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Building upon the expertise and strategies outlined in The Warren Buffett Way, author Robert G. Hagstrom reveals how to profitably manage stocks once you select them. In The Warren Buffett Portfolio, Hagstrom introduces the next wave of investment strategy, called focus investing, a comprehensive investment strategy used with spectacular results by Buffett.

Building a concentrated portfolio is critical for investment success. The Warren Buffett Portfolio introduces the next wave of investment strategy, called focus investing. A comprehensive investment strategy used with spectacular results by Buffett, focus investing directs investors to select a concentrated group of businesses by examining their management and financial positions as compared to their stock prices.

There never was a more important time to know how to make your money grow. But while most of us worry about how to get it, save it and invest it for the proverbial "rainy days," the thought of "money management" - beyond balancing a checkbook - can be intimidating. It needn't be. No one is born knowing how to handle money - even the most sophisticated financial planner had to start somewhere.

In December 2008, amidst a world gripped by financial crisis, Bernard Madoff, a respected fund manager, and former chairman of NASDAQ, was arrested by the FBI for reportedly bilking thousands of trusting investors out of $50 billion. In the first comprehensive account of this financial mastermind's epic Ponzi scheme, Catastrophe exposes the real story behind Madoff's upstanding façade-his family's involvement, and his unlikely rise and incredible crash.

Learn how to: create and analyze personal financial statements; develop a sound spending plan; protect income and assets; select the right investment opportunities; and develop practical retirement and estate planning strategies. Now you can brush up on the latest ideas and get the tools you need to set and meet your financial goals.

Economists and financial wizards William Sterling and Stephen Waite take an in-depth look at how America's baby boomers have transformed the nation's - and the world's - economy, and how that transformation must inevitably - and radically - alter its course as the boomers age. The authors show listeners that there are strategies they can use, both as private individuals and collectively as a nation, to stay ahead of the all-important demographics curve and prosper during the "age wave".