Investing

Active Asset Allocation
Gaining Advantage in a Highly Efficient Stock Market
Author: Walter R. Good R. Hermansen J. Meyer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Hardcover Published 08/93 306p. List $44.95

This book addresses the issue of how much of a portfolio should be invested in the stock market, arguing for active management of asset allocation within the framework of a long-term passive plan. Central to this strategy is an innovative approach to stock market valuation drawn from the authors` work with large institutional investors.



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The All-Season Investor
Successful Strategies for Every Stage in the Business Cycle
Author: Martin J. Pring
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Hardcover Published 04/92 352p. List $34.95

This book offers practical straightforward guidance to modern methods of asset allocation. It explains why each stage in the business cycle, including recession, has its profitable investment strategy and provides various techniques for tracking the cycle in order to choose appropriate investments.



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Beating the Street
Author: Peter Lynch John Rothchild
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Softcover Published 05/94 332p. List $12.50

This book shows investors how to reap the rewards of managing their own investments. It offers clear suggestions for establishing and maintaining a balanced portfolio of long-term and short-term stocks, bonds, and mutual funds.



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Classics II
Another Investor's Anthology
Author: Charles D. Ellis James R. Vertin
Publisher: Business One Irwin
Hardcover Published 07/91 626p. List $50.00

The authors of Classics I offer you an additional collection of 75 of the most interesting ideas and concepts from the literature on investing.



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The Craft of Investing
Growth and Value Stocks, Emerging Markets, Market Timing, Mutual Funds, Alternative Investments, Retirement and Estate Planning
Author: John Train
Publisher: Harpercollins
Softcover Published 10/95 213p. List $13.00

The author outlines the key strategies and the principles that have brought him success.



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Crisis Investing for the Rest of the '90s
Author: Douglas Casey
Publisher: Citadel Press/Carol Pub. Group
Softcover Published 03/95 444p. List $14.95

This revised edition of the New York Times bestselling book on investment strategies for the '90s offers tips and suggestions to help every investor profit from today's stormy financial climate.



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The Frugal Investor
How to Build a Low-Risk, High-Return Portfolio
Author: Scott Spiering
Publisher: Amacom Book Division
Hardcover Published 02/95 258p. List $21.95

This book covers the four cornerstones of portfolio management and discusses how to put together a diversified portfolio. Readers will learn how to restructure their portfolio for their changing lifestyle, how to time the liquidation of their holdings, and more.



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Good Money
A Guide to Profitable Social Investing in the '90s
Author: Ritchie P. Lowry
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co
Softcover Published 03/93 ???p. List $9.95

This book shows how socially responsible investing can bring financial reward while simultaneously promoting conscientious business practices.



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High-Risk, High-Return Investing
Author: Lawrence W. Tuller
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Hardcover Published 01/94 260p. List $27.95

This book shows how to make unconventional, offbeat, but always calculated speculative investments. It contains financial planning and prudent investment management guidance while exploring emerging, undervalued, third-world stock markets, debt/equity swaps and reverse LBOs. It also discusses securitized assets, troubled and start-up companies, foreclosed properties and junk bonds.



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How to Invest $50-$5,000
Author: Nancy Dunnan
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Softcover Published 04/95 142p. List $12.00

This book shows even the most inexperienced investors how to take as little as $50 and turn it into a windfall. It guides readers through the maze of available money vehicles, explaining the advantages and disadvantages of each, their safety ratings, and how to build a strong portfolio.



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Investing for the Future
Author: Larry Burkett
Publisher: Victor Books
Hardcover Published 01/92 260p. List $17.99

This book offers Bible-based strategies to every category of investor and provides basic rules that apply to investing, no matter what your age or available capital. It includes information on the six "best" investments, investments to avoid, the "seasons" of investing, and much more to make sure your future investment choices are informed ones.



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Investment Psychology Explained
Classic Strategies to Beat the Markets
Author: Martin J. Pring
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Softcover Published 11/95 288p. List $19.95

This book analyzes and exposes misconceptions, delusions and overeactions that snare investors. It explains how to develop healthy, profitable habits and attitudes by learning to think independently, master emotions and create smart, sound investment plans and strategies. It also brings classic investment philosophy to life with numerous concrete examples and cases from recent, and not so recent, history.



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Investor Beware!
How to Protect Your Money from Wall Street's Dirty Tricks
Author: John Lawrence Allen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Hardcover Published 05/93 281p. List $19.95

This book offers advice on how to protect your investments from stockbroker fraud. It shows you what really goes on in a brokerage firm and what actually happens to your money there, the telltale warning signs that indicate trouble with your stockbroker, what products to avoid and what you should do immediately if you own any dangerous investments, what the options are for recovering money lost through bad advice and much more.



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Investor's Business Daily Guide to the Markets
Author: Investor's Business Daily
Publisher: Wiley
Softcover Published 11/96 277p. List $16.95

This book offers comprehensive coverage of the entire investment and finance marketplace, from stocks, bonds, and mutual funds to futures, options, and the international marketplace. It also weaves vital background material on the economy, major industries and politics, and explores the impact of these and other phenomena on the markets.



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The Investor's Quotient
The Psychology of Successful Investing in Commodities & Stocks
Author: Jake Bernstein
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Hardcover Published 09/93 290p. List $37.95

This book guarantees that if you are victorious in changing your personal psychology, your relationship with yourself and others, and your perception with the markets, you will become more successful. It provides details on how to recognize problems, evaluate potential solutions and apply those solutions consistently.



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Psychology of Smart Investing
Meeting the Six Mental Challenges
Author: Ira Epstein David Garfield
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Hardcover Published 08/92 235p. List $29.95

This book contains the psychological tools essential to breaking through mental barriers in order to achieve a successful mindset. It examines such common psychological traps as loneliness, poor self-esteem, depression, wishful thinking, self-destructiveness, addiction to playing the markets, revenge and internal conflicts. It is packed with anecdotes and case histories, and it includes insights drawn from two unusual investor surveys, typical investors versus famous investors and market "gurus."



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A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Including a Life-Cycle Guide to Personal Investing
Author: Burton G. Malkiel
Publisher: W. W. Norton Co.
Softcover Published 09/96 528p. List $15.95

This book maps a clear path through the dizzying array of new financial instruments in this era of high-risk investing. It will show you how to beat the pros at their own game, and learