Investing is all about common sense. Owning a diversified portfolio of stocks and holding it for the long term is a winner's game. Trying to beat the stock market is theoretically a zero-sum game (for every winner, there must be a loser), but after the substantial costs of investing are deducted, it becomes a loser's game. Common sense tells us - ...
In UNCONVENTIONAL SUCCESS, investment legend David Swensen reveals why the for-profit mutual fund industry consistently fails the average investor, from its excessive management and incentive fees to the frequent 'churning' of portfolios that forces investors to pay higher taxes. Perhaps most destructive of all are flagrant schemes designed to ...
Author William J. O'Neill, the founder of Investor's Business Daily, provides readers with 24 investment strategies regarding buying and selling stocks, based on his 25+ years of analyzing and studying the market.
In this title, the author offers the essential principles of canny mutual fund investing as well as caveats to protect the investor. He shows how to avoid major pitfalls common to mutual fund investing while increasing your return without increasing risk. In addition, he covers methods to develop a fully diversified and winning portfolio, tax ...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER! "Cogent, honest, and hard-hitting-a must read for every investor." -Warren E. Buffett Praise for Common Sense on Mutual Funds "Invoking both Thomas Paine and Benjamin Graham, Jack Bogle outlines a supremely logical plan not only to better investors' returns, but to improve the whole fund industry. This isn't just the best book ...
An all-new personal finance guide from the authors/creators of "The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money and Investing" First in a new series based on information from Standard & Poor's--the leading financial information organization--"Standard & Poor's Guide to Money & Investing" demystifies the world of stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ...
From the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth" comes this insider's view into how today's investment practices have become so misleading and manipulative that investors must take charge of their own finances.
Sooner or later, we all need to plan for our financial futures. The rich can afford personal financial advisors to help them out but what about the rest of us? Offering you instant diversification and low cost access to some of the best money managers in the business, mutual funds are the great equalizers. The problem is, with 10,000 mutual funds ...
"Serious Money" is the first truly complete sales system for mutual funds & other managed investment products -- a roadmap to success in communicating the benefits of any mutual fund to any investor. The book takes financial advisors from prospecting & establishing clients' needs, through making presentations, handling objections & the close. ...
In this smart and sensible guide, financial planner and broker Stav explains how to use mutual funds and other longterm investment plans to fund one's future. Tailored to meet individual needs, her advice shows how to set financial goals.
This edition has been completely updated and revised to reflect the recent developments in this field. It features contributions from today's fixed income experts. Twenty new or revised chapters include: risks associated with investing in fixed income securities; eurocapital markets; non-agency mortgage based securities; car, home equity and ...
"Investing 101" offers basic advice about stocks, bonds, mutual funds, retirement planning, and tax strategies--taking the mystery and anxiety out of investing by presenting straightforward, relevant information.
A no-nonsense introduction to the markets Investor's Business Daily is the fastest growing newspaper and most widely read investment newspaper in the country. Its readers buy more stocks than those of any other publication. Investor's Business Daily Guide to the Markets covers the basics behind each market, outlines its historical origins, and ...
Investing is simple, but never easy. We carry a lot of investment baggage - including hot tips from friends and the financial media, and complicated financial recommendations from Wall Street salespeople and brokers. Yet the biggest obstacle we face by far is our ability to outsmart ourselves. In order to overcome these obstacles, investors need ...
"Picking actively managed mutual funds is no mean challenge. And as the recent era underscores, past performance is of little help. The "Morningstar Guide to Mutual Funds" helps cut through the fog with a solid volume of constructive information. The central message - 'truly diversify, keep it simple, focus on costs, and stick with it' - is not ...
In this brilliant how-to guide, Wilkinson explains that investors can gain and maintain wealth through a SAM, an individual basket of stocks or bonds. This new handbook shows how the average investor can now open a separate account for as little as $25,000--and have the account managed by a top institutional money manager through the investor's ...
Explains how funds work, and provides the background tools necessary to select funds and evaluate performance. The book outlines the stock market, bond market, asset location, index funds, variable annuities, tax considerations, and using computers and online for information and analysis.
This title won the 2008 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (The PROSE Awards) Finalist/Honorable mention, Business, Finance & Management. "The Fundamental Index" examines a new approach to indexing that can overcome the structural return drag created by traditional capitalization-based indexing strategies, and in ...
This revolutionary new book provides readers with a clear understanding of the way financial markets really work. The author lays out, step by step, the manner in which investors today can prudently build and customize their "passively" managed and index-related portfolios.
A reporter tracks the journey of her cash advance and, through portraits of several institutions, chronicles how businesses and investment companies wreak havoc on industries and workers.
This is the world's most trusted fixed income resource for more than two decades, now substantially revised and updated. The "Handbook of Fixed Income Securities" is the investing industry's most authoritative, widely followed fixed income reference. Institutional and individual investors have learned to rely on the handbook for its scope and ...
This guide for the average investor cuts through the confusion around mutual funds and shows how to select the best stock funds for growth, how to assemble and maintain a portfolio, access mutual fund information online, and how to choose bond and money funds.
This book helps you discover why the model investment firm turned household word is the perfect investment for virtually anyone. Robert Miles is a successful entrepreneur, business owner, and investor who believes that everyone can be a smarter investor regardless of background, education, and income. In fact Miles says that one investment is ...
In this guide for investors, two business experts stress the importance of "doing one's own homework" rather than relying solely on advice from brokerage houses, the media, etc. The authors show how to spot companies on the rise and offer case studies of those like Home Depot and Cisco Systems, which were once under the radar of the advisors.
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