Heads I win, tails I win
Subtitle: why smart investors fail and how to tilt the odds in your favor
By: Spencer Jakab
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780399563201
Subjects: Personal Finance; Investments
Description: "Since leaving his job as a ... stock analyst to become an investing columnist, Jakab has watched his readers--and his family, friends, and colleagues--make the same mistakes again and again. He set out to evaluate the typical advice people get, from the clearly risky to the seemingly safe, to figure out where it all goes wrong and how they could do much better"--Dust jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-268) and index.
Table of contents: title: Lake Moneybegone; title: Timing Isn't Everything; title: Turning Lemons Into Lemonade; title: Who Wants To Be A Billionaire?; title: Actually, Timing Is Everything; title: The Celebrity Cephalopod; title: Seers And Seer Suckers; title: Where Are The Customers' Yachts?; title: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose; title: Seven Habits Of Highly Ineffective Investors; title: But Wait, There's More; title: Far From The Maddening Crowd; title: The Hungarian Grandma Indicator (Or Why You May Need An Advisor); title: Leaving Lake Moneybegone.