How do I choose among 4,000 mutual funds?; when should I buy and sell?; can I really beat the market?; what about the safety of my money?; and how can my funds help me put my kids through college, lower my taxes, and generate retirement income? No one knows more about mutual funds and how to maximize their wealth-building ability than Jay Schabacker. In 19 years as a mutual fund advisor and money manager, Jay has shown tens of thousands of individual and institutional investors how to become wealthy and how to increase their wealth. At last, Jay's successful investment strategy - the same one that has produced competitive returns while limiting risk exposure - is available to you in this book. You don't have to be a financial wizard to join Jay's "Mutual Fund Winners Circle." All you need to do is to follow the four steps fully explained in these pages. 1. Know yourself by assessing your own goals, risk tolerance, interest in investing, and willingness and ability to manage your own portfolio. 2. Stay on the right side of the economy by understanding the basic dynamics of the market, interest rates, and inflation. 3. Choose the best funds for you by getting a handle on the various fund categories and demystifying fees, risks, and track records. 4. Buy and sell smart by cutting costs and sidestepping typical pitfalls. Concerned about losing your hard-earned money? Rest assured that the Schabacker approach puts safety first. That means avoiding losses (because they're doubly hard to regain) and never taking unnecessary risks. Jay wants to make you a stress-free investor as well as a wealthy one! What's more, this book contains an arsenal of tools no mutual fund investor should be without:a Mutual Fund Tax Guide that will help prevent tax headaches, a Directory of Mutual Funds to help you check fund performance, and Worksheets to ease the investment process. If you're a prudent and smart investor who wants to cut through the mass of confusing literature on mutual
- ISBN10 0814479227
- ISBN13 9780814479223
- Publish Date 15 May 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 April 2008
- Publish Country US
- Publisher HarperCollins Focus
- Imprint Amacom
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English