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Personal
Finance
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Don't Die Broke:
Taking
Money Out Of Your IRA, 401(k), or Other
Savings Plan and Creating Lasting Retirement
Income
Don't Die Broke
picks up where other retirement planning
books leave off. Most people spend years
saving for retirement without giving any
real thought to how they can turn the money
they've accumulated into lasting income.
Taking charge of retirement savings can
suddenly present a new and complex set of
decisions: Do you accept your pension at
retirement in one lump sum? Would a steady
stream of monthly income be wiser? Should
you leave 401(k) money where it is? Could
you reinvest and live off dividends? Should
you roll it over to an IRA?
Personal finance writer and financial
planning expert Margaret Malaspina takes
readers through all the options and
decisions that retirees will face. This
guide can help everyone get the most out of
what they've earned, lower their tax bills,
and create a stream of income that will last
for the rest of their lives.
Smart strategies for:
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Creating a retirement
paycheck that will last a lifetime.
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Choosing the right
withdrawal option.
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Lowering the tax bill
on retirement savings.
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Avoiding dead-end or
irrevocable choices.
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Building an estate
plan that preserves tax benefits for
heirs.
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Seeking professional
help and additional resources.
There are hundreds of books on saving for
retirement and investing in retirement. This
one is different. It's about the decisions
people can, should, and must make when it
comes time to take charge of the money
they've saved. It explains all the options,
their pros and cons, and offers sound advice
on the right direction for different people.
This is the guide that marries expert advice
with practical information in an area of
retirement planning that few Americans
understand. It picks up where most
retirement planning books leave off--and
sets the standard for reader-friendly
information on a complicated topic.
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Get A Financial Life:
Personal Finance In Your Twenties And
Thirties
If you're like most people in
their twenties and thirties, you don't feel
like you're in control of your financial
life. But if you want to take full advantage
of the best financial opportunities, it's
important that you get started right away.
Get a Financial Life shows you how to
manage your money and make it grow.
From 401(k)s to health
insurance to stocks and bonds, this book
focuses exclusively on what you really need
to know at this stage in your financial
life. Whether you earn $15,000 or $150,000,
whether you're single or married, whether
you're financially inclined or financially
challenged, this book will let you manage
your money with the smallest possible
investment of time and effort.
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Money Diet:
Reaping the Rewards of Financial Fitness
- When Ginger Applegarth's
"Money Diet" series aired on NBC's Today show, more than fifty thousand
viewers wrote asking for her foolproof "Willpower Worksheets." Finally,
someone was talking about money in a language they understood. Now
Ginger has written a concise, easy-to-understand guide to bringing your
money habits under control using the same techniques you've learned for
managing your weight - whether you have $1,000 or $1 million to your
name.
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The Motley Fool You Have More Than You Think:
The Foolish Guide to Personal Finance
Taking control of your
personal finances is the first -- and most
important -- step toward successful
investing and a secure future. The Motley
Fool You Have More Than You Think, now
fully updated and expanded, provides
guidance for anyone trying to balance
lifestyle aspirations and financial
realities. The latest edition of this Motley
Fool bestseller covers topics such as:
Getting out of debt...and
into the stock market - Turning your bank
account into a moneymaker - Using the
Internet to learn about all things financial
-- from buying a home to getting the best
deal on a car -Saving enough to send your
children to the colleges of their dreams.
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Mutual
Funds
Bogle on
Mutual Funds:
New Perspectives for the Intelligent
Investor
John C. Bogle,
founder of The Vanguard Group of Investment Companies, is both a dynamic leader in the
mutual fund industry and its most outspoken critic. Best known for his crusade against
unfair treatment of mutual fund clients, Bogle has built a $100 billion mutual fund
company on principles of candor, fairness, and low cost. Bogle on Mutual Funds is his
straightforward assessment of the industry he knows so well, written for the investor who
wants a true and unflinching portrayal.
Bogle not only explains the basic principles of
canny mutual fund investing, but also explores its subtle nuances and exposes the hype and
fads that often lure investors into making unwise decisions. This is the book to read if
you are serious about mutual funds.
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Common Sense on Mutual Funds:
New
Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor
The previous
edition of this best-selling classic has sold more than 400,000 copies. Now market guru
and Investor's Business Daily publisher William O'Neil has thoroughly updated this virtual
rule book for becoming an investment pro. How to Make Money in Stocks offers rational,
well-documented guidance for all who want to make smart investments-even people who have
never owned stock before. O'Neil explains how to make money reading the daily financial
news pages. . .pick the best industry groups in the market. . .read charts like an expert
and improve stock selection and timing. . .substantially reduce losses and mistakes. .
.and turn a profit from reading and analyzing the news. |
Stock Investing
How to Make Money in Stocks:
A Winning System in Good Times or Bad
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24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success:
Learn the Most Important Investment Techniques from the Founder of Investor's Business Daily
Drawing from his highly
popular "26 Weeks to Investment Success"
series in Investor's Business Daily,
chairman and founder William J. O'Neil gives
you a bounty of proven, easy-to-apply
techniques for building a profitable
portfolio. O'Neil cuts through the static of
conventional "wisdom" with a refreshing
array of common-sense strategies that help
you accurately gauge the market . . . buy
and sell stocks at just the right moment . .
. seize opportunities presented by market
corrections . . . take advantage of the rich
potential of mutual funds . . . and
successfully manage your portfolio.
Essential reading for investors of all
levels, this eye-opening guide to solid
investment practices now puts the goal of
long-term financial security easily within
your reach. |
 
Buffettology:
The
Previously Unexplained Techniques That Have
Made Warren Buffet the World's Most Famous
Investor
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Bond Investing 
The Bond Book:
Everything Investors Need to Know about Treasuries, Municipals, Gnmas, Corporates, Zeros, Bond Funds, Money Market Funds, and More
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The Bond King:
Investment Secrets from PIMCO's Bill Gross
The Bond King chronicles
PIMCO founder Bill Gross's life and career,
from his interest in becoming a Navy pilot,
to his affinity for gambling - which bears
more than a passing similarity to investing.
From there, the book covers his founding of
the Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO),
a leading institutional money manager with
over $356 billion in assets under
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Economics
for Investors
From Here to Economy:
A Shortcut to Economic Literacy
"You would probably do just
as well choosing a stock by throwing a
stockbroker at a dartboard as listening to
his advice-and you would save money,''
opines Buchholz (New Ideas from Dead
Economists) in this humorous version of Econ
101. Here he demystifies such terms as
inflation, monetary policy, exchange rates
and corporate financing and provides a
concise history of economic thought from
Adam Smith to contemporary supply-side
economics. Formerly associate director of
economic policy on President Bush's Economic
Policy Council and now president of an
international consulting firm, Buchholz
argues against adopting a Canadian-style
national health plan or forcing employers to
provide medical coverage. Instead, he says,
individuals should be required to obtain
their own, to discourage frivolous
expenditures. Fortune Book Club selection.
(May)
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Market
Shock: 9 Economic and Social
Upheavals That Will Shake Your Financial
Future--and What to Do About Them
In a book that is
revolutionary in both substance and style,
Todd Buchholz, former White House economist,
Harvard professor and managing director of
the Tiger investment fund offers a masterful
guide to the forces that will rock the
financial markets in the coming years.
Market Shock: 9 Economic and Social
Upheavals That Will Shake Your Financial
Future--and What to Do About Them probes
the momentous economic and social events
that will shape the next century in order to
highlight the investment opportunities and
risks these changes will present.
With a sweeping command of
the latest economic and demographic data,
Buchholz, author of the best-selling New
Ideas from Dead Economists, explores the
cutting edge of research in science,
finance, and sociology to forecast some of
the volatile scenarios that will move the
markets. There are no arid, mathematical
models here, however; Buchholz drives home
his closely-argued analyses with novelistic
flair, presenting a series of vignettes
featuring fictional characters whose lives
are shaken and stirred by the socioeconomic
megatrends. Each chapter begins with a
"docudrama" news flash, depicting the crisis
in an urgent, timely style. |
The
Roaring 2000s: Building The Wealth
And Lifestyle You Desire In The Greatest
Boom In History
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The Next
Great Bubble Boom: How to Profit from
the Greatest Boom in History: 2005-2009
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The Simple Life
The Simple Living Guide:
A SourceBook for Less Stressful, More Joyful Living
Whether you are looking at small solutions for cutting down the
stress in your life or taking the big leap toward the simpler life, this book
can be your guide. Janet Luhrs, the nationally recognized founder and editor of
the Simple Living Journal, brings together strategies, inspiration, resources,
and real-life profiles of people who have slowed down, overcome obstacles, and
created richer lives. As Janet Luhrs says, "Simple living is about living
deliberately. Simple living is not about austerity, or frugality, or income
level. It's about being fully aware of why you are living your particular life,
and knowing that life is one you have chosen thoughtfully. Simple living is
about designing our lives to coincide with our ideals." In The Simple Living
Guide Janet Luhrs demonstrates how to live a deliberate, simpler life - and
savor it.
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