Your Money, Your Investments : Preserving and Growing Your Wealth in Good and Tough Times

CONTENTS......Page 5 PREFACE......Page 7 Part 1 Understanding the need for wealth preservation before investing......Page 9 01 Reality Check for Retirement Dreams......Page 11 02 Preserving Your Nest Egg......Page 16 03 HNWIs Need Financial Planning Even More......Page 22 04 Insurance in a Time of Uncertainty......Page 26 05 Beating Inflation at its Own Game......Page 31 06 Interest-Only Loans: the Pros and Cons......Page 36 Part 2 Learning from the investment world ......Page 43 07 Your Ticket to Investing Wisely......Page 45 08 Game for Stock Investing?......Page 49 09 Invest Like the Rich and Your Returns May Be Better......Page 57 10 Investing Tricks of the Wealthy ......Page 61 11 Pitalls of Foreign Currency Investing......Page 67 12 It’s Only a Number......Page 72 13 Making Sense of the Recent Market Rally......Page 78 14 Compounding the Issue......Page 83 Part 3 Understanding investment fundamentals......Page 91 15 Time to Change Strategy......Page 93 16 Stay Invested or Adopt Dollar-Cost Averaging......Page 98 17 A Boring Approach that Works......Page 104 18 When an Investor Burns His Finger......Page 109 19 The Portfolio Strategy and Your Adviser......Page 115 20 Shock-Proof Your Portfolio......Page 121 21 Have Faith in an Old Friend......Page 128 ABOUT THE AUTHOR......Page 137 A quick dip into the fundamentals of personal finance management