The Permanent Portfolio

Harry Browne's Long-Term Investment Strategy

By: Craig Rowland, J. M. Lawson

Narrated by: Mark Delgado

An up close look at an investment strategy that can handle today's uncertain financial environment.

Market uncertainty cannot be eliminated. So rather than attempt to do away with it, why not embrace it? That is what this book is designed to do. The Permanent Portfolio takes you through Harry Browne's Permanent Portfolio approach - which can weather a wide range of economic conditions from inflation and deflation to recession - and reveals how it can help investors protect and grow their money.

Written by Craig Rowland and Mike Lawson, this reliable resource demonstrates everything from a straightforward four-asset Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) version of the strategy all the way up to a sophisticated approach using Swiss bank storage of selected assets for geographic and political diversification. In all cases, the authors provide step-by-step guidance based upon personal experience. This timeless strategy is supported by more than three decades of empirical evidence.

The authors skillfully explain how to incorporate the ideas of the Permanent Portfolio into your financial endeavors in order to maintain, protect, and grow your money. Includes select updates of Harry Browne's Permanent Portfolio approach, which reflect our changing times

The Permanent Portfolio is an essential guide for investors who are serious about building a better portfolio.

©2012 Craig Rowland and J. M. Lawson (P)2012 Gildan Media

Missing accompanying pdf

This is a good book on diversifying your investment portfolio. However there are a lot of tables and graphs and this book could definitely benefit from an accompanying pdf.

Hidden Gem

This book is exceptionally comprehensive on how to structure your portfolio and explains the reasons why with historical examples. They also recommend specific funds with tickers, which is rare in other books. It also had a myriad of small, but very useful nuggets of wisdom that a younger investor may not take into account when investing with a false sense of safety. I will listen to it again and again as there is a lot of information. Probably the best investing book I’ve read that takes into account all possible economic environments, and how to profit from each. You won’t be disappointed.

good start to investing

the voice is a bit robotic to start, but you sincerely get used to it. I am new to investing and this book goes beyond just drinking the Kool-Aid of the permanent portfolio. you learn quite a lot about how to approach the market and what kind of forces are at play when investing. a more comprehensive View than other "Investing For Beginners" books.