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Muscular Portfolios is here to change the investing game — and help you leave stress behind with a stronger, smarter approach to investing.

For decades, the financial services industry has sold risky investments, claiming that this was the only path to large gains. But this strategy is highly vulnerable to big losses that can devastate your portfolio. 

Today, there's a better approach. It combines the latest academic research in finance with the new ultra-low-cost index funds (exchange-traded funds). The result is an approach that provides market-like returns with dramatically smaller losses and requires only 15 minutes a month or less. 

Muscular Portfolios lays out the basic principles of this kind of investing so you can manage your own money successfully — without turning it into your second job. Investigative journalist Brian Livingston takes you behind the curtain of Wall Street and lays out a game-changing approach to investing: Muscular Portfolios, which are easy-to-use financial strategies you can set up yourself, even if you have no investment experience at all. 

Filled with helpful illustrations, compelling evidence, and simple, no-nonsense instructions, Muscular Portfolios is a resource, not a sales pitch. There are no financial products to buy, no secret formula to pay for. Everything is fully disclosed in bite-sized steps — and on a totally free website — that you can start using today to grow your wealth. 

Driven by cutting-edge investment research and backed by extensive market testing, Muscular Portfolios will revolutionize investing for families and individual investors.

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"I know of no book for a general investment audience that is more thoroughly researched and backed up by hard data."
—Mark Hulbert, founder of the Hulbert Financial Digest

"The investing book of the decade ... Investors will be profiting from these methods for ages to come."
—Hugh Todd, CEO of ETFScreen.com

"Don't let your portfolio atrophy, read Muscular Portfolios and pump up your wealth."
—Mebane Faber, coauthor of The Ivy Portfolio

"Livingston has used his computer savvy to crack Wall Street's money-making secrets and make them freely available to investors at every stage of life."

—Al Zmyslowski, Board of Directors, American Association of Individual Investors—Silicon Valley Chapter

"Overall the book looks great! I love the idea of empowering people to take control of their own investing."

—Daniel Sotiroff, ETF specialist columnist and analyst, Morningstar Inc.

"There's a wealth of information in this book that can help every do-it-yourself investor."

—Wes Gray, PhD, CEO, Alpha Architect

"In his inimitable way, Livingston has taken a tough problem—investing—broken it into component parts, analyzed the living daylights out of them with sophisticated computer runs, then extracted strategies that are both easy to understand and demonstrably superior."

—Woody Leonhard, bestselling author, Windows All-In-One For Dummies

"The book does a great job of delivering important information to the individual investor in a very straightforward manner."

—Stephen Jones, financial and economic analyst

"As I was reading, I kept a list of questions, but by the time I reached the end, all my questions had been answered. Nice job."

—Bob New, engineer, HP Inc.

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"I know of no book for a general investment audience that is more thoroughly researched and backed up by hard data."
—Mark Hulbert, founder of the Hulbert Financial Digest

"The investing book of the decade ... Investors will be profiting from these methods for ages to come."
—Hugh Todd, CEO of ETFScreen.com

"Don't let your portfolio atrophy, read Muscular Portfolios and pump up your wealth."
—Mebane Faber, coauthor of The Ivy Portfolio

“Livingston has used his computer savvy to crack Wall Street's money-making secrets and make them freely available to investors at every stage of life.”

—Al Zmyslowski, Board of Directors, American Association of Individual Investors—Silicon Valley Chapter

“Overall the book looks great! I love the idea of empowering people to take control of their own investing.”

—Daniel Sotiroff, ETF specialist columnist and analyst, Morningstar Inc.

“There's a wealth of information in this book that can help every do-it-yourself investor.”

—Wes Gray, PhD, CEO, Alpha Architect

“In his inimitable way, Livingston has taken a tough problem—investing—broken it into component parts, analyzed the living daylights out of them with sophisticated computer runs, then extracted strategies that are both easy to understand and demonstrably superior.”

—Woody Leonhard, bestselling author, Windows All-In-One For Dummies

“The book does a great job of delivering important information to the individual investor in a very straightforward manner.”

—Stephen Jones, financial and economic analyst

“As I was reading, I kept a list of questions, but by the time I reached the end, all my questions had been answered. Nice job.”

—Bob New, engineer, HP Inc.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ BenBella Books (October 9, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 194688538X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1946885388
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.53 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.25 x 1.25 x 10.31 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 out of 5 stars 88

