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fabulous guide for every nonprofit.......2000-06-16
A copy should be in every nonprofit library. It's an indispensable guide to fundraising!
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SOMEONE WILL MAKE MONEY ON YOUR FUNDS-WHY NOT YOU?
"This book is a treasure trove of practical research and pithy thoughts based on Gastineau's decades of experience; a valuable guide for the thoughtful investor."
—Harold Evensky, Chairman, Evensky, Brown & Katz
"Someone Will Make Money On Your Funds - Why Not You? will jar armchair mutual fund investors out of their PJ's. If you think checking out your funds in Morningstar and Lipper has you covered, you best read this book."
—Maureen Nevin Duffy, Editor/Publisher, The Turnaround Tactician
"This book is a must-read for fund investors. Gastineau carefully discusses many important factors such as taxes, capital gains overhang, trading costs, turnover, benchmark selection, active management, expense ratio, and aggressive trading by market timers. These factors significantly affect fund performance but may be ignored by investors. Gastineau goes on to build a strong case for choosing ETFs over mutual funds, especially for long-term investors. I strongly recommend this book for investors."
—Vijay Singal, J. Gray Ferguson Professor of Finance and Chairperson of the Finance Department, Pamplin College of Business of Virginia Tech, and author of Beyond the Random Walk: A Guide to Stock Market Anomalies and Low-Risk Investing
"Gastineau's message is very powerful. He not only challenges some conventional wisdom on investing, but truly emphasizes how to add value to a portfolio. What is unique is his ability to move quickly from the big picture to implementation strategies offering investment solutions to both investment advisors and individual investors. Portfolio adjustments discussed can potentially have significant impact on a long-term investor's standard of living."
—Dan Dolan, Director, Wealth Management Strategies, Select Sector SPDRs
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SOMEONE WILL MAKE MONEY ON YOUR FUNDS-WHY NOT YOU? ""This book is a treasure trove of practical research and pithy thoughts based on Gastineau's decades of experience; a valuable guide for the thoughtful investor."" Harold Evensky, Chairman, Evensky, Brown & Katz ""Someone Will Make Money On Your Funds - Why Not You? will jar armchair mutual fund investors out of their PJ's. If you think checking out your funds in Morningstar and Lipper has you covered, you best read this book."" Maureen Nevin Duffy, Editor/Publisher, The Turnaround Tactician ""This book is a must-read for fund investors. Gastineau carefully discusses many important factors such as taxes, capital gains overhang, trading costs, turnover, benchmark selection, active management, expense ratio, and aggressive trading by market timers. These factors significantly affect fund performance but may be ignored by investors. Gastineau goes on to build a strong case for choosing ETFs over mutual funds, especially for long-term investors. I strongly recommend this book for investors."" Vijay Singal, J. Gray Ferguson Professor of Finance and Chairperson of the Finance Department, Pamplin College of Business of Virginia Tech, and author of Beyond the Random Walk: A Guide to Stock Market Anomalies and Low-Risk Investing ""Gastineau's message is very powerful. He not only challenges some conventional wisdom on investing, but truly emphasizes how to add value to a portfolio. What is unique is his ability to move quickly from the big picture to implementation strategies offering investment solutions to both investment advisors and individual investors. Portfolio adjustments discussed can potentially have significant impact on a long-term investor's standard of living."" Dan Dolan, Director, Wealth Management Strategies, Select Sector SPDRs
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Written by an expert in the field.......2007-02-09
Gary is an expert in the field of index funds and ETF's. The book is a critical review of the products on the market to use passive investing techniques.The book however lacks clear direction for the average investor as compared to a book I recently added to my investing library.
I also recommend a little book titled How to Make Money in the Stock Market-Buy 2,500 different stocks for $1000 - Pay no Commission This book is a must for those wanting to find out about indexing (passive investing) and why it is the superior method for the small investor (and big one too). This book is an outstanding guide to personal investing. It will be useful to all investors from novices to highly the highly experienced. This book prepares the reader to approach investing from the standpoint of the underlying science. It is the antithesis of a 'get rich quick scheme'.How to Make Money in the Stock Market-Buy 2,500 Different Stocks-Pay no Commission
All aspects of Modern Portfolio Theory and passive (index) investing are explained in a through and easily understood manner. The aspect I like most is that as well as a solid theoretical foundation the book is very practical and shows the reader how to create (and more importantly) and manage over time a successful portfolio. This is a great book- for the beginning investor, it's a great place to start and for the experienced investor there are many valuable suggestions.
