You've decided to join the one out of every three American families who now has money invested in mutual funds. While you don't need to be expert in high finance, you do need to know which mutual fund is right for you. With this book in hand, it's simple to make direct comparisons among the funds available. You can develop a balanced investment portfolio, maximize profit when the stock market is up, minimize risk when it's down, and understand 401(k)s, Roth IRAs, and other financial opportunities. This new edition of the guide includes updated preformance figures, tables, and charts, and adds a new section on Internet mutual funds.
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You've decided to join the one out of every three American families who now has money invested in mutual funds. While you don't need to be expert in high finance, you do need to know which mutual fund is right for you. With this book in hand, it's simple to make direct comparisons among the funds available. You can develop a balanced investment portfolio, maximize profit when the stock market is up, minimize risk when it's down, and understand 401(k)s, Roth IRAs, and other financial opportunities. This new edition of the guide includes updated preformance figures, tables, and charts, and adds a new section on Internet mutual funds.
About the Author
Alan Levine and Gail Liberman are husband-and-wife personal finance writers. Their joint column, "Your Family Finances," runs weekly in the Boston Herald, and Alan is a regular guest on ABC radio's Charlie DeRose Show. They are regular columnists on America Online and their work is also featured on Web sites such as Mutual Funds Interactive, Investor's Square, and Microsoft Investor. They are the authors of the best-selling book Rags to Riches: Motivating Stories of How Ordinary People Achieved Extraordinary Wealth.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent book for the long term investors.,
By edward brine (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Money with Mutual Funds (3rd Edition) (Mass Market Paperback)
Excellent insight into the hot topics such as cost average, balance average, rebalancing between stocks & bonds & so on. Just pick the mutual fund, keep adding the money monthly & follow the authors recommendations. I highly recommend this book for patient investors who has 20 to 30 years to stash away his money to grow.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent book for the long term investors.,
By edward brine (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Money with Mutual Funds (3rd Edition) (Mass Market Paperback)
Excellent insight into the hot topics such as cost average, balance average, rebalancing between stocks & bonds & so on. Just pick the mutual fund, keep adding the money monthly & follow the authors recommendations. I highly recommend this book for patient investors who has 20 to 30 years to stash away his money to grow.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
if you like mutual funds this pretty much covers it A-Z,
By joey (the usa) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Money with Mutual Funds, Second Edition (Paperback)
First of all with the exception of your 401k I believe a good investor should be putting at least 50% of their money in individual stocks as opposed to mutual funds. One of the reasons for this is that by basically doing nothing a investing in just an index fund ( the most basic mutual fund as far as how it works) return an average of about 15% per year over the last half century. The typical mutual fund does not beat that return, plus you have to pay the management fees( or loads if you are unenlightened enough to buy a loan fund) which can run about 2% of your total return.This book goes over all the types of funds and how to pick winners. It also informs the reader how to watch out for funds that are heading for a fall such as recent management changes. As well as indirectly helping turn you on to a couple good stocks, as components of mutual funds. My advice is to keep most of your money in stocks and maybye put 20% in a very good balanced fund. It is also worth noting that on yahoo you can look up the components of the top funds to see what stocks they are investing in. Obviously that is a way to look for some stock picks. Obviously that is not the only factor to consider but i have gotten a couple good picks off this method and got a 22% return in a 4 month period of general motors using that method
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News You Can Use, Social Security, Hot Tip, Uncle Sam, Rowe Price, The Least You Need, Stock Fund Builder, Getting Started, Wall Street, New York, Fidelity Investments, High Yield, Charles Schwab, United States, Vanguard Group, The Cost of Investing, Choosing the Right Bond Fund, The Value Line Mutual Fund Survey, Eaton Vance, Fidelity Spartan, Fund Average Annual Return, Lipper Analytical Services, Secrets of Mutual Fund Shopping, Transfer Agent, Cisco Systems New!
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- More Rags to Riches: All New Stories of How Ordinary People Achieved Extraordinary Wealth! by Gail Liberman in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Rags To Retirement by Alan Lavine in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Love, Marriage & Money: Understanding and Achieving Financial Compatibility Before-And After-You Say "I Do" by Gail Liberman in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Quick Steps to Financial Stability by Alan Lavine in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- All about Mutual Funds by Bruce Jacobs in Back Matter
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