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Let me be honest, I’m in the majority group of people out there who know very little about investing. I’m not looking for a quick buck and don’t have the patience nor the time to learn everything about investing to become a professional. I'm able to gain a solid plan and feel confident to start investing in about 30 mins after reading the book. This is pretty sweet since I would have no idea what to invest let alone manage them overtime.This book makes it dead simple to follow in the first few chapters to start investing backed by historical facts in easy to understand narratives.There are surprises and fun little tidbits sprinkled on every headline to keep the pages turning. By all means read every page from cover to cover. Although you need not be in a hurry or wait until you have turned every page. The strategies in the book are geared towards a few simple principles while you observe and make small adjustments to your investments over time.This book is such a small price to pay and a lot to gain in personal finance and wealth management. Why give your money away to some 3rd party wall street giants when you can trust yourself to do a better job with just a few minutes of your time. Get the book.
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Buddy B. Saleeby
5.0 out of 5 stars Momentum as a Predictive Tool for Investors
Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2018
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This is a wonderful book, filled with carefully written advice, along with a rich background of detail, guidance, recent financial scholarship, and cautionary flags. Here’s a workable way to remove pesky emotions and poor judgement from your investment decisions. It’s refreshing to encounter an exposition of an investing strategy that is forthright, unambiguous and honest. The reader benefits when the author converts state of the art theory into a very concrete strategy, and tells the evolution of expert thinking that has led to it. In the process, he shows the reader that momentum can act as a predictive factor (upsetting modern portfolio theory, or MPT) as he unveils a clearly drawn prescription making it actually work. To do this, he deals clearly with notions of asset classes, key time intervals, choice of best etf candidates for portfolio design, and a metric and strategy for capturing momentum onto your personal balance sheet. It sounds perhaps complicated but really isn’t, and, as a bonus, makes for asorbing reading. Taking a long term time horizon, he ticks off and debunks many myths that linger on, and rarely makes his points without vivid evidence. I found it amusing to discover that many of the things I wanted to do, such as weaving in my own favored variations, changing this and that element of the strategy, cooking up my own tweaks, juicing the month’s portfolio by throwing in an off strategy trade— these the author would, presumably, slap my wrists for. But, this aside, the author provides a real and valuable service, for which a debt of gratitude is deserved.
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Mark Orlando
4.0 out of 5 stars Good ideas and advice
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2021
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There was a lot of good advice in this book and it makes sense to me. I do think the format of the book could have been better in that there is too much white space. Also, the author could have come to the point in many cases sooner. Still, I will review my notes from this book. So it's definitely a book I can recommend.
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J. Leslie
5.0 out of 5 stars 16.62% Per Year
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2019
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Several years ago, I read an insightful book titled "The Ivy Portfolio" by Mebane T. Faber. In it, I learned how the endowments of Harvard and Yale posted world-beating performance through several complete market cycles. Here was a strategy that had a long record with actual performance numbers back to 1973. I was searching for a profitable investment strategy that my adult children could follow. One has to respect the disciplined approach and consistent results achieved by Harvard and Yale. I liked the concepts didn't know how to simplify the process for my family.

Then in 2018, I heard about Brian Livingston's new book titled Muscular Portfolios. This well researched and documented work took the concepts in The Ivy Portfolio and presented them as a usable strategy for anyone. Faber's book spoke to the powerful concepts of compounding and diversification. The Muscular Portfolio then validates the importance of momentum in investment selection with thoroughly researched third party data.

In addition to offering several portfolio choices based on individual goals and risk tolerances, the book presents easy steps to implement and maintain the strategy ... in 15 minutes a month. There's a wealth of additional informative in the book as well.

I highly recommend this book to readers who want to outperform the overall stock market over time with less volatility.
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Sunny Y.
5.0 out of 5 stars Simple Ways to DIY Investments
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2018
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Let me be honest, I’m in the majority group of people out there who know very little about investing. I’m not looking for a quick buck and don’t have the patience nor the time to learn everything about investing to become a professional. I'm able to gain a solid plan and feel confident to start investing in about 30 mins after reading the book. This is pretty sweet since I would have no idea what to invest let alone manage them overtime.

This book makes it dead simple to follow in the first few chapters to start investing backed by historical facts in easy to understand narratives.

There are surprises and fun little tidbits sprinkled on every headline to keep the pages turning. By all means read every page from cover to cover. Although you need not be in a hurry or wait until you have turned every page. The strategies in the book are geared towards a few simple principles while you observe and make small adjustments to your investments over time.

This book is such a small price to pay and a lot to gain in personal finance and wealth management. Why give your money away to some 3rd party wall street giants when you can trust yourself to do a better job with just a few minutes of your time. Get the book.
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Sunny Y.
5.0 out of 5 stars Simple Ways to DIY Investments
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2018
Let me be honest, I’m in the majority group of people out there who know very little about investing. I’m not looking for a quick buck and don’t have the patience nor the time to learn everything about investing to become a professional. I'm able to gain a solid plan and feel confident to start investing in about 30 mins after reading the book. This is pretty sweet since I would have no idea what to invest let alone manage them overtime.

This book makes it dead simple to follow in the first few chapters to start investing backed by historical facts in easy to understand narratives.

There are surprises and fun little tidbits sprinkled on every headline to keep the pages turning. By all means read every page from cover to cover. Although you need not be in a hurry or wait until you have turned every page. The strategies in the book are geared towards a few simple principles while you observe and make small adjustments to your investments over time.

This book is such a small price to pay and a lot to gain in personal finance and wealth management. Why give your money away to some 3rd party wall street giants when you can trust yourself to do a better job with just a few minutes of your time. Get the book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended as a pathway over time to keep up with momentum driven ETFs
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2018
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The Muscular Portfolio is a momentum driven strategy based on quantitative historical data going back enough years to have statistical significance. The presentation of this 8"x10" volume is superb, enhanced by its glossy colorful photos, well designed print and graphics. It also has a glossary and index.

One can learn a great deal about the market and momentum from this book. As we know the market can be a difficult place to trade or invest, so the author offers a pathway to make it easier to invest through momentum ETF's.

It is up to each person to decide if this method is right: time wise a stretch of 15 years should be a cycle invested. Also, know that one could gain less , but lose less than if invested in the S&P. Decide if you want to invest 1/3 of your investable money in each of 3 ETF's every month. Brian Livingston suggests laddered bond ETFs as one is starting to retire, and into retirement.
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Uncle Sam
4.0 out of 5 stars Massive book
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2018
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Contains much general investing information which is often more timely than in many places. I loved the bank-by-bank breakdown of fines paid for unethical behaviors, now totalling over $150B! GSachs receives close attention but sadly not including the latest 1MDB scandal. I did find the book less well organized than I would have liked but in some ways a breath of fresh air.
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Luis M Castellvi
3.0 out of 5 stars Momentum’s comic
Reviewed in Spain on January 8, 2021
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Interesting approach while such a fancy and color full edition just increase book’s price and the theory doesn’t need those.
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