Overview
- The book is built around interviews with successful investors from all across the world. Names are changed to protect the innocent!
- Provides hands on guidance as to how seasoned investors plan and prepare their investments and provides a framework on how investors can plan their investments
- The book will feature real world case studies and excerpts from interviews of highly successful investors
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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From Broken Investment Models to Sustainable Strategic Investing
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How to Be a Successful Strategic Investor
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Back Matter
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About this book
The investment industry is in a state of inertia. Recent events highlight an overreliance on mathematical foundations and flawed investment models. Investors need to find new paths to effective wealth creation.
The Empowered Investor provides a proven framework for wealth creation. Built around 7 key principles and practical real-world examples, the book provides insight into the limitations of traditional investment concepts, and illustrates how investors can take control of their investments. Instead of relying on often flawed financial advice, investors need to develop their own investment approach, drawing on their unique skill sets and experiences.
This book:
-Presents a practical strategy for wealth creation, based on practical experience and sound theoretical foundation;
-Provides real world cases and excerpts from interviews with highly successful investors;
-Demonstrates how investors can build on their core strengths, exploit opportunities and differentiate their investments;
-Illustrates how to protect a portfolio from threats and risks
This book will help you:
-Build on your core strengths;
-Identify and make the most of new opportunities;
-Cultivate quality networks;
-Differentiate your investments;
-Protect yourself against threats and risks;
-Understand and manage the time dimension;
-Execute with efficiency.
Written in a practical and straightforward manner, The Empowered Investor provides a robust strategic toolkit for investors, bringing the individual to the core of the investment strategy and creating new opportunities for wealth creation.
Reviews
A really revolutionary book that must be read by all investors open to a fundamental redesign of their investment strategy."
- Thorsten Hens, Chairman Department of Banking and Finance, Professor of Financial Economics, University of Zurich
"After having lost trust in the financial industry the empowered investor mandates us to regain control of our investments.
A really revolutionary book that must be read by all investors open to a fundamental redesign of their investment strategy."
- Thorsten Hens, Chairman Department of Banking and Finance, Professor of Financial Economics, University of Zurich
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Heinrich Liechtenstein is the founder of a network of leading Angel investors in Germany, serves on the investment committee of a Family Office, and is advisory board member of a Private Equity firm. Dr. Liechtenstein is Professor of Finance in IESE Business School and specializes in entrepreneurial finance and management of wealth.
Fariba Hashemi is an Economist with extensive experience in investment strategy and decision making. She has designed, and instructed in Executive Education, Masters and Doctoral programs at International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, and Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Dr. Hashemi holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California in Los Angeles. She currently serves on the editorial boards of two academic journals in Economics and Finance, and is an advisor to a Family Office on wealth planning and management.
Brian Hashemi is a Managing Partner at Salus Partners leading the healthcare investment practice of the firm. In this capacity he has successfully applied the strategic principles presented in this book for investments in proven medical innovations. Prior to establishing Salus Partners Dr. Hashemi was a Partner at a multi-family office leading the Direct Investment team. He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Cornell University in New York, and an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Investment Management from The Wharton School in Philadelphia. For 13 years Dr. Hashemi was responsible for the development of advanced technologies in the biomedical division of NASA, a number of which were flown in the Space Shuttle program on STS-81 and STS-84.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Empowered Investor
Book Subtitle: 7 Principles for Strategic Wealth Creation in a New Financial World
Authors: Cuno Puempin, Heinrich Liechtenstein, Fariba Hashemi, Brian Hashemi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137366870
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-36686-3Published: 13 June 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-47431-8Published: 01 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-36687-0Published: 11 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 157
Topics: Investments and Securities, Business Finance, Accounting/Auditing, Risk Management