Books : Beating the Dow with Bonds : A High-Return, Low-Risk Strategy for Outperforming the Pros Even When Stocks Go South
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Page Count: 288
Printing Date: March 01, 2000
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“By following O'Higgins' method, small investors will often beat the pros at their own game.” - Wall Street Journal
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 and 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.
With stock market fluctuations ranging from all-time highs to all-time lows, O'Higgins insists that incorporating bonds'once considered the ugly step-sibling 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 stocks in order to achieve the best return with the least risk
For 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.
Read by Jack Perkins, who served as correspondent, commentator and anchorman at NBC News for 25 years. He began his association with A&E in 1990, and is co-host of the series Biography.
Amazon.com Review:
Michael B. O'Higgins entered the stock-brokerage business in the early 1970s, right on the verge of a rabid bear market. So his skepticism about the continued rise in stock prices is understandable. At the same time, he notes that bond yields, as of the 1999 publication date of this audiobook, are historically high relative to inflation. Therefore, an investment portfolio combining stocks and bonds, rather than stocks exclusively, should beat the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the future. Hiring A&E Network's Jack Perkins, cohost of the acclaimed Biography series, to read this audiobook was a stroke of genius. Perkins's voice adds the heft of lifelong experience and hard-won wisdom to O'Higgins' rather dry explanations of what bonds are and why you should invest in them. (Running time: 3 hours, 2 cassettes) --Lou Schuler
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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.
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Having read many books on various financial subjects, this one is on my list as one of the top 10 wastes of time. In fact I am only writting this to hopefully save you time! Warning! When the reviews are from annonymous 'a reader' be suspicious!
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I agree with much of what has already been said as far as the amount of filler and the editorial glitches. And can anyone figure out the last chart -- table 11.1? These numbers make no sense and don't even correspond with the info on table 9.1. I began the book with some excitement but ended up feeling very uncertain about the method.
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This is one of the few stock market books from the 1990s that will be read and appreciated many years from now. While silly stuff like "Dow 36,000" & Harry Dent quickly withers away, O'Higgins advice gains credibility every day in this apparently multi-year bear market. Several web sites (beartopia dot com & others) mention this book. Perhaps the book's title should have substituted "zero coupon bonds" for the word "bonds." Do look up the authors corrected list of investment steps here at Amazon, however, do not let the slightly sloppy editing deter you from learning this powerful investment advice. The more knowledgable one is of the market, the more one appreciates O'Higgins and his two works. This book's advice works in bull and bear markets.
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The book was not very well written, and why he felt the need to devote 70 pages describing in copious detail all 30 of the Dow stocks is beyond me. However, his 30 year zero-coupon analysis does have something going for it, and the inflation rate is a good predictor for a change in asset allocation.
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