ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Akhil Patel is the Director of Property Sharemarket Economics, an investment research service that teaches subscribers how to ‘remember the future’ based on leading knowledge of economic and financial cycles.
Akhil became interested in such cycles after his family’s business went through difficult periods during the major recessions in the early 1990s and 2008. He refused to accept the conventional wisdom that these events could not be forecast in advance. After much study, he decided to develop a body of work that would help people – whether they were investors, business owners or those just interested in doing something with their savings.
With professional experience in the UK civil service and international development, Akhil has worked on a range of issues from reviewing large infrastructure deals to helping establish the UK’s £3bn International Climate Fund. He has two masters degrees (in finance and public policy) and a first degree in classics from Oxford.
ABOUT THE BOOK
During your life you will make many important financial decisions. Their success will be significantly affected by the state of the economy and financial markets when you make them.
The Secret Wealth Advantage takes you on a journey in time – past, present and future – through the course of an 18-year economic cycle.
Each cycle has four great Acts which inform the structure of The Secret Wealth Advantage.
Find out everything you need to know about how the cycle plays out and what you need to do about through practical guidance at the end of every chapter. And learn all about why the cycle happens, what causes it, why no one sees it and what determines how big the booms and busts can get.
The Secret Wealth Advantage will help you to make better financial decisions at the right times and to give you an investment edge that even seasoned professionals can only dream of.
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“It’s the secret hiding in plain sight. Enterprises founder – and families lose their homes - because owners are deprived of the knowledge that would have saved them from the cyclical pitfalls in the capitalist economy. The experts did not (and still do not) see these crises coming, but no-one need fall victim to the next crash. Akhil Patel documents the inside story with a blow-by-blow account of the trends that make the difference between wealth and the fatal wounds endured by those who remain wilfully blind.”
Fred Harrison
With an impressive grasp of financial and economic history, the author paints a colorful picture of the interplay of economic forces and investor emotion that drives market cycles and the principal periods of boom and bust that many of us have experienced. But more than that he sets out practical ideas on how to navigate them. All investors should read this book.
Dr. Daniel Crosby
The Secret Wealth Advantage fills a big missing piece of a financial puzzle that has been bugging me for over 30 years: I only wish I had read this at the start of my financial career. It has now usurped Reminiscences of a Stock Operator as my number one investment book recommendation. I never thought that would be possible. Akhil’s work is worth 1000 times the cover price, although I could be undervaluing it enormously.
Paul Rodriguez