This guide to investing in funds is designed to help you make better investment decisions, using the power and convenience of the Internet as your friend. Investing is not the sexiest of subjects, however this book aims to explain everything, including some of the complex areas, in an entertaining and readable way. This book sets out to cut through the industry jargon to show that investing in funds is not particularly complicated, even if some of the detail can sometimes make it seem that way. To this end, the author has included plenty of simple tables and graphics in an effort to illustrate some of the key points. The aim is to take you through the various stages of investing in funds in a straightforward way, highlighting what is good - and what is perhaps not so good - about the way that the funds business operates.The primary purpose of this guide is to educate and inform readers about how funds operate and the choices that are now open to anyone with a computer and Internet connection.
After 25 years of writing about the financial markets, however, the author has formed some firm opinions about the most sensible way to invest and includes these personal observations in the penultimate section. The great beauty of funds is that you don't need to spend a lot of time planning or making investment decisions. Once you have the basics in place, investing this way is not complicated or time-consuming.Funds are after all designed to allow you to sit back and let someone else do most of the work for you. Common sense and a little bit of homework will go a long way to saving you from buying funds that fail to deliver what you expect. The only sure way to avoid disappointment however is to wise up about the way that the funds business works and to take a more active interest in the initial decision-making yourself. For that you need good information, as well as some idea of what you are trying to achieve. Whether or not you use a financial adviser, as many investors still do, taking advantage of the information and control that online investing now provides will save you a lot of money over the course of an investing lifetime.
- ISBN10 1905641362
- ISBN13 9781905641369
- Publish Date 30 May 2008
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 15 September 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Harriman House Publishing
- Format Paperback
- Pages 230
- Language English