the preconditions for investment success.
Bottom line? Unconventional Success provides the guidance and financial know-how for improving the personal investor's financial future.
Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2005 David F. Swensen (P)2024 Echo Point Books & Media, LLCListeners also enjoyed...
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- Fully Updated 10th Anniversary Edition
- By: John C Bogle
- Narrated by: Scott Peterson
- Length: 20 hrs and 49 mins
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John Bogle - founder of the Vanguard Mutual Fund Group and creator of the first index mutual fund - is an industry pioneer. Over the years, he has single-handedly transformed the mutual fund business, and today, his vision continues to inspire investors .It has been over a decade since the original edition of Common Sense on Mutual Funds was first published. While much has changed during this time, the importance of investing and the issues addressed in the original edition of this book have not.
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Way long to make the point
- By BW on 02-21-16
By: John C Bogle
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Value
- The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance
- By: Tim Koller, McKinsey & Company Inc., Bill Huyett, and others
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Value explores the core of corporate finance without getting bogged down in numbers and is intended to give managers an accessible guide to both the foundations and applications of corporate finance. Filled with in-depth insights from experts at McKinsey & Company, this reliable resource takes a much more qualitative approach to what the authors consider a lost art.
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You get two VALUES from this book
- By Przemeq on 07-01-22
By: Tim Koller, and others
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Rethinking Investing
- A Very Short Guide to Very Long-Term Investing
- By: Charles D. Ellis, Burton G. Malkiel - foreword
- Narrated by: John Patrick Walsh
- Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
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In just ten short, accessible, and inviting chapters, Rethinking Investing: A Very Short Guide on Very Long-Term Investing presents straightforward steps that ordinary people can take to better invest their money. This book dispels myths about the value of investment managers, highlights emotional tendencies that can cloud our financial judgment, explains why index funds are a savvy choice, and reveals secrets like why it's better to wait until age seventy to receive Social Security benefits—along with the calculations that make this decision crystal-clear.
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This book is amazing!!!
- By awesome on 06-02-25
By: Charles D. Ellis, and others
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Mastering the Market Cycle
- Getting the Odds on Your Side
- By: Howard Marks
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser, Howard Marks
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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The legendary investor shows how to identify and master the cycles that govern the markets. We all know markets rise and fall, but when should you pull out, and when should you stay in? The answer is never black or white, but is best reached through a keen understanding of the reasons behind the rhythm of cycles. Confidence about where we are in a cycle comes when you learn the patterns of ups and downs that influence not just economics, markets and companies, but also human psychology and the investing behaviors that result.
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Cycles : nothing new!
- By Amazon Customer on 11-01-18
By: Howard Marks
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If You Can
- How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly
- By: William J Bernstein
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 59 mins
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If You Can is a short, inexpensive e-booklet aimed at getting twenty-somethings with their first 401(k) started on the path to retirement saving and investing.
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Not useful
- By Samantha on 04-16-25
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The Little Book of Big Profits from Small Stocks + Website
- Why You'll Never Buy a Stock Over $10 Again (Little Books. Big Profits)
- By: Hilary Kramer
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
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The key to building wealth the low-priced stock wayLow-priced gems, or what author Hilary Kramer calls "breakout stocks" come in all kinds of shapes and sizes but they all have three things in common: (1) they are mostly under $10; (2) they are undervalued; and (3) they have specific catalysts in the near future that put them on the threshold of breaking out to much higher prices. In The Little Book of Big Profits from Small Stocks, small stock expert Hilary Kramer looks for stocks with fifty to two hundred percent upside potential!
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Insightful, specific and resourceful!!!
- By Nico on 05-23-12
By: Hilary Kramer
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The Essays of Warren Buffett
- Lessons for Corporate America, Fifth Edition
- By: Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett
- Narrated by: Brennen Blotner
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
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The fifth edition of The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America continues a 25-year tradition of collating Warren Buffett's philosophy in a historic collaboration between Mr. Buffett and Prof. Lawrence Cunningham. As the book Buffett autographs most, its popularity and longevity attest to the widespread appetite for this unique compilation of Mr. Buffett’s thoughts that is at once comprehensive, non-repetitive, and digestible.
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Excellent content
- By JV on 11-08-23
By: Lawrence A. Cunningham, and others
Dry but meaningful
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