An industry insider discusses ETFs and Mutual Funds at a very high level.......2006-01-21
I would have given it five stars if the book had been better paced; after a gentle warm-up it's continuously intense. He tells the reader to skip over dense sections but who wants to do that? By page 169 I was too mentally tired to continue. All that said, I STRONGLY recommend this book to anyone who ever wanted to listen to an financial services insider explain the real problems with today's financial "sausage". The book gives the best overview of the complex issues facing the financial services industry today. This book doesn't baby its readers, that's its strength and weakness.
Authoritative EFT treatment plus more.......2005-10-02
While Gastineau is helpful on managed and index mutuals, his authoritative treatment of EFTs is the most detailed and useful I know of. Of particular, immediate use was specific recommentations of stable inexpensive EFTs in Chapter 8 for both taxable and tax-deferred portfolios. I also appreciated his deep consideration of many other investment problems and solutions. This book will always be at hand.
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Financial planner and broker Julie Stav took the world by storm with her PBS financial series and New York Times bestseller Get Your Share-showing women how to strike it rich in the stock market. Now she speaks to everyone-men and women, young and old, new and seasoned investor alike.
In this updated edition of Fund Your Future, Stav shows step by step how to set financial goals and examine your current investment plans to determine if you are investing as profitably as possible. Her signature blend of supportiveness and expert practical advice takes the fear out of investing and puts the roadmap to riches within easy reach.
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Outstanding book!.......2004-06-12
This is an amazing book - it clearly explains how you can plan for your retirement and help you to actually calculate the numbers yourself without depending on a planner. The book made me feel very empowered with my own finances. Thanks for writing this book - its awesome.
No Index.......2002-02-10
I found the book clearly written but was surprised to find no index.
get your share: the everyday woman's guide to stocks.......2002-02-05
I too am a hispanic woman. I was quite intimidated by stocks and expecially that scary stock page in the newspaper. I could not believe it. I am a college graduate and a bank employee and here I am completely baffled by investments. I work in a bank. But I caught the last 15 minutes of her PBS special and was captivated as to how simply she explained it without being condisending. I needed someone to explain how to take control of my own finances and all of those dummy books were not as helpful as I had hoped. I truly felt like a dummy!! I especially liked the road lane analogy. Because now I know in what lane and what speed to go. Even though I am 27 and the recommended/investing age starts at 25. I am confident that my retirement will be smoother than most of today's retirees. I thank you very much Julie, you improved my life by allowing me to understand it more clearly. Thanks again. If you are ever in Chicago, look me up. I owe you a cup of Starbucks mochaccino or something!!
BEST FINANCIAL PLANNING BOOK OUT THERE!.......2001-12-06
Wow! Julie Stav is really a financial writer for our times. She speaks in clear language and provides a special (and easy!) system for you to figure out how to plan for retirement, save for a college fund, or even just get the most out of your 401(k). My favorite part was the exercise she had us go through to find "hidden assets" that I didn't even know I had! I would recommend this to anyone who is numbers shy but who knows that it is time to take their financial future into their own hands!
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Everyone's worried. Traditionally safe investments in savings, money-market accounts, CDs, and bonds just aren't paying off. Millions of Americans are flocking to mutual funds. Now, award-winning journalist Jonathan Clements clears a path through the financial minefields. In clear, easy-to-understand, jargon-free language, he shows even the most uninformed investor how to use his unique, carefully designed, and balanced approach to mutual funds--and take advantage of the wealth-building power of the stock market.
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It worked well for me!.......1998-12-23
I bought this book when I started my first pharmacist job. All my investments are mutual funds and this is the only book I ever read on mutual funds. According to Quicken my ROI today is ranging 23-33%. I'm happy with what the book taught me.
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Skyrocketing tuitions have become a national concern. The average four-year college degree now costs more than $35,000, and that sum is growing at a phenomenal rate, forcing unprecedented numbers of college students into student-loan debt. In 1995, the Educational Resource Institute issued a report warning that borrowing has exploded to record levels and is expected to double in five years.
Whether they're just beginning to think about paying for college, are currently in school, starting repayment or already overwhelmed with debt, students, as well as recent graduates and parents, find The Guerrilla Guide to Mastering Student Loan Debt an indispensable guide to navigating the student loan maze. In clear, lively and reassuring chapters, it answers such time and money-saving questions as:
What types of loans are available, and how are they different?
How can I get the best possible deal?
What are my options for repaying my loan and can I postpone repayment?
How can I get a forbearance or a deferment?
How can I repair my credit rating?
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Know Your Options, and Know Your Rights.......2004-10-29
There is a common theme among college students these days, and those who have attended and quit as well as those (un)lucky multitudes who have graduated. Sometime during the senior year of high school, application forms to colleges are sent in, and admissions and rejection notices are sent a few months later. Along with the admissions forms comes another little form detailing the amount of aid that is extended by the college to the prospective freshperson. This is where all the fun begins, and it quickly snowballs into a pernicious form of indentured servitude.
