Investing 101
Investing 101, a revised edition of a best-selling title, provides a concise and accessible course on keeping your investments under control - everything you need to know about stocks, bonds, mutual funds, retirement planning and personal taxation.
People looking for basic information on stocks and shares, bonds, mutual funds, unit trusts, retirement planning and tax strategies are often daunted by information overload. Choosing the right book can be as daunting as deciding what to do with the savings and investments themselves. Investing 101 removes these roadblocks, putting people on a path that they can understand and stick with. Kathy Kristof is renowned for taking the mystery and anxiety out of investing by keeping choices manageable. Investing 101 walks readers through the entire investment cycle, how they view their financial lives, rather than presenting stand-alone concepts such as stocks and real estate.
This expanded edition contains new information on 529 college saving plans, annuities, Roth IRAs, credit card, mutual fund fees, reverse mortgages, and why declining markets can be good for you. It includes a cautionary look at home mortgages as investments and tax shelters, and there's even a portfolio for the lazy investor.
Kristof has long demonstrated by her loyal readership and the success of the book's first edition that she understands what's on the minds of investors as intimately as she knows what's happening in the financial markets.
BOOK DETAILS :Paperback, 272 Pages, Dimensions 216 x 135 MM Language English.
Kathy Kristof is a syndicated financial columnist who writes about an array of consumer issues, ranging from taxes to credit cards and financial planning. Nearly 40 million people read her columns in more than fifty major newspapers nationwide. In 1990, Kristof began writing a personal finance column for the Los Angeles Times and was named to replace syndicated personal finance journalist Sylvia Porter, when Porter died in 1991.
Esteemed by her journalist peers (cited as "maybe the best reporter of all the personal finance columnists" in the prestigious TJFR 1999 Blue Chip Newsroom ranking of the top 100 American business journalists), she has received numerous writing awards and honors. In addition to writing, she is a frequent lecturer at investment conferences. She also appears regularly on radio and television news programs, including CNN, CNBC, and Nightly Business Report.