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All About Bonds and Bond Mutual Funds: The Easy Way to Get Started
by Esme Faerber
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.
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.
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
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.