The Little Book of Alternative Investments: Reaping Rewards by Daring to be Different

Praise For THE LITTLE BOOK OF ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS

"Ben and Phil have done it again. Another lucid, insightful book, designed to enhance your wealth! In today's stock-addled cult of equities, there is a gaping hole in most investors' portfolios...the whole panoply of alternative investments that can simultaneously help us cut our risk, better hedge our inflation risk, and boost our return. This Little Book is filled with big ideas on how to make these markets and strategies a treasured part of our investing toolkit."
―Robert Arnott, Chairman, Research Affiliates

"I have been reading Ben Stein for thirty-five years and Phil DeMuth since he joined up with Ben ten years ago. They do solid work, and this latest is no exception."
―Jim Rogers, author of A Gift to My Children

"If anyone can make hedge funds sexy, Stein and DeMuth can, and they've done it with style in this engaging, instructive, and tasteful how-to guide for investing in alternatives. But you should read this Kama Sutra of investment manuals not just for the thrills, but also to learn how to avoid the hazards of promiscuous and unprotected investing."
―Andrew Lo, Professor and Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering

Ben Stein is a respected economist who is known to many as a movie and television personality, but has worked more in personal and corporate finance than anywhere else. He has written about finance for Barron's, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and Fortune; was one of the chief busters of the junk-bond frauds of the 1980s; has been a longtime critic of corporate executives' self-dealing; and has cowritten eight finance books. Stein travels the country speaking about finance in both serious and humorous ways, and is a regular contributor to CBS's Sunday Morning, CNN, and Fox News. He was the winner of the 2009 Malcolm Forbes Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism.

Phil DeMuth, Ph.D. is Managing Director of Conservative Wealth Management LLC, a SEC registered investment advisor to high-net-worth individuals. He has cowritten eight books with Ben Stein as well as writing for the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, the Journal of Financial Planning, Human Behavior and Psychology Today. He has been interviewed by or quoted in Fortune, the New York Times, the Financial Times, Research, Yahoo!Finance, the Motley Fool Retirement Newsletter, and Playboy.  Television appearances include Kudlow & Company, Glenn Beck, Squawk Box, Forbes on Fox, and Wall Street Week.