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Learn all about allocating your eggs...the right way. | All About Asset Allocation | Richard A. Ferri

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	• All About Asset Allocation Richard A. Ferri McGraw-Hill, 2005 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 28 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Taking asset allocation to the next level

Discover how to make your portfolio hit the sweet spot. This book takes your investing to the next level --- the winning level.

I got a lot of valuable information from this book. For one thing, it deals with the allocation of the fixed income portion of the portfolio --- something no other book that I'm aware of has done. And this is important.

There's really nothing that this book doesn't cover when it comes to asset allocation. It certainly helped me to get my own portfolio back in shape.

It talks about your real tolerance for risk --- not those that you get from tests. It says that most of us have less tolerance than we admit. I think that's true. We talk like we can handle a lot of risk when in truth, we can't. This is good to know.

Asset allocation is a critical part of investing. It doesn't matter if you're a small investor or a big one. You need help with asset allocation. And you can't depend on the pros to give you any help.

If you invest at all, you should read this book and keep it handy. You'll need it to guide you from time to time when you reallocate --- as you should and as you need to.

The book talks mostly in terms of index funds. But it can be used for any sort of investing. It's especially helpful, however, for those who invest in index funds, mutual funds and etf accounts.

The one thing the book seemed to lack was an explanation as to how exactly diversification spreads or, one should say, lessens the risk and how each allocation does so.

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Perfect explanation of Asset Allocation

Just before reading Richard Ferri's "All About Asset Allocation" I had read William Bernstein's two books on the same topic, "The Intelligent Asset Allocator", and "The Four Pillars of Investing" (both really excellent). Compared to the broad reaching Bernstein books, which bring in a lot of examples from stock market history in explaining Asset Allocation, the Ferri book is a straight up text book, clear, spare but complete, and really well done. It really helped to hone my understanding of the topic. After reading it I also purchased his book on Index Funds.

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Learn all about allocating your eggs...the right way.

Picked up another great book by Richard Ferri and this one's well worth the investment.

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Great book

This book does a fine job of explaining asset allocation and the fundamental concepts that build a diversified porfolio. Asset allocation is explained very well in relation to portfolio diversification and how rebalancing is essentially the way to increase gains. It explains very well that asset allocation is all about risk management and there is no one size fits all though we can still markup broad categories of similar investor behavior. Market timing is about making a killing by buying in low and selling high however it involves uncertainty given everyone shares similar market information. Rebalancing is market timing without having to chase the market, its buying low and selling high passively though.

All in all, great read and beneficial for all. Lot of practical advice. Its good it came out after the early 2000 tech-stock bubble bursts so it presents the grim reality of investing when your financial plan does not manage its risk and assets.

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All About Asset Allocation goes beyond sound-bite financial columns and TV programs to explain asset allocation in terms that anyone can under- stand. Using a concise style, it features straight- forward explanations of asset allocation, a review of the asset allocation process, and guidelines for implementing strategies and programs.