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The Empowered Investor: A Guide To Building Better Portfolios

by Keith Matthews

May 1, 2005 | Trade Paperback

The call from Canadians from coast-to-coast for a clearly written, intelligent guide-book on investment and portfolio management has been heard by Keith Matthews, author of The Empowered Investor: A Guide to Building Better Portfolios. The book is free of jargon and hype and is a straightforward guide devoted to the average Canadian's wish for easily accessible information on leading-edge portfolio management concepts.

In this engaging guide on wise investing, Keith Matthews appeals to novices and experts alike. His accessible style has produced a very rare find: an easy-to-read finance and portfolio management book that is a down-to-earth treatment of a complex subject.

Readers will find:

  • a review of traditional investment advice and its pitfalls
  • a debunking of investment myths
  • investment truths every savvy investor should be aware of
  • straightforward and practical principles to help them become better investors
It is the first Canadian-authored book to highlight the research-based Fama-French, 3-Factor model. More than any other deciding factors (such as market predictions, investment TV shows, investment manager strategies, investment newsletters, hot trendy ideas, etc.), this three-factor model helps inform investors and advisors where returns actually come from, and it has revolutionized the way Canadians are now able to construct asset allocation and portfolio strategies.
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The book has a superb table of contents; in fact it is four pages long. With a table of contents like that you would expect the book to provide much more information than it did. With the book being only a 100 plus pages, I finished it thinking is that all there is? The book should probably have been at least 200- 250 pages. While I admit Keith did a pretty good job covering a lot of ground, I felt I wanted more meat on the bones as it were. For someone who has little time, I suppose this is a good read. I, however, wanted more content. Because of that, I can only give it an average rating. It had the potential of being one of the best investing books out there but at 100+ pages it falls short. I would have liked to have seen more information on asset allocation depending on your risk tolerance etc. The part of the title that say A Guide to Building Better Portfolios is a little misleading since there is very little if any information on building portfolios in the book other than general terms. How can you build a portfolio on general information? Enough said.

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