Investing for the Utterly Confused
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Introduction
Part I: Learning to Retire
Chapter One: Learning Permits
Chapter Two: From Point A
Chapter Three: To Point B
Chapter Four: Risk and the Retirement Account
Chapter Five: Navigating Your Company Sponsored Plan
Chapter Six: The Role of Age
Part II: Profiting from Group Think using Mutual Funds
Chapter Seven: Behind the Wheel
Chapter Eight: The Laid-back Approach
Chapter Nine: A Road better Traveled
Chapter Ten: The Active Approach
Chapter Eleven: The Cost of Speed
Chapter Twelve: On the Defensive
Part III: Long-Term Coming
Chapter Thirteen: The Vast Open Spaces of Wall Street
Chapter Fourteen: With a Goal in Mind
Chapter Fifteen: And the Wind at Your Back
Section Four: What Every Investor Needs
Chapter Sixteen: Just a Spoonful of Sugar
Chapter Seventeen: How Fun can get Complicated
Chapter Eighteen: Defining Short-term
Chapter Nineteen: Investing is a Team Sport
Chapter Twenty: Some Final thoughts
Make sense of every kind of investment with this easy, accessible guide!
In the popular, easy-to-use format of the Utterly Confused series, this authoritative, easy-to understand guide to stocks, bonds, mutual funds, 401(k)s, and more is perfect for the novice investor. Paul Petillo provides practical, proven advice on finding the right places to invest, weighing risk versus return, anticipating pitfalls in the market, and maintaining a diversified portfolio.
- Thorough and comprehensive coverage of all relevant investment strategies, tools, and tips for today's investor
- Definitions, descriptions, and step-by-step instruction will teach even the most uninitiated how to build a solid, profitable portfolio
- Explains the dynamics of the market, the discipline needed to invest, and the tools needed to be successful in the long term
- Includes explanations of important tricks of the trade, including asset allocation, dollar cost averaging, and efficient market hypothesis