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The Investor's Guidebook to Alternative Investments

Type
Link
Cost
Paid
Published
2013
Full Name
The Investor's Guidebook to Alternative Investments: The Role of Alternative Investments in Portfolio Design

The Investor's Guidebook to Alternative Investments is a concise, yet extensive, guidebook that addresses the practical aspects of investing in fixed income investments. It presents investment vehicles and strategies from both the issuers' and the investors’ perspectives. Starting with basic concepts and then building to state-of-the-art pricing models, strategies, and tactics, this succinct handbook will be useful for everyone from new hires through experienced professionals. Unlike most books, which are read once and sit on the shelf, professionals will refer to The Investor's Guidebook to Alternative Investments repeatedly throughout their careers.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

  1. Why Alternative Investments?

  2. Introduction to Gold

  3. A Concise History of Gold as Money

  4. The US Death Spiral Accelerates

  5. Is the US Past the Point of No Return?

  6. The Rest of the World

  7. Outlook for the Price of Gold

  8. Arguments Against Gold

  9. Alternative Ways to Buy Gold

  10. Other Precious Metals

  11. Investing in Jewels

  12. Energy Exploration

  13. Real Estate

Appendix

Publisher's Note

Index