Factor Investing For Dummies
About this ebook
Factor Investing For Dummies helps you go beyond the investment basics, with proven techniques for making informed and sophisticated investment decisions. Using factor investing, you’ll select stocks based on some predetermined, well, factors. Momentum, value, interest rates, economic growth, credit risk, liquidity—all these things can help you identify killer stocks and improve your returns. This book explains it all, and helps you implement a strategic factor investing plan, so you can boost your portfolio’s performance, reduce volatility, and enhance diversification. You’ll also learn what not to do, with coverage of the factors that have failed to deliver consistent returns over time. We explore factor-based ETFS and loads of other ideas for injecting some factors into your investment game.
- Learn what factor investing is and how you can use it to level up your portfolio
- Understand the various types of factors and how to use them to select winning stocks
- Choose from a bunch of factor investing strategies, or build one of your own
- Generate wealth in a more sophisticated, more effective way
This is the perfect Dummies guide for beginner to seasoned investors who want to explore more consistent outperformance potential. Factor Investing For Dummies can also help portfolio managers, consultants, academics, and students who want to understand more about the science of factor investing.
About the author
James Maendel, BFA, AAMS, AIF, DACFP, founded Maendel Wealth, an investment advisory firm. He has won the Five Star Wealth Management award for multiple years. Paul Mladjenovic is a national speaker, educator, author of Stock Investing For Dummies, Currency Trading For Dummies and other Dummies titles and runs RavingCapitalist.com.
