The Intelligent Asset Allocator: How to Build Your Portfolio to Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk

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McGraw Hill Professional, Sep 22, 2000 - Business & Economics - 206 pages
“Bernstein has become a guru to a peculiarly ’90s group: well-educated, Internet-powered people intent on investing well—and with minimal ‘help’ from professional Wall Street.”
--Robert Barker, BusinessWeek

William Bernstein is one of today’s most unlikely financial heroes. A practicing neurologist, he used his self-taught investment knowledge and research to build a popular investor’s website. Now, in the plain-spoken The Intelligent Asset Allocator, he shows independent investors how to build a diversified portfolio—without the help of a financial advisor. A breath of fresh air for investors tired of overly technical investment tomes, this book will help investors:

  • Learn the risk/reward characteristics of various investment types
  • Understand and apply portfolio theory for an improved risk/reward ratio
  • Sharpen their focus, and take control of their investment programs
William Bernstein runs a website—www.efficientfrontier.com—known for its quarterly journal of asset allocation and portfolio theory, Efficient Frontier.

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Contents

1 General Considerations
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2 Risk and Return
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3 The Behavior of MultipleAsset Portfolios
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William Bernstein, Ph.D, M.D., is a retired neurologist and co-principal at the money management firm Efficient Frontier Advisors. He has written for The Wall Street Journal and Money, and was the 2017 recipient of the CFA Institute’s James R. Vertin Award for his body of financial publications.

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