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Unconventional Success
by David F. Swensen
Swensen, CIO of Yale University reveals why the mutual fund industry as a whole does a disservice to the individual investor. Soft money, 12b-1 fees, overtrading, market timing, and other management practices lower performance and virtually guarantee that most mutual fund returns will fall short of their benchmark, such as the S&P 500. A must read for investors! |
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A Random Walk Down Wall Street
by Burton G. Malkiel
The eternal truth of this updated investment classic, originally published in 1973, is simple: you can't beat the market. Well, technically, you can beat the market, but not profitably, because the transaction costs of your brilliant trading will eat up the extra returns. |
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Someone Will Make Money on your Funds – Why not you?
by Gary Gastineau
How to cut the fat from your portfolio by making ETFs and index mutual funds work for you. |
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The Great Mutual Fund Trap: An Investment Recovery Plan
by Gary Gensler, Gregory Arthur Baer
Former U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve insiders, Baer and Gensler expose the high fees and underperformance of mutual funds. |
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Too Good to Be True: Rise & Fall of Bernard Madoff
by Erin Arvedlund
Learn about the biggest financial pervert of our generation and how he suckered billionaires, Hollywood celebs, Wall Street fund managers and the S.E.C. |
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Trading ETFs
by Deron Wagner
Basics of technical analysis and chart reading with ETF trading. |
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The Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing
by Taylor Larimore
Given their obsessions with Vanguard and its founder, you might think the Bogleheads are only for those sold on indexing. In fact, there’s a lot of disagreement among them. Written by the founder of the Vanguard Diehards forum and a book even active investors would enjoy. |
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