mutual funds

This book explains dividends, bull and bear markets, brokerage accounts and what stockbrokers do, price-to-earnings ratio, and bid price, among other concepts.

Provides an introduction to purchasing mutual funds.

A practical introduction to mutual funds that covers their advantages and disadvantages, choosing funds, building a portfolio and keeping it current, handling taxes, and evaluating information and advice.

Financial adviser Ric Edelman discusses deceptive business practices affecting retail mutual funds and retirement accounts; offers advice for investing in an employer retirement plan, saving for college, and generating more income during retirement; and presents forty-three portfolio models.

Uses a question and answer format to provide information and advice about investing through the mutual-fund system, discussing the basics of what mutual funds are, and looking at specific issues, such as short and long-term strategies, tracking investments, and taxation.

Readers can evaluate and integrate specific steps in investing that are examined in this blueprint.