Money – Protect and Grow

In 1990 Harry Markowitz, Merton Miller, and William Sharpe shared the Nobel Prize in Economics for their individual contributions resulting in the development of modern portfolio theory. In this informative book, Swedroe, presently a principal in Buckingham Asset Management in St. Louis, provides investors with practical advice on how to employ this widely accepted investment theory in today’s competitive marketplace. Along the way he explains why most advice from the news media and investment firms tends to have little basis in reality, why active portfolio management and market timing generally don’t work, how institutional investors use “passive” (rather than “active”) portfolio management to their advantage, and what questions you should ask before putting your trust in a financial adviser or firm. Highly recommended for academic, public, and special libraries.?Norman B. Hutcherson, Beale Memorial Lib., Bakersfield, CA
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Throughout the last fifteen years of the bull market, individual investors were able to participate and amass financial holdings by way of mutual funds. But the constant buying and selling to “beat the market” and grow their fund’s wealth also entailed costs and capital gains. And who paid for it? The investor. Over the past 20 years smart investors began switching to index mutual funds to keep more of their money. Index funds buy and hold all of the stocks in an index, dramatically reducing trading costs and taxes. And now, with Larry Swedroe’s expert advice, the small investor can take advantage of this investment strategy and win big. In The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You’ll Ever Need, Larry Swedroe explains:
* How index mutual funds out-earn older investment strategies
* How to pick the right balanced “passive” portfolio that will reward investors with the highest expected return for the amount of risk the investor is willing to accept
* How to play the winner’s game with this big and rapidly growing investor trend. Based on over forty years of research by the world’s leading financial economists, the advice Larry Swedroe offers in this new and valuable book shows that those willing to move beyond conventional wisdom will open themselves to a method of great financial growth.
* The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You’ll Ever Need is the first major book on the newest Index Mutual Funds and strategies, today’s biggest investor trend.

Author Russel Kinnel walks readers through the handful of key factors they need to pick winning funds. Armed with the quantitative data and qualitative research, they will gain the confidence to pick great funds for the long-term. This book will be accompanied by a web-based tool created by Morningstar, which will enable readers to evaluate their own funds using Kinnel’s criteria.

Written in a fun and accessible manner, The Fund Spy offers Kinnel’s unique insight as a 14-year Morningstar fund analyst. He speaks plainly about the conflicts that can go against investors’ interests, explaining how to avoid traps and push out the slick sales pitches facing today’s investors. He also offers several “10 lists,” which provide quick answers to investors’ most common questions (e.g., the Top 10 Funds to Recommend to Relatives, the 10 Best Contrarian Managers, the 10 Most Overrated Managers).

If you’re serious about picking the right investments for your portfolio, Fund Spy will put you on the right track.

Nobody is more familiar with mutual funds than author Russel Kinnel, the Director of Mutual Fund Research for Morningstar, Inc. and Editor of Morningstar® FundInvestor, a monthly newsletter for individual investors. He has spent over 15 years researching mutual funds and meeting with the people who manage them. Now, with Fund Spy, he offers unparalleled guidance that will sharpen your investing skills and help you find the best funds for your portfolio.

Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, Fund Spy arms you with the information needed to intelligently screen and select a variety of funds. While both effective new strategies and time-tested techniques are outlined throughout this reliable resource, all of the methods here will help you avoid common mistakes and outperform the average investor.

Page by page, Fund Spy puts this process in perspective with detailed discussion of:

• How to find managers who invest millions of their own money in their funds

• Why fund expenses really matter

• Using a fund’s performance to understand its risk and reward profile, as well as its behavior in different types of markets

• How to find great fund managers and teams

• And much more

Combining quantitative data with qualitative research, Kinnel highlights key factors that drive fund performance and writes candidly about the industry’s conflicts of interest that can harm investors.

Don’t settle for high-cost, poorly run funds simply because they fell into your portfolio or someone is touting them. Follow the guidance found in Fund Spy and you’ll quickly discover what it takes to research and buy the right funds. Three months from now, you may not see a difference, but you will see a dramatic difference in five or 10 years, when the power of compounding has substantially grown your portfolio and put more money in your pocket.

