"The Perfect Portfolio" offers investors the knowledge, structure, and resources they need to create a portfolio that meets the challenges of today's investing environment. It challenges the conventional wisdom that there are only three asset classes and redefines the outdated concepts of risk and risk management. It also advocates that readers bypass tedious stock and fund analysis altogether and buy entire market sectors instead. In short, "The Perfect Portfolio" updates, refreshes, and simplifies the entire portfolio construction methodology and brings order to the chaos now experienced by the investing public. With new markets and sectors opening up, new ways to invest in markets being created, and new Web-based tools appearing almost daily, the time has come for a book that shows investors how to take advantage of new market dynamics in order to create a portfolio that produces above-average returns with below-average risk. Leland B. Hevner (Washington, DC) is the President of the National Association of Online Investors (NAOI). The NAOI is the nation's premier provider of academically rigorous investor education to the public. Hevner is a recognized expert in the field of investor education and has been interviewed and quoted widely in the national media.