"One of the ten best investing books of all time." - "The Washington Post". One of investing's most celebrated icons updates his classic work to reflect today's world and markets. In this long-awaited and eagerly anticipated update, Jeremy Siegel provides his legendary perspective and guidance to an investment world turned upside down. "Stocks for the Long Run" combines a compelling and timely portrait of today's turbulent stock market with the strategies, tools, and techniques investors need to maintain their focus and achieve meaningful stock returns over time.This completely updated edition includes entirely new data, charts, and figures as it provides answers on the five major issues concerning investors and professionals today: How will events related to September 11 tragedy affect long-term market returns? What behavioral roadblocks stand in the way of achieving financial success? Are "countries" still relevant for global investing? Will stock "indexing" match its past performance? Can tomorrow's stock market deliver the same returns as markets in the past? Praise for previous editions of "Stocks for the Long Run": "Should command a central place on the desk of any 'amateur' investor or beginning professional." - "Barron's". "A simply great book." - "Forbes".
PART 1: The Verdict of History
1. Stock and Bond Returns since 1802
2. Risk, Return and the Coming Age Wave
3. Perspectives on Stocks as Investments
PART 2: Stock Returns
4. Stocks, Stock Averages, and Stock Returns
5. Dividends, Earnings, and Investor Sentiment
6. Large Stock, Small Stocks, Value Stocks, Growth Stocks
7. The Nifty Fifty Revisited
8. Taxes and Stock Returns
9. Global Investing
PART 3: Economic Environment of Investing
10. Money, Gold, and Central Banks
11. Inflation and Stocks
12. Stocks and the Business Cycle
13. World Events Which Impact Financial Markets
14. Stocks, Bonds and the Flow of Economic Data
PART 4: Stock Fluctuations in the Short Run
15. Stock Index Futures, Options and Spiders
16. Market Volatility and the Stock Crash of October 1987
17. Technical Analysis and Investing with the Trend
18. Calender Anomalies
PART 5: Building Wealth Through Stocks
19. Funds, Managers, and 'Beating the Market'
20. Structuring a Portfolio for Long-Term Growth
Index
About Jeremy J. Siegel
Jeremy J. Siegel, Ph.D., is the Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. An advisor to the Federal Reserve, Siegel is an acclaimed consultant and lecturer for financial firms and money managers around the globe and is a frequent guest on CNBC, CNN, PBS, "Wall Street Week," and NPR.