In 1990 Harry Markowitz, Merton Miller, and William Sharpe shared the Nobel Prize in Economics for their individual contributions resulting in the development of modern portfolio theory. In this informative book, Swedroe, presently a principal in Buckingham Asset Management in St. Louis, provides investors with practical advice on how to employ this widely accepted investment theory in today’s competitive marketplace. Along the way he explains why most advice from the news media and investment firms tends to have little basis in reality, why active portfolio management and market timing generally don’t work, how institutional investors use “passive” (rather than “active”) portfolio management to their advantage, and what questions you should ask before putting your trust in a financial adviser or firm. Highly recommended for academic, public, and special libraries.?Norman B. Hutcherson, Beale Memorial Lib., Bakersfield, CA
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Throughout the last fifteen years of the bull market, individual investors were able to participate and amass financial holdings by way of mutual funds. But the constant buying and selling to “beat the market” and grow their fund’s wealth also entailed costs and capital gains. And who paid for it? The investor. Over the past 20 years smart investors began switching to index mutual funds to keep more of their money. Index funds buy and hold all of the stocks in an index, dramatically reducing trading costs and taxes. And now, with Larry Swedroe’s expert advice, the small investor can take advantage of this investment strategy and win big. In The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You’ll Ever Need, Larry Swedroe explains:
* How index mutual funds out-earn older investment strategies
* How to pick the right balanced “passive” portfolio that will reward investors with the highest expected return for the amount of risk the investor is willing to accept
* How to play the winner’s game with this big and rapidly growing investor trend. Based on over forty years of research by the world’s leading financial economists, the advice Larry Swedroe offers in this new and valuable book shows that those willing to move beyond conventional wisdom will open themselves to a method of great financial growth.
* The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You’ll Ever Need is the first major book on the newest Index Mutual Funds and strategies, today’s biggest investor trend.

Author Russel Kinnel walks readers through the handful of key factors they need to pick winning funds. Armed with the quantitative data and qualitative research, they will gain the confidence to pick great funds for the long-term. This book will be accompanied by a web-based tool created by Morningstar, which will enable readers to evaluate their own funds using Kinnel’s criteria.

Written in a fun and accessible manner, The Fund Spy offers Kinnel’s unique insight as a 14-year Morningstar fund analyst. He speaks plainly about the conflicts that can go against investors’ interests, explaining how to avoid traps and push out the slick sales pitches facing today’s investors. He also offers several “10 lists,” which provide quick answers to investors’ most common questions (e.g., the Top 10 Funds to Recommend to Relatives, the 10 Best Contrarian Managers, the 10 Most Overrated Managers).

If you’re serious about picking the right investments for your portfolio, Fund Spy will put you on the right track.

Nobody is more familiar with mutual funds than author Russel Kinnel, the Director of Mutual Fund Research for Morningstar, Inc. and Editor of Morningstar® FundInvestor, a monthly newsletter for individual investors. He has spent over 15 years researching mutual funds and meeting with the people who manage them. Now, with Fund Spy, he offers unparalleled guidance that will sharpen your investing skills and help you find the best funds for your portfolio.

Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, Fund Spy arms you with the information needed to intelligently screen and select a variety of funds. While both effective new strategies and time-tested techniques are outlined throughout this reliable resource, all of the methods here will help you avoid common mistakes and outperform the average investor.

Page by page, Fund Spy puts this process in perspective with detailed discussion of:

• How to find managers who invest millions of their own money in their funds

• Why fund expenses really matter

• Using a fund’s performance to understand its risk and reward profile, as well as its behavior in different types of markets

• How to find great fund managers and teams

• And much more

Combining quantitative data with qualitative research, Kinnel highlights key factors that drive fund performance and writes candidly about the industry’s conflicts of interest that can harm investors.

Don’t settle for high-cost, poorly run funds simply because they fell into your portfolio or someone is touting them. Follow the guidance found in Fund Spy and you’ll quickly discover what it takes to research and buy the right funds. Three months from now, you may not see a difference, but you will see a dramatic difference in five or 10 years, when the power of compounding has substantially grown your portfolio and put more money in your pocket.

