EMPOWERING INVESTORS: A Guide to Portfolio Management, Market Outperformance, and the Discipline of Long-Term Investing

Most books about investing teach you what to think. This one is designed to teach you how to decide. The distinction matters more than it might appear. Financial markets generate an extraordinary volume of information: earnings releases, analyst upgrades, central bank signals, geopolitical events, social media commentary. A well-informed investor who has read widely about markets can describe, accurately, what a discounted cash flow model is, why diversification reduces unsystematic risk, and how the Efficient Market Hypothesis was developed and challenged. She can pass an examination on these topics. What she often cannot do is sit down on a given Tuesday, look at her portfolio, and make a calm, evidence-based decision about what to do next. Each chapter is accompanied by a video lecture on SADIF's YouTube channel: https: // This book is required reading to obtain a SADIF Investor Certification..