Beschreibung
The ultimate guide to individual investing Wealth Without Wall Street: The Five Essentials of Investing encompasses a broad range of lessons for achieving financial independence from one of America's leading financial experts. Core advice focuses on five essentials, but the book also offers advice on market timing, vanity investments, recent advances in index fund investing, bear market strategies, and increasing workplace income. The advice is current, timeless, useful, and is offered with a unique voice. The book discusses how investors can acquire the skepticism, and clear thinking, that are so important for developing successful money strategies. It is the right book for new investors and for seasoned investors returning to the market after the recent down years. The five "essentials" teach proper diversification, asset allocation, controlling risk, managing costs, and include an in-depth discussion of how to use the media to become a better investor. The media chapter includes advice on how to benefit from newspapers, magazines, newsletters, books, business radio and TV, investor conferences, and the Internet. * Encourages using media advice in building a better portfolio from an author who has done so with aplomb * Includes information on almost 20 subjects rarely, or never, found in other investing books, including how to use the media to hone your investing skills * Discusses how investors can acquire the skepticism and clear thinking that are so important for developing successful money making strategies Sheldon Jacobs wrote the first ever self-help book on no-load mutual funds. Published in 1974, Put Money in Your Pocket introduced thousands of investors to no-loads. Now, with Wealth Without Wall Street, he's back with the ultimate guide to investing safely, securely, and profitably.
Autorenporträt
InhaltsangabePreface Introduction: Take a Journey with Me Part One: The Five Essentials Chapter 1 The First Essential: Determine the Right Asset Allocation Chapter 2 The Second Essential: Diversify Within Asset Classes Chapter 3 The Third Essential: Understand and Control Risk Chapter 4 The Fourth Essential: Keep Your Costs Low Chapter 5 The Fifth Essential: Choose the Right Financial Media to Follow Part Two: Actions and Strategies to Implement the Essentials Chapter 6 Developing Media Expertise Chapter 7 How to Build Mutual Fund Portfolios for Lifetime Profits Chapter 8 Index Fund Investing: Beyond the S&P 500 Chapter 9 How to Survive Bear Markets Chapter 10 The Case for Market Timing Chapter 11 The No-Work Way to a Comfortable Retirement. Maybe Chapter 12 Dealing with Professionals Part Three: Becoming a Well-Rounded Money Maven Chapter 13 For Clearer Thinking Chapter 14 The Psychology of Investing Chapter 15 Integrity, or the Lack of It Chapter 16 Women Aren't Different; They Just Live Longer Chapter 17 Adventures in Collectibles Chapter 18 Vanity Investments Chapter 19 Increasing Your Workplace Income Epilogue: Journey's End Appendix: Directory of Newsletters with Model Portfolios Glossary Acknowledgments About the Author Index
