How Not to Invest
The ideas, numbers, and behaviors that destroy wealth-and how to avoid them
Published on 18. March 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
496 pages
978-1-80409-134-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book was designed to reduce mistakes.
Your mistakes with money.
Tiny errors, epic fails and everything in between.
You can do thousands of things right, but make just a few of the errors we discuss, and you destroy much of your portfolio.
If you could learn how to avoid the unforced errors investors make all the time, you would make your life so much richer and less stressful.
The counterintuitive truth is avoiding errors is much more important than scoring wins.
How Not To Invest shows you a few simple tools and models that will help you avoid the most common mistakes people make with their money. Learn these, and you are ahead of 98% of your peers.
Make fewer errors, end up with more money.
We all make mistakes. The goal with this book is to help you make fewer of them, and to have the mistakes you do make be less expensive.
Your mistakes with money.
Tiny errors, epic fails and everything in between.
You can do thousands of things right, but make just a few of the errors we discuss, and you destroy much of your portfolio.
If you could learn how to avoid the unforced errors investors make all the time, you would make your life so much richer and less stressful.
The counterintuitive truth is avoiding errors is much more important than scoring wins.
How Not To Invest shows you a few simple tools and models that will help you avoid the most common mistakes people make with their money. Learn these, and you are ahead of 98% of your peers.
Make fewer errors, end up with more money.
We all make mistakes. The goal with this book is to help you make fewer of them, and to have the mistakes you do make be less expensive.
Reviews / Votes
I loved this book! Sure, How Not to Invest is filled with solid market advice that will make you a smarter (aka less dumb) investor, but the real kicker is that it's a blast to read. * Jack Schwager, Author, Market Wizards series * An invaluable field guide to the varieties of BS investing advice coming from Wall Street and the media, and a practical intro to investment strategies proven to work. * Scott Galloway, Professor, NYU Stern, and Co-Host, Pivot and Prof G Markets Podcasts * For more than 20 years, the first thing I read every morning is Barry Ritholtz's blog. With the publication of his new book, I now have a complete reference of his accumulated investment wisdom at my fingertips. Every investor should read this book! * F. William McNabb, Retired Chairman and CEO, Vanguard * Barry Ritholtz's How Not to Invest is a well-written, invaluable guide to what to do-and not do-in investing. * Ray Dalio, Founder, Bridgewater Associates * Barry is the Doctor of Financial Wrongology: He diagnoses why people are so often wrong about how to keep and grow assets, and he provides working, data-driven treatments. I wish real doctors were half as useful. * Paul Kedrosky, Investor *More details
Edition
Main Market Ed
Language
English
Place of publication
Petersfield
United Kingdom
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 152 mm
Width: 228 mm
Thickness: 40 mm
Weight
592 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80409-134-0 (9781804091340)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
BARRY L. RITHOLTZ is the co-founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management LLC. Launched in 2013, RWM is one of the country's fastest-growing financial planning and asset management firms. Named ETF Investor of the Year and one of the Financial Times' top 300 firms, RWM manages over $7 billion for 3,900 families.
Called the "blogfather" for creating The Big Picture, one of the first market weblogs, the site covers everything related to investing. Since its launch in 2003, its mix of behavioral finance and data analysis has attracted 275 million visitors.
Barry is also the creator and host of "Masters in Business," the longest-running and most popular podcast on Bloomberg Radio. His book Bailout Nation was named one of the Best Business Books of the Year, selected as the Investment Book of the Year, and awarded a First Amendment Award for Outstanding Journalism.He is also the author of bestselling book How Not To Invest, which explores the common mistakes made by professional and amateur investors in the stock market.
He lives on the north shore of Long Island with his wife, Wendy, and their spoiled dogs, Teddy and Kodi.
Called the "blogfather" for creating The Big Picture, one of the first market weblogs, the site covers everything related to investing. Since its launch in 2003, its mix of behavioral finance and data analysis has attracted 275 million visitors.
Barry is also the creator and host of "Masters in Business," the longest-running and most popular podcast on Bloomberg Radio. His book Bailout Nation was named one of the Best Business Books of the Year, selected as the Investment Book of the Year, and awarded a First Amendment Award for Outstanding Journalism.He is also the author of bestselling book How Not To Invest, which explores the common mistakes made by professional and amateur investors in the stock market.
He lives on the north shore of Long Island with his wife, Wendy, and their spoiled dogs, Teddy and Kodi.