The Motley Fool investment guide : how the fools beat Wall Street's wise men and how you can too

Gardner, David, 1966-

Book 2017

Being an informed investor means learning to tune out the hype and focus on meaningful factors. And you need information for today, not ten or twenty years ago. David and Tom Gardner and the team at the Motley Fool show how to spot volatile young companies, and make sense of investing today.

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Investment analysis

Portfolio management

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ISBN:

9781501155550
1501155555

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition
Third edition

Description:

297 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:

"Completely revised and updated."

Contents:

Who, what, why, and how. "Fool"? ; Foolishness ; How to be an investor today
Mutual funds: love 'em or leave 'em? Maybe you should just buy mutual funds ; Maybe you should avoid mutual funds ; Passively managed investments
Building a foolish investment portfolio. Stepping away from index funds ; Out of funds into stocks ; The mind-set of the successful investor
Companies and quality. Why buy blue chips? ; Why small-cap stocks? ; How do you find the best stocks?
Tom's take: an everlasting approach to investing. Five tenets to everlasting investing ; Culture ; Strategy ; Financials ; Safety ; Valuation
David's take: breaking the investing rules. Shaping (then breaking) the investing game ; 6 signs of a rule breaker ; Is rule breaker investing right for you?
Digging into the digits. Climbing under the hood to find the best small-cap stocks ; Making sense of income statements ; Balance sheets and cash flow statements
Some advanced topics. The road to options ; Shorting stocks ; Options
Putting it all together. Why invest? ; Being your best invensting self ; A foolish farewell

LCCN:

2017301127

Control Number:

2476396

Other Authors:

Gardner, Tom, 1968-
Motley Fool, Inc

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