Ms. Stockwell's book details in painful precision just what happens when a pimply-faced kid signs on the dotted line. First she begins by relating her own experience, and then she delves into the experiences of others. Along the way, she shows how many of us got into the student loan mess, how the financial aid system has evolved (or is it mutated?!) into the monstrous behemoth that it is today (actually at the time she wrote the book), some coping strategies (for it really can't be called anything else) for the inevitable missed payments and default, and finally some suggestions on how the system can(but will not ever) be fixed.
We live in an age of educational opportunity. Anyone with some combination of motivation and money can attend college. Indeed, attendance at college has become necessary in some professions just to keep pace. At any rate, it is a tremendous achievement that folks from just about all walks of life now have the chance to attend college.
However, this does not mean that the powers-that-be have made attendance easy or even free. There is a rather sinister catch attached to the proposition, and it always requires people of limited means to devote years of their lives and of their professional livelihood to servicing some form of debt burden. I have to agree with the author, who said that the best thing to do is to say NO! to all forms of debt- from student loans to credit cards to auto loans, as they all tend to lock you into cycles from which frankly there may be no escape.
This leads into another part of this sinister situation of Faustian proportions. Not long after the freshperson has signed on the dotted line, and just a few short weeks after parking his or her carcass in a smelly, roach-infested dorm room, the credit card people come calling. There literally seems to be a deluge of credit card applications arriving one after another in the mailbox. (However, these days, I have been told by more than a few distressed parents that the card companies don't even wait till the brats have donned their caps and gowns for high school graduation.)
Finally, sometime before college graduation, typically during the beginning of your senior year, some auto company like General Motors comes around and offers to 'help out' the soon-to-be graduated. It seems that they know you are looking for a job, and wouldn't it make a good impression on prospective employers if you rolled in a nice, shiny new car that shows that you are a professional and that you mean business? Fixing you up would be no problem at all- just sign here on the dotted line, and you'd better hurry, as there are only a limited number of this year's model left. Oh and uh, did I forget to mention that there's a really low 2.9% APR and uh, no payments for the first year?
In my mind, there is absolutely no doubt that there is a great deal of collusion between universities, credit card and auto companies in the ongoing mess of indebtedness seen among recent grads and post-grads. Here's a friendly tip: most aid packages have some combination of grants, work study and loans. You can negotiate the combination of the aid you receive. I strongly suggest that you negotiate to get as much work study as possible, and leave the loans, especially the Stafford Loans, as an option. It's what I did, and it meant the difference between finishing with a lot of debt (or not finishing and with a lot of debt as has happened to many acquaintances) and finishing with little or no debt. Too many friends of mine are broke, out of work, living in their parents' basement and have turned dodging dunning notices from student loan companies and collection agencies into a practiced science.
Anyone that is contemplating going to college should read this book. Although I must concede that the book is a a little dated, as there have been some significant changes in the student loan picture in the last six or seven years or so, it does precisely show the progression of events that do occur when one gets overwhelmed with student loans.
Yet, much of the debt mess we see among many students is indeed voluntary. No one is forcing kids to max out credit cards and purchase one (or more) cars before they graduate, but then no one is championing the cause of caution either with any form of credit. Many kids are not simply graduating in debt, they are now matriculating into debt in droves. Please note that all of this comes before contemplating the thorny proposition of a home mortgage!
In sum, in this age of job insecurity and galloping price increases, people need to know the risks when fooling around with any form of credit. I take my hat off to Ms. Stockwell, who had the courage to call attention to this clever ploy to re-institute feudalism among the masses.
All hail King George!
Read this book BEFORE you take out student loans.......2002-05-29
This book really will not help you if you already have student loan debt. If you do, the advice is simple - hunker down and pay it off. If you have no student loan debt, read this book and reconsider your desire to go into debt for your education. You can get a good education on the "pay as you go" method if you do it right. Take it from someone who made all the wrong choices - don't go into debt for your education!! I don't recommend this book if you already have sutdent loan debt - focus on paying it off. Save the money you'd spend on this book and put it toward your loan payoff.
Student Loan Warning.......2002-02-15
I have found myself graduated and placed in a law career that I never wanted, thanks to my family's pushing a smart but "too nice" young man into a potentially "lucrative" but intensely stressful and blood-spilling career as a lawyer. Of course the family never paid anything because they are simple lower middle class people who had a dream that their bright young son would become a smashing success. So now I have a $100,000 debt and stuck in a career that I dread (I wanted to be a damn scientist, not a LAWYER). This book is pretty good on telling you exactly how the government can wreck your life with its easy to get student loans, but it doesn't have any hands down cure. It is dated already in that a year after it was published congress took away the 7 year waiting period for a bankruptcy discharge. Now you may NEVER have your educational loans discharged, so they will chase you and harass you and try to reposess your things even when you are old and grey, all for your mistaken career choices made as a youth. For those who are sucked into the student loan system without rich parents to bail them out or pay the bills, there is not much anybody can do for you. This book SHOULD BE READ BY ANYONE WHO DOES NOT HAVE ASSETS and is thinking about taking loans to go to school. READ IT because nobody else is gonna tell you how absolutely crushing this educational debt can be to your dreams. Then you will see that NOBODY in their right mind should get into serious nondischargeable debt for what is at best an uncertain hope that you will maybe be able to get a job and pay it back through continuous work through what should be the prime years of your life. READ THIS BOOK BEFORE YOU SIGN THE PROMISSORY NOTE!!!!!!!!!!!
