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Index
Cover
Contents
Title
Foreword
Bull’s Eye Investing
Contents
Title
Dedication
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Car Wreck, Traffic Jam, or Freeway?
Secular Bear Markets
Rules of Engagement
Jumping Ahead
Positively, Absolutely Relative
The Correlations Change
It’s All about Assumptions
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
Mean Lean Reversion Machine
The Missing Link: Investor Sentiment
Don’t Worry! Be Happy!
The Real Link between Age and the Markets
The Predictability of Randomness
Sideways to Down for 20 Years?
Chapter 2: Faith versus History
Secular Bear Markets
Blind Dogs and Janus Managers
Phony Analysis
Are We at the Bottom?
Faith versus History
Chapter 3: The Trend Is Your Friend (Until It Isn’t)
Investing by Committee
Take a Risk, You Get Fired
Bull versus Bear, Siegel versus Grantham
Cooking the Data Books
How to Spot a Market Cheerleader
What Will the Stock Market Return over 10 Years?
Chapter 4: Catching the Next Wave
Stock Market Cycles
Understanding Stock Market Behavior
Growing Pains
Expansions and Expectations
Long Waves Explained (Finally)
Something New This Way Comes!
Chapter 5: Into the Matrix: History’s Guide to Realistic Expectations
Secular Bear Markets by the Numbers
The 20-Year Horizon
The Volatility Gremlins
The Investment Matrix: The Real Truth about Stock Market Returns
The Investment Matrix Revelations
When Can We Make Long-Term Money in Stocks Again?
Death and Taxes
What Are Expected Stock Returns for Next 20 Years?
Slip-Sliding Away
Sequences over Time: Cycles
They Almost Got It Right
It’s Not the (Stupid) Economy
The Opportunity for Current Graduates
Chapter 6: Financial Physics: Interconnected Relationships
A + B = C: It’s All Connected
Predicting Earnings
Applying Financial Physics
What Does It Mean?
Chapter 7: Risky Expectations
Risk Premiums
Predicting a 50 Percent Drop
“Hopeful” Outcomes
Chapter 8: Plausible Expectations: A Realistic Appraisal of the Prospects for Earnings Growth
The Glass Ceiling
Earnings Deflation
April Fools Investing
How Hidden Options Expenses Will Actually Affect Earnings
Earnings before Interest and Hype
How Far Away Is the Bottom?
NASDAQ Prediction
Pension Fund Woes
The Wendy Gramm Factor
Plausible Expectations and Irrational Exuberance
The 2 Percent Dilution Factor
Nash-Kelvinator, Studebaker, and Other U.S. Giants
Summing Up Our Learning about Earnings
The Earnings Road Just Got Steeper
Chapter 9: Pension Fund Problems in Your Backyard
Nightmare on Pension Fund Street
Can It Get Worse?
Chapter 10: The Issue of Retirement in an Aging World: Is It Something in the Water?
Is Retirement in Your Future?
Fantasy Island
Supply and Demand Is the Main Culprit
Health Care Pressures
Take an Aspirin and Call Me in the Morning
Who Really Owns GM and Ford?
What Happens If You Don’t Compound at 10 Percent over the Next 10 Years?
What Could Make a Difference?
Social Security Solutions?
Be Honest with Yourself
How to Lose 20 Percent in Five Years—Guaranteed
Chapter 11: Demography Is Destiny
Age Vulnerability: Your Pension or Your Life
Demography Is Destiny
Chapter 12: King Dollar and the Guillotine
The Kindness of Strangers
The Artificial Dollar
Why the Dollar Rose
The Competitive Devaluation Raceway
The Law of One Price
An Uncomfortable Adjustment
The Artificial Dollar and Deflation
Can You Focus the Picture, Please?
Chapter 13: The Muddle Through Economy
Déjà Vu All Over Again
The Good News
The Unsustainable Trend—The Trade Deficit
The U.S. Government Deficit
The Demographic Conundrum
The Jobless Recovery, Productivity, and the International Labor Arbitrage
The Steroid Economy
The Unsustainable Trend, Part Two
Bulls to the Left of Me, Bears to the Right of Me, Here I Am Stuck in the Muddle Through Middle with You
Chapter 14: Chairman Greenspan and the Shoot-Out at the OK Corral
The Famous Fed Printing Press Speech
A Very Clear Fed Speech
Stimulating Demand
The Greenspan Uncertainty Principle
Monetary Policy under Uncertainty
Real-World Central Banking
Greenspan Says, “Trust Me”
The End Game
Chapter 15: Why Investors Fail: Analyzing Risk
Investors Behaving Badly
Analyze This: Analysts Are Useless
Tails You Lose, Heads I Win
Ergodicity
Why Investors Fail
I’ve Got a Secret System
When Will the Next Bull (or Bear) Market Run Begin?
