Investment Survival: How to Use Investment Research to Create Winning Portfolios

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Summary: Unparalleled Educational Resource!!!
Review: As a marketing professional who has little time to research investment opportunities, I was seeking a guide to educate myself about using investment information effectively. Investment Survival is an expansive educational resource that uses pertinent examples applicable to the laymen to provide a comprehensive guide to constructing a well-balanced portfolio. I will refer to this valuable guidebook for years to come when making decisions about my stock portfolio.

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Summary: Unparalleled Educational Resource!!!
Review: Review of Investment Survival

What I liked about Investment Survival is that I learned practical things I have never found in any other investment book. It is especially helpful about how to use the information and opinions I hear on TV, read in the newspapers and in research reports my broker sends me. In other words, this book is packed with "news you can use."

It explained to me how to figure out how risky my portfolio is by going to a free website and putting in the ticker symbols the stocks I own. The book also explains how I can decrease the risk in my portfolio or increase it, if I care to. I realized as a result that I was overloaded with technology and communications stocks and, perhaps, I should reduce my holdings in these two areas.

It also explains what I should do next when I read or hear an opinion I agree with. For example, when somebody says, "You should overweight retail stocks" and I want to do that. Now I know what "overweight" or "underweight" means in terms of dollars and cents in my portfolio.

It also explains how to check out my own opinions. By that I mean, how to figure out if analysts, investment strategists and other just plain investors agree with my thinking or not.

I liked the fact that the book doesn't preach. Instead, it gave me some simple ways to clarify my thinking and simplify the job of monitoring my portfolio and figure out when I should do more research and when to ignore the advice I am getting. It's also easy to read and it explains clearly whenever it uses a technical term.

I would recommend this book to somebody who isn't new to the game and believes that she or he can do better in the market. Someone who has been investing for a while and owns at least a dozen different stocks. If you are willing to spend a few hours a month working on getting more profits from your stocks, I think you will thank me for recommending this book.

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Summary: HOW TO...For the lay person
Review: The only stocks I've owned ---up until this point---are ones that I inherited when my father passed away. Lacking any further inclination to investigate the subject of investing, I have relied on advisors. Virtually 100% of the time, I have taken their advice without question, simply because I didnt know enough to even articulate a question.
This book changes all that. Written in concise prose and including lots of example to illustrate points, this book is eminently readable, providing simple and logical explanations of what to look for when considering investment. It provides numerous portfolio models based on one needs, objectives and perspective.
Does it contain all you need to know? I can't say. But I can tell you it has provided me in one read enough information to become a nuisance to my advisor. Hey, the fees I pay buy me that license. Read this book no matter how much you know!

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Summary: The book for the Smart investor!
Review: There is no other book like this on the market. It teaches a person how to use complicated research to invest, yet it is easy to understand. I would recommend this book for the beginner investor as well as the seasoned vet who may need a refresher course. Every broker should have to read this book. It is filled with information that is hardly ever taught only learned through trial and error. It will definitely give a broker or an investor a leg up in the market.