Investing in Uncertain Times: Building Your Best Portfolio for Risk and Reward

by John F. Merrill, Brian J. Merrill

Investors may be excused if they would like to press a "do over" button with regard to the markets since the turn of the new millennium in 2000. The markets have been a roller coaster ride to nowhere. Huge advances followed by devastating declines that left the major US stock indexes no higher at the end of 2011 than they were at the end of 1999. Investors frustration has been reinforced by an equally uncertain economic and political environment: unemployment, China, Europe, financial crisis, deleveraging, debt & deficits, political gridlock and zero interest on savings. So what should investors do in such a period of poor markets and difficult backdrop? Investing in Uncertain Times provides the answer. Author John Merrill and son Brian Merrill are influential investment advisers who have personally shown countless investors how to grow their wealth safely-even in the uncertain times since 2000. This no-nonsense, easy-to-read book is packed with information that will lead you to your ideal asset allocation-one that you could have been comfortable with even in this turbulent new millennium. It goes on to demonstrate why the rewards of investing are still there!

255 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2012