A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Best Investment Guide That Money Can Buy

Höfundur: Burton G. Malkiel (Útgáfa: 13)
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Best Investment Guide That Money Can Buy

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One of the “few great investment books” (Andrew Tobias) ever written, with 2 million copies in print. In a time of rampant misinformation about ways of growing your money, Burton G. Malkiel’s gimmick-free investment guide is more necessary than ever. Whether you’re considering your first 401k contribution or contemplating retirement, the fully updated, fiftieth anniversary edition of A Random Walk Down Wall Street remains the best investment guide money can buy.

Drawing on his experience as an economist, financial adviser, and successful investor, Malkiel shows why an individual who saves consistently over time and buys a diversified set of index funds can achieve above-average investment results. He addresses current investment fads and critically analyzes cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and meme stocks. Malkiel reveals how to be a tax smart investor and how to make sense of recently popular investment management techniques, including factor investing, risk parity, and ESG portfolios.

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Útgefandi
W. W. Norton
ISBN
9781324035442
Print ISBN
9781324051138
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
13
Höfundar
Burton G. Malkiel
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2023-01-03
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100

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  • Cover
  • Title
  • Contents
  • Introduction to the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
  • Part One: Stocks and Their Value
  • 1. Firm Foundations and Castles in the Air
  • What Is a Random Walk?
  • Investing as a Way of Life Today
  • Investing in Theory
  • The Firm-Foundation Theory
  • The Castle-in-the-Air Theory
  • How the Random Walk Is to Be Conducted
  • 2. The Madness of Crowds
  • The Tulip-Bulb Craze
  • The South Sea Bubble
  • Wall Street Lays an Egg
  • An Afterword
  • 3. Speculative Bubbles from the Sixties into the Nineties
  • The Sanity of Institutions
  • The Soaring Sixties
  • The New “New Era”: The Growth-Stock/New-Issue Craze
  • Synergy Generates Energy: The Conglomerate Boom
  • The Nifty Fifty
  • The Roaring Eighties
  • The Return of New Issues
  • ZZZZ Best Bubble of All
  • What Does It All Mean?
  • The Japanese Yen for Land and Stocks
  • 4. The Explosive Bubbles in the Early Decades of the 2000s
  • The Internet Bubble
  • A Broad-Scale High-Tech Bubble
  • Yet Another New-Issue Craze
  • TheGlobe.com
  • Security Analysts $peak Up
  • New Valuation Metrics
  • The Writes of the Media
  • Fraud Slithers In and Strangles the Market
  • Should We Have Known the Dangers?
  • The U.S. Housing Bubble and Crash of the Early 2000s
  • The New System of Banking
  • Looser Lending Standards
  • The Housing Bubble
  • Bubbles and Economic Activity
  • Does This Mean That Markets Are Inefficient?
  • Mini Bubbles in Meme Stocks
  • The Bubble in Cryptocurrencies
  • Bitcoin and Blockchain
  • Is Bitcoin Real Money?
  • Should the Bitcoin Phenomenon Be Called a Bubble?
  • What Can Make the Bitcoin Bubble Deflate?
  • Other Digital Mini-Bubbles
  • Lessons Learned
  • Part Two: How the Pros Play the Biggest Game in Town
  • 5. Technical and Fundamental Analysis
  • Technical versus Fundamental Analysis
  • What Can Charts Tell You?
  • The Rationale for the Charting Method
  • Why Might Charting Fail to Work?
  • From Chartist to Technician
