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All about Investing: The Easy Way to Get Started »
Authors: Esme E. Faerber
ISBN-13: 9780071457521, ISBN-10: 0071457526
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Date Published: February 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Esme E. Faerber
Esmé Faerber, MBA, C.P.A., is a professor of business and accounting at Rosemont College. She is the author of All About Stocks, All About Bonds and Mutual Funds, Fundamentals of the Bond Market, and The Personal Finance Calculator.
Book Synopsis
The easy way to get started in investing
The most stressful investment for any new investor is the first one. All About Investing helps remove that stress, by providing inexperienced investors with techniques for establishing realistic investment goals, buying the proper assets to meet those goals, and constructing a safe and suitable portfolio of long-term investments.
Table of Contents
| Ch. 1 | Introduction to investing | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | Investment risk and return | 19 |
| Ch. 3 | Security markets and how stocks are traded | 47 |
| Ch. 4 | Investment companies (mutual funds) | 82 |
| Ch. 5 | Money-market securities | 119 |
| Ch. 6 | Common stock and preferred stock | 137 |
| Ch. 7 | Bonds | 161 |
| Ch. 8 | Treasury, government, mortgage-backed securities, corporate, and municipal bonds | 185 |
| Ch. 9 | Convertible bonds and zero-coupon bonds | 216 |
| Ch. 10 | Options | 241 |
| Ch. 11 | Futures | 263 |
| Ch. 12 | Real estate, precious metals, and collectibles | 280 |
Subjects
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