Savvy Investing for Women [Paperback]

Marlene Jupiter (Author), Elizabeth Tuttle (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 7, 1999

In this woman-to-woman guide to wealth-building, experienced investment specialist Marlene Jupiter explains the basics of investing to empower all women to secure their own financial success.

Statistics show that while women today control roughly 52 percent of America's wealth, they are often vulnerable when it comes to making important investment decisions. Jupiter aims to help women overcome any feelings of helplessness about investments, enabling them to take charge of their financial futures. Throughout the book, she gives women all the information they need to know for successful money management, research, planning, and personal risk tolerance. The material is presented through personal, real-life, and historical anecdotes, and her points are illustrated with easy-to-follow examples, interviews, and advice from seasoned (women) professionals.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Wall Street brokerages are working hard these days to attract women investors. Publishers are, too. One of many recent titles on money management for women, Savvy Investing for Women is more informative than most. Marlene Jupiter, a former Wall Street derivatives trader, takes her subject and her readers seriously. The book provides a short course on economics, on portfolio diversification (jargon for "Don't put all your eggs in one basket"), and on the basics of buying stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. There's even a chapter on technical analysis, an abstruse topic neglected by most popular books but described by Jupiter with admirable clarity. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Publishers Weekly

Wall Street stock trader Jupiter offers financially inexperienced women a comprehensive guide to getting rich on investments while steering clear of unscrupulous brokers who can squander their savings. After a first chapter in which she analyzes the national economy and the stock market in terms that some of her target readership is unlikely to understand (capitalization, fiscal strategy, monetary policy, total return), Jupiter gets down to fundamentals and entertainingly covers everything from running a chain of lemonade stands to buying 100 shares of Disney stock, from analyzing Intel's income statement to the ins and outs of myriad mutual funds. Though more comprehensive at times than a novice investor might need, Jupiter's irreverent approach makes this instruction manual almost fun to read. Author tour.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 338 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Press (January 7, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735200807
• ISBN-13: 978-0735200807
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,778,210 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not too technical, not too preachy either!, July 2, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Savvy Investing for Women (Hardcover)

Unlike most financial books available, this book gives concrete real-life examples that make sense. The examples actually stay with you after you've put the book down. For those who are afraid of the math involved, don't be. She breaks it all down into pieces you can grasp. I may not remember everything she said, but I feel much more comfortable thinking about and looking at financial papers and investments now.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The title is misleading., January 10, 1999

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James Lor "James Lor" (Montreal, CANADA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Savvy Investing for Women (Hardcover)

The title is misleading; this book is NOT only for women. This book contains solid investment advice from someone who's "been there and done it", who has worked her way up from being a secretary to being a vice president and became a millionaire along the way. A lot of men can learn from her.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Savvy Investments for Women by Jupiter, March 10, 2004

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Joseph S. Maresca "Dr. Joseph S. Maresca CPA,... (Bronxville, New York USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Savvy Investing for Women (Hardcover)

This is an excellent investment guide for beginning investors.
It teaches how to develop investment intuition and savvy.
There is a practical component in the advice which tells
the buyer/investor to beware (Caveat Emptor). The author cites
important investment vehicles; such as, the "Investor's Business
Daily" which points toward important trends in the market.
The book stresses the need to look at multiple criteria for
investing to include:
o growth stocks and industries
o capitalization
o revenue growth rates
o price/earnings ratios
o the management team
o treatment of employees
o underwriter representation
o financial analyst track records

The work discusses all-important mutual fund fee structures,
the benefits and pitfalls of derivatives and a whole host of
investments too numerous to list here.

Numerous risks are cited including systematic market risk,
inflation, interest rate fluctuations and consumer credit.
The book is well worth the price for a beginning investor.