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Systematically secure your financial future--Dummies makes it easy
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.
List of contents
Introduction 1
Part 1: Starting with Factor Investing Basics 5
Chapter 1: Counting on Factor Investing 7
Chapter 2: Why Use Factors? 15
Chapter 3: Knowing Which Factors Are Worth Your Time 25
Chapter 4: Beating the Market without Timing It 33
Part 2: Going Deep with Factor Strategies 41
Chapter 5: Making Room for the Growth Factor 43
Chapter 6: Value Investing with Factors 51
Chapter 7: Banking on Momentum with Winners and Losers 59
Chapter 8: Sizing Up a Stock's Size 71
Chapter 9: Dividend Income Using Factors 79
Part 3: Using Factor Investing in Your Portfolio 89
Chapter 10: Using Brokerage Orders with Factor Investing 91
Chapter 11: Using Macro Factors 101
Chapter 12: Combining Multiple Factors for a Powerhouse Portfolio 113
Chapter 13: Going Global with Factor Investing 121
Chapter 14: Performing Technical Analysis for Factor Investing 129
Chapter 15: Using Stock-Screening Tools in Your Factor Investing 139
Part 4: Applying More Complex Investment Tactics 149
Chapter 16: Outsourcing with ETFs and Mutual Funds 151
Chapter 17: Bonds and Factor Investing 161
Chapter 18: Using Options with Factor Investing 173
Chapter 19: Watching the Factors that Lead to Major Market Moves 183
Chapter 20: Considering Taxes 191
Part 5: The Part of Tens 207
Chapter 21: Ten Do-It-Yourself Factors 209
Chapter 22: Ten Ways to Mess Up Your Investment Plan 215
Chapter 23: Ten Non-Factor Strategies and Considerations 223
Chapter 24: Ten Financial Problems You Can Navigate with Factor Investing 229
Part 6: Appendixes 239
Appendix A: Resources for Factor Investors 241
Appendix B: Factor-Based ETFs 253
Index 269
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.
Summary
Systematically secure your financial future--Dummies makes it easy
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.
