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Mauldin, John.

Bull's eye investing : targeting real returns in a smoke and mirrors market / John Mauldin.

Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, ©2004.

vi, 426 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Investors need to become familiar with "absolute return" vehicles, including hedge funds, some bonds, and other investments, if they intend to make money. Financial expert John Mauldin realizes this, and details a new approach to investing that will allow readers to adjust to what the he believes is the new reality of investing.

Investments.

Targeting real returns in a smoke and mirrors market

Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-414) and index.

Car wreck, traffic jam, or freeway? -- Faith versus history -- The trend is your friend (until it isn't) -- Catching the next wave -- Into the matrix : history's guide to realistic expectations -- Financial physics : interconnected relationships -- Risky expectations -- Plausible expectations : a realistic appraisal of the prospects for earnings growth -- Pension fund problems in your backyard -- The issue of retirement in an aging world : is it something in the water? -- Demography is destiny -- King dollar and the guillotine -- The muddle through economy -- Chairman Greenspan and the shoot-out at the OK Corral -- Why investors fail : analyzing risk -- Taking stock : the fundamental nature of bull's eye investing -- Bringing out your inner Spock -- The value in stocks -- Investing in bonds : or the Sisyphus syndrome -- Hedge funds 101 : the basics -- Investing in a fund of hedge funds -- Doing your due diligence -- All that glitters, etc. -- Bull's eye investing -- Appendix A. Suggested reading material -- Appendix B. Bond information -- Appendix C. Hedge fund industry resources -- Appendix D. Hedge fund net worth requirements : why a million isnt always enough.

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