Book description
How to make sensible investment decisions during these turbulent times
2008 changed everything. Now, more than ever, investors need to be proactive in planning for their retirement. To do so, they must look beyond simply investing in stocks and bonds, while avoiding what may be overwhelming and even misleading investment advice. In The Flexible Investing Playbook: Asset Allocation for Long-Term Success, Robert Isbitts—mutual fund manager, investment strategist, newsletter writer, and author of Wall Street's Bull and How to Bear It—shares the strategies he created and uses with his clients. This approach can potentially allow their portfolios to withstand the volatility of the stock market and subdue the emotional impact of investing, to increase the chances of reaching their investment goals. Along the way, the book:
Reviews the events of the 2008 financial market debacle, and identifies key lessons investors should learn from that experience
Discusses how traditional approaches to diversification are fraught with risks, and how they may endanger the pursuit of a secure retirement
Details why he believes investors cannot live on stocks and bonds alone, while also describing how to properly diversify, without sacrificing precious liquidity
The Flexible Investing Playbook, he presents a proactive approach to investing that's based on the strategies Isbitts created, designed and currently manages.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Replacing Your Old Investment Playbook
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I. Setting the Stage to Be Reeducated
- 1. Tired . . . but Not Retired
- 2. 2008: What the Hell Happened?!
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3. What Have We Learned?
- 3.1. Lessons from Stock Market History
- 3.2. "Renting" the Stock Market—the Ballad of Babe and Yogi
- 3.3. The 60/40 Approach to Investing—My Version
- 3.4. There Must Be 50 Ways to Invest Your Assets
- 3.5. Style Boxes: Out of Style?
- 3.6. Unwrapping the Box
- 3.7. "Rearview Mirror" Investing
- 3.8. Finding Bull Markets Wherever They Exist
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II. Getting Old Ideas Out of Your Head
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4. Identifying the Issues and the Enemy
- 4.1. What Makes Today Different from the 1980s and 1990s?
- 4.2. Where Does This Lead Us?
- 4.3. Do You Think You Can Be Effective in Market Forecasting?
- 4.4. Investment Football
- 4.5. More Bad Habits to Kick
- 4.6. An Obsession with Risk Avoidance
- 4.7. Performance Contests
- 4.8. Shooting the Weak Performer
- 4.9. "Rearview Mirror Investing"
- 4.10. The Other Enemy
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5. Wall Street's Bull
- 5.1. Shortcuts and Overkill
- 5.2. Taking the Shortcut
- 5.3. Are You Being Advised or Sold To?
- 5.4. Conventional Wisdom: Not So Smart
- 5.5. A Shocking Fact
- 5.6. Overlap
- 5.7. 10 Investment Ideas that Still Don't Work
- 5.8. "Moderately Constructive" and Other Indecipherable Comments from "Talking Heads"
- 5.9. Congratulations!
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4. Identifying the Issues and the Enemy
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III. Investing in the Twenty-First Century
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6. Keys to Successful Asset Allocation
- 6.1. An Investment Philosophy Is Born
- 6.2. The 10 Keys to Asset Allocation
- 6.3. Other Key Factors to Consider in Asset Allocation
- 6.4. Hedge Funds: A Limited Solution
- 6.5. What Holding Period/Time Horizon to Target?
- 6.6. The True Cost of Investing
- 6.7. Portfolio Turnover: Far More Irrelevant Than "Experts" Would Have You Believe
- 6.8. Diversification and "De-Worse-ification"
- 6.9. When to Say Bye to Your Buy (Sell Discipline)
- 6.10. Volatility: How To Make It Your Friend Instead of Your Enemy
- 6.11. Five Ways to Whip Inflation Now (or Whenever It Arrives)
- 6.12. Game Time! Meet the Portfolio Strategies
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7. Hybrid Investing
- 7.1. How Hybrid Came to Be
- 7.2. The Objective of the Hybrid Allocation Strategy
- 7.3. Hybrid Mutual Fund Styles
- 7.4. Constructing Hybrid Portfolios
- 7.5. The Hybrid Investment Process
- 7.6. Where Hybrid Investing Fits into Your Portfolio
- 7.7. Risk Management in the Hybrid Strategy
- 7.8. Hybrid Investing: A Flagship Strategy for Twenty-First-Century Asset Allocation
- 7.9. Why Not Just Pick One Alternative Mutual Fund and Call It a Day?
- 8. Concentrated Equity Investing
- 9. Global Cycle Investing
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6. Keys to Successful Asset Allocation
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IV. You've Come This Far, Now Score! (Putting the Strategy to Work)
- 10. Evaluating Your Performance—the Right Way
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11. Putting It All Together
- 11.1. Mixing the Strategies—without Food Analogies
- 11.2. The Golden Ticket for the Next Decade and Beyond
- 11.3. Chasing Tails: How to Play Defense against a "Market Event"
- 11.4. "Gray Investing" Is Better Than "Black-and-White" Investing
- 11.5. Market History: Know It and Learn from It
- 11.6. From Boring to Number One in 20 Weeks!
- 11.7. Replacing Your Old Investment Playbook (Reprise)
- 11.8. The Last Word(s)
- About the Author
Product information
- Title: The Flexible Investing Playbook: Asset Allocation Strategies for Long-Term Success
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2010
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9780470636169
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