Description
Barron's Guide to Making Investment Decisions helps serious investors devise a lifetime investment program that minimizes risk and can be easily modified to meet changing financial circumstances and goals.
Drawing on real-life examples straight from the pages of Barron's National Business and Financial Weekly, a publication of Dow Jones & Company, Inc., and insights the authors have gained in years of interviewing money managers, corporate executives and investment strategists, this one-of-a-kind guide explains:
โข Rewards and risks of stocks, bonds, mutual funds, options and futures, real estate, "hard" assets, collectibles, and other investments
โข How to assess all the costs of investing, including time spent monitoring and managing an investment portfolio
โข How to take advantage of investments especially suited for retirement plans
โข How to invest in faster-growing economies through U.S. multinational firms, single and multi country closed-end funds, global, and international mutual funds
โข Three key tax rules for investors and proven strategies that minimize the tax bite on profits
โข Why money market funds are far riskier than most people realize, and how to protect yourself
โข Tested, time-saving approaches to allocating assets among various markets and instruments and constructing "ideal" investment portfolios at different ages (or putting together a portfolio of mutual funds)
ISBN:9780130929099
