Bull's Eye Investing

Targeting Real Returns in a Smoke and Mirrors Market

By: John Mauldin

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Product code: 21416
ISBN: 0471716928
240 pages
Format: Pb
Published by: John Wiley & Sons, 2005, 1st edition

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Description of Bull's Eye Investing

A must-read investment roadmap to help investors target real returns in the market.

The era of buying and holding stocks is gone - and will not return for some time. Investors need to learn to target where the market is going to be, not where it has been. Knowing where the economy and markets are going is the key to successful investing in the future.

Financial expert John Mauldin makes a powerful, almost irrefutable case regarding the future direction of the markets. He then details a new approach to investing that will allow readers to adjust to what he demonstrates is the new reality of investing. Investors need to become familiar with "absolute return" vehicles, including hedge funds, certain types of bonds, and other value-oriented investments, if they intend to make money and retire comfortably.

Mauldin argues that traditional stock portfolios should not be the primary investment vehicle for individual investors. Indeed, he credibly argues they will be a disappointment, if not a disaster, over the next decade, mirroring the results of similarly difficult markets like the 1970s.

He shows readers how they must look for other options and be wary of the marketing promises and data used by brokers and mutual funds to attract investors. Filled with in-depth insight, copious groundbreaking research and practical advice, Leading the Markets will help readers choose stable and secure investments that will enable them to profit in turbulent markets.

Bull's Eye Investing - Chapter headings

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Car Wreck, Traffic Jam, or Freeway?

2. Faith versus History

3. The Trend Is Your Friend (Until It Isn't)

4. Catching the Next Wave

5. Into the Matrix: History's Guide to Realistic Expectations

6. Financial Physics: Interconnected Relationships

7. Risky Expectations

8. Plausible Expectations: A Realistic Appraisal of the Prospects for Earnings Growth

9. Pension Fund Problems in Your Backyard

10. The Issue of Retirement in an Aging World: Is It Something in the Water?

11. Demography Is Destiny

12. King Dollar and the Guillotine

13. The Muddle Through Economy

14. Chairman Greenspan and the Shoot-Out at the OK Corral

15. Why Investors Fail: Analyzing Risk

16. Taking Stock: The Fundamental Nature of Bull’s Eye Investing

17. Bringing Out Your Inner Spock

18. The Value in Stocks

19. Investing in Bonds: Or the Sisyphus Syndrome

20. Hedge Funds 101: The Basics

21. Investing in a Fund of Hedge Funds

22. Doing Your Due Diligence

23. All That Glitters, Etc

24. Bull’s Eye Investing

Appendix A: Suggested Reading Material
Appendix B: Bond Information
Appendix C: Hedge Fund Industry Resources
Appendix D: Hedge Fund Net Worth Requirements: Why a Million Isn't Always Enough

Source Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
Index

Authobiography of John Mauldin

John Mauldin (Richland Hills, TX) is President of Millennium Wave Investments. He has more than 20 years experience in the investment world, formerly serving as CEO of the American Bureau of Economic Research and was a partner in ProFutures Investments. He is a recognized investment expert, particularly on the subject of hedge funds, and is a frequent guest on financial television and radio, including CNBC and nationally syndicated financial radio shows. He is often quoted in the financial press and other financial newsletters, and is a frequent speaker at investment conferences. His own highly regarded e-letter, Thoughts from the Frontlines, goes to over 1.5 million readers each week.