Winning the Loser's Game, Seventh Edition: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing

by Charles D. Ellis

Overview

Everything you need to know for long-term stock-market success—with critical new information about indexing, ETFs, and 401(k)s

From one of today’s most respected authorities on stock investing, Winning the Loser’s Game explains how you can avoid common traps and succeed in today’s volatile markets. Ellis presents the cold, hard facts about important changes in the market over the past 50 years, why succeeding with active investing has become more difficult, and how you can outperform markets for steady, long-term gain. With lower rates of return now and over the next several years, you need to rethink you overall approach to investing—and Ellis shows how in this heavily updated edition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781259838057
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	03/17/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Charles D. Ellis (New Haven, CT) is an investment adviser to institutions, wealthy families, and governments around the world. For many years, he chaired the investment committee at Yale and has taught the advance investment courses at both Harvard Business School and Yale School of Management. He currently chair’s the Whitehead Institute as well.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Loser’s Game

Chapter 2: The Winner’s Game

Chapter 3: Beating the Market

Chapter 4: Mr. Market and Mr. Value

Chapter 5: The Investor’s Dream Team

Chapter 6: Investor Risk and Behavioral Economics

Chapter 7: Your “Unfair” Competitive Advantage Indexing

Chapter 8: The Paradox

Chapter 9: Time

Chapter 10: Returns

Chapter 11: Investment Risks

Chapter 12: Building Portfolios

Chapter 13: Whole-Picture Finance

Chapter 14: Why Policy Matters

Chapter 15: Playing to Win

Chapter 16: Challenges with Performance Measurement

Chapter 17: The Dark Matter of Investing

Chapter 18: Predicting the Market—Roughly

Chapter 19: Individual Investors

Chapter 20: Selecting Mutual Funds

Chapter 21: Phooey On Phees

Chapter 22: Planning Your Play

Chapter 23: Disaster Again & Again

Chapter 24: Getting Right on 401(K) Plans

Chapter 25 Endgame

Chapter 26: Thoughts for the Wealthy

Chapter 27: You Are Now Good to Go!

Chapter 28: Parting Thoughts

Appendix A: Serving on Investment Committees

Appendix B: Murder on the Orient Express

Appendix C: Recommended Reading

Index