The Uncertainty Solution

How to Invest with Confidence in the Face of the Unknown

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Pub Date 02 May 2023 | Archive Date 02 Jun 2023
Greenleaf Book Group | Greenleaf Book Group Press

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A better approach to investing

​This is not a typical investment book. It is an experiential guide on cultivating the mindset and behavior necessary to weather inherently uncertain and unpredictable markets. It doesn’t just tell you how to invest but how to think better about investing. Referencing studies on psychology, decision making, and investment behavior, Jennings provides a no-nonsense analysis of the financial markets and a road map to navigating its inevitable twists and turns.

Jennings uses mental models to create a latticework of wisdom that will help you evaluate investment advice and learn better behavior in the face of uncertainty. To name a few: ignore expert predictions, be wary of stories, and try to invest like a dead person.

An engaging dive into investing psychology and best practices, The Uncertainty Solution is an authoritative, accessible guide for both lay investors and professionals inundated with financial news and data. Read this book to improve your thinking about investing, practice better investment behavior, and ultimately, have more money.
A better approach to investing

​This is not a typical investment book. It is an experiential guide on cultivating the mindset and behavior necessary to weather inherently uncertain and unpredictable...

Advance Praise

“The Uncertainty Solution is a must-have addition to anyone’s reading list who is interested in developing habits that will make them a more successful lifelong investor.”

—Charles R. (“Chuck”) Schwab, Co-Chairman and Founder of the Charles Schwab Corporation

“Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, whether in investing or in life. In this clear, logical, and well-researched book, Jennings eschews jargon, weaving engaging stories to imprint mental models that facilitate good decision making not only in the investment realm but in the world beyond. The Uncertainty Solution makes the complex understandable and somehow does so while having fun along the way.”

—Kim Walker, retired Chief Investment Officer of the Washington University Investment Management Company

“Jennings is a premier thought leader in the wealth management industry. Weaving together stories and research in The Uncertainty Solution, he provides investors with mental models to make better decisions and practice better investment behavior. If you’d like to have more money in the future, I highly recommend this engaging and accessible book about how to think better about investing.”

—James S. Turley, retired Chair and CEO of Ernst & Young

“In The Uncertainty Solution, Jennings provides exactly what you need to know about investing, even though it’s really about how the mind works. Through his clever storytelling and examples, he delivers terrific insights into what can be a complicated topic but in a very accessible and entertaining way. If you want to learn how investing really works and cut through all the hype, start with this brilliant book.”

—Patrick Geddes, Co-Founder of Aperio Group and author of Transparent Investing

“Jennings shows why successful investing requires accepting that the investment world is full of uncertainty and randomness and that the future is unpredictable. However, he also shows that investors aren't powerless in the face of uncertainty. In fact the key to success is to shut out the noise of the markets and the media, ignore the forecasts of market gurus, avoid making decisions based on fear or greed, and avoid the mistakes of loss aversion, overconfidence, and hindsight bias. Success requires embracing uncertainty and preparing for it through the development of an investment plan that is well diversified and lays out simple algorithmic rules of engagement, such was when to rebalance.”

—Larry Swedroe, Chief Research Officer of Buckingham Wealth Partners and the co-author of Your Essential Guide to Sustainable Investing

“The habits that serve us well in most of life serve us badly in investment management. In most things, for example, the past is a perfectly useful guide to the future—but not when it comes to investing money, where uncertainty and luck play a far larger role than most people realize. The Uncertainty Solution identifies the worst of our bad behaviors and helps us navigate the randomness of the stock market. Any investor would benefit from John M. Jennings’ insights and advice.”

—Craig Lazzara, Managing Director of S&P Dow Jones Indices

“The Uncertainty Solution is a must-have addition to anyone’s reading list who is interested in developing habits that will make them a more successful lifelong investor.”

—Charles R. (“Chuck”)...


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Uncertainty in investing

It starts out very differently from many investment books (and I have read quite a few).

Before I get too far, I should mention that the book is The Uncertainty Solution:How to Invest with Confidence in the Face of the Unknown by John M. Jennings. And I thank Netgalley (“https://www.netgalley.com/) for allowing me to read it before publication. The book comes out on May 2.

The author starts us off in Chapter 1 with some psychology experiments and statistics and then gets into what they mean for our decisions in general and decisions related to finance and investing. The rest of the book is a combination of giving more details and discussing related points.

So this is not a book that tells you how to invest. It gets at larger truths and questions you should consider in any kind of decision making, including evaluating investments. With investing there are many unknowns and many things we cannot control. What should be consider in addressing these issues?

Along the way the author discussed many types of investments and their usefulness in various situations. I highly recommend this book as both a good guide to decision making and investing. My belief about investing is that it is a very good thing to read widely on investing and financial history. This book is a valuable part of that.

Whether you are an experienced investor or closer to the beginnings of your saving investing life, I think this book would be of great value.

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This is quite good. Lots of good data and advice here. There are no shortage of investment books, and this one may be worth a look.

I really appreciate the free copy for review!!

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