Book description
Praise For THE LITTLE BOOK OF ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS
"Ben and Phil have done it again. Another lucid, insightful
book, designed to enhance your wealth! In today's stock-addled cult of
equities, there is a gaping hole in most investors' portfolios...the
whole panoply of alternative investments that can simultaneously help
us cut our risk, better hedge our inflation risk, and boost our
return. This Little Book is filled with big ideas on how to make these
markets and strategies a treasured part of our investing
toolkit."
-Robert Arnott, Chairman, Research Affiliates
"I have been reading Ben Stein for thirty-five years and Phil
DeMuth since he joined up with Ben ten years ago. They do solid work,
and this latest is no exception."
-Jim Rogers, author
of A Gift to My Children
"If anyone can make hedge funds sexy, Stein and DeMuth can, and
they've done it with style in this engaging, instructive, and tasteful
how-to guide for investing in alternatives. But you should read this
Kama Sutra of investment manuals not just for the thrills, but also to
learn how to avoid the hazards of promiscuous and unprotected
investing."
-Andrew Lo, Professor and Director, MIT
Laboratory for Financial Engineering
Ben Stein is a respected economist who is known to
many as a movie and television personality, but has worked more in
personal and corporate finance than anywhere else. He has written
about finance for Barron's, the Wall Street Journal, the
New York Times, and Fortune; was one of the chief
busters of the junk-bond frauds of the 1980s; has been a longtime
critic of corporate executives' self-dealing; and has cowritten eight
finance books. Stein travels the country speaking about finance in
both serious and humorous ways, and is a regular contributor to CBS's
Sunday Morning, CNN, and Fox News. He was the winner of the 2009
Malcolm Forbes Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism.
Phil Demuth is Managing Director of Conserv-ative Wealth
Management LLC, a registered investment advisor to high-net-worth
individuals, institutions, and foundations. He has cowritten seven
books with Ben Stein and has also written for the Wall Street
Journal, Barron's, Louis Rukeyser's Mutual Funds
newsletter, and the Journal of Financial Planning. His
television appearances include Ludlow & Company, Glenn Beck,
Squawk Box, Forbes on Fox, and Wall Street Week.
