Build a successful investment portfolio that is right for you Smarter Simpler Decisions for Better Results, 4th edition by Tim Hale, is the ultimate guide to help you build an investment portfolio that suits your needs.
This book is not only suitable for professional investors, but anyone concerned about how their money is invested. So, whether you are a beneficiary of your family's money investments, a "do-it-yourself" investor or someone who has employed others to handle your portfolio, this book will help you understand the "why's" and "how's" behind investment decisions.
The book is written with contemporary investors and their needs in mind and does not follow the typical route of introducing complex strategies like other investment books.
With comprehensible content, easy to understand and to the point, Smarter Investing will help you achieve your goals for successful investing using a simple yet powerful set of rules. You will learn how
establish your investment objectives, avoid common investor pitfalls, build a balanced portfolio that is right for you, make the investment product selection easy and effective.
I found this book moderately useful in a general way. It is more a discussion of strategic / philosophical approaches to investment than a specific guide to making investments. It wasn’t quite what I was looking for as a potential amateur investor aiming to better understand the stock market. I found it somewhat repetitive and dry at times. I suspect it is aimed at a more serious investor with a more sophisticated understanding of money and of the financial world than I possess.
Great book Exposes ideas and concepts clearly, gives you all the data and resources to back up the recipe recommended investment approaches. Very evidenced based writing. It sells no illusions, just gives you unbiased advice. Happy to have picked this book - an insightful read.