The Essential Guide To Understanding Mutual Funds

Your retirement portfolios have changed and your options have become more limited, making your investment education of this important tool doubly important as we venture in the next decade, into an investment landscape that has changed dramatically.

Published in November 2008, the investment sky was falling all around us. This gave me an unique opportunity to talk about bear markets while they were occurring. If you have a 401(k), IRA, or just about any other type of investment, chances are you hold shares in at least one mutual fund. But do you know exactly what a mutual fund is? Do you know how it works? And do you know how our recent economic situation will affect your mutual-fund investments?

In Mutual Funds for the Utterly Confused, I answers all of you investment questions. Using plain, jargon-free language and colorful analogies, I describe all the different types of mutual funds available, including money market funds, bond funds, stock funds, ETFs, and index funds, while walking you through the subject step-by-step to help you gain a firm grasp of your current investments--and make informed decisions on future investments. This easy-to-understand guide includes:

Critical information about management styles and risk tolerance
Descriptions of fund management structure
Perspectives from fund managers, for a rare behind-the-scenes look at the industry
Advice on measuring performance, enhanced by formulas and tables

Retirement Planning for the Utterly Confused
by Paul Petillo (McGraw-Hill - December 2007)
ISBN-10: 0071480463
ISBN-13: 978-0071480468

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The Essential Guide for Retirement Planning at any age

Retirement Planning for the Utterly Confused is the essential guide for anyone planning on retiring.
It offers a look at the complicated world of investing for an unknown future with tips on where and how to invest, how to look at those investments, a grow your future.

With its broad focus, it encompasses all age groups, from those just starting out to those who are getting very close.

The book was published on December, 2007, at just the right time for the millions of Baby Boomers about to or thinking about retiring, for the millions of younger workers skeptical about saving, and for those near-retirees wondering if they have saved enough.

Using this book, you can create a retirement plan that works for you

Social security, IRAs, and 401(k)s are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to planning for retirement. And as people are living longer, it's more vital than ever to come up with a long-term investment plan. Retirement Planning for the Utterly Confused shows you how to choose the strategies and vehicles for saving and investing that suit your needs, and makes difficult process easy to comprehend.

This book will shed light on

complicated retirement issues
Strategies for managing investment risk at every stage of your life
Information for three distinct types of retirement planner: >b>The Early Bird, the Chaser, and the Relaxer

This book applies even more to your retirement now, post 2008!
Follow our retirement planning blog for updates and insight into the book.

Investing for the Utterly Confused
by Paul Petillo ( McGraw-HIll ISBN 0071480463)

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Imagine a driving down a road with an ever-changing road signs over shifting terrain and in all sorts of weather. Imagine driving as not just a trip from point A to point B. Instead, imagine it as an experience that requires nerves of steel, the courage of conviction, and the need for superhuman concentration.

I provide you with practical, proven advice on finding the right places to invest, weighing risk versus return, anticipating pitfalls in the market, and maintaining a diversified portfolio.

The book was published on December, 2007, at just the right time for the millions of Baby Boomers about to or thinking about retiring, for the millions of younger workers skeptical about saving, and for those near-retirees wondering if they have saved enough.

Using the popular, easy-to-use format of the Utterly Confused series, this authoritative, easy-to understand guide to stocks, bonds, mutual funds, 401(k)s, and more is perfect for the novice investor. As your guide, I provide you with practical, proven advice on finding the right places to invest, weighing risk versus return, anticipating pitfalls in the market, and maintaining a diversified portfolio.

Thorough and comprehensive coverage of all relevant investment strategies, tools, and tips for today's investor
Definitions, descriptions, and step-by-step instruction will teach even the most uninitiated how to build a solid, profitable portfolio
Explains the dynamics of the market, the discipline needed to invest, and the tools needed to be successful in the long term
Includes explanations of important tricks of the trade, including asset allocation, dollar cost averaging, and efficient market hypothesis

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Building Wealth in a Paycheck-to-Paycheck World
by Paul Petillo (McGraw-Hill - ISBN 0071423761)

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10 Steps to Realizing Your Dream No Matter What You Earn

Building Wealth in a Paycheck-to-Paycheck World is packed with safe, proven wealth-building strategies. It covers all the major components of a balanced financial plan, including:

Straight talk on mutual funds, bonds, real estate, and annuities
Techniques for avoiding financial disasters
Tools to help readers track their debt and create a plan for staying out of it
Road maps to buying a home and saving for retirement

Step 1 Benjamin Franklin suggested once that the reward for a well-lived life was that you were useful, not rich. Too often we feel as though we would be better served by wealth. We yearn to be among those 13,000 taxpayers whose wealth is enviable. Their lifestyle is our golden ring. More

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