Legendary money manager Ken Fisher outlines the most
common–and costly–mistakes investors make.
* Small cap stocks are best for all time. Bunk!
* A trade deficit is bad for markets. Bunk!
* Stocks can’t rise on high unemployment. Bunk!
Many investors think they are safest following widely accepted
Wall Street wisdom–but much of Wall Street wisdom isn’t so
wise. In fact, it can be costly bunk.
In Debunkery: Learn It, Do It, and Profit From
It–Seeing Through Wall Street’s Money-Killing Myths, Ken
Fisher–named one of the 30 most influential individuals of
the last three decades by Investment Advisor magazine–details
why so many investors fail to get the long-term results they
desire. The short answer is many investors fail to question if what
they believe is true–and are therefore blinded by tradition,
biases, ideology, or any number of cognitive errors.
Your goal as an investor shouldn’t be to be
error-free–that’s impossible. Rather, to be more successful,
you should aim to lower your error rate. Debunkery gets you
started by debunking 50 common myths–but that’s just the
beginning. It also gives you the tools you need to continue to do
your own debunkery for the rest of your investing career.
common–and costly–mistakes investors make.
* Small cap stocks are best for all time. Bunk!
* A trade deficit is bad for markets. Bunk!
* Stocks can’t rise on high unemployment. Bunk!
Many investors think they are safest following widely accepted
Wall Street wisdom–but much of Wall Street wisdom isn’t so
wise. In fact, it can be costly bunk.
In Debunkery: Learn It, Do It, and Profit From
It–Seeing Through Wall Street’s Money-Killing Myths, Ken
Fisher–named one of the 30 most influential individuals of
the last three decades by Investment Advisor magazine–details
why so many investors fail to get the long-term results they
desire. The short answer is many investors fail to question if what
they believe is true–and are therefore blinded by tradition,
biases, ideology, or any number of cognitive errors.
Your goal as an investor shouldn’t be to be
error-free–that’s impossible. Rather, to be more successful,
you should aim to lower your error rate. Debunkery gets you
started by debunking 50 common myths–but that’s just the
beginning. It also gives you the tools you need to continue to do
your own debunkery for the rest of your investing career.
विषयसूची
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: Debunkery Made Easy xiii
PART 1 Basic Bunk to Make You Broke 1
Bunk 1 Bonds Are Safer Than Stocks 5
Bunk 2 Well-Rested Investors Are Better Investors 9
Bunk 3 Retirees Must Be Conservative 13
Bunk 4 Age Equals Asset Allocation 17
Bunk 5 You Should Expect Average Returns 20
Bunk 6 ‘Capital Preservation and Growth’ Is Possible! 23
Bunk 7 Trust Your Gut 26
Bunk 8 One Big Bear and You’re Done 30
Bunk 9 Make Sure It’s a Bull Before Diving In 34
Bunk 10 Growth Is Best for All Time. No, Value. No, Small Caps
39
Bunk 11 A Good Con Artist Is Hard to Spot 44
PART 2 Wall Street ‘Wisdom’ 49
Bunk 12 Stop-Losses Stop Losses! 51
Bunk 13 Covered Calls . . . Gotcha Covered 54
Bunk 14 Dollar Cost Averaging–Lower Risk, Better Returns
57
Bunk 15 Variable Annuities Are All Upside, No Downside 60
Bunk 16 Equity-Indexed Annuities–Better Than Normal
Annuities 65
Bunk 17 Passive Investing Is Easy 68
Bunk 18 Do Better With Mutual Funds by Sending Your Spouse on a
Shopping Spree 72
Bunk 19 Beta Measures Risk 75
Bunk 20 Equity Risk Premiums–Forecasting Future Returns
With Ease 80
Bunk 21 When the VIX Is High, It’s Time to Buy 84
Bunk 22 Be Confident on Consumer Confidence 88
Bunk 23 All Hail the Mighty Dow! 92
PART 3 ‘Everyone Knows’ 99
Bunk 24 So Goes January 101
Bunk 25 Sell in May 104
Bunk 26 Low P/Es Mean Low Risk 107
Bunk 27 A Strong Dollar Is Super 112
Bunk 28 Don’t Fight the Fed 116
Bunk 29 Interest Pays Dividends 120
Bunk 30 Buy a 5% CD for 5% Cash Flow–Easy! 123
Bunk 31 Baby Boomers Retire, World Ends, Etc. 126
Bunk 32 Concentrate to Build Wealth 130
PART 4 History Lessons 135
Bunk 33 Pray for Budget Surpluses 137
Bunk 34 High Unemployment Is a Killer 143
Bunk 35 With Gold, You’re Golden 148
Bunk 36 Stocks Love Lower Taxes 152
Bunk 37 Oil and Stocks Seesaw 158
Bunk 38 Swine Flu, SARS, Ebola, and Other Viral Disasters Make
Markets Sick 163
Bunk 39 Consumers Are King 167
Bunk 40 Presidential Term Cycles Are Stock Market Voodoo 172
Bunk 41 My Political Party Is Best for Stocks 178
Bunk 42 Stock Returns Are Too High and Must Fall 182
PART 5 It’s a Great Big World! 187
Bunk 43 Foreign Stocks Just Feel So . . . Foreign 189
Bunk 44 Who Needs Foreign? 192
Bunk 45 Big Debt Is National Death 195
Bunk 46 America Can’t Handle Its Debt 199
Bunk 47 Indebted to China 202
Bunk 48 Trade Deficits Make Deficient Markets 206
Bunk 49 GDP Makes Stocks Grow 211
Bunk 50 Terrorism Terrorizes Stocks 215
Notes 219
About the Authors 228
Index 229
लेखक के बारे में
KEN FISHER is best known for his prestigious ‘PortfolioStrategy’ column in Forbes magazine, where his over 25-year tenure
of high-profile calls makes him the fourth longest-running
columnist in Forbes’s 90-plus year history. He is the founder,
Chairman, and CEO of Fisher Investments, an independent global
money management firm with over $32 billion under management (as of
6/30/10). Fisher is ranked #289 on the 2009 Forbes 400 list of
richest Americans, and #721 on the 2010 Forbes Global Billionaire
list. In 2010, Investment Advisor magazine named him as one of the
30 most influential individuals of the last three decades. Fisher
has authored numerous professional and scholarly articles,
including the award-winning article, ‘Cognitive Biases in Market
Forecasting, ‘ and has published six previous books, including the
New York Times and the Wall Street Journal bestsellers, The Only
Three Questions That Count, The Ten Roads to Riches, and How to
Smell a Rat, all of which are published by Wiley. Fisher has been
published, interviewed, and/or written about in many major
American, British, and German finance or business periodicals. He
has a weekly column in Focus Money, Germany’s leading weekly
finance and business magazine.
LARA HOFFMANS is a content manager at Fisher Investments, a
contributing editor of Market Minder.com, and coauthor of the
bestsellers, The Only Three Questions That Count, The Ten Roads to
Riches, and How to Smell a Rat.
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