Investing without Wall Street: the five essentials of financial freedom

The ultimate guide to individual investingWealth Without Wall Street: The Five Essentials of Investing encompasses a broad range of lessons for achieving financial independence from one of America's leading financial experts. Core advice focuses on five essentials, but the book also offers advice on market timing, vanity investments, recent advances in index fund investing, bear market strategies, and increasing workplace income. The advice is current, timeless, useful, and is offered with a unique voice. The book discusses how investors can acquire the skepticism, and clear thinking, that are so important for developing successful money strategies. It is the right book for new investors and for seasoned investors returning to the market after the recent down years.Thefive "essentials" teach proper diversification, asset allocation, controllingrisk, managing costs, and include an in-depth discussion of how to use the media to become a better investor. The media chapter includes advice on how to benefit from newspapers, magazines, newsletters, books, business radio and TV, investor conferences, and the Internet.Encourages using media advice in building a better portfolio from an author who has done so with aplombIncludes information on almost 20 subjects rarely, or never, found in other investing books,including how to use the media to hone your investing skillsDiscusses how investors can acquire the skepticism and clear thinking that are so important fordeveloping successful money making strategiesSheldon Jacobs wrote the first ever self-help book on no-load mutual funds. Published in 1974, Put Money in Your Pocket introduced thousands of investors to no-loads. Now, with Wealth Without Wall Street, he's back with the ultimate guide to investing safely, securely, and profitably. INDICE: Preface xiIntroduction: Take a Journey with Me 1Part I The Five Essentials 9Chapter 1 The First Essential: Determine the Right Asset Allocation 11Chapter 2 The Second Essential: Diversify within Asset Classes 19Chapter 3 The Third Essential: Understand and Control Risk 37Chapter 4 The Fourth Essential: Keep Your Costs Low 43Chapter 5 The Fifth Essential: Choose the Right Financial Media to Follow 49Part II Actions and Strategies to Implement the Essentials 75Chapter 6 Developing Media Expertise 77Chapter 7 How to Build Mutual Fund Portfolios for Lifetime Profits 99Chapter 8 Index Fund Investing: Beyond the S&P 500 113Chapter 9 How to Survive Bear Markets 121Chapter 10 The Case for Market Timing 129Chapter 11 The No-Work Way to a Comfortable Retirement . . . Maybe 145Chapter 12 Dealing with Professionals 153Part III Becoming a Well-Rounded Money Maven 173Chapter 13 For Clearer Thinking 175Chapter 14 The Psychology of Investing 195Chapter 15 Integrity, or the Lack of It 211Chapter 16 Women Aren’t Different; They Just Live Longer 225Chapter 17 Adventures in Collectibles 233Chapter 18 Vanity Investments 239Chapter 19 Increasing Your Workplace Income 245Epilogue: Journey’s End 257Appendix: Directory of Newsletterswith Model Portfolios 261Glossary 265Acknowledgments 281About the Author 283Index 285A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.—Jonathan Swift

• ISBN: 978-1-118-20464-1
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 320
• Fecha Publicación: 18/04/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés