The Book
The Aspirational Investor shifts investment strategy from chasing markets to achieving goals. Ashvin B. Chhabra explains the Wealth Allocation Framework, balancing financial security, sustaining living standards, and creating wealth. His practical roadmap helps investors prioritize objectives over market noise to make smarter financial decisions.
“ ‘The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions,’ wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. This is also what happens when you read ‘The Aspirational Investor’ by Chhabra.”
— Review posted on Amazon
Aspirational Investor in the Press
A great article by Jason Zweig in The Wall Street Journal [subscription required]
#1 Bestseller: What corporate America is reading, June 2015
Additional praise for The Aspirational Investor from Business Insider, June 2015
Praise for the Aspirational Investor
"Chhabra is the world’s pre-eminent thinker on how to adopt financial decisions to address effective wealth management. This book lays out his insights and a wonderfully clear and compelling way."
BRUCE GREENWALD
ROBERT HEILBRUNN PROFESSOR OF FINANCE AND ASSET MANAGEMENT, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, “GURU TO THE WALL STREET GURUS"
"Ashvin Chhabra is one of the smartest and wisest investment experts I know. This book explains how to break down a seemingly very complex problem—how we should invest our money—into manageable steps. I recommend it highly."
ERIC MASKIN
ADAMS UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR, HARVARD UNIVERSITY; NOBEL LAUREATE IN ECONOMICS (2007)
"In this engaging, accessible, and hugely insightful book, Chhabra shows individual investors how to structure investments to match three separate goals to protect, sustain, and enhance their way of life in unique circumstances."
CHARLES D. ELLIS
FOUNDER OF GREENWICH ASSOCIATES AND AUTHOR OF WINNING THE LOSER'S GAME
"The Aspirational Investor presents an excellent and, in my opinion, original program to guide individuals in the management of all of their assets. After a breezy review of the history of financial markets, this book outlines a holistic, completely sensible vision of investing. Equipped with a bit of discipline, one could do no better than to follow these precepts."
JAMES H. SIMONS (1938-2024)
FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGIES
"The Aspirational Investor is a most-readable popular presentation of investment theory and practice in general, as well as an account of Dr. Chhabra’s own influential contributions."
HARRY M. MARKOWITZ (1927-2023)
NOBEL LAUREATE IN ECONOMICS (1990)