Smart Investing

The Only Guide to Winning Investment Strategy You’ll Ever Need: Index Mutual Funds and Beyond – The Way Smart Money Invests
By Larry E. Swedroe
Synopsis: Investment professional, Larry Swedroe, offers a successful road map to investing. He explains the differences between "active" and "passive" mutual funds and offers the pros and cons to each. Once defined, Swedroe offers his suggestions on creating your own balanced "passive" portfolio.

Winning the Loser’s Game: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing
By Charles D. Ellis
Synopsis: Considered a classic investment book for both novice and expert, individual and professional investors, Ellis gives timeless wisdom about investing. The newest edition offers the most information on how to create and manage an individual portfolio and avoid tax liability.

Learn to Earn: A Beginner’s Guide to the Basics of Investing and Business
By Peter Lynch, John Rothchild
Synopsis: For his third book, this former Fidelity Magellan manager keeps his investment advice simple and focuses on the explaining importance and significance of a company’s purchasing power.

The Motley Fool Investment Guide: How the Fools Beat Wall Street’s Wise Men and How You Can Too
By David Gardner, Tom Gardner
Synopsis: David and Tom Gardner created the most successful internet information service for investments and now in their informative book the two explain the importance of the information superhighway in the investing world and how you too can bank big on the internet.

The First Time Investor:
How to Start Safe, Invest Smart, and Sleep Well
By Larry Chambers
Synopsis: Perfect for the First Time Investor, Chambers discusses the important points of how the stock market works and investing strategies that even the beginner can use. He spends short, easy chapters on mutual funds, the stock market, understanding bonds and annuities, international investing and specific investing strategies. Chambers last edition also features a glossary of important investment terms, a list of resources on the Internet and model portfolios as suggestions.

Charles Schwab’s Guide to Financial Independence: Simple Solutions for Busy People
By Charles R. Schwab
Synopsis: Founder and CEO of a $300 billion brokerage firm with forty years of investment work, Schwab extends his first hand knowledge on investing wisely.

What Your Broker Never Tells You
By Andrew Groth
Synopsis: Groth focuses on the "rules" of the investing game. He offers a complete perspective of the ways of the investment world to the novice investor. Groth explains the motivation and the most common "plays" of the brokers, brokerage houses and analysts. Groth suggests that with the proper coaching from books like his, the novice investor gains the knowledge necessary to "play" the market and win.

A Woman’s Guide to Savvy Investing: Everything You Need to Know to Protect You Future
By Marsha Bertand
Synopsis: Financial expert Marsha Bertand clearly defines stocks, mutual funds, bonds and other financial tools. After explaining all your investment options, Bertand offers suggestions for you to create your own personal portfolio that best fits your needs.

Investment Basics for Women: The Essential Guide to Taking Charge of Your Money
By Kathy Buys, Jonathan Berohn
Synopsis: A complementary guide to Buys’ Investing Basics seminar, this must-read book offers advice on choosing stocks, planning for retirement, selecting mutual funds and using online services, as well as real-life examples from Buys’ investment clients.