Guide to investment strategy - Peter Stanyer

The classic guide for the individual investor, The Economist Guide to Investment Strategy
sets out the basic - and the not-so-basic - principles for putting your
wealth to work. It looks at risk, pointing out the hazards for those
who wish to explore a variety of investment approaches. It also teaches
the importance of sophisticated self-knowledge in finance, distilling
insights from behavioural analysis as well as the principles of
traditional finance. It highlights how habitual patterns of
decision-making can lead any of us into costly mistakes, and it stresses
how markets are most dangerous when they appear to be most rewarding.
This fourth edition includes new material on private investment and
non-standard asset classes - art, wine, collectibles and the like - helping readers
to navigate those areas in which prudence meets passion.