How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street by Allan S Roth

How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street by Allan S Roth

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Investing is simple, but never easy. We carry a lot of investment baggage--including hot tips from friends and the financial media, and complicated financial recommendations from Wall Street salespeople and brokers. Yet the biggest obstacle we face by far is our ability to outsmart ourselves.

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How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street by Allan S Roth

Straightforward strategies from a successful young investor In How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street, you'll follow the story of Kevin Roth, an eight-year-old who was schooled in simple approaches to sound investing by his father, seasoned financial planner Allan Roth, and discover exactly how simple it can be to become a successful investor. Page by page, you'll learn how to create a portfolio with the widest diversification and lowest costs; one that can move up your financial freedom by a decade and dramatically increase your spending rate during retirement. And all this can be accomplished by using some common sense techniques. Along the way, Kevin and his dad discuss fresh, new approaches to investing, and detail some tried-and-true, but lesser known approaches. They also take the time to debunk the financial myths and legends that many of us accept as true, and show you what it really takes to build long-term wealth with less risk. Discusses how to design a portfolio composed of a few basic building blocks that can be "tweaked" to fit your personal needs Addresses how you can reengineer your portfolio in order to stop needlessly paying taxes Reveals how you can increase returns, regardless of which direction the market goes, by picking the "low-hanging fruit" we all have in our portfolios With just a little time and a little work, you can become a better investor. With this book as your guide, you'll discover how a simpler approach to today's markets can put you on the path to financial independence.
'..one financial insider's efforts to create another financial insider from scratch. This book has charm and intelligence in spades.' (Accounting Technician, January 2011).
Allan S. Roth is the founder of Wealth Logic, LLC, a boutique financial planning and investment advisory firm that presently advises on $500 million in assets for 100 clients. Roth is an adjunct finance faculty member at Colorado College and teaches behavioral finance at the University of Denver's Graduate Tax Institute. He is an expert in portfolio construction and performance benchmarking.
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ISBN 13 9780470919033
ISBN 10 0470919035
Title How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street
Author Allan S Roth
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
Year published 2011-03-04
Number of pages 304
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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