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Personal investing
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Title
Personal investing / by Bonnie Biafore, Amy E. Buttell & Carol Fabbri.
ISBN
9781449391225
1449391222
9781449390587
1449390587
9781449381790
1449381790
9781449381783
1449381782
Edition
1st ed.
Published
Sebastopol, Calif. : O'Reilly, ©2010.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) : illustrations.
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Summary
"This lively and easy-to-understand guide gives you the confidence, tools, and insight you need to evaluate financial products and make smart investments that target success over the long term. You'll learn how to set long-term goals for critical, high-cost events such as retirement, your children's education, and future health care needs. Then you'll learn what types of investments will best help you achieve those goals. In step-by-step fashion, this book shows you how to research mutual funds, stocks, bonds, and other financial products to create a portfolio of diversified investments."--Amazon.
Variant and related titles
O'Reilly Safari. OCLC KB.
Other formats
Print version: Personal investing. Sebastopol, Calif. : O'Reilly, ©2010
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 14, 2024
Series
The missing manual
Contents
The missing credits
Introduction
Part one: Prepare to invest
Why should you invest?
How inflation hurts
Why scary numbers aren't that scary
Set your investment goals
Building your bucket list
Retirement, college, or other goals
The big kahuna: retirement
Other long term goals
Putting it all together
Invest with open eyes
Clean up your finances
Spend money wisely
Expect base hits, not home runs
Sidestepping pitfalls in investor psychology
Part two: choose and buy your investments
How investments work
The big four: typical investments
Taxing decisions
Funds
The vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry of funds
What a fund invests in
Evaluating fund performance
Keeping a lid on fund expenses
How to pick funds
Finding funds
Deciding when to sell
Managing your funds
Stocks
Buying into a business
Investing in growth
Investing in quality
Investing in good values
Watching for trends
Bonds
Why invest in bonds?
How bonds work and how you use them
Buying bonds
REITs
Is REIT investing right for me?
Types of REITs
Picking individual REITs
Finding the right REITs and REITs funds
Manage your portfolio
What's investment portfolio management?
Return vs. risk
Asset allocation
Choosing an asset allocation plan
Asset allocation made ridiculously easy
Reviewing your portfolio
Rebalancing your portfolio
Getting back on track
Part three: manage your investments
Investing for retirement
The key retirement decisions
Making the most of retirement accounts
Managing a retirement portfolio
Making the most of social security
Withdrawing money during retirement
Investing for college
College cost how much?
Tax-savvy ways to save for education
How to pick a 529 savings plan
Saving for more than one child
The best way to spend college savings
Investing for health care
Types of health insurance
Choosing and employer-sponsored plan
Choosing an individual health insurance plan
High-deductible health insurance plans
Negotiating with health-care providers
Paying for long-term care
Index.
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