Smarter Investing: Simpler Decisions for Better Results (4^th Ed.)

Build a successful investment portfolio that is right for you

Smarter Investing: 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 to:

• 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.

Tim Hale graduated from the University of Oxford and holds an MBA from Cranfield School of Management. After a few years with Standard Chartered in Hong Kong working in corporate banking, he moved into the investment world, spending almost a decade at Chase Asset Management (now part of JP Morgan Asset Management) in London, Hong Kong, and New York.

From the Back Cover

Most investment books offer a bewildering array of complex strategies for how best to invest your money. But often, the chances of success are remote, and the rules are impossible to follow in practice.

Smarter Investing introduces you to a simple and powerful set of rules for successful investing, helping you build an investment portfolio that suits your needs, stays the course when markets get rough and quietly gets on with the job of generating better results.

In this updated and revised edition, Tim Hale gives you all the advice you'll need and demonstrates that the key to successful investing is to do a few straightforward things exceptionally well. Smarter Investing will help you:

• Establish what you want your money to do for you,
• Work out how much money you need to achieve your goals,
• Avoid the mistakes that generations of investors have made,
• Build a balanced portfolio that's right for you, using a simple set of understandable and accessible building blocks,
• Select robust and transparent investment products easily and effectively.