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Cover of All About Bonds and Bond Mutual Funds: The Easy Way to Get Started
This title provides all the facts you need for astute fixed-income investing. With business headlines dominated by stock market turmoil, quality information on relatively sedate bond investments has been hard to find. Yet investors with an eye to long-term security understand: a truly diversified low-risk/high-return portfolio must contain fixed-income investments, either bond or bond mutual funds. "All About Bonds and Bond Mutual Funds, Second Edition", fills the information void.Written specifically for the individual investor who just wants to understand the basics of bonds and bond mutual funds, this easy-to-use book is packed with hands-on, practical guidance. Acclaimed author and finance educator Esme Faerber cuts through the clutter, telling you just what you need to know to make intelligent, profitable bond investment decisions.
Read "All About Bonds and Bond Mutual Funds" before you invest to discover: an explanation of bonds; the reasons for investing in bonds; how to buy and sell bonds; advantages and disadvantages of individual bonds versus bond mutual funds; characteristics of bonds, including field, liquidity, duration, and valuation; detailed descriptions of individual fixed-income investments, including money market funds, corporate and government securities, municipal bonds, convertible bonds, and zero-coupon bonds; and strategies for integrating bonds with stocks in a diversified portfolio.

Cover of All about Investing: The Easy Way to Get Started

Cover of All About Investing

All About Investing

by Esme Faerber

Published 16 February 2006

The easy way to get started in investing

The most stressful investment for any new investor is the first one. All About Investing helps remove that stress, by providing inexperienced investors with techniques for establishing realistic investment goals, buying the proper assets to meet those goals, and constructing a safe and suitable portfolio of long-term investments.

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All About Value Investing

by Esme Faerber

Published 1 January 2013
MASTER THE STRATEGY THAT MADE WARREN BUFFETT THE WORLD'S MOST SUCCESSFUL INVESTOR

One way to make a killing in the market is by identifying underappreciated stocks, purchasing them at less than their intrinsic value, and selling them for profit. It's called value investing, and it's how Ben Graham, David Dodd, and Warren Buffett made their fortunes.

Now, the secrets of value investing are available to you in this easy-to-understand guide. All About Value Investing covers all practical aspects of this winning investing strategy. Avoiding complicated theories and technical explanations, it shows you how value investing works and how you can use it to draw amazing profits from the stock market. Learn how to:

  • Read balance sheets and income statements to research possible investments
  • Use fundamental analysis to project a company's future earnings
  • Construct a value investing portfolio suited to your specific needs
  • Use a variety of funds in lieu of individual stocks inyour value investing portfolio

Cover of All About Stocks: The Easy Way to Get Started
This title provides everything you need to know about today's stock market - how to buy, what to hold, when to sell. "All About Stocks, Second Edition", will make you a smarter, more accomplished investor. This bottom-line guidebook is now updated to explain every essential aspect of today's stock market - in which the rewards as well as the risks have increased dramatically over the past five years - and is arranged to provide quick, clear answers to any questions you might have."All About Stocks" is written to be understood by an investor - yet packed with information that will be valuable to everyone! Practical, hands-on guidance on how you can use the Internet to find and buy undervalued stocks, strategies on selecting a mutual fund for both above-average returns and below-average risk, types of trades that can significantly increase your safety during turbulent markets and it's all here.
Before you invest, read "All About Stocks" and discover: what stocks are, and why you should own them; explanations of the different types of orders; how fundamental and technical analysis can help you find undervalued stocks; aspects of growth stocks and value stocks; what mutual funds are, how they work, and which are right for you; easy-to-follow strategies to assemble a high-growth, low-risk, versified portfolio; and strategies for buying indexed mutual funds and index-tracking stocks.