About this title: In UNCONVENTIONAL SUCCESS, investment legend David Swensen reveals why the for-profit mutual fund industry consistently fails the average investor, from its excessive management and incentive fees to the frequent 'churning' of portfolios that forces investors to pay higher taxes. Perhaps most destructive of all are flagrant schemes designed to ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 2005-08-02
ISBN-13:9780743228381ISBN:0743228383
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780743228381ISBN:0743228383
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 2005-08-02
ISBN-13:9780743228381ISBN:0743228383
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Ex-library copy with the usual markings and stickers. Appears to be rarely circulated, very clean condition. read more
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Description: Good in Good dust jacket; 2005. 0743228383. Good used copy with mild edge wear from handling-unmarked. DJ improved with new, clear mylar cover.; Hardcover; Free Press; NY; Fifth Printing; Large 8vo 9"-10" tall; 402 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Pr
Date Published: 2005-08-02
ISBN-13:9780743228381ISBN:0743228383
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780743228381ISBN:0743228383
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"Swensen, the investment manager at Yale whose enormously impressive performance so many universities have tried to follow, here leaves behind all the technical jargon and detail of institutional investment and focuses on personal investments. It's a simple, down to earth, common sense set of approaches and recommendations that make sense in any market.
I hear he is working on a new edition of this book to come out in the next year or so."
"By the guy who runs Yale's endowment fund. Talks about how individuals should not invest their money. Makes a lot of interesting points, but is a bit argumentative, and not very understanding about trade-offs between spending all your time worrying about it, and paying others to take care of things. Doesn't do a very good job of saying what you *should* do. Not a great writer--a bit repetitive. Doesn't come across (to me) as one being objective about presenting his numbers. I will change my thinking in investing, at least some."
"Am working to get through this dense book that has what some people say is a good (and most importantly for me, hands off) investment strategy. Seems like there are some good ideas in here, but there are also some sentences like this one: "passive market timing consists of inadvertent deviations from long-term targets caused by the action of market forces on the values of a portfolio's various asset classes." ugh."
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