There is no little league on Wall Street and no white belts. Here or abroad, you're immediately put in with the black belts: the best and the brightest. Think like an amateur-by attempting to invest like a robot or following the leader-and your portfolio will quickly suffer. While many investors are smart, creative individuals, when exposed to the herd, they tend to follow group mentality and succumb to what the people around them believe. Avoiding this trap can mean big profits for you. In Investing without Borders , author Daniel Frishberg-a financial professional with more than thirty years' experience in the industry-shows you how to break from the pack and build a winning portfolio. Investors in the old economy didn't think critically about changing economic or political conditions around the world. They never really had to-especially with the enduring dominance of the U.

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