  • The Technique of Fundamental Analysis
  • Three Important Caveats
  • Why Might Fundamental Analysis Fail to Work?
  • Using Fundamental and Technical Analysis Together
  • 6. Technical Analysis and the Random-Walk Theory
  • Holes in Their Shoes and Ambiguity in Their Forecasts
  • Is There Momentum in the Stock Market?
  • Just What Exactly Is a Random Walk?
  • Some More Elaborate Technical Systems
  • The Filter System
  • The Dow Theory
  • The Relative-Strength System
  • Price-Volume Systems
  • Reading Chart Patterns
  • Randomness Is Hard to Accept
  • A Gaggle of Other Technical Theories to Help You Lose Money
  • The Hemline Indicator
  • The Super Bowl Indicator
  • Dogs of the Dow
  • January Effect
  • A Few More Systems
  • Technical Market Gurus
  • Appraising the Counterattack
  • Implications for Investors
  • 7. How Good is Fundamental Analysis? The Efficient-Market Hypothesis
  • The Views from Wall Street and Academia
  • Are Security Analysts Fundamentally Clairvoyant?
  • Why the Crystal Ball Is Clouded
  • 1. The Influence of Random Events
  • 2. The Production of Dubious Reported Earnings through “Creative” Accounting Procedures
  • 3. Errors Made by the Analysts Themselves
  • 4. The Loss of the Best Analysts to the Sales Desk, to Portfolio Management, or to Hedge Funds
  • 5. The Conflicts of Interest between Research and Investment Banking Departments
  • Do Security Analysts Pick Winners? The Performance of the Mutual Funds
  • The Semi-Strong and Strong Forms of the Efficient-Market Hypothesis (EMH)
  • Part Three: The New Investment Technology
  • 8. A New Walking Shoe: Modern Portfolio Theory
  • The Role of Risk
  • Defining Risk: The Dispersion of Returns
  • Illustration: Expected Return and Variance Measures of Reward and Risk
  • Documenting Risk: A Long-Run Study
  • Reducing Risk: Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT)
  • Diversification in Practice
  • 9. Reaping Reward by Increasing Risk
  • Beta and Systematic Risk
  • The Capital-Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
  • Let’s Look at the Record
  • An Appraisal of the Evidence
  • The Quant Quest for Better Measures of Risk: Arbitrage Pricing Theory
  • The Fama-French Three-Factor Model
  • A Multifactor Explanation of Stock Prices
  • A Summing Up
  • 10. Behavioral Finance
  • The Irrational Behavior of Individual Investors
  • Overconfidence
  • Biased Judgments
  • Herding
  • Loss Aversion
  • Pride and Regret
  • Behavioral Finance and Savings
  • The Limits to Arbitrage
  • What Are the Lessons for Investors from Behavioral Finance?
  • 1. Avoid Herd Behavior
  • 2. Avoid Overtrading
  • 3. If You Do Trade: Sell Losers, Not Winners
  • 4. Other Stupid Investor Tricks
  • Does Behavioral Finance Teach Ways to Beat the Market?
  • 11. New Methods of Portfolio Construction: Smart Beta, Risk Parity, and Esg Investing
  • What is “Smart Beta”?
  • Four Tasty Flavors: Their Pros and Cons
  • 1. Value Wins
  • 2. Smaller Is Better
  • 3. There Is Some Momentum in the Stock Market
  • 4. Low-Beta Stocks May Return as Much as High-Beta Stocks
  • 5. Other Factors
  • What Could Go Wrong?
  • Blended Factor Strategies
  • Blended Funds in Practice
  • Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA)
  • Research Affiliates Fundamental Index™ (RAFI)
  • Goldman Sachs Active Beta ETF
  • Equally-Weighted Portfolios
  • Implications for Investors
  • Risk Parity
  • The Risk-Parity Technique
  • Safe Bonds May Also Provide Opportunities to Employ Risk-Parity Techniques
  • Risk Parity versus the Traditional 60/40 Portfolio
  • Bridgewater’s All Weather Fund
  • What Could Go Wrong?
  • ESG Investing
  • Concluding Comments
