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 | | Asset Allocation: Balancing Financial Risk by Roger C. Gibson, John M. Templeton (Foreword) ISBN-10: 0071357246 ISBN-10: 0-07-135724-6 ISBN-13: 9780071357241 ISBN-13: 978-0-07-135724-1 Hardcover 2000-08-01 McGraw-Hill Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Financial experts agree: Asset allocation is the key strategies for maintaining a consistent yet superior rate of investment return. Now, Roger Gibson's Asset Allocation - the bestselling reference book on this popular subject for a decade has been updated to keep pace with the latest developments and findings. This Third Edition provides step-by-step strategies for implementing asset allocation in a high return/low risk portfolio, educating financial planning clients on the solid logic behind asset allocation, and more. | ||
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Asset Allocation: Balancing Financial Risk Good overview. Perhaps a little technical. Graph oriented. Author does a good job of explaining his view point and backing it up with historical data. | ||
asset allocation by gibson The book was in excellent condition and was received in about five days. | ||
Most solid advice on asset allocation ever I had to read this book when I was taking a course to get a CIMA designation. I thought the book would be dullsville. But to the contrary, his strategies when tested are nothing short of amazing. To move away from the simple stock bond mix that every other book pimps out, is brave, but more importantly, he is right. Since reading the book I have obtained as many of his writings as possible. If you take the advice in this book and implement it, it will create a low stress, high return strategy. Good near term and long term advice. I will look to by more of this book to give to others. BEST BOOK ON ASSET ALLOCATION I HAVE EVER READ. | ||
Gibson's Asset Allocation Among the many books on this subject, this is one of the best. Unlike most of the other authors, Gibson does not limit himself to list the different asset classes and then provide recommended allocations. He goes one step further and describes in very practical terms the different issues that one faces when developing a portfolio and how to resolve them. In my view, Gibson ranks next to Bernstein and Malkiel. A good buy! | ||
Asset allocation practically eliminates all risk while increasing returns. This book informs the current political struggle to reform the Social Security program. In the case of a foreign invasion or some other calamity, it's true that one's private investments would be insecure, but so would one's "investments" in government bonds, so such cases are irrelevant. In all relevant circumstances, private investments, if one adheres to even a primitive asset allocation strategy, are 100-percent safe. Mr. Gibson explains why. He also cites studies concluding that the most significant variable in differences among institutional investor performance is emphasis on stock-picking and market-timing versus asset allocation. Those who emphasize asset allocation perform better than those who emphasize stock-picking and market-timing. A good companion to this book is "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", by Burton G. Malkiel. Of course, Mr. Gibson introduces the reader to the theory and methods of asset allocation. | ||