The Concord Free Public Library continues its 2010 Thursday Author Series with financial advisor and investment analyst, Michael Carpenter. His new book, The Risk-Wise Investor: How to Better Understand and Manage Risk, which Carpenter will discuss on Thursday, February 11 at 7:30 pm, offers a user-friendly approach to evaluate risk in today's highly volatile financial markets.Carpenter introduces his "risk-wise" investment strategy first with an examination of everyday life risk. He then evaluates our common responses to these everyday risks and suggests ways to apply these basic principles to managing investment risks. His book seeks to prepare the average individual to make smart decisions in bull or bear markets and to minimize personal risk in the midst of extreme business cycles.
Carpenter has spent thirty-five years in the investment world. He has led industry programs at Harvard and Columbia Universities and worked as an investment advisor for PaineWebber. He led national distribution efforts including sales support, national advisor and investor educational programs for John Hancock Funds, Transamerica IDE and Rydex Global Advisors before setting up his own Boston-based consulting firm in 2003.
The Friends of the Concord Free Public Library sponsor the Thursday Authors Series from September through June. Programs, which are held in the second floor Periodical Room in the Main Library, are free and open to all. Following each presentation, books are available for purchase and audience members are encouraged to continue their conversations with the author.
Upcoming talks in the series, all on Thursdays at 7:30 pm at the Main Library include March 18th presentation of principles from the architectural firm of Albert, Righter & Tittmann, New Classic American Houses.
For more information, please call the Library at (978) 318-3300 or visit www.concordlibrary.org.