Analyzing a Fund
Becoming a Top 20 Percent Investor
Investors Behaving Badly
Chapter 16: Taking Stock: The Fundamental Nature of Bull’s Eye Investing
The Home Field Advantage
Home Field Bias
Familiarity Breeds (Over)Confidence
Evidence for Investor Overreaction
Stock Prices Are in Our Heads, Or Maybe Investors Are Just Head Cases
The French/Fama Connection
Value Is Where You Find It
Chapter 17: Bringing Out Your Inner Spock
A Litany of Mistakes
What a Tangled Web We Weave, When First We Practice to Deceive
The Problem with Assumptions
Addicted to Growth
Chapter 18: The Value in Stocks
Value, Value, Value
The Small Investor Advantage
Get Some Help
A Few Ground Rules for Bull’s Eye Investing in Stocks
Too Much Work and Not Enough Time
Where Are the Funds?
Suffering Along with Warren
Investing in Stocks for Income
Trading Away
Chapter 19: Investing in Bonds: Or the Sisyphus Syndrome
Chapter 20: Hedge Funds 101: The Basics
The Technical Beginning
The Jones Model—The Birth of Hedge Funds
Plus Ça Change, Plus C’est le Même Chose
Legal Structure and Restrictions
Business Model
Management Fees
Investment Minimums
The Most Important Factor
Hedge Funds: Strategies and Returns
The Index Dilemma
Hedge Fund Strategies
Convertible Arbitrage
Fixed Income Arbitrage Funds
Long/Short Equity Funds
Event-Driven Funds
Fund of Hedge Funds
A Modest Proposal
The Hedge Fund Investment Company
Finding Hedge Funds
Hedge Fund Indexes and the Investment Process
Chapter 21: Investing in a Fund of Hedge Funds
Access
Liquidity
Diversification, Risk, and Returns
Taking Charge or Along for the Ride?
Choosing a Fund of Funds Manager
Rydex SPhinX
A Few More Facts
A Few Thoughts on the Risk in a Fund of Funds
Chapter 22: Doing Your Due Diligence
The Due Diligence Process
Chapter 23: All That Glitters, Etc.
Taking Stock of Gold
Your Basic Commodities
So Why Even Write about It?
What Are Global Macro Funds?
Volatility, Volatility, Everything Is Volatility
Risks and More Risks
How Do You Choose a Fund?
Getting Real
A Few Thoughts on Starting a New Business
Chapter 24: Bull’s Eye Investing
The Nature of Change
Appendix A: Suggested Reading Material
Appendix B: Bond Information
Appendix C: Hedge Fund Industry Resources
Appendix D: Hedge Fund Net Worth Requirements: Why a Million Isn’t Always Enough
Bibliography
About the Author
Index
Insert
Just One Thing
Contents
Title
Copyright
Introduction
Chapter 1: Signposts in the Fog
Investing in The Fog
You Can’t Make Money Standing in the Sunshine
The Importance of Spotting the Signposts in the Fog
Picking the Right Signposts
A Glance Back at Satisfaction and Rewards
Chapter 2: The “Not-So-Simple” (But Really Utterly So) Rules of Trading
Never Add to a Losing Position
Invest on the Side that is Winning
Don’t Hold on to Losing Positions
Go Where the Strength is
Making “Logical” Plays is Costly
Think Like a Fundamentalist; Trade Like a Technician
Understand the Environment
The Rule that Sums Up the Rest
Chapter 3: The Triumph of Hope over Long-Run Experience: Using Past Returns to Predict Future Performance of a Money Manager
Identifying Noise in Market Decision Making
Dealing with the Noise Problem
Performance Studies
Reasons Past Performance Fails as an Investing Tool
Why Do Investors Rely on Past Performance?
How Should You Use Performance Data?
Chapter 4: The Long Bond
Investments Must Make Money
Be Nonconsensus and Long-Term
The Late 1970s
Monetary or Fiscal Policy?
Distrust in Government
My Fearless Forecast
No Straight Line
Real Money
The Long (Unlaunched) Bond
Hang in There
Consistency is Important
Why Buck the Trend?
Risk and Maturity
The Complexity of Stocks
Cocktail Party Prattle
The Pros Don’t Like Bonds
The Test of History
Where do Bonds Go From Here?
