Ignore the Hype. Brian Perry

What Is Smart Diversification? You Don't Want to Be a Pig! Owning What You Know May Not Be Best It's a Big World Sometimes You're Trapped by Your Own Success Dealing with Concentrated Positions Smart Diversification Enhances Your Odds of Success Winning the Lost Decade Chapter 8: You Must Learn How You'll Be Taxed But First, the Hype And Now, the Truth Income Taxes: A Quick Primer Are Taxes Going Higher? Tax Diversification Do You Know Who Your Partner Is? As If That's Not Enough … What's Certain in Life?

      8  Part III: Just Because You're Paranoid Doesn't Mean They Aren't Out to Get You Chapter 9: How to Avoid the Taxman Without Going to Jail Building Your Tax-Free Pool of Money Accelerating the Flow of Funds to Your Tax-free Pool Building Your Taxable Pool of Money Do You Want to Keep More of What You Make? Chapter 10: Sorry, But You're Probably Your Own Worst Enemy Tales Your Parents Told You Anchoring Confirmation Bias Overconfidence Bias Herd Behavior Framing Bias Hindsight Bias Self-attribution Bias Myopic Loss Aversion Chapter 11: FYI, the Media Doesn't Care If You Make Money But Then There's the Media … Did Black Monday Spell Doom for Investors? What Side of the Aisle Are You On? Would You Hitch Your Family's Future to the Circus? Chapter 12: Avoid the Wolf in Sheep's Clothing Does It Pass the Sniff Test? Who's Got Your Back? Focus on Minimizing Unnecessary Fees Is What You're Buying Even an Investment? Drowning in a Sea of Complexity Do You Even Know What You're Buying? But My “Regular” Bonds Are Free from Commissions, Right? What Are You Using Derivatives For? Market Voodoo (AKA Technical Analysis) Let Me “Sell” You an Annuity… Now, Let Me “Explain” an Annuity… The Bottom Line Chapter 13: How to Survive a Bear Attack Prepare for the Bear Risk Capacity versus Risk Tolerance Rebalance to Stay on Course Buy-and-Hold Investing Buy-and-Forget Investing So, What Do You Do When Market Valuations Are Extreme? Does What Gets Measured Get Improved? Ready for Some Good News? A Better Life

      9  Conclusion

      10  Index

      11  End User License Agreement

      List of Illustrations

      1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1 How the World Has Changed for Individual InvestorsFigure 1.2 Hedge Fund Closures by Year

      2 Chapter 2Figure 2.1 S&P 500 (1927–2019)Figure 2.2 Asset Class and Portfolio Performance (1999–2018)Figure 2.3 The Performance of the Average Investor (1999–2018)Figure 2.5 Growth of $100,000 Invested in S&P 500 for 20 Years

      3 Chapter 4Figure 4.1 U.S. Stock Fund Flows (2011–2018)Figure 4.2 Frequency with Which Value Outperforms GrowthFigure 4.3 Frequency with Which Small Outperforms LargeFigure 4.4 U.S. Treasury Yield Curves (Year-End 2013 and Year-End