Secrets of the Wealth Makers: Top Money Managers Reveal Their Investing Wisdom

Packed with insights and opinions from top money managers around the world,Secrets of the Wealth Makers presents a complete blueprint for planning,protecting,and accumulating wealth. Authors Michael Lane and Larry Chambers,after conducting detailed and probing interviews with the world's financial and investment gurus,have distilled their insights into a proven,no-nonsense wealth building strategy suitable for any investor.

A pipeline of uniquely valuable information,this hard-hitting guidebook delivers specific investing strategies for building and holding on to wealth,including:

• How to get excellent returns while minimizing risk in volatile overseas stocks.
• The best Internet resources for researching and trading investments.
• Money-conserving estate and tax planning techniques.

These top financial planners have helped thousands achieve financial security­­now let them show you how to do it yourself!

Most beat-the-market investment books are written by trading gurus who work in the shadows,answering to nobody but him or herself. Secrets of the Wealth Makers turns the tables,asking today's top financial planners in no-nonsense,probing interviews­­details on how they have built wealth for demanding clients,then helped them protect that wealth for the long run.

Filled with interviews from a diverse cross-section of money management experts­­from Lynn Hopewell and John Bowen Jr. to Harold Evensky and Len Reinhart­­Secrets of the Wealth Makers provides concise,useful insights and techniques including:

• Fundamentals of financial planning
• Understanding investmentrisk and investor risk
• Tactical versus strategic asset allocation
• Qualified plans
• Tax-managed mutual funds and other securities
• Annuities
• Municipal bond funds versus individual securities
• Spiders,diamonds,and other index securities
• Life insurance trusts
• Shielding assets from creditors
• Charitable remainder trusts and other estate planning tools and techniques

Designed to help individual investors plan for,accumulate,and protect wealth,but equally valuable to investment advisors,attorneys,CPAs,and other financial professionals,Secrets of the Wealth Makers showcases the proven wealth-building tactics of the best and brightest financial advisors in the country. It will change the way you view investment advisors­­and produce dividends for the remainder of your investment life.