{"product_id":"getting-back-to-business-why-modern-portfolio-theory-fails-investors-and-how-you-can-bring-common-sense-to-your-portfolio-9781260135329","title":"Getting Back to Business Why Modern Portfolio","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eModern Portfolio Theory has failed investors. A change in direction is long overdue. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWe are in a time of enormous risk. Economic growth is anemic, and political risk to the capital markets is on the rise. In the U.S., a generation of white collar baby-boomers is heading into retirement with insufficient assets in their 401(k) programs, and industrial workers are stuck with materially underfunded pension plans.  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAgainst that backdrop, the investing industryâs current set of practices and assumptionsâModern Portfolio Theory (MPT)âis based on a half-century old formula that is supposed to deliver the maximum amount of return for a given amount of risk. The trouble is that it doesnât work very well. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGetting Back to Business\u003c\/i\u003e, dividend-investing guru Daniel Peris proposes a radical new approachâradical in that it does away with MPT in favor of a more intuitive, common-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Need for Rules\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: What Chaos Looks Like\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: The Founding Fathers Come Together\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: The March of Progress -- The Emergence of MPT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: The (Nonexistent) Paradigm That Fails Investors Every Day\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Getting Back to Business\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuggested Further Reading\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"McGraw-Hill Education","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885306098007,"sku":"9781260135329","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/getting-back-to-business-why-modern-portfolio-theory-fails-investors-and-how-you-can-bring-common-sense-to-your-portfolio-9781260135329","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}