Interviewing a Professor of Finance: Equity Investments for Non-Professionals: Vol. 2 of the Interviewing a Professor of Finance Series

This is the second volume of the Interviewing a Professor of Finance book series. This book presents unbiased, scientific, and comprehensive opinions from numerous finance professionals in academia and industry. It is not a "how to become rich from my experience" guide to wealth, but an objective review on reliable, replicable, and realistic investment methods for people who do not have any finance background. Built on the foundation of volume one, this book discusses the economic analysis, industrial analysis, financial reports and how to make use the Yahoo! Finance resources to analyze a stock. This volume also includes chart reading and signaling analysis, portfolio management, and investor psychology. It also provides a detailed analysis of multiple diversification instruments that are commonly used: international equity, bond, private equity, real estate, and so on.