Modern Portfolio Theory has failed investors. A change in direction is long overdue.
We are in a time of enormous risk. Economic growth is anemic, and political risk to the capital markets is on the rise. In the U.S., a generation of white collar baby-boomers is heading into retirement with insufficient assets in their 401(k) programs, and industrial workers are stuck with materially underfunded pension plans.
Against that backdrop, the investing industryās current set of practices and assumptionsāModern Portfolio Theory (MPT)āis based on a half-century old formula that is supposed to deliver the maximum amount of return for a given amount of risk. The trouble is that it doesnāt work very well.
In Getting Back to Business, dividend-investing guru Daniel Peris proposes a radical new approachāradical in that it does away with MPT in favor of a more intuitive, common-sense approach practiced by business people in their own affairs everyday: cash returns on cash investments.
āIn a profession utterly lacking a historical sensibility,ā Peris writes. āOne periodically needs to ask why we do things the way we do, how we got here, and whether perhaps there is a better way.ā Balancing detailed historical evidence with a practitionerās real-world expertise, Peris asks the right questionsāand provides a solution that makes sense in todayās challenging investing landscape.
This book title, Getting Back to Business: Why Modern Portfolio Theory Fails Investors and How You Can Bring Common Sense to Your Portfolio, ISBN: 9781260135329, by Daniel Peris, published by McGraw-Hill Education (July 3, 2018) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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