Written by a veteran financial planner, this guide uniquely covers the statistical and non-statistical issues involved in selecting and managing a balanced portfolio of mutual funds. It explains investment policy development techniques, explores all asset classes of mutual funds, and covers the critical issues of style analysis, data interpretation and style management.

solid Strategies for Strengthening Your Clients’ Accounts and Your Practice! “Ron Rutherford’s book…sets the stage for people who want to achieve investment success through hard work and dilligence. This book offers the framework for investors and consultants to follow, namely, the investment policy. Most importantly, as a Certified Investment Management Analyst, Mr. Rutherford believes the investment policy statement is to the consultant as the blueprint is to the contractor.” Evelyn L. Brust, CAE, Executive Director, Investment Managment, Consultatnts Association. “This is must reading for everyone offering financial advice. Ron combines a thorough undertanding of financial theory with years of experience in helping clients accomplish their goals. a rare combination…an excellent treatise.” Dr. Frank A. Sortino, Professor Emeritus, San Francisco State University. “Our company provides asset allocation software to about 15,000 investment advisors. This makes us very aware of the kinds of questions that practitioners have about portfolio design for private clients. Mr. Rutherford’s book hits the nail on the head…It’s the unavoidable stuff that advisors must know if they are going to provide the highest quality of investment advice.” Randal J. Moore, President, Frontier analytics, Inc. “Most of what has been written on investment management has been for the institutional investor. Ron Rutherford has effectively selected and translated these ivory tower missives to demonstrate how principles can be used by the advisor who implements strategy with mutual funds.” Donal B. Trone, Executive Director, Investment Management Council, Callan Associates. “Ron Rutherford’s The Complete Guide to Managing a Portfolio of Mutual Funds offers the first comprehensive overview of both the risks and the rewards pf ,utual fund portfolio assembly. As such, it may be the best guide yet for the way Americans invest today.” Don Phillips, President, Morningstar.

In 1990 Harry Markowitz, Merton Miller, and William Sharpe shared the Nobel Prize in Economics for their individual contributions resulting in the development of modern portfolio theory. In this informative book, Swedroe, presently a principal in Buckingham Asset Management in St. Louis, provides investors with practical advice on how to employ this widely accepted investment theory in today’s competitive marketplace. Along the way he explains why most advice from the news media and investment firms tends to have little basis in reality, why active portfolio management and market timing generally don’t work, how institutional investors use “passive” (rather than “active”) portfolio management to their advantage, and what questions you should ask before putting your trust in a financial adviser or firm. Highly recommended for academic, public, and special libraries.?Norman B. Hutcherson, Beale Memorial Lib., Bakersfield, CA
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Throughout the last fifteen years of the bull market, individual investors were able to participate and amass financial holdings by way of mutual funds. But the constant buying and selling to “beat the market” and grow their fund’s wealth also entailed costs and capital gains. And who paid for it? The investor. Over the past 20 years smart investors began switching to index mutual funds to keep more of their money. Index funds buy and hold all of the stocks in an index, dramatically reducing trading costs and taxes. And now, with Larry Swedroe’s expert advice, the small investor can take advantage of this investment strategy and win big. In The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You’ll Ever Need, Larry Swedroe explains:
* How index mutual funds out-earn older investment strategies
* How to pick the right balanced “passive” portfolio that will reward investors with the highest expected return for the amount of risk the investor is willing to accept
* How to play the winner’s game with this big and rapidly growing investor trend. Based on over forty years of research by the world’s leading financial economists, the advice Larry Swedroe offers in this new and valuable book shows that those willing to move beyond conventional wisdom will open themselves to a method of great financial growth.
* The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You’ll Ever Need is the first major book on the newest Index Mutual Funds and strategies, today’s biggest investor trend.

