Beating the Dow with Bonds: A High Return, Low Risk Strategy for Outperforming the Pros Even When Stocks Go South
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In Beating the Dow with Bonds, Michael O'Higgins, bestselling author of Beating the Dow and one of America's top-ranked money managers, provides a proven system for achieving the lowest-risk, highest returns in a chaotic stock market--investment advice requiring less than five minutes per year that will help you beat the pros 95 percent of the time regardless of market conditions.
In 1989 Michael O'Higgins rocked the investment world. By following a very simple formula, he asserted, investors could beat the pros 95 percent of the time by putting 100 percent of their money into the "dog" stocks of the Dow. Not only did his formula work for nearly a decade, but the publication of Beating the Dow spawned a veritable industry, including websites, mutual funds, and $20 billion worth of investments, elevating the theory to legendary status.
Now O'Higgins is back--and geared to rock the investment world again. With stock market fluctuations ranging from all-time highs to all-time lows, the King of the Dow Dogs insists that incorporating bonds--once considered the ugly stepsibling to stocks--into your portfolio is the only way to win.
In Beating the Dow with Bonds, you will learn:
how to tell when stocks aren't the best place to be for the highest returns--and where to go in the meantime
how to protect yourself from radical market fluctuations and continue to beat the Dow a reliable, easy-to-understand method of assessing the attractiveness of T-bonds, T-bills, and stock in order to achieve the best return with the least risk why, in the thirty years since December 1968, this new strategy of asset allocation would have produced almost thirty times the cumulative return of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and S&P 500--and five times the cumulative return of a Beating the Dow five-stock strategy how investors would have gained annual returns of 24.1 percent using this new strategy--verses annual returns of 18.2 percent with a Dow-based, stocks-only strategy and an 11.2 percent annual performance by the DJIA and S&P 500.For in investors with as little as $5,000, Beating the Dow with Bonds provides a safer, more reliable opportunity to beat the Dow not just in today's market--but in any market.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:088730947X
ISBN13:9780887309472
Release Date:December 1998
Publisher:Harper Business
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.19 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"
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Bonds Business Business & Investing Economics Introduction Investing Popular EconomicsCustomer Reviews
4 ratings
Good INvesting Advice for Low Interest Rate Cycles
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Zero coupon bonds are the bonds spoken of in the book's title. Zero coupon bonds do well in falling interest rate and stable, low interest rate investing environments as we had 90% of the time from 1982 to 2004. Now is NOT the time to use this book's advice, wait until interest rates fall again (2010??). but it is true, by not owning any stocks O'Higgins outperformed the greatest -and longest- bull market in history.
A Truly Low-Risk Strategy to Achieve Above-Average Returns!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Michael O'Higgins' long-awaited second book provides welcome and timely advice for a wide variety of investors! O'Higgins convincingly presents a specific and simple strategy for achieving above-average returns on investments at relatively low risk, using either stocks, T-bills, or T-bonds as warranted. It is a strategy well worth following, especially in periods of speculation. O'Higgins' strategy is both simple and sophisticated, and can be easily understood and implemented by individual investors, although I understand that there is now an O'Higgins mutual fund that presumably uses the investment system touted in the book and does the work for us. I am truly pleased that O'Higgins has realized the importance of a solid understanding of the positive role that certain bonds can play in one's investment choices. Bravo, Michael O'Higgins!
Thanks for the reminder.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Michael O'Higgins latest book may be a timely reminder that stocks are not always the best investment. The systematic method of investing that is espoused in the book is simple, and easy to follow. It annually moves investments to one of three asset classes: stocks, bonds or Treasury bills. In recent years, I have heard a lot arguments about this bull market in equities being a new and different investment era. I have heard little about investing in bonds and have heard nothing about investing in cash investments such as Treasury bills. Thanks for the reminder.
A Book One Cannot Invest Without
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
As a longtime follower of the stock "Dogs of the Dow" stock selection method first propounded in Mr. O'Higgins' first book, Beating The Dow (HarperCollins, 1991), I was anxious to read his latest book not only because of the success which I had with the Dogs strategy but also because I was uncomfortable with the sky-high levels of today's stock market.I found Beating The Dow With Bonds extremely educational about the whole bond arena, an investment alternative about which I knew very little prior to reading this book. Not only does it give an easy-to-understand explanation of the different types of bonds and how they work, but it also gives you plenty of bond market history with which to place the current stock and bond markets into perspective. I never knew, for example, how advantageous it was to be in bonds during the Crash of 1929-32 or in the difficult market environment of 1968-74.In my opinion, every stock investor, especially anyone with the bulk of his retirement savings invested in stocks, would benefit from reading this book.
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