About as Good as a Student Loan Book Could Get.......2001-06-28
This book is just fine. I guess the bottom line is you need to make the money to pay the damn things off however. I'd like to see something in a more loompanics sort vein.
This book saved my life!.......2000-08-25
In a panic when facing consolidation of over $100,000 in student loans, I stumbled upon this great book. I then postponed reading it, fearing what I would learn. But, I did read it, and discovered I couldn't put it down. This book makes sense of the history of student loans and how to understand and get through the loan process. There is a wealth of resources, suggestions and information about how to live with student loans and NOT lose your sanity. Schools do NOT adequately prepare students to understand what they are getting into, much less how to manage loan repayment. I only wish I the book had been written before I started my graduate program. It is especially helpful to have this information BEFORE you sign for any student loan.
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Baffled by your company 401(k)? Don't know what to do with those stocks Grandpa left you? Or are you completely without a portfolio—and unsure how to proceed?
With The Everything(r) Investing Book, you'll navigate the world of finance with confidence—and make a profit, too! Completely updated to include the latest investment secrets, this easy-to-follow guide helps you build your wealth step by step. You'll learn everything from the safest ways to plan ahead for decades to the hottest trends to make a turn on your investment now. Written by two seasoned professionals, this new expanded and revised second edition has it all:
Tried-and-true tips on real estate investing
No-nonsense guidance on investing your money online
Insider advice on working with the right financial advisor
A comprehensive resource on investing and taxes
A candid look at IRAs and bankruptcy protection
A behind-the-scenes look at how the financial industry works
A friendly explanation of understanding Life Stages for the right fund mix
An exciting chapter on building your own mutual fund
The new opportunities with Health Savings Accounts
Bursting with tips on succeeding in today's volatile market, The Everything(r) Investing Book is the financial tool you need to invest your money wisely—and profitably.
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- A practical guide to common sense investing.
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The Fortune in Your Future: Wealth-Building Tactics for Every Investor
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"David Veeneman has written a book that...you cannot afford to be without. The Fortune in Your Future deftly walks the most difficult line in financial writing--namely, it is at once sophisticated and accessible, breezy and comprehensive."--Tyler Mathisen, Financial Journalist
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A practical guide to common sense investing........1998-09-24
A great book on investing your money to achieve results within your comfort zone. A wide range of asset allocation models are provided and Veeneman's explanations of the models are fun and easy to understand.
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An insider's guide to evaluating the most important part of a hedge fund
Amaranth. Aurora. The Manhattan Fund. Bayou. To anyone invested in or interested in investing in hedge funds, these names evoke one thought: blow-ups. Knowing that these and other hedge funds have faltered is not particularly valuable; knowing how to avoid funds that might blow-up is crucial. Hedge Fund Due Diligence provides a step-by-step methodology that allows readers to do just that. Based on a framework that hedge fund investigative expert Randy Shain has refined over the course of his successful career, this book provides an overview of due diligence into hedge fund management, how information on managers can be obtained, and why this information is essential to the investment community. This timely resource will help readers spot blow-ups and avoid them.
Randy Shain (Port Washington, NY) is Vice President at First Advantage Investigative Services, producers of the BackTrack Report, where he examines funds and fund management.
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- Smart Couples Finish Rich: 9 Steps to Creating a Rich Future for You and Your Partner
- Stop Sitting on Your Assets: How to Safely Leverage the Equity Trapped in Your Home and Transform It Into a Constant Flow of Wealth and Security
- Stop Sitting on Your Assets: How to Safely Leverage the Equity Trapped in Your Home and Transform It Into a Constant Flow of Wealth and Security
- Tax Havens Today: The Benefits and Pitfalls of Banking and Investing Offshore
- Tax Havens Today: The Benefits and Pitfalls of Banking and Investing Offshore
- Tax Havens Today: The Benefits and Pitfalls of Banking and Investing Offshore
- The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding
- The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding
- The Coffeehouse Investor: How to Build Wealth, Ignore Wall Street, and Get On With Your Life
- The Cost of Discipleship
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