Reality Driven Investing

About the Book

Don Hinman is a long-time business owner who found stock market investing frustrating. He considered himself to be a value investor but could never find a way to determine value that would consistently deliver profits. Today there is so much information that, instead of making decision-making easier, it often confuses an investor. He set out to learn for himself the characteristics of a stock that would deliver profits to his stock portfolio year after year. He believed knowing what is relevant and what is not is essential when searching for stocks. Success in the stock market is dependent upon finding high-value stocks with low prices. Many will say it is hard for a nonprofessional investor to do this. Actually, once an investor knows the characteristics of a good stock, the search for high-value stocks is easy to do. Don comes to some surprising conclusions about fiscal and monetary policy.

About the Author

Don Hinman and his wife, Helen, live in Yakima, Washington. Helen is a retired school counselor. In the mid-1980s, she was honored by the National School Counselors Association for her work with special-needs students. They have two sons, Ron and Tom, and two grandsons, Quintin and Colton. They have raised twenty-one foster children and shared their home with nine foreign-exchange students. They have traveled throughout the world plus have visited in each of their exchange students’ home. Don is an insurance broker and the president of Mid-Valley Insurance Inc. He is the managing partner of H&H Property Management. H&H Property Management specializes in owning residential rental homes, apartment complexes, and office buildings. Don is the cofounder and chairman of the board of Yakima Neighborhood Health Services. Yakima Neighborhood Health Services is a large health, dental, and mental health clinic with multiple locations in the Yakima Valley. In 2015, at its national convention in Orlando, Florida, the National Association of Community Health Centers awarded Don the Aaron L. Brown Memorial Public Service Award. Don has served on the Yakima City Council.