The EitherOr Investor, Clark Winter
The EitherOr Investor, Clark Winter
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The Either/Or Investor
How to Succeed in Global Investing, One Decision at a Time

Author: Clark Winter

Narrator: Stephen Hoye

Unabridged: 6 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/06/2008


Synopsis

People today are inundated with advice, opinions, and information about how to invest. The more data you accumulate, the thinking goes, the better decisions you'll make. In The Either/Or Investor, global investment strategist Clark Winter shows that the opposite is the case, introducing a revelatory way of thinking about the markets based on finding and assessing just enough of the right information and using your common sense.

According to Winter, investing comes down to making choices. All great investors employ an "either/or" filter for evaluating and simplifying the many investment opportunities available to them. The Either/Or Investor reveals how you can emulate this thought process while remaining realistic about your own goals and needs, and gives you the tools to choose among the options that modern investors face, such as:

—Fear versus greed: In an anxious post-9/11 world, discover when it's smart to make an aggressive financial move.

—Developed world versus developing world: Find out if you should stick with opportunities in the United States or risk those available in the emerging economies of China, Russia, India, Mexico, and Turkey.

—Anti-immigration versus migration of talent: Learn to evaluate the products that immigrants introduce to the rest of the world in order to assess the value in investing in American companies that cater to new immigrant groups.

—Too much information versus too little information: Use the Internet, newspapers, and TV to your advantage. (For example, get the pros and cons about China's growing economic power so you can become informed enough to act.)

—Rising interest rates versus falling interest rates: Understand how changing interest rates are a good barometer for how to spend your money.

Winter shows how anyone can learn to make sound decisions in a changing world by discerning trends early in an investment cycle, and then taking advantage of these trends or steering clear. Winter also explains how to choose a money manager and how to determine what the next investment opportunities might be.

Armed with Winter's methods, any investor can improve his or her own investment prowess. The Either/Or Investor is a way—both judicious and daring—for choosing a better future.

About Clark Winter

Clark Winter is the chief global investment strategist for Citigroup Global Wealth Management. His is the voice behind Citigroup's monthly global investment publication The View. He regularly appears on CNBC and is frequently quoted in the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and on Bloomberg. Winter has also been CEO of Global Asset Management at Morgan Guaranty Trust/JPMorgan, and he is the founder and a former president of Winter Capital International, an independent advisory firm that is now a subsidiary of the Citigroup Private Bank. Winter is also chairman of the board of the Mexican Cultural Institute in New York and a chairman emeritus of the Spanish Institute. In addition, he is a member of the International Council of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.


Reviews

4/10 Black and white doesn't typically fair well in a world of gray. The premise of this book is developing a binary system of evaluation to avoid potential stock pitfalls during examination of different companies. Winter focuses more on protecting wealth then gaining it, as seen in his first rule: "......more

Goodreads review by Jay

The first half is a basic macro-economic review of markets. The second half describes a number of binary decision points to evaluate stocks. The author makes a point of not actually offering any stock tips, but in the beginning of the book he does talk up GM and trash Ford. Good idea not to give any......more

Goodreads review by Emil

Audio book was dry, and perhaps was exacerbated by the droopy voice of the reader. Still, didn't feel the book contained any "Aha!" moments. Considering that it's a 2008 book in 2013 made me doubt some of the advice. Finance is a crapshoot at the lower levels. He answered the question of why a great......more

Goodreads review by Maureen

A book on how to think about investing. "Keep an open mind (don’t have to like a country’s politics or a company’s business to earn a good return). Don’t invest in illegal but consider all opportunities neutrally and equally with a mixture of knowledge, skepticism and healthy worldview." "Immigration......more