Foreword viiPreface xiAcknowledgments xxiPart I Get Wise 1Introduction 3Chapter 1: The Unvarnished Truth About Your Money 9Chapter 2: The First Step on the Road to Financial Freedom 15Chapter 3: Change Your Mindset, Change Your Life 25Chapter 4: Why Some Investors Succeed . . . But Most Don't 33Chapter 5: Why Manage Your Own Money? 47Chapter 6: Know What You Don't Know 57Part II Get Wealthy 65Chapter 7: Common Stocks: The Greatest Wealth Creators of All Time 67Chapter 8: Don't Buy What Wall Street Is Selling 81Chapter 9: Your Single Most Important Investment Decision 93Chapter 10: The Gone Fishin' Portfolio Unveiled 111Chapter 11: The ETF Alternative 141Chapter 12: Why the Gone Fishin' Portfolio Is Your Best Investment Plan 151Chapter 13: How to Legally Stiff-Arm the IRS 161Part III Get On with Your Life 169Chapter 14: The Last Two Essentials 171Chapter 15: Your Most Precious Resource 179Afterword 193Appendix A: Vanguard Funds 199Appendix B: ETFs 241About the Author 257Index 259
ALEXANDER GREEN is the Chief Investment Strategist of The Oxford Club, with more than 35 years' experience as an investment analyst, portfolio manager and financial writer. He writes a highly acclaimed financial newsletter, The Oxford Communiqué, along with three VIP trading services: The Insider Alert, The Momentum Alert and Oxford Microcap Trader. Alex is the bestselling author of three other financial books: The Secret of Shelter Island: Money and What Matters, Beyond Wealth: The Road Map to a Rich Life and An Embarrassment of Riches: Tapping Into the World's Greatest Legacy of Wealth.