Investing in the Second Wave: Kiplinger Books

CJ Brott lives in Dallas, Texas, with his wife, Joy, and two cats who have no interest in financial markets whatsoever. Over a career spanning more than five decades on Wall Street, CJ founded both Alliance Financial Group, a Dallas-based brokerage firm, and Capital Ideas, a registered investment advisory firm. But if you ask him what he's most proud of professionally, he'll probably mention the thirty-five years he spent teaching investing and financial planning at Southern Methodist University- a hobby that let him share his passion for markets with generations of students.
Writing is the hobby that finally replaced teaching, and this book grew from the same impulse: a desire to help people recognize the patterns that have shaped his own investment journey across half a century of technological transformation.
When he's not writing or studying markets, CJ spends his time with his children and grandchildren and traveling with Joy, his wife of fifty-five years. Readers of Chapters 3 and 5 may recall that it was Joy's hobby of collecting international music that first demonstrated Bitcoin's practical value- traditional banking simply couldn't handle her overseas royalty payments. It was one more reminder that the best investment insights often come from paying attention to the people closest to you.