If You're Clueless about Mutual Funds and Want to Know More
If You're Clueless about Mutual Funds and Want to Know More

Author: Seth Godin

Publisher: Dearborn Trade Publishing

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780793125548

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Even though more people are investing billions of dollars in mutual funds, both directly and through a variety of retirement programs, often they don't have a clear understanding about what it really means to invest in mutual funds. In If You're Clueless About Mutual Funds and Want to Know More, Seth Godin quickly brings these people, and anyone interested in more intelligent mutual fund investing, up to speed. Beginning with a lively look at the history of mutual funds, the guide goes on to provide a worksheet for estimating the total cost of a fund, and lists ten questions to ask about a mutual fund before investing. It gives readers key resources for mutual fund information and tells them how to differentiate between funds. You'll find clear, fast answers to such questions as: -- How much money does it take to start?-- What do load and no-load really mean?-- How can I maximize returns?-- What about taxes?Answers to all these and more are served up with the wit and know-how that characterize the series and make these guides a pleasure to use. Before they know it, readers will be ramping up their own journey to inf

If You're Clueless about Financial Planning and Want to Know More
If You're Clueless about Financial Planning and Want to Know More

Author: Seth Godin

Publisher: Dearborn Trade

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9780793129881

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Sometimes the first step is the hardest to make in financial planning, so this book is the cheerful kick-in-the-pants to get readers going. Providing readers with everything they need to put together a financial plan, this guide includes specific types of investments, insurance, and estate planning--in an easy-to-understand format.

Finance Is Personal
Finance Is Personal

Author: Kim Stephenson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2015-06-30

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13:

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This groundbreaking personal finance resource shows you how to manage thinking, feelings, and behavior so that you can handle your money to get what you want—not what someone else thinks you ought to have to be happy. Financial planning and money management are hot topics, but most books don't help you figure out what you truly want your money to provide for you. Exploring links between money and happiness, this guide is based on sound theory and on the latest research in psychology, behavioral economics, happiness, and neuroscience. It will give people at any stage of life—especially those of you in college or starting careers—the tools to plot your own course through the financial world and, ultimately, use money as a gateway to a happy and fulfilling life. Stephenson and Hutchins introduce core concepts that support strong, sound decision making around money, based on personal values, attitudes and beliefs, and goals. Practical, information-gathering questions and exercises help you uncover your true financial needs. The final two chapters show you how to integrate the relevant information with your goals and develop a plan for success. Along the way, you will learn such things as how to plan for your long-term goals, how to delay certain types of gratification for another type of instant gratification (peace of mind), how to think about credit, and how to make decisions on such issues as renting or buying, investing or saving, and borrowing a lot, a little, or not at all. Finally, you will come away with new ideas for how to have fun on a budget.

All About Asset Allocation, Second Edition
All About Asset Allocation, Second Edition

Author: Richard A. Ferri

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2010-07-12

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0071759514

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WHEN IT COMES TO INVESTING FOR YOUR FUTURE, THERE'S ONLY ONE SURE BET—ASSET ALLOCATION THE EASY WAY TO GET STARTED Everything You Need to Know About How To: Implement a smart asset allocation strategy Diversify your investments with stocks, bonds,real estate, and other classes Change your allocation and lock in gains Trying to outwit the market is a bad gamble. If you're serious about investing for the long run, you have to take a no-nonsense, businesslike approach to your portfolio. In addition to covering all the basics, this new edition of All About Asset Allocation includes timely advice on: Learning which investments work well together and why Selecting the right mutual funds and ETFs Creating an asset allocation that’s right for your needs Knowing how and when to change an allocation Understanding target-date mutual funds "All About Asset Allocation offers advice that is both prudent and practical--keep it simple, diversify, and, above all, keep your expenses low--from an author who both knows how vital asset allocation is to investment success and, most important, works with real people." -- John C. Bogle, founder and former CEO, The Vanguard Group "With All About Asset Allocation at your side, you'll be executing a sound investment plan, using the best materials and wearing the best safety rope that money can buy." -- William Bernstein, founder and author, The Intelligent Asset Allocator

If You're Clueless about Insurance and Want to Know More
If You're Clueless about Insurance and Want to Know More

Author: Seth Godin

Publisher: Kaplan Publishing

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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Seth Godin clears a nontechnical and entertaining path through the insurance jungle with his friendly, chatty tone. He outlines how insurance needs change over a lifetime, as well as how to take an intelligent, comprehensive approach to insurance.

Ask a Manager
Ask a Manager

Author: Alison Green

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0399181822

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From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

Cashing in on the American Dream
Cashing in on the American Dream

Author: Paul Terhorst

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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A brilliant and practical five year plan for all who dream of retiring while they're young and healthy enough to enjoy it. Provides clear advice on how to overcome the personal, financial and psychological obstacles.

Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

Author: Michael Lewis

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2014-03-31

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0393244660

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Argues that post-crisis Wall Street continues to be controlled by large banks and explains how a small, diverse group of Wall Street men have banded together to reform the financial markets.