Becoming an Investor: Building Wealth by Investing in Stocks, Bonds, and Mutual Funds (Paperback)

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Becoming An Investor is urgently recommended, essential reading for participants in today's volatile stock and bond markets... -- Midwest Book Review

Product Description

Becoming An Investor: Building Wealth By Investing In Stocks, Bonds, And Mutual Funds gives you practical knowledge and insight that will help you protect and grow your investment portfolio.

By reading Becoming An Investor you will learn:
* The Difference Between Active and Passive Portfolio Management
* The Power of Compounding and How It Applies To Building Wealth
* The Concept of Margin of Safety
* The Importance of Diversification
* Ratio Analysis
* Professional Company Valuation Using Dividend Discount Calculations
* How To Measure Rates of Return And Know How Your Investments Are Really Doing
* How To Preserve Principal
* How To Avoid Making Bad Investment Decisions That Lose Money
* How To Select Mutual Funds
* How To Select And Invest In Turnaround Companies
* How To Select And Invest In Growth Companies
* How To Evaluate Company Risk
* How To Invest For Income
* How To Know If You're Saving Enough For Your Retirement

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: HCM Publishing (January 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967162416
• ISBN-13: 978-0967162416
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,041,811 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good place to begin learning how to manage your money, August 22, 2005

By	Flavio Cipparrone "Opt_Prof" (Sao Paulo, Brasil) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Hupalo gives you simple (good) advice to manage your money.

The book is very balanced and it is aimed mainly to the educated general public. You will need only some simple algebra to understand his few valuation formulas.

He writes basically about common stocks and has a chapter discussing bonds. But do not expect market timing methods. It is more directed to Investing than to Trading.

Conclusion: A good place to begin learning how to manage your money. To good sense people.

26 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A diamond in the rough!, March 30, 2002

By	"juniorbuffett" (Lycoming New York) - See all my reviews

Only available in paperback, no fancy artwork on the cover, no glowing reviews by a big time newspaper publisher, no forward by a prestigious luminary, even the editing is second rate. In a word, this is a rough book.

However, when it comes to content, this book is loaded as the author does not include a lot of fluff or selfish stories about himself. However, the author is obviously very well read, because he includes numerous references to plently of other investing books. Some may conclude it's a value investing book, but growth investing is covered as well.

So, what this book presents is a careful and comprehensive distillation of just about everything commonly available on the subject of investing. Also included are numerous clever stories which illustrate important investment truths and strategies and a recognition that a lot of what the mass media presents is almost worthless for somebody wishing to become an investor.

17 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Proven Way to Sound, Successful, Long-Term Investing, January 15, 2003

By	A. Petrotchenkov (Moscow, Russia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This excellent book is highly commended to anyone who is truly serious about investing. Peter Hupalo is a consultant and frequent columnist on money and entrepreneurship matters. With clear and convincing data to support him, Mr. Hupalo debunks many of the myths Wall Street pushes on the investing public. Author demonstrates the futility of trying to "beat the market", whether through stock picking and market timing or by following mutual funds that have shown high levels of performance in the past. After he makes a convincing case for trying to meet, rather than beat the market. Thus, Mr. Hupalo advocates investing in a diversified basket of mutual funds. The chapter on investing during retirement is particularly insightful.

Whether or not one ultimately agrees with Mr. Hupalo's point of view, "Becoming An Investor: Building Wealth By Investing In Stocks, Bonds, And Mutual Funds" is a book, which deserves attention. Anyone wishing to base his/her investment decisions on solid methodology needs to read this book. You will have a much clearer understanding of markets, and your investment decisions will be firmly rooted in proven soil.

I highly recommend this book for everyone.

Alexander Petrochenkov