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Personal Investing (Paperback)
Bonnie Biafore; Contributions by Carol Fabbri, Amy E. Buttell
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Did your investments take a hit in the recession? You're not alone.
Between 2007 and mid-year 2009, the average 401K lost 31 per cent
of its value. Ouch. It's time to take control of your investments
with "Personal Investing: The Missing Manual". Financial experts
agree that with the right guidance, consumers can make investments
better than many professionals. This lively and easy-to-understand
guide gives you the confidence, tools, and insight you need to
evaluate financial products and make smart investments that target
success over the long term. You'll learn how to set long-term goals
for critical, high-cost events such as retirement, your children's
education, and future health care needs. Then you'll learn what
types of investments will best help you achieve those goals. In
step-by-step fashion, this book shows you how to research mutual
funds, stocks, bonds, and other financial products to create a
portfolio of diversified investments. Get crystal-clear, practical
advice from personal finance expert Bonnie Biafore, author of
Missing Manuals on the Quicken personal-finance program and
QuickBooks business finance program. Understand why you need to
invest - Biafore shows you how savings accounts simply won't
outpace inflation or give you the returns you need for long-term
goals. Learn how to evaluate and buy traditional investments, such
as stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. Discover lesser-known
investments, such as index funds and exchange-traded funds, which
cost you less and provide more tax advantages. Choose the best
funds offered by your employer for your 401K, and learn how to get
the greatest tax advantages.
Over the past several decades, there's been an explosion of
investment strategies, products, services, and advisors. Yet, as
longtime investment industry insiders show in this powerful expose,
almost all the popular investment strategies and products are based
on confusion and deception and don't work, and almost all
investment services and advisors cost far more than they are worth.
The book first explains three simple rules of investing - and why
Wall Street and most of the investment industry does not want you
to know them. Then the authors examine each of the prevailing
claims and recommendations espoused by investment industry
professionals as well as journalists and explain, one by one, why
each is wrong and not only costly to investors but also enormously
enriching to investment firms and advisors. The result is the most
powerful guide yet published for what investors should and should
not do to protect and grow their investments.
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