The everything guide to investing in your 20s & 30s your step-by-step guide to: understanding stocks, bonds, and mutual funds, maximizing your 401(K), setting realistic goals, recognizing the risks and rewards of cryptocurrencies, minimizing your investment tax liability

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Main Author: Duarte, Joe (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Adams Media, 2019.
Edition: Second edition.
Series: Everything series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Are you ready to become an investor?
  • Steps to grow your nest egg
  • A quick and dirty overview of the twenty-first-century economy and investment vehicles
  • A close look at stocks
  • Choosing stocks to buy
  • Buying stocks and monitoring progress
  • Bonds: the glue that holds financial markets together
  • Types of bonds
  • The mutual fund: the beginner's best friend
  • The large universe of mutual funds
  • Combining funds for performance
  • Exchange-traded funds
  • Investing with your conscience
  • Real estate investing: getting grounded and rated
  • Taking more risks
  • Working with a financial advisor
  • Doing it yourself
  • Investment taxes
  • Investing for education
  • Retirement planning
  • Appendix A: online and discount brokers
  • Appendix B: investment publications
  • Appendix C: glossary of terms.