The Portfolio Chef: Satisfy Your Investment Appetite
In this guide to understanding and creating a diversified financial investment portfolio, food analogies are used to explain confusing financial jargon and suggest that a healthy stock portfolio, like a nutritious meal, must be balanced. Equating bonds with potatoes, blue chip stocks with meat, and speculative stocks with desserts, this primer details the various types of investments available and explains how to choose suitable ventures. Both the novice and the experienced investor will benefit from the resources offered for using the Internet and other information sources to make informed financial choices.
The Golden Rule: Safe Strategies of Sage Investors
Everything the independent investor needs to know to effectively invest in gold. With today's increasing economic uncertainties, a strong investment strategy is to put a portion of your net worth in gold. However, given investors' overall lack of knowledge about gold as an investment, as wealth insurance, or as a store of value, many are hesitant to enter this arena.
That's why Jim Gibbons has created The Golden Rule. This book answers many questions, including: How do you purchase gold and in what form? Why gold now? When should you buy? And, most importantly, from whom? Throughout the book, Gibbons puts gold in perspective and shows you why it belongs in every investor's portfolio.
An intriguing look at the full range of value methods brought together for the first time The biggest block to success in the stock market is unconscious investing, or following the crowd without asking the right questions such as: “What is it really worth?” Even more fundamental is: “What rate of return can I confidently expect to get?” Without having the methods to answer these questions is like trying to sail a boat without a rudder.
“De-risking your investments requires knowing that there is much you don’t know.”Risk exists because of one simple fact: Decisions are always based on incomplete information. Therefore, to meet your investment goals over the long term, you must learn to manage the risks associated with a decision-making process that is by nature flawed. Risk and the Smart Investor provides a framework for making such decisions.
The classic bestseller by Benjamin Graham, perhaps the greatest investment advisor of the Twentieth Century, The Intelligent Investor has taught and inspired hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Since its original publication in 1949, Benjamin Grahams book has remained the most respected guide to investing, due to his timeless philosophy of "value investing," which helps protect investors against areas of (possible) substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies which they will be comfortable with down the road.
