The Smartmoney Guide to Long-Term Investing: How to Build Real Wealth for Retirement and Future Goals: How to Build Real Wealth for Retirement and Other Future Goals - Rilegato

Huang, Nellie S.; Finch, Peter

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ISBN 10: 047115203X ISBN 13: 9780471152033

Casa editrice: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2002

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A comprehensive guide to long-term investing introduces readers to the basics of 401(k)s, IRAs, and Keoghs, among other investment strategies, and offers practical advice on such topics as tax options, saving for a child's education, buying a home, and estate planning. Excerpt in SmartMoney magazine.

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NELLIE S. HUANG joined SmartMoney in 1993 as a staff reporter, researching everything from investment features to narrative stories about adoption and retirees who d lost their shirts in IBM stock. Soon she shifted to covering real estate for the magazine and climbed steadily up the ranks to senior writer. Over the past five years, she has focused entirely on investment pieces, picking stocks and mutual funds for the magazine and profiling money managers. She is the coauthor of The SmartMoney Stock Picker s Bible (Wiley).

PETER FINCH is Editor in Chief of SmartMoney, a position he has held since January 1, 2001. Finch joined SmartMoney in the fall of 1992, shortly after the magazine s debut. Starting as articles editor, he helped originate and shape many of SmartMoney s most popular features, including its signature "Ten Things" consumer column. In 1995 Finch was promoted to executive editor and in 1999 he became editor, taking over day-to-day operations of the magazine. He is also the coauthor of How to Raise Kids Without Going Broke and The SmartMoney Stock Picker s Bible (Wiley).

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With short-term responsibilities and distractions crowding our everyday lives, it?s not easy to focus on saving and investing for retirement and other long-term goals. And even once you set your mind to it, you?ve still got to come up with the money to invest?all the while paying your rent or your mortgage, whittling down your credit card bills, and putting a little aside for an occasional vacation. However, if you adhere to the proven strategies and professional insights found in The SmartMoney Guide to Long-Term Investing, you can build the kind of wealth you?ll need to pay for all of your long-term goals.

This comprehensive book breaks down the process of saving for your retirement and examines the financial vehicles and strategies that will help you reach your destination. The SmartMoney Guide to Long-Term Investing will first introduce you to the cornerstone of any wealth-building portfolio?stocks, bonds, mutual funds?and give you the tools to estimate how much you need to save for retirement each year, depending on the lifestyle you intend to lead. From there, you?ll learn how to set up an asset allocation strategy that works for you. Drawing on a decade?s worth of financial knowledge and experience, The SmartMoney Guide to Long-Term Investing gives you the names of outstanding mutual funds that will deliver the investment returns you need, shows you how to make the most of your 401(k), and introduces you to numerous real-life retirees, who have key insights into what life after work is really like.

The SmartMoney Guide to Long-Term Investing also explores a long-term goal that usually conflicts with retirement savings?paying for a child?s college education. Focused coverage provides a year-by-year guide to investing wisely for your child?s tuition and shows you how much money you should really be putting aside. You?ll also learn how to let someone else invest for you, by using vehicles such as the 529 college savings plan.

Designed to work as a flexible reference for all investors?no matter what stage of retirement planning you?re in?The SmartMoney Guide to Long-Term Investing will put you on course for the retirement you deserve. With The SmartMoney Guide to Long-Term Investing at your side, you can stop worrying about the future and confidently start building, protecting, and managing your money as you head to and through retirement.

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• Editore: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 047115203X
• ISBN 13: 9780471152033
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 321