Investing Without Wall Street

Praise for Sheldon Jacobs "Sheldon Jacobs is a level-headed gentleman who is a cross between Albert Einstein, the Dalai Lama, and Vanguard founder Jack Bogle and who had a solid record editing and publishing The No-Load Fund Investor financial newsletter for over a quarter-century." —MarketWatch "King of no-loads." —Investor's Business Daily "Dean of the no-load fund watchers." —USA Today "Among financial experts who are able to think with a small investor's perspective, no one is more level-headed than Sheldon Jacobs." —Bottom Line/Personal In July of 1993, Sheldon Jacobs was one of five nationally recognized mutual fund advisors chosen by The New York Times for a mutual fund portfolio competition. The portfolio that he selected produced the highest return of all contestants for almost seven years, and the Times quarterly publication of this contest helped him become one of the best-known mutual fund advisorsin America. Investing without Wall Street shows investors how to achieve the greatest wealth with the least effort. It details the five essentials that even a kid could master and shows that they are all you need to be a successful investor. With this knowledge, the average investor can invest on his or her own and make $252,000 more than a person investing the same way who shares his or her profits with professionals. This book will teach you how.

Updated with a new chapter that draws on behavioral finance, the field that studies the psychology of investment decisions, the bestselling guide to investing evaluates the full range of financial opportunities.

Main Street, Not Wall Street is the ultimate guide to using your hometown advantage to beat the market. John Rubino's commonsense approach helps you recognize and capitalize on up-and-coming local companies and investment opportunities, letting you make more money without ever leaving your neighborhood. The information you need is right here at your fingertips. To get you started, Main Street, Not Wall Streetincludes a priceless resource section listing over a thousand local brokers, local business to watch, local business journals, and more. With this book, you'll know just where to look - the ticket is beating Wall Street to the punch. Using real life examples, Rubino shows that when tomorrow's companies are born, their neighbors notice them first; local papers cover them and local brokers recommend their stocks. His step -by-step formula shows you how to turn what you see and what you hear into sound investment strategies. Main Street, Not Wall Street offers valuable tips on networking with locals in the know, finding and working with a local broker, evaluating the local journals, and using the internet to research new markets. Rubino outlines a definitive system for creating and managing a portfolio of emerging local companies to keep you in the game - and winning.

Presents an informative guide to financial investment, explaining how to maximize gains and minimize losses and examining a broad spectrum of financial opportunities, from mutual funds to real estate to gold.

An informative guide to successful investing, offering a vast array of advice on how investors can tilt the odds in their favour.

This revolutionary new book provides readers with a clear understanding of the way financial markets really work. The author lays out, step by step, the manner in which investors today can prudently build and customize their "passively" managed and index-related portfolios.

The Brainwashing of the American InvestorRevised Edition is the updated, hands-on investing manual that challenges the prevailing wisdom to put your trust blindly in Wall Street.

Traces the history of money and discusses stocks, bonds, mutual funds, futures, and options.

"Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it." —Warren Buffett Investors shouldn't hate the market because of its up and downs. They should capitalize on it—and give a middle finger to those brokers wasting their time (and money) buying and selling, viewing investing as just buying stocks and not taking ownership of a company. In this book, Joe Ponzio gives an "f-you" to Wall Street and teaches you how to become a sharp value investor who uses economic downturns to your advantage. By buying into companies you believe in—but that may be selling for less than their intrinsic value, like high-end retailers in a weak market and discount retailers in a strong one—you will profit from their long-term performance. It's the perfect guide for anyone fed up with Wall Street's bull.

Most investment strategies focus on improving returns through market timing and stock picking—techniques known as active management. If these practices are so effective, why do returns for the overwhelming majority of investors lag well behind the market indices year after year? In Wealth Without Worry, authors James Whiddon and Lance Alston expose Wall Street's flawed system and offer a proven alternative to chasing returns. While Wall Street firms claim they can help investors pick winning securities and time the market's ups and downs, Whiddon and Alston clearly demonstrate how market returns can be harnessed simply and consistently through a properly diversified portfolio. Wealth Without Worry is based on Nobel Prize-winning research in economics—what has become known as Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT). The investing principles outlined in this book have been tested and refined for decades in both academia and the real world. Wealth Without Worry shows readers how to apply these principles using a super-diversified Market Return Portfolio (MRP). By not succumbing to Wall Street shell games, all investors can have long-term success. Wealth Without Worry gives readers a map to the last investment strategy they'll ever need.