20/20 Money: See the Markets Clearly and Invest Better Than the Pros

20/20 Money

See the Markets Clearly and Invest Better Than the Pros

By Michael Hanson (Fisher Investments)

To improve long-term investing success, investors should make the better choices in today’s dynamic market environment.  20/20 MONEY: See the Markets Clearly and Invest Better Than the Pros, (Wiley, June 2009; $27.95, ISBN: 978-0-470-28539-8), the latest title from Fisher Investments Press, can help investors stay ahead of the game.

Designed to help you think differently about markets and your investing choices, this valuable resource introduces new ideas and challenges widely-held conventions.  20/20 MONEY provides clear explanations of key concepts—from stock market and systems theory to neuroscience and psychology—helping put readers into a better position to excel in today’s turbulent investment arena.

While understanding economic fundamentals and analyzing data are important aspects of investing, without a clear vision and well-developed philosophy to help drive decisions, investment goals are difficult—if not impossible—to reach.

Through an interdisciplinary discussion ranging from stock market theory, mathematics, and history to systems theory, psychology, and science, 20/20 MONEY ventures outside the narrow realm of conventional investing to help readers gain the focus needed to optimize their portfolios.

Page by page, you can discover how to:

• Leverage current research in neuroscience and behavioral psychology to understand how your perceptions and natural emotions are often contradictory to your best financial interests.

• Apply the power of self-awareness and self-observation to build discipline and avoid common investing pitfalls.

• Navigate the media and gauge investor sentiment.

• Analyze the stock market and economy as a complex, emergent, adaptive system.

• Forecast stock markets in terms of probability and use pattern recognition.

• Create a framework for managing your own portfolio.

• Recognize risk and its many forms and overcome obstacles during turbulent times.

For readers interested in making money in the markets, 20/20 MONEY is an indispensible reference and guide book to help make the right choices in an uncertain economic climate.

About the Author

Michael Hanson has been an investment banker, a stock analyst, and currently is a senior editor and  columnist for Fisher Investments’ Marketminder.com.  He has lectured on topics of money management at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and speaks regularly throughout the country on a variety of topics including capital markets and behavioral finance.

Fisher Investments is an independent investment management company serving the needs of institutional and individual investors globally. Fisher Investments' clients include large corporate and public pension plans, foundations and endowments, as well as thousands of affluent individuals. The firm is headquartered in Woodside, California, and is a registered investment adviser. Ken Fisher, founder and CEO, is the author of five books, many academic studies, and Forbes magazine's "Portfolio Strategy" column since 1984. In 2007, Fisher Investments and John Wiley and Sons, Inc. introduced Fisher Investments Press, a publishing imprint offering investment education for a broad audience. http://www.fisher-investments-press.com

Investments in securities involve the risk of loss, and investments in foreign securities can involve additional risks such as losses related to other currencies and securities markets.

20/20 Money

See The Markets Clearly and Invest Better Than the Pros

By Michael Hanson

Wiley; June 2009; $27.95; Cloth

ISBN: 978-0-470-28539-8