Financial Book Recommendations
Successful Investing with Fidelity Funds
Readers
will learn the latest angles on investing with mutual funds giant
Fidelity in this authoritative resource. This revised, expanded edition
has the latest on assembling Fidelity portfolios, avoiding unnecessary
fees, and more. A guide to the different Fidelity funds and their
managers describes the benefits of long-term investing, the hazards of
market timing, creating a portfolio, taxes, retirement accounts, account
expense and maintenance, and more. In this helpful book, the editor of
Fidelity Monitor makes his advice available to the millions of ordinary
Americans who have money invested in mutual funds with industry giant
Fidelity. Even the newest Fidelity investor will benefit from his
insider tips.
Peter
Lynch:
Beating the Street
In the #1 Bestseller, Beating the Street, legendary fund manager Peter
Lynch shares the secrets of how he selected stocks during his management
of the Magellan Fund. Under Mr. Lynch's management, Magellan was one of
the best performing mutual funds of all time vs. the market. Beating the
Street will show you proven techniques for picking stocks by someone
truly qualified to give the best advice.
The Warren Buffett Way
Warren Buffett is widely considered to be the world's most successful
individual investor. Using his method for calculating future earnings of
a stock and therefore the value, Mr. Buffett has picked stocks like
Gillette, Coca Cola and the Washington Post. His buy and hold strategy
has paid off in the form of a multi -billion dollar fortune placing him
high on the list of the world's wealthiest people. Shareholders of
Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway have also been rewarded with a
return of over 26% annually for the 1990's.
The Millionaire Next Door
How
can you join the ranks of America's wealthy (defined as people whose net
worth is over one million dollars)? It's easy, say doctors Stanley and
Danko, who have spent the last 20 years interviewing members of this
elite club: you just have to follow seven simple rules. The first rule
is, always live well below your means. The last rule is, choose your
occupation wisely. You'll have to buy the book to find out the other
five. It's only fair. The authors' conclusions are commonsensical. But,
as they point out, their prescription often flies in the face of what we
think wealthy people should do. There are no pop stars or athletes in
this book, but plenty of wall-board manufacturers--particularly ones who
take cheap, infrequent vacations! Stanley and Danko mercilessly show how
wealth takes sacrifice, discipline, and hard work, qualities that are
positively discouraged by our high-consumption society. "You aren't what
you drive," admonish the authors. Somewhere, Benjamin Franklin is
smiling."
Independently Wealthy by Dr. Robert Goodman
The
rules for planning a financially secure future are changing. In
Independently Wealthy, Robert Goodman, Ph.D., one of the mutual fund
industry's foremost economic commentators, asserts that a new economic
era is upon us and the national debate on the sweeping changes it will
bring has already begun. As this transformation takes root within the
tax system and seriously scales back federal retirement income and
health-care programs, Uncle Sam will cease to be the major provider,
forcing Americans to find alternative ways to provide their own
financial security. Unless you take the right steps today, Putnam
Investments' senior economic advisor tells his audiences all over the
country, you may face a bleak financial future. Now, in Independently
Wealthy, Dr. Goodman has put his compelling message into print. In the
same down-to-earth, no-nonsense style he uses in person, he tells you
why you must take control of your own financial future: no one else is
going to do it for you. Rather than viewing these trends darkly, Dr.
Goodman sees them as opportunities. The good news, he says, is that
while the government will end or sharply reduce current programs,
employers are increasingly shifting from defined-benefit pension plans
to such programs as 401k and profit-sharing plans that allow employees
to make their own decisions about how much to invest and where to invest
it. This will give you control over your own financial destiny.
Morningstar Mutual Fund 500
From
the most authoritative mutual fund evaluation service, The Morningstar
Mutual Fund 500 provides an objective analysis of the 500 best mutual
funds. Selected on the basis of their leadership within their particular
investment, the guide provides an enormous amount of information about
each fund, including: manager strategy, star ratings of funds,
performance graphs, fund history, performance analysis, risk analysis,
tax analysis, investment style of the fund, portfolio holdings and bear
market performance. In addition, it includes historical performance
comparisons, a digest of mutual fund industry developments in the past
year, and glossary of terms. For individual investors who want to
conduct an in-depth search for the best mutual funds, The Morningstar
Mutual Fund 500 is an unsurpassed resource. The latest edition of the
"Morningstar Mutual Fund 500" gives star ratings, performance graphs and
analysis, fund history, manager's investment style and strategy, and
risk and tax analysis for each of the 500 mutual funds judged to be the
best by Morningstar, widely regarded as today's leading independent
provider of mutual fund analysis National print publicity.
Fidelity
Select Money
Fidelity Select Money offers: Three powerful mutual fund models to
choose from tracking Fidelity Select funds. Performance figures based on
11 years of historical research. Individual Model instructions included.
Five programs provided on a 3.5 disk. Risk charts measuring both
Standard Deviation and Beta. Simple investment models beginners can use.
Soros on Soros
George
Soros, who is unquestionably the most powerful and profitable investor
in the world today, reveals his views on investing and global finance as
well as his take on today's complex world order. Written in an engaging
question-and-answer, interview format, the book examines Soros's
personal opinions and explores his investing philosophy.
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