1. The Risk-Wise Investor shows you how to:
• Use a new definition of “risk” that makes managing risk(s) much easier
• Reduce the likelihood & impact of painful, negative surprises of all types
• Convert risks that do materialize from traumatic nightmares & disasters
into mere inconveniences, and even potential opportunities
• Quickly & easily determine which risks to avoid, which to accept and
manage, and which risk to accept outright
• Gain greater control over the risks you face, rather than have those risks control you
• Become a more confident, knowledgeable, “ready for anything” individual, business person & investor
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Praise for The Risk-Wise Investor::
“Most investors get wise to risk only after the damage has been done. Savvy investors know that risk management is the
whole game. Michael Carpenter’s superb new book, The Risk-Wise Investor, could save you much heartache, not to mention
many dollars.” Don Phillips,
Managing Director, Morningstar
“Risk awareness, risk management, and risk control are the sine qua non of successful asset allocation and investment
strategy. Michael Carpenter has done the global investment realm a HUGE service by bringing this essential discipline front
and center. We’ve needed a book like this for a long time!”
David M. Darst,
Chief Investment Strategist, Morgan Stanley Global Wealth Management
“Mike Carpenter’s The Risk-Wise Investor can help any financial advisor do the most critical part of his or her job better—
which is helping their clients not just understand, but master risk. My advice to advisors and investors: get hold of a copy.
It’s a no-risk way to improve your chances of investment success.”
Robert L. Reynolds,
President and CEO, Putnam Investments
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Michael T. Carpenter is a senior investment industry executive, consultant, thought leader, speaker, and author with over 40 years of
local, regional, and national experience helping investors, financial advisors, and investment firms manage risk, and successfully navigate
bull, bear, and uncertain markets. He’s conducted hundreds of presentations and workshops nationwide, including investment industry
programs at Harvard and Columbia universities. Mike’s articles have also appeared in national investment
industry publications, including The Journal of Financial Planning & InvestmentNews magazine.
Available globally, wherever books and e-books are sold
The Risk-Wise Investor– How To Better Understand & Manage Risk
A step-by-step guidebook that demystifies & simplifies risk and risk management. It
does so by introducing a powerful, user-friendly, nontechnical method for addressing
almost any type of risk, based on first understanding the true nature of risk(s).
The book opens by examining our own successful, ingrained, everyday, human “life-
risk” management process. Then it reveals how to apply that same reliable & well-
tested method to demystify, better manage, and even neutralize the diverse & evolving
risks of our increasingly interconnected, rapidly changing, less certain world.
“Michael Carpenter has done the global investment realm a HUGE service
by bringing this essential discipline front and center.
We’ve needed a book like this for a long time!”
David Darst - Chief Investment Strategist, Morgan Stanley Global Wealth Management