Streetsmart Guide to Managing Your Portfolio - Hardcover

Xu, Bret; Adams, Patrick; Doucet, Kenneth

9780071380515: Streetsmart Guide to Managing Your Portfolio

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071380515 ISBN 13: 9780071380515

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2002

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Ready-to-use portfolio management tools from top-line investment pros

More and more investors are seizing control of their investment portfolios; however, far too few have the knowledge necessary to effectively manage those portfolios. Streetsmart Guide to Managing Your Portfolio shows investors how to use tools, including asset allocation and portfolio analysis, to determine where to invest, what to invest in, and how to maintain the right mix to weather all market environments. Grounded in modern portfolio theory, yet straightforward and understandable enough for virtually any investor, this book provides a comprehensive approach to personal portfolio management. This latest addition to the popular Streetsmart series will help investors:

* Establish flexible financial goals * Effectively plan and implement long-term investment portfolios * Monitor and analyze investments

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About the Author:

Frank Yao is a Wall Street veteran with extensive experience in portfolio management, risk management, and financial engineering. He is the founder FinPortfolio.com, an online portfolio analysis and management service for both individual and institutional investors. This highly rated web site (Business Week, Barron's, and USA Today) gets 1.5 million hits per week. Prior to founding FinPortfolio, he was a risk-management specialist with Goldman Sachs. Yao has published several research papers in peer-reviewed scholarly journals including The Journal of Portfolio Management. His research results have appeared in several popular investment textbooks. He earned his MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business, where he was honored as a Stern Scholar. Bret Xu is a research analyst at FinPortfolio. Kenneth Doucet is Vice President of Marketing & Business Development at FinPortfolio. Patrick Adams is Vice President of Institutional Sales and Strategic Alliance at FinPortfolio.

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