A Beginner’s Guide to Investing: How to Grow Your Money the Smart and Easy Way
A Beginner's Guide to Investing: How to Grow Your Money the Smart and Easy Way
Whether you're a complete investing novice or just confused about all the contradictory advice out there, A Beginner's Guide to Investing is an accessible guide to growing your money the smart and easy way.Throw away the get-rich quick schemes that never work and turn off the financial news and it's constant noise. Whether your dream is protecting your assets in a turbulent market or growing your wealth so that you can retire in style, this book is the blueprint.
You can be a successful investor - really.
Join Ivy Bytes, an innovative start-up dedicated to creating accessible content on crucial issues, and Alex Frey, a lifelong investor and Harvard MBA, as they show you:
- How you can realistically expect to double your money every 7-10 years
- Why most investors achieve stunningly poor returns on their money - and how to avoid turning into one of them
- How to choose an investment account that you can keep for the rest of your life
- How to out-perform the vast majority of professional investors while taking less risk
- How to quickly create a portfolio of diversified ETFs (exchange traded funds)
- How to put in as few as three to five hours every year on your investing - and still beat 80% of investors
- Why you may not be properly diversified in holding the most popular index mutual funds
- How endowments like Yale university have consistently beaten the overall stock market - and what you can learn from them
- Why the vast majority of mutual funds fail to live up to their promise
- Why your financial adviser and mutual fund manager might be getting more rich than you off of your investments
- What the terms "beta" and "alpha" mean - and why understanding them is critical to retiring rich
- How to maximize your tax savings by using a 401(k) and IRA
- When and how to re-balance your portfolio
- How to have the confidence to manage your money for life
- And more.
About the Authors
Alex Frey has been engrossed in the investing world since the age of 16. He has served previously as a research analyst for a major mutual fund company. Alex has successfully passed all three Chartered Financial Analyst examinations, and has an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He lives in San Francisco, CA. When he is not writing, he enjoys reading, investing, and doing just about anything outdoors.
Ivy Bytes is an innovative start-up building authoritative, yet accessible guides to subjects in the fields of politics, current events, economics, and finance. Ivy Bytes books are thoroughly researched and extensively fact-checked, so that you can be sure you are getting the latest in mainstream thought - not misguided conspiracy theories or reckless self-promotion.
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emmac 7:05 am on December 18, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Good advice, easy to understand,
I’m honestly not that interested in finance, but thought I should know what to do with my retirement accounts, and this book was exactly what I needed. It is clear and engagingly written, and justifies all the advice it gives with easy to understand discussions of the stock market’s performance. The author is so knowledgable that I think this would also be of interest to people with more background in the stock market and finance, but it is indeed perfect for a beginner!
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Financial analyst 7:06 am on December 18, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Recommend — a strong buy,
Alex is very knowledgable on financial issues and his book clearly shows it. In addition, he uses a simple straight forward language that is easy to understand for the average person. This book is a must if you are concerned about the risks of investing your money or if you want to get a good overview of the fundamentals in the financial world.
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Robert 7:57 am on December 18, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Excellent Beginner’s Guide,
Every young adult (and many older adults) should read this book. They will be much better off financially if they do. It is short and concise, but it explains the essence of investing. The author points out that stocks have appreciated at a rate of about 10% a year over long periods of time (somewhat less when inflation is considered). However, most average investors realize much less than this because their gains are eaten up by management fees and by the human tendency to follow the herd and buy and sell at the wrong times. The author describes how one can creat a diversified portfolio that minimizes risk while keeping management fees very low. If people follow his advise, they will be better off in the long run.
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Anonymous 8:08 am on December 18, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Don’t Listen while driving,
There is nothing in this audio except common sense and the basic basics of investing in real estate. It is so basic I doubt it usefulness. The orator is sooooo boring, so it does have value if you can’t sleep – but don’t listen while driving! Also the chapters have no logical order, except they are in alphabetical order. The first chapter talks about taxes, while the chapter on which kind of real estate to invest in (something you’d expect towards the beginning) is towards the end. I’m glad I only paid a dollar for the MP3 version, but the one chapter worth listening to – Computing Real Estate Returns – is information easily found on the internet.
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