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The Investment Answer

The Investment Answer
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Author Daniel C. Goldie, CFA, CFP and Gordon S. Murray
Country United States
Language English
Genre Investment
Publisher Hachette Book Group (2011)
Publication date
January 25, 2011
Media type Hardcover, paperback, audiobook, eBook, Kindle
Pages 96
ISBN
LC Class 2010942432

The Investment Answer, Learn to Manage Your Money & Protect Your Financial Future is a No.1 New York Times bestselling book for individual investors by Daniel C. Goldie, CFA, CFP and Gordon S. Murray. It was first released in paperback in 2010, and later published in hardcover in 2011. It is 96 pages long.

Gordon Murray, who died as the result of glioblastoma on January 15, 2011, chose to co-write the book in the time he had remaining. Murray had worked in institutional trading and sales at Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse First Boston and Lehman Brothers. He retired from Wall Street in 2002.

Daniel Goldie is a fee-only registered investment advisor based in Menlo Park, California.

The book is designed around five investor decisions.

The book is a general guide to investment and gives fundamental explanations in each chapter. The first chapter deals with using brokers. Chapter two touches on asset allocation, explaining the relationship between risk and return. Chapter three gives a basic explanation of diversification (having a mix of assets in a portfolio). Chapter four discusses active investing versus passive investing. Chapter five is about rebalancing a portfolio. Chapter six discusses how to gauge the performance of a portfolio. Chapter seven touches on hedge funds, private equity and commodities.

The book has received positive reviews in The New York Times, National Public Radio, the Journal of Financial Planning,Morningstar Advisor, and The Huffington Post.


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