A timeless investment guide that reveals how to consistently earn market-beating returns while reducing risk. What every investor needs is a battle-tested strategy that embraces the uncertainty of financial markets-and life in general. One that will yield market-beating portfolio returns in both good times and bad.
The Gone Fishin' Portfolio shows you what that strategy is, how it works, and why you should begin using it immediately. The innovative approach outlined throughout these pages will help investors enjoy a notably high probability of success by using an investment strategy based on the notion that nobody knows what the market is likely to do next, which, in effect, allows investors to capitalize on uncertainty. This
Second Edition has been updated and revised for 2021. While the strategy remains essentially the same, this new edition reflects the latest rules, regulations, and changes, and explains how portfolios modeled in this manner survived the crash of 2008.
Notable Updates:
- One fund in this ten-fund asset allocation strategy - Vanguard Gold & Precious Metals - shut down in 2018. Author Alexander Green will reveal the replacement in this Second Edition.
- Changes in the ETF industry allow successful asset allocation maintanence while improving investor performance with better constructed, lower-cost ETFs.
ALEXANDER GREEN is the Chief Investment Strategist of The Oxford Club, with more than 35 years' experience as an investment analyst, portfolio manager and financial writer. He writes a highly acclaimed financial newsletter, The Oxford Communiqué, along with three VIP trading services: The Insider Alert, The Momentum Alert and Oxford Microcap Trader. Alex is the bestselling author of three other financial books: The Secret of Shelter Island: Money and What Matters, Beyond Wealth: The Road Map to a Rich Life and An Embarrassment of Riches: Tapping Into the World’s Greatest Legacy of Wealth.
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I Get Wise
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Unvarnished Truth About Your Money
Chapter 2: The First Step on the Road to Financial Freedom
Chapter 3: Change Your Mindset, Change Your Life
Chapter 4: Why Some Investors Succeed . . . But Most Don’t
Chapter 5: Why Manage Your Own Money?
Chapter 6: Know What You Don’t Know
Part II Get Wealthy
Chapter 7: Common Stocks: The Greatest Wealth Creators of All Time
Chapter 8: Don’t Buy What Wall Street Is Selling
Chapter 9: Your Single Most Important Investment Decision
Chapter 10: The Gone Fishin’ Portfolio Unveiled
Chapter 11: The ETF Alternative
Chapter 12: Why the Gone Fishin’ Portfolio Is Your Best Investment Plan
Chapter 13: How to Legally Stiff-Arm the IRS
Part III Get On with Your Life
Chapter 14: The Last Two Essentials Specific Goals and Realistic Expectations
Chapter 15: Your Most Precious Resource
Afterword
Appendixes
About the Author
Index