Chapter 5: Risk is Not a Knob
Risky Business
Modern Portfolio Misunderstandings
Risk Misconceptions
Expected Returns and Probable Returns
Measuring Risk
Absolute Probabilities
Short-Term and Long-Term
Volatility Gremlins
Portfolio Management
Front Stage: Your Assumptions
In Conclusion: Caveat Investor
Chapter 6: Psychology Matters: An Investors’ Guide to Thinking about Thinking
Are You Spock or McCoy?
The Primacy of Emotion
Emotions: Body or Brain?
Emotion: Good, Bad, or Both?
Self-Control is Like a Muscle
Plasticity as Salvation
The Biases We Face
Conclusions
Chapter 7: The Means are the Ends
Keynesian Meddling in the Twentieth Century
Morality as an Economic Tool
Chapter 8: The 2 Percent Solution
Assessing the Strength of Capitalization-Weighted Investing
Investing in Equal-Weighted Indexes: A Better Alternative
Getting the 2 Percent of Alpha
Conclusion
Chapter 9: The Outsider Trading Scandal
The Value of Information
The Dearth of Inside Information
The Fallacy of Imbalance Fears
The Investor’s Challenge
Chapter 10: The Winner’s Rule
That One Most Important Thing
Becoming an Invaluable Employee
Being an Effective Mentor
Nice Guys Finish Best
Chapter 11: Rich Man, Poor Man
The Power of Compounding
The Trick is to Beat Time
In the Markets, Hope is the Dangerous Siren Song
There is No Substitute for Action
Chapter 12: The Millennium Wave
The Innovation Cycle
Secular Bull and Secular Bear Markets
Human Psychology
Surfing the Millennium Wave
Demography is Destiny
The Globalization Wave
A New World Order
What this Means for Investors
Index
Endgame
Contents
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction : Endgame
Part One : The End of the Debt Supercycle
Chapter 1 : The Beginning of the End
How Did the Debt Supercycle Come About?
Private Deleveraging and Public Leveraging Up
Chapter 2 : Why Greece Matters
What Does Greece Mean to Me, Dad?
Chapter 3 : Let’s Look at the Rules
Six Impossible Things
Delta Force
Killing the Goose
But It’s More Than the Deficit
Not Everyone Can Run a Surplus
Pity the Greeks
The Competitive Currency Devaluation Raceway
Final Thoughts . . .
Chapter 4 : The Burden of Lower Growth and More Frequent Recessions
Three Structural Changes
Lower Growth, Fewer Jobs, Bigger Deficits, Lower Returns
Chapter 5 : This Time Is Different
A Crisis of Confidence
It’s the Deleveraging, Stupid!
Some Parting Words from Rogoff and Reinhart
Chapter 6 : The Future of Public Debt
A Bit of Background
Drastic Measures
The Future Public Debt Trajectory
Debt Projections
The Challenge for Central Banks
Bang, Indeed!
The Center Cannot Hold
Who Takes the Loss?
Chapter 7 : The Elements of Deflation
The Supertrend Puzzle
The Elements of Deflation: What Deflation Looks Like
The Velocity of Money
A Slowdown in Velocity
The Roadmap Ahead: Bernanke’s Helicopter Speech
There Are No Good Choices
Chapter 8 : Inflation and Hyperinflation
A Dose of Inflation
The Characteristics of Hyperinflations
The Dangers of Inflation
The Problems of Inflation
Hyperinflation in the United States?
Part Two : A World Tour: Who Will Face Endgame First?
Chapter 9 : The United States
Yes, We’re Screwed
Congress: Blind, Ignorant, and Indifferent
What Does It All Mean?
The Kindness of Strangers
Endgame for the United States
The Present Contains All Possible Futures
Some Policy Suggestions
Chapter 10 : The European Periphery
The Euro: A Suboptimal Currency Union
Some Countries Recover; Others Don’t
Chapter 11 : Eastern European Problems
Hungary: Damned if They Do, Damned If They Don’t
The Baltics: How to Destroy Your Economy and Keep Your Peg
Chapter 12 : Japan
The Mother of All Bubbles
Japanese Government: Spending Money Like There Is No Tomorrow
Japan’s Endgame
Chapter 13 : The United Kingdom
The United Kingdom Economy: Not as Safe as Houses
Northern Rock: A Modern Bank Run
The United Kingdom’s Endgame: Higher Inflation Ahead
Chapter 14 : Australia
The Lucky Country
A House of Cards
Chapter 15 : Unintended Consequences
Bubbles in Emerging Markets
Difficult Choices
Conclusion: Investing and Profiting from Endgame
Epilogue: Some Final Thoughts
Notes
About the Authors
Index
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