The Empowered Investor: 7 Principles for Strategic Wealth Creation in a New Financial World

Take control of your investment decisions

The investment industry is in a state of inertia. Recent events highlight an overreliance on mathematical foundations and flawed investment models. Investors need to find new paths to effective wealth creation.

The Empowered Investor provides a proven framework for wealth creation. Built around 7 key principles and practical real-world examples, the book provides insight into the limitations of traditional investment concepts, and illustrates how investors can take control of their investments. Instead of relying on often flawed financial advice, investors need to develop their own investment approach, drawing on their unique skill sets and experiences.

This book:

-Presents a practical strategy for wealth creation, based on practical experience and sound theoretical foundation;
-Provides real world cases and excerpts from interviews with highly successful investors;
-Demonstrates how investors can build on their core strengths, exploit opportunities and differentiate their investments;
-Illustrates how to protect a portfolio from threats and risks


This book will help you:

-Build on your core strengths;
-Identify and make the most of new opportunities;
-Cultivate quality networks;
-Differentiate your investments;
-Protect yourself against threats and risks;
-Understand and manage the time dimension;
-Execute with efficiency.

Written in a practical and straightforward manner, The Empowered Investor provides a robust strategic toolkit for investors, bringing the individual to the core of the investment strategy and creating new opportunities for wealth creation.

Cuno Puempin is a Swiss entrepreneur, economist and private investor. He has served on many boards of directors and was a member of the international advisory board of the Blackstone Group in New York. In the past 20 years Dr. Puempin has successfully applied the seven principles of wealth creation presented in this book to his own private investments. He is a Professor Emeritus of Management and Strategy, and was Chairman of the Institute of Management at the St. Gallen University in Switzerland. Dr. Puempin is a regular speaker at leading global venues such as the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Heinrich Liechtenstein is the founder of a network of leading Angel investors in Germany, serves on the investment committee of a Family Office, and is advisory board member of a Private Equity firm. Dr. Liechtenstein is Professor of Finance in IESE Business School and specializes in entrepreneurial finance and management of wealth.

Fariba Hashemi is an Economist with extensive experience in investment strategy and decision making. She has designed, and instructed in Executive Education, Masters and Doctoral programs at International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, and Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Dr. Hashemi holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California in Los Angeles. She currently serves on the editorial boards of two academic journals in Economics and Finance, and is an advisor to a Family Office on wealth planning and management.

Brian Hashemi is a Managing Partner at Salus Partners leading the healthcare investment practice of the firm. In this capacity he has successfully applied the strategic principles presented in this book for investments in proven medical innovations. Prior to establishing Salus Partners Dr. Hashemi was a Partner at a multi-family office leading the Direct Investment team. He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Cornell University in New York, and an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Investment Management from The Wharton School in Philadelphia. For 13 years Dr. Hashemi was responsible for the development of advanced technologies in the biomedical division of NASA, a number of which were flown in the Space Shuttle program on STS-81 and STS-84.