COCKTAIL ECONOMICS - DISCOVERING INVESTMENT TRUTHS FROM EVERYDAY CONVERSATIONS

Summary: Foreword; Preface; Introduction- The Above-Average Opportunity; Chapter 1 - The Buy-and-Hold Connection: Investing Fundamentals, Courtesy of the American Homeowner, the American Dream or Reality?; Chapter 2 - Leaping the Transaction-Cost Hurdle: Sometimes It’s Easy, Other Times It’s Not; Chapter 3 - Dressing Appropriately for the Stock Market: The Potential Payoffs of a Switching Strategy; Chapter 4 - Catch Elasticity If You Can: An Introduction to Industry Behavior; Chapter 5 - Putting High-Beta to Work: Industry-Based Portfolio Strategies; Chapter 6 - California Is a Country: An Introduction to the Location Effect;
Chapter 7 - ...And France Is a State: How to Invest Internationally in the Age of Globalization; Chapter 8 - Pipelines to Our Investment Returns: How We Get What We Want, in the Amount We Want, and When We Want It; Chapter 9 - Who Are You? Investor Profiles and the Case for Asset Allocation; Chapter 10 - Your Benchmark Portfolio. . .and Beyond; Chapter 11 - Turning Smoke into Signals: How to Make the Most Out of Price Data; Chapter 12 - Making Hay While the Sun Shines: The Case for Predicting, Forecasting, and Timing; Chapter 13 - The Fight Is On: How to Invest Properly Relative to Regulations, Inflation, and Taxation; Chapter 14 - Ending the Never-Ending Debate: Active vs. Passive Investing and Why You Can Take Both Sides; Chapter 15 - A Rational Walk Down Wall Street: Darting Between Passive and Active When the Odds Are in Your Favor; Chapter 16 - Alpha Bets: The Case for Hedge Funds and a Greek Letter You’ll Want in Your Portfolio; Chapter 17 - Tilting Toward Success: A Step-by-Step Guide to Above-Average Asset Allocation; Index .