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About Jason Zweig
Jason Zweig is an investing and personal finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal. Previously, he was a senior writer at Money magazine, mutual-funds editor at Forbes magazine, and a guest columnist for Time and cnn.com. He is the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's "The Intelligent Investor," the classic text that Warren Buffett has called "by far the best book about investing ever written." He is also the author of "The Devil's Financial Dictionary," a satirical glossary of Wall Street terms, and "Your Money and Your Brain," on the neuroscience and psychology of financial decision-making. Zweig serves on the editorial boards of Financial History magazine and The Journal of Behavioral Finance. Visit the author at www.jasonzweig.com and follow him on Twitter at @jasonzweigwsj.
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What happens inside our brains when we think about money? Quite a lot, actually, and some of it isn’t good for our financial health. In Your Money and Your Brain, Jason Zweig explains why smart people make stupid financial decisions—and what they can do to avoid these mistakes. Zweig, a veteran financial journalist, draws on the latest research in neuroeconomics, a fascinating new discipline that combines psychology, neuroscience, and economics to better understand financial decision making. He shows why we often misunderstand risk and why we tend to be overconfident about our investment decisions. Your Money and Your Brain offers some radical new insights into investing and shows investors how to take control of the battlefield between reason and emotion.
Your Money and Your Brain is as entertaining as it is enlightening. In the course of his research, Zweig visited leading neuroscience laboratories and subjected himself to numerous experiments. He blends anecdotes from these experiences with stories about investing mistakes, including confessions of stupidity from some highly successful people. Then he draws lessons and offers original practical steps that investors can take to make wiser decisions.
Anyone who has ever looked back on a financial decision and said, “How could I have been so stupid?” will benefit from reading this book.
The Little Book of Safe Money acts as a guide for those trying to make their way through today's down markets. The topics covered include everything from investing behavior-why our minds come with their own set of biases that often prove harmful-to the use of financial advisors. But this timely book goes one step further than the rest by questioning an investor's true appetite for risk.
The Little Book of Safe Money also contradicts many of the myths that whirl around Wall Street with chapters like "Why Ultra-ETFs Are Mega-Dangerous" and "Hedge-Fund Hooey." Writing in the classic Little Book style, author Jason Zweig peels away layer after layer of buzz words, emotion, and myths to reveal what's really going on in today's financial markets.
- Outlines strategies for satisfying our ever-changing investment appetites while focusing on a long-term financial plan
- Author Jason Zweig is a trusted voice in the financial community and his straightforward style resonates with investors
- Offers practical guidance, tools, and tips for surviving and thriving in a down market
If you're serious about succeeding in today's turbulent markets, then The Little Book of Safe Money is what you should be reading.
The Devil's Financial Dictionary skewers the plutocrats and bureaucrats who gave us exploding mortgages, freakish risks, and banks too big to fail. And it distills the complexities, absurdities, and pomposities of Wall Street into plain truths and aphorisms anyone can understand.
An indispensable survival guide to the hostile wilderness of today's financial markets, The Devil's Financial Dictionary delivers practical insights with a scorpion's sting. It cuts through the fads and fakery of Wall Street and clears a safe path for investors between euphoria and despair.
Staying out of financial purgatory has never been this fun.
Benjamin Graham is widely known as the father of Value Investing, and mentor to Warren Buffett. But Graham made another critically important contribution by advocating that securities analysts should meet minimum requirements of knowledge, and be held to high standards of ethical conduct—in short, that the profession should be treated as seriously as other fields of study, like accounting, medicine or law.
Benjamin Graham and the Birth of the Professional Financial Analyst showcases Graham’s important contribution to remaking investment analysis as a profession. This fascinating collection spanning 30 years offers us valuable perspectives on investing and financial markets—many as vital in the present day as they were in Graham’s own tumultuous mid-twentieth century—and reveals the evolution of Graham’s passionate belief in the creation of a financial profession and a science of financial analysis.
Features:
- Updates and commentary by Jason Zweig, The Wall Street Journal’s “Intelligent Investor”
- Rare articles from The Financial Analysts Journal
- Created with the cooperation of the CFA Institute
“¿CÓMO PUEDO SER TAN IDIOTA?” SI NUNCA te gritaste esa frase con furia, no eres un inversor. Puede que no haya nada en todo el espectro del esfuerzo humano que haga que tantas personas inteligentes se sientan tan estúpidas como al invertir.
Es por eso que este libro explica, en términos que cualquier inversor pueda entender, qué sucede dentro del cerebro cuando tomas decisiones sobre el dinero. Para hacer el mejor uso de cualquier herramienta o máquina, es útil saber algo sobre cómo funciona; nunca maximizarás tu riqueza a menos que puedas optimizar tu mente.
Al igual que las personas que hacen dieta y cambian de estrategia una y otra vez para terminar tan pesadas como comenzaron, los inversores suelen ser sus propios peores enemigos, incluso cuando saben más:
- Todo el mundo sabe que debe comprar barato y vender caro y, sin embargo, con demasiada frecuencia, compramos caro y vendemos barato.
- Todo el mundo sabe que ganarle al mercado es casi imposible, pero casi todo el mundo piensa que puede hacerlo.
- Todo el mundo sabe que la venta en pánico es una mala idea, pero una empresa que anuncia que ganó 23 centavos por acción en lugar de 24 centavos puede perder 5 mil millones de valor de mercado en un minuto y medio.
- Todo el mundo sabe que los analistas de Wall Street no pueden predecir lo que el mercado está a punto de hacer, pero los inversores siguen pendientes de cada palabra de los expertos financieros que pronostican en programas de televisión.
- Todo el mundo sabe que perseguir acciones o fondos de moda es una forma segura de fracaso; sin embargo, millones de inversores vuelven a calentarse cada año. Muchos lo hacen a pesar de que juraron, solo uno o dos años antes, no volver a quemarse nunca más.
Este libro te ayudará a:
- establecer objetivos realistas y alcanzables;
- obtener mayores rendimientos con mayor seguridad;
- convertirte en un inversor más tranquilo y paciente;
- utilizar las noticias y desconectar del ruido en el mercado;
- medir los límites de tu propia experiencia;
- minimizar el número y la gravedad de tus errores;
- dejar de fustigarte cuando cometes un error;
- centrarte en lo que puedas controlar y dejar ir todo lo demás.
“Jason Zweig es uno de los mayores expertos mundiales en el proceso de inversión. Ha escrito el mejor libro hasta ahora sobre la ciencia emergente de la neuroeconomía. Cómprelo, léalo y conviértase en mejor inversor”. Bill Miller
“Jason Zweig conoce tus demonios financieros, dónde viven, por qué te están empobreciendo y cómo puedes vencerlos. Te debes a ti mismo, a tu futuro y a tus herederos, leer Tu Dinero y tu Cerebro”. William Bernstein
“Este libro trata sobre tu cerebro, pero el tuyo no es el único cerebro en este libro. Por suerte para ti, ese otro cerebro es el de Jason Zweig, y qué cerebro tan brillante, fascinante, esclarecedor, poderoso y único es ese. Escucha a Zweig con atención. He leído un millón de libros sobre inversiones, y ninguno de ellos se acerca a lo que tan generosamente Jason nos ha entregado aquí”. Peter L. Bernstein