The Future for Investors: Why the Tried and the True Triumph Over the Bold and the New

The new paradigm for investing and building wealth in the twentyfirst century. The Future for Investors reveals new strategies that take advantage of the dramatic changes and opportunities that will appear in world markets.Jeremy Siegel, one of the worlds top investing experts, has taken a long, hard, and indepth look at the market and the stocks that investors should acquire to build longterm wealth. His surprising finding is that the new technologies, expanding industries, and fastgrowing countries that stockholders relentlessly seek in the market often lead to poor returns. In fact, growth itself can be an investment trap, luring investors into overpriced stocks and overly competitive industries.The Future for Investors shatters conventional wisdom and provides a framework for picking stocks that will be longterm winners. While technological innovation spurs economic growth, it has not been kind to investors. Instead, companies that have marketed triedandtrue products for decades in slowgrowth or even declining industries have superior returns to firms that develop the bold and the new. Industry sectors many regard as dinosaursrailroads and oil companies, for examplehave actually beat the market.Professor Siegel presents these strategies within the context of the coming shift in global economic power and the demographic age wave that will sweep the United States, Europe, and Japan. Contrary to the popular belief that these economic and demographic trends doom investors to poor returns, Professor Siegel explains the True New Economy and how to take advantage of the coming surge in invention, discovery, and economic growth.The faster the world changes, the more important it is for investors to heed the lessons of the past and find the triedandtrue companies that can help you beat the market and prosper in the years ahead.