  • Part Four: A Practical Guide For Random Walkers and Other Investors
  • 12. A Fitness Manual for Random Walkers and Other Investors
  • Exercise 1: Gather the Necessary Supplies
  • Exercise 2: Don’t Be Caught Empty-Handed: Cover Yourself with Cash Reserves and Insurance
  • Cash Reserves
  • Insurance
  • Deferred Variable Annuities
  • Exercise 3: Be Competitive—Let the Yield on Your Cash Reserve Keep Pace with Inflation
  • Money-Market Mutual Funds (Money Funds)
  • Bank Certificates of Deposit (CDs)
  • Internet Banks
  • Treasury Bills
  • Tax-Exempt Money-Market Funds
  • Exercise 4: Learn How to Dodge the Tax Collector
  • Individual Retirement Accounts
  • Roth IRAs
  • Pension Plans
  • Saving for College: As Easy as 529
  • Exercise 5: Make Sure the Shoe Fits: Understand Your Investment Objectives
  • Exercise 6: Begin Your Walk at Your Own Home—Renting Leads to Flabby Investment Muscles
  • Exercise 7: How to Investigate a Promenade through Bond Country
  • Zero-Coupon Bonds Can Be Useful to Fund Future Liabilities
  • No-Load Bond Funds Can Be Appropriate Vehicles for Individual Investors
  • Tax-Exempt Bonds Are Useful for High-Bracket Investors
  • Hot TIPS: Inflation-Protected Bonds
  • U.S. Treasury I Bonds: The Best Alternative for Individuals
  • Should You Be a Bond-Market Junkie?
  • Foreign Bonds
  • Exercise 7A: Use Bond Substitutes for Part of the Aggregate Bond Portfolio during Eras of Financial Repression
  • Exercise 8: Tiptoe through the Fields of Gold, Collectibles, and Other Investments
  • Exercise 9: Remember That Investment Costs Are Not Random; Some Are Lower Than Others
  • Exercise 10: Avoid Sinkholes and Stumbling Blocks: Diversify Your Investment Steps
  • A Final Checkup
  • 13. Handicapping the Financial Race: A Primer in Understanding and Projecting Returns From Stocks and Bonds
  • What Determines the Returns from Stocks and Bonds?
  • Four Historical Eras of Financial Market Returns
  • Era I: The Age of Comfort
  • Era II: The Age of Angst
  • Era III: The Age of Exuberance
  • Era IV: The Age of Disenchantment
  • The Markets from 2009 to 2022
  • Handicapping Future Returns
  • 14. A Life-Cycle Guide to Investing
  • Five Asset-Allocation Principles
  • 1. Risk and Reward Are Related
  • 2. Your Actual Risk in Stock and Bond Investing Depends on the Length of Time You Hold Your Investment
  • 3. Dollar-Cost Averaging Can Reduce the Risks of Investing in Stocks and Bonds
  • 4. Rebalancing Can Reduce Investment Risk and Possibly Increase Returns
  • 5. Distinguishing between Your Attitude toward and Your Capacity for Risk
  • Three Guidelines to Tailoring a Life-Cycle Investment Plan
  • 1. Specific Needs Require Dedicated Specific Assets
  • 2. Recognize Your Tolerance for Risk
  • 3. Persistent Saving in Regular Amounts, No Matter How Small, Pays Off
  • The Life-Cycle Investment Guide
  • Life-Cycle (Target Date) Funds
  • Investment Management Once You Have Retired
  • Inadequate Preparation for Retirement
  • Investing a Retirement Nest Egg
  • Annuities
  • The Do-It-Yourself Method
  • 15. Three Giant Steps Down Wall Street
  • The No-Brainer Step: Investing in Index Funds
  • The Index-Fund Solution: A Summary
  • A Broader Definition of Indexing
  • A Specific Index-Fund Portfolio
  • ETFs and Taxes
  • The Do-It-Yourself Step: Potentially Useful Stock-Picking Rules
  • The Substitute-Player Step: Hiring a Professional Wall Street Walker
  • Investment Advisers, Standard and Automated
  • Some Last Reflections on Our Walk
  • A Final Example
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Random Walker’s Address Book and Reference Guide to Mutual Funds and ETFs
  • Index
  • Copyright