{"product_id":"2940148978718","title":"Concepts of Investment and Retirement Management","description":"The primary objective of this book is to provide an insight into the basic building blocks used in the development of a structured financial plan. It provides many data tables, charts and graphs, and yes, it is technical, but so is the development of a structured financial plan.\u003cbr\u003eAll investment decision-making is about risk and uncertainty. Investment risk is a function of rising\/falling inflation and rising\/falling economic growth. Stocks do best when the economy is growing and inflation is falling and bonds do best when the economy and inflation are falling.\u003cbr\u003eThe current investment environment poses a broad range of uncertainties. Investors are now confronted with strong contrasts between conventional wisdom and unconventional insights. For example, conventional wisdom points to historical average returns for long-term investors, but unconventional insights from history tell a different story. Based on current levels of valuation, an argument could be made that the stock market is likely to deliver only modest or minimal returns in the future.\u003cbr\u003eThe calculation of investment performance, that is, percent return, of an investment security, mutual fund, investment portfolio, etc., is surprisingly complex. The math isn’t hard, but the assumptions used in the performance calculations have a significant impact on the return calculations. Therefore, if an investor does not understand the assumptions behind the return calculations, the return measurements used in financial plan projections may be misleading.\u003cbr\u003eThe investor’s returns lag the investment security returns, resulting from a “buy high\/sell low” strategy. A “buy low\/sell high” algorithm is presented in this book which provides a very high probability of increasing the investor’s return.\u003cbr\u003eInvestment management strategies may be classified as active or passive. Active management can best be described as an attempt to apply human intelligence to find “good deals” in the financial markets. Passive investment management makes little or no use of information that active investors seek out. Passive investors invest in broad sections of the market asset classes or index funds and maintain the allocation over the long term through periodic rebalancing of the asset classes.\u003cbr\u003eRetirement planning is an ongoing process, in that the planning utilizes both the pre-retirement savings accumulation period and the retirement withdrawal period. The accumulation and withdrawal phases must not be treated as separate events, but must be integrated.\u003cbr\u003eThis book provides detailed explanations of the contribution factors used in the wealth building phase and the total present value factors used in the wealth distribution phase. Proper implementation of the respective factors will result in a high probability of achieving your retirement savings goal and not depleting the savings during the retirement phase.","brand":"Ben Bernacchi, CFP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47111757988080,"sku":"2940148978718","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148978718_p0.jpg?v=1763710631","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148978718","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}