Stocks for the Long Run

By: Jeremy Siegel

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Product code: 14716
ISBN: 007137048X
388 pages
Format: Hb
Published by: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2002, 3rd edition

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Description of Stocks for the Long Run

Now, the intellectual father of the record-breaking bull market returns with Stocks for the Long Run, Third Edition. Siegel's conclusion - that, when long-term purchasing power is considered, stocks are actually safer than bank deposits! - is now more convincing than ever, strengthened with updated research findings and information that include:

- A thorough analysis of the 'Dow 10' and other yield-bases strategies that have captivated investors over the past several years.

- How the Baby Boom generation will change the stock market forever - knowledge that can energise your own portfolio's performance

- The amazing effect of the calendar on stock market performance - and how investing at certain times of the year can enhance performance

- How the newest tax laws impact you investment returns and the funding of your retirement account

- Analyses and performance comparisons of highly publicised market sectors such as small cap stocks, growth stocks, and the 'Nifty Fifty' stocks.

- How Wall Street pros use investor sentiment and Fed policy to successfully time stock purchases over the investment cycle

Stocks for the Long Run remains the classic, step-by-step guide to building a portfolio of both domestic and foreign stocks that maximize your return while minimising your risk. With valuable new information, thought-provoking research, and lucid, entertaining prose, Jeremy Siegel invites virtually all investors and savers of every age and income class to build wealth the historically proven way - in the stock market!

Stocks for the Long Run - Chapter headings

PART 1: The Verdict of History
1. Stock and Bond Returns since 1802
2. Risk, Return and the Coming Age Wave
3. Perspectives on Stocks as Investments

PART 2: Stock Returns
4. Stocks, Stock Averages, and Stock Returns
5. Dividends, Earnings, and Investor Sentiment
6. Large Stock, Small Stocks, Value Stocks, Growth Stocks
7. The Nifty Fifty Revisited
8. Taxes and Stock Returns
9. Global Investing

PART 3: Economic Environment of Investing
10. Money, Gold, and Central Banks
11. Inflation and Stocks
12. Stocks and the Business Cycle
13. World Events Which Impact Financial Markets
14. Stocks, Bonds and the Flow of Economic Data

PART 4: Stock Fluctuations in the Short Run
15. Stock Index Futures, Options and Spiders
16. Market Volatility and the Stock Crash of October 1987
17. Technical Analysis and Investing with the Trend
18. Calender Anomalies

PART 5: Building Wealth Through Stocks
19. Funds, Managers, and 'Beating the Market'
20. Structuring a Portfolio for Long-Term Growth

Index