As the stock market has risen to ever-greater heights in recent years, high-tech stocks have led the way. But how many investors, though up to their ears in tech stocks, truly understand what they own? Michael Murphy, editor of the California Technology Stock Letter, makes it his business to understand the breakthroughs in science and engineering that are reshaping our lives. His book, Every Investor’s Guide to High-Tech Stocks and Mutual Funds, is a useful guide for investors, both beginners and pros. It includes rundowns on the latest trends in semiconductors, computers, software, communications, and medical technology. This second edition includes a chapter on investing in Internet stocks. Murphy presents his own strategy for picking tech stocks, and offers recommendations of stocks and technology mutual funds that may have the best long-term prospects.
–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

A Wired columnist and the founder and editor of the top-rated newsletter California Technology Stock Letter, Murphy gives advice on investing in high-tech stocks.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

In 1990 Harry Markowitz, Merton Miller, and William Sharpe shared the Nobel Prize in Economics for their individual contributions resulting in the development of modern portfolio theory. In this informative book, Swedroe, presently a principal in Buckingham Asset Management in St. Louis, provides investors with practical advice on how to employ this widely accepted investment theory in today’s competitive marketplace. Along the way he explains why most advice from the news media and investment firms tends to have little basis in reality, why active portfolio management and market timing generally don’t work, how institutional investors use “passive” (rather than “active”) portfolio management to their advantage, and what questions you should ask before putting your trust in a financial adviser or firm. Highly recommended for academic, public, and special libraries.?Norman B. Hutcherson, Beale Memorial Lib., Bakersfield, CA
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Throughout the last fifteen years of the bull market, individual investors were able to participate and amass financial holdings by way of mutual funds. But the constant buying and selling to “beat the market” and grow their fund’s wealth also entailed costs and capital gains. And who paid for it? The investor. Over the past 20 years smart investors began switching to index mutual funds to keep more of their money. Index funds buy and hold all of the stocks in an index, dramatically reducing trading costs and taxes. And now, with Larry Swedroe’s expert advice, the small investor can take advantage of this investment strategy and win big. In The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You’ll Ever Need, Larry Swedroe explains:
* How index mutual funds out-earn older investment strategies
* How to pick the right balanced “passive” portfolio that will reward investors with the highest expected return for the amount of risk the investor is willing to accept
* How to play the winner’s game with this big and rapidly growing investor trend. Based on over forty years of research by the world’s leading financial economists, the advice Larry Swedroe offers in this new and valuable book shows that those willing to move beyond conventional wisdom will open themselves to a method of great financial growth.
* The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You’ll Ever Need is the first major book on the newest Index Mutual Funds and strategies, today’s biggest investor trend.

In 1990 Harry Markowitz, Merton Miller, and William Sharpe shared the Nobel Prize in Economics for their individual contributions resulting in the development of modern portfolio theory. In this informative book, Swedroe, presently a principal in Buckingham Asset Management in St. Louis, provides investors with practical advice on how to employ this widely accepted investment theory in today’s competitive marketplace. Along the way he explains why most advice from the news media and investment firms tends to have little basis in reality, why active portfolio management and market timing generally don’t work, how institutional investors use “passive” (rather than “active”) portfolio management to their advantage, and what questions you should ask before putting your trust in a financial adviser or firm. Highly recommended for academic, public, and special libraries.?Norman B. Hutcherson, Beale Memorial Lib., Bakersfield, CA
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Throughout the last fifteen years of the bull market, individual investors were able to participate and amass financial holdings by way of mutual funds. But the constant buying and selling to “beat the market” and grow their fund’s wealth also entailed costs and capital gains. And who paid for it? The investor. Over the past 20 years smart investors began switching to index mutual funds to keep more of their money. Index funds buy and hold all of the stocks in an index, dramatically reducing trading costs and taxes. And now, with Larry Swedroe’s expert advice, the small investor can take advantage of this investment strategy and win big. In The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You’ll Ever Need, Larry Swedroe explains:
* How index mutual funds out-earn older investment strategies
* How to pick the right balanced “passive” portfolio that will reward investors with the highest expected return for the amount of risk the investor is willing to accept
* How to play the winner’s game with this big and rapidly growing investor trend. Based on over forty years of research by the world’s leading financial economists, the advice Larry Swedroe offers in this new and valuable book shows that those willing to move beyond conventional wisdom will open themselves to a method of great financial growth.
* The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You’ll Ever Need is the first major book on the newest Index Mutual Funds and strategies, today’s biggest investor trend.