The bestselling author of Pioneering Portfolio Management, the template for institutional fund management, returns with a book that shows investors how to protect their assets in the longterm.
Bottom line? Unconventional Success provides the guidance and financial know-how for improving the Personal investor\'s financial future..
By avoiding actively managed funds and employing client-oriented mutual-fund managers, investors create the preconditions for Investment success.
Swensen suggests implementing his nonconformist proposal with investor-friendly, not-for-profit Investment companies such as Vanguard and TIAA-CREF.
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.
In short: Nearly insurmountable hurdles confront ordinary investors.
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.
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.
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.
From excessive management fees to the frequent churning of portfolios, the relentless pursuit of profits by mutual-fund management companies harms individual clients.
Swensen offers incontrovertible evidence that the for-profit mutual-fund industry consistently fails the average investor.
In Unconventional Success , Investment legend David F.
The bestselling author of Pioneering Portfolio Management , the definitive template for institutional fund management, returns with a book that shows individual investors how to manage their financial assets.
The bestselling author of Pioneering Portfolio Management, the template for institutional fund management, returns with a book that shows investors how to protect their assets in the longterm
