Stop Investing Like They Tell You: Discover and Overcome the 16 Mainstream Myths Keeping You from True Financial Freedom

Written by Stephen Spicer, CFP®, AEP®, CL

Narrated by Tristan Wright

Advisors, pundits, and academics all parrot the same traditional paradigm of a stock-and-bond-only investment strategy. But what if they’re wrong?
Stop Investing Like They Tell You is a practical guide to overcoming the potentially ruinous flaws in an investment portfolio. After operating under the umbrella of a large brokerage firm for over five years, Stephen Spicer CFP® came to realize that his personal investment strategy was incongruent with what he was supposed to, or even allowed to, recommend and grew increasingly uncomfortable with the prescribed advice. Unafraid to challenge the traditional paradigms of a broken system, Stephen built Spicer Capital to address his clients (and his own) investment and financial planning concerns.

In Stop Investing Like They Tell You, Stephen challenges traditional advice and guides investors through a comprehensive understanding of the 16 most egregious myths regurgitated throughout the financial industry. Upon completion of this text, readers are also left with confidence as to how they can better invest so as to protect and grow their life savings no matter what chaos the future may hold in store.   

• Language: English
• Publisher: Everand Productions
• Release date: Oct 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9781094449401

Stephen Spicer, CFP®, AEP®, CL

Stephen Spicer, CFP®, AEP®, CLU® is the Founder and CEO of Spicer Capital, LLC—a financial planning firm he built after realizing that his personal investment strategy was incongruent with what he was supposed to, or even allowed to, recommend under the umbrella of one of the largest brokerage firms in the world. He is married to his high school sweetheart, and they live with their four beautiful children in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Stephen is passionate about education and finding the absolute best solutions to the financial industry’s problems. He is a Certified Financial Planner®, an Accredited Estate Planner®, and a Chartered Life Underwriter®.

Reviews for Stop Investing Like They Tell You

[Mela Nie · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Some Notes:
• Herd mentality is rooted in the fear of missing out (FOMO). (eg. Tulip Mania)
• No more greater fools (market peaked)
• Mark Twain: Buy land. They ain’t making any more of it.

[Dante Taviantz · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book was golden. Very well put together. Very detailed. Very insightful. I recommend it to everyone to gain some valuable knowledge of finances.

[OmarEl-Mohri · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Analyzing many misconceptions people are thinking about investing and more precisely about the stock market

[peter mohan · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Enlightening description of fees and MPT, but the suggestions about alternative investment areas was much too brief. And stating long term capital gains tax rate as 15% was hilarious.

[dscripted me · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

points out conventional retirement advice leaves a lot to be desired.

doesn't offer any real satisfactory solutions aside from the obvious.

He also contradicts himself in places.