Unconventional success
Subtitle: a fundamental approach to personal investment
By: David F. Swensen
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780743228381
Subjects: Personal Finance; Mutual funds; Portfolio management; Investments
Description: A guide for investors offers advice on how to overcome fees, taxes, and other portfolio-compromising factors by avoiding expensive investment management companies and working with not-for-profit groups.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-385) and index.
Table of contents: title: Overview; title: Sources of return; title: Asset allocation; title: Core asset classes; title: Portfolio construction; title: Non-core asset classes; title: Market timing; title: Chasing performance; title: Rebalancing; title: Security selection; title: The performance deficit of mutual funds; title: Obvious sources of mutual-fund failure; title: Hidden causes of poor mutual-fund performance; title: Winning the active-management game; title: The exchange-traded fund alternative; title: Failure of for-profit mutual funds.