Table of Contents

The Verdict of History. Stock and Bond Returns Since 1802. Risk, Return and the Coming Age Wave. Perspectives on Stocks as Investments. Stock Returns. Stocks, Stock Averages, and the Dow Strategy. Dividends, Earnings, and Investor Sentiment. Large Stocks, Small Stocks, Value Stocks, Growth Stocks. The Nitty Fifty Revisited. Taxes and Stock Returns. Global Investing. Economic Environment of Investing. Money, Gold, and Central Banks. Inflation and Stocks. Stocks and the Business Cycle. World Events Which Impact Financial Markets. Stocks, Bonds and the Flow of Economic Data. Stock Fluctuations in the Short Run. Stock Index Futures, Options and Spiders. Market Volatility and the Stock Crash of October 1987. Technical Analysis and Investing With the Trend. Calendar Anomalies. Buidling Wealth Through Stocks. Funds, Managers, and "Beating the Market." Structuring a Portfolio for Long-Term Growth.

About the Author

Jeremy J. Siegel is a professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Siegel received his Ph.D. from M.I.T. and taught for four years at the University of Chicago before joining the Wharton faculty in 1976. He has written and lectured extensively about the economy and financial markets, monetary policy and interest rates, and stock and bond returns. Along with heading the macroeconomics module of the Morgan Bank Finance Program in New York, he is the academic director of the U.S. Securities Industry Institute and is on the Advisory Board of the Asian Securities Industry Association. Professor Siegel is courted by nearly every Wall Street firm as a consultant and lecturer and has appeared on CNBC, PBS, Wall Street Week, and NPR.