Christopher J. Versace | Lenore Elle Hawkins • Cocktail Investing

Christopher J. Versace | Lenore Elle Hawkins • Cocktail Investing

Distilling Everyday Noise into Clear Investment Signals for Better Returns
INVESTING CAN BE INTOXICATING IF DONE RIGHT.
Insiders know that the investing world looks nothing like what it did just a few decades ago, yet many investors, including professionals, are still using the same strategies. On top of that, the individual investor planning for his or her family's financial security is up against tremendous challenges. An overabundance of information and misinformation, all-too-frequent sensationalized headlines, and markets that can change direction simply based on the comments of a politician or bureaucrat merely drunk on power, can make all investment decisions even harder. Cocktail Investing shows you how to make top shelf investments by finding the intersection of changing economics, demographics, psychographics, technology, and public policy to create investible opportunities, such as:

• Tectonic shifts in populations, income levels, and age distributions across the globe that are fermenting new opportunities
• A looming retirement crisis due to increasing life expectancy and an aging population where too many have saved too little
• A rapidly growing middle class in emerging markets and a shrinking middle class in developing economies
• The rising standards of living across the globe, leading to unprecedented demand for already limited and in some cases scarce resources
• Rapidly evolving technologies affecting everything about how, where, and when we work, play, and interact with each other
• Cyber attacks, hacks, and identity theft spurred on by the increasingly digital and connected lifestyle
• Physical currencies that are increasingly being replaced by digital and mobile payments, and even cryptocurrencies, threatening the privacy of cash, and introducing enormous new opportunities for theft
• Large companies in industries that barely existed more than a decade ago that are in the process of disrupting the way we do almost everything in our day-to-day lives

‎ Wiley, Hardback, english, 368 pages