Bøger af William J. Bernstein

This new edition of the bestselling guide brings sophisticated investors-including institutional and individual investors, investment bankers, and those who want to follow in the footsteps of legends like John Bogle-up to date on ETFs, risk management, neuropsychological investing concepts, and moreSince its original publication two decades ago, The Four Pillars of Investing has become a classic guide for serious investors. The practicalities of investing, however, have changed dramatically, particularly pertaining to ETFs, and thinking has evolved about a host of key issues, such as lifecycle finance, the nature of risk, and basic finance and neuropsychological concepts. This new edition has been fully updated to address all these issues.Retired neurologist and hugely popular finance author William Bernstein applies his trademark informal writing style to help you become more self-sufficient and make better-informed investment decisions. He walks you through the "four pillars" of investing:The Theory of Investing: "Do not expect high returns without risks."The History of Investing: "About once every generation, the markets go barking mad. If you are unprepared, you are sure to fail."The Psychology of Investing: "Your greatest investment enemy is the face staring back at you in the window."The Business of Investing: "The investment industry wants to make you poor and stupid. Don't let them."You'll learn how to build a solid foundation for investing by focusing on these four essential lessons, each of which builds upon the other. The Four Pillars of Investing includes practical investing advice based on fascinating history lessons from the market, exercises to determine risk tolerance as an investor, and easy-to-understand explanations of risk and reward in the capital markets.This unmatched resource provides the tools you need to construct a high-performance portfolio-without the help of a financial adviser.

""We are the apes who tell stories," writes William Bernstein. "And no matter how misleading the narrative, if it is compelling enough it will nearly always trump the facts." As Bernstein shows in his eloquent and persuasive new book, The Delusions of Crowds, throughout human history, compelling stories have catalyzed the spread of contagious narratives through susceptible groups-with enormous, often disastrous consequences. Inspired by Charles Mackay's nineteenth-century classic Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Bernstein engages with mass delusion with the same curiosity and passion, but armed with the latest scientific research that explains the biological, evolutionary, and psychosocial roots of human irrationality. Bernstein tells the stories of dramatic religious and financial manias in western society over the last 500 years-from the Anabaptist Madness that afflicted the Low Countries in the 1530s to the dangerous End-Times beliefs that animate ISIS and pervade today's polarized America; and from the South Sea Bubble to the Enron scandal and dot-com bubbles of recent years. In Bernstein's supple prose, the participants are as colorful as their motivation- invariably "the desire to improve one's well-being in this life or the next." As revealing about human nature as they are historically significant, Bernstein's chronicles reveal the huge cost and alarming implications of mass mania: for example, belief in dispensationalist End-Times has over decades profoundly affected U.S. Middle East policy. Bernstein observes that if we can absorb the history and biology of mass delusion, we can recognize it more readily in our own time and avoid its often dire consequences"--

SPLENDID EXCHANGE was shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Best Business Book of the Year! Now in paperback, this acclaimed narrative history of world trade-stretching from Sumer in 3000 B.C. to the firestorm over globalization today- brilliantly explores trade's colorful and contentious past and provides fresh insights into social, political, cultural, and economic history, as well as a timely assessment of trade's future.

A timeless approach to investing wisely over an investment lifetime With the current market maelstrom as a background, this timely guide describes just how to plan a lifetime of investing, in good times and bad, discussing stocks and bonds as well as the relationship between risk and return.