Mutual Funds for Dummies (6th edition) – Eric Tyson

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Position your portfolio for growth with one of America’s bestselling mutual fund booksIndicators are pointing to a rebound in mutual funds, and investors are returning! Newly revised and updated, Mutual Funds For Dummies, 6th Edition, provides you with expert insight on how to find the best-managed funds that match your financial goals. With straightforward advice and a plethora of specific up-to-date fund recommendations, personal finance expert Eric Tyson helps you avoid fund-investing pitfalls and maximize your chances of success.

• This revised edition features expanded coverage of ETFs, fund alternatives, and research methods
• Tyson provides his time-tested investing advice, as well as updates to his fund recommendations and coverage of tax law changes

Pick the best funds, assemble and maintain your portfolio, evaluate your funds’ performance, and track and invest in funds online with Mutual Funds For Dummies, 6th Edition!

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From the Back Cover
Pick the best funds, assemble and maintain your portfolio, and evaluate your funds’ performanceLooking for a trusted resource to help you add mutual funds to your investment strategy? With straightforward advice and a plethora of specific, up-to-date fund recommendations, personal finance expert Eric Tyson helps you avoid fund-investing pitfalls and maximize your chances of success.

• Meet mutual funds — get an introduction to mutual funds and follow along financial housecleaning tips to get your personal finances in order
• Know your options — discover the many fund-investing options out there and gain the know-how to decide which is right for you
• Pick a winner — find out which funds and fund companies are worth investing in and get helpful advice on the best venues and avenues for buying funds
• Fine-tune your portfolio — explore the basic strategies of portfolio construction and start building your portfolio to include mutual funds that match your specific financial goals
• Stay ahead of the pack — maintain your portfolio, evaluate your funds’ performance, and keep current with the best mutual fund information sources

Open the book and find:

• Important investing concepts
• Why you should opt for mutual funds
• Where to find the best funds
• Open-end vs. closed-end funds
• Sample portfolios
• How to avoid fund-investing pitfalls
• When to enlist the services of an advisor
• Which financial “gurus” to avoid
• Common fund problems and how to fix them

Learn to:

• Plan and implement a successful investment strategy that includes mutual funds
• Find the best-managed funds that match your financial goals
• Avoid fund-investing pitfalls
• Select among mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and other investing options

About the Author
Eric Tyson is a nationally recognized personal finance counselor, writer, and lecturer. He is the bestselling author of For Dummies books on personal finance and investing.
 
Product details
Publisher ‏ : ‎ John Wiley & Sons; 6th edition 
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 408 pages

About the author
Eric Tyson
Eric Tyson is a best-selling personal finance book author and has penned five national best sellers. He is also the only author to have four of his books simultaneously on Business Week’s business book bestseller list.

His Personal Finance for Dummies, a Wall Street Journal best-seller, won the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Business Book of the Year. Eric’s syndicated newspaper column is read by millions of readers weekly. He is a former columnist and award-winning journalist for the Sunday San Francisco Chronicle. His website, www.erictyson.com, rocketed into the top one percent of financial websites within its first year of operation.

Eric’s work has been featured and quoted in hundreds of local and national publications and media outlets including Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine, Money, Worth, Parenting, USA Today and on the NBC Today Show, ABC, Fox News, CNBC, PBS Nightly Business Report, CNN, and on CBS national radio, NPR’s Marketplace Money and Bloomberg Business Radio. He’s also been a featured speaker at a White House conference on retirement planning.

Tired of working as a management consultant to Fortune 500 financial service firms which more interested in maximizing short-term profits than in providing sound financial products and services, Eric founded in 1990 the nation’s first financial counseling firm which works exclusively on an hourly basis. He started his new company with a simple mission: to provide objective, cost-effective personal financial advice, especially to non-wealthy Americans. Through family and friends, Eric had seen many otherwise intelligent people make horrendous mistakes in managing their money, in part, because the failure of our schools and colleges to teach personal finance.

In addition to his counseling work, Eric also hoped to make an impact in the writing and media fields. Much of the personal finance writing and reporting he saw and heard was biased, jargon-laden and, in some cases, filled with bad advice. For example, rather than telling people the hard truth – that one must live within one’s means as a prerequisite to building wealth – many publications offer up hyped and unrealistic “get rich without making sacrifices or taking risk” type approaches.

In addition to his writing and counseling, Eric also taught the nation’s most highly attended personal financial management course at the University of California. He has spoken at many corporations and non-profits. His educational background includes having earned his bachelor’s degree in economics at Yale and an MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Eric is the only best-selling personal finance author who has an extensive background as an hourly-based financial planner and who does not accept speaking fees, endorsement deals or fees of any type from companies in the financial services industry or product or service providers recommended in his articles, books and his publications.

Customer reviews

cindym
Mutual Funds for Dummies
I just retired and life has been a whirlwind. I know it;s late to start the investment game and the banks are paying next to nothing on what little money I have. But it is time to make a move and enjoy what so many other brave people have done. I was terrified of loosing what little money I have my cousin gave me the push I needed to get started. He suggested this book and I am so grateful he did. Investing is such a scary thing in todays economy and this book gave me the information I needed to begin playing the game. Mutual Funds for Dummies calmed the fears and was an invaluable took in choosing between minimal and middle of the road risk accounts. I feel confident in my investments and have been watching the money grow over the past week! I’m sure there will be bumps in the road for my investments but so far the accounts I invested in are making profits much more significant than a bank. At the rate my money is compounding I;m sure I can weather a financial storm and still be ahead of the local banks offerings. I wouldn’t have made the conservative investments without the information in this book. I would recommend this book to anyone who feels apprehensive about investing outside of their local bank or for beginners of any age. 

Tom
AAA (but don’t buy the Kindle version)
This book has very good content! Eric has a talent for making a complicated subject easy to understand. I love how he starts from the beginning with explaining what stocks and bonds actually are. I have learned A LOT from this book and I recommend it to everyone who wants to save up for retirement or buying a house in the distant-but-near future. I would have liked some more into depth economic info (alpha, beta, sharp ratio …) because I’m an engineer and I like numbers :).
Grade AAA book.

BUT I bought the “Kindle” version of this book, the layout is completely messed up in my opinion. It is just a “flattened” version of the normal “For dummies” layout which, in my opinion makes it more difficult to read sometimes. A few examples, the little “Tip” or “Remember” icons appear IN the text causing a lineshift instead of appearing in the margin like they should. And the shaded extra info parts (like “A (brief) history of mutual funds”) it has a note “begin sidebar” and “end sidebar” but there is no proper layout apart from the box around it. Everything looks too flat. I would have prefered a 1-1 conversion in a PDF instead of this!

This is why I subtracted one star, the content of the book is AAA.

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