Praise For THE LITTLE BOOK OF ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS "Ben and Phil have done it again. Another lucid, insightful book, designed to enhance your wealth! In today's stock-addled cult of equities, there is a gaping hole in most investors' portfolios...the whole panoply of alternative investments that can simultaneously help us cut our risk, better hedge our inflation risk, and boost our return. This Little Book is filled with big ideas on how to make these markets and strategies a treasured part of our investing toolkit."
―Robert Arnott, Chairman, Research Affiliates
"I have been reading Ben Stein for thirty-five years and Phil DeMuth since he joined up with Ben ten years ago. They do solid work, and this latest is no exception."
―Jim Rogers, author of A Gift to My Children
"If anyone can make hedge funds sexy, Stein and DeMuth can, and they've done it with style in this engaging, instructive, and tasteful how-to guide for investing in alternatives. But you should read this Kama Sutra of investment manuals not just for the thrills, but also to learn how to avoid the hazards of promiscuous and unprotected investing."
―Andrew Lo, Professor and Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering
Ben Stein is a respected economist who is known to many as a movie and television personality, but has worked more in personal and corporate finance than anywhere else. He has written about finance for
Barron's, the
Wall Street Journal, the
New York Times, and
Fortune; was one of the chief busters of the junk-bond frauds of the 1980s; has been a longtime critic of corporate executives' self-dealing; and has cowritten eight finance books. Stein travels the country speaking about finance in both serious and humorous ways, and is a regular contributor to CBS's Sunday Morning, CNN, and Fox News. He was the winner of the 2009 Malcolm Forbes Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism.
Phil Demuth is Managing Director of Conservative Wealth Management LLC, a registered investment advisor to high-net-worth individuals, institutions, and foundations. He has cowritten seven books with Ben Stein and has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Louis Rukeyser's Mutual Funds newsletter, and the Journal of Financial Planning. His television appearances include Ludlow & Company, Glenn Beck, Squawk Box, Forbes on Fox, and Wall Street Week.
Ben Stein is a respected economist who is known to many as a movie and television personality, but has worked more in personal and corporate finance than anywhere else. He has written about finance for
Barron's, the
Wall Street Journal, the
New York Times, and
Fortune; was one of the chief busters of the junk-bond frauds of the 1980s; has been a longtime critic of corporate executives' self-dealing; and has cowritten eight finance books. Stein travels the country speaking about finance in both serious and humorous ways, and is a regular contributor to CBS's Sunday Morning, CNN, and Fox News. He was the winner of the 2009 Malcolm Forbes Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism.
Phil Demuth is Managing Director of Conserv-ative Wealth Management LLC, a registered investment advisor to high-net-worth individuals, institutions, and foundations. He has cowritten seven books with Ben Stein and has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Louis Rukeyser's Mutual Funds newsletter, and the Journal of Financial Planning. His television appearances include Ludlow & Company, Glenn Beck, Squawk Box, Forbes on Fox, and Wall Street Week.
Ben Stein is a respected economist who is known to many as amovie and television personality, but has worked more in personaland corporate finance than anywhere else. He has written aboutfinance for
Barron's, the
Wall Street Journal, the
New York Times, and
Fortune; was one of the chiefbusters of the junk-bond frauds of the 1980s; has been a longtimecritic of corporate executives' self-dealing; and has cowritteneight finance books. Stein travels the country speaking aboutfinance in both serious and humorous ways, and is a regularcontributor to CBS's Sunday Morning, CNN, and Fox News. He was thewinner of the 2009 Malcolm Forbes Award for Excellence in FinancialJournalism.
Phil Demuth is Managing Director of Conserv-ative WealthManagement LLC, a registered investment advisor to high-net-worthindividuals, institutions, and foundations. He has cowritten sevenbooks with Ben Stein and has also written for the Wall StreetJournal, Barron's, Louis Rukeyser's Mutual Fundsnewsletter, and the Journal of Financial Planning. Histelevision appearances include Ludlow & Company, Glenn Beck,Squawk Box, Forbes on Fox, and Wall Street Week.
