Short and Simple Guide To Smart Investing

About the Book

Mutual funds are fast becoming America's investment choice, largely because of their sheer variety. But, with so many mutual funds to choose from more than 8,000 at last count it's hard for many people to pick the right ones for them.

Short And Simple Guide To Smart Investing first gives you the fundamentals, explaining what mutual funds are, how they work, and how commissions and fees affect the ROI. Dozens of graphs and charts carefully guide you through the maze of available mutual funds, and you'll learn their characteristics, advantages, drawbacks, and risk potential.

About the Author

Spouses Alan Lavine and Gail Liberian are syndicated financial columnist. Their columns run in the Boston Herald, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and numerous other newspapers. You can also read their columns on CNBC.com,
Fundsinteractive.com, Allaboutfunds.com and America Online. They are authors of the best selling books, Rags to Riches: Motivating Stories Of How Ordinary People Achieved Extraordinary Wealth and Love, Marriage and Money. Alan is a former director of research of the Donoghue Organization, a Boston-based investment firm. Gail is the former editor of Bank Rate Monitor. She is also a licensed real estate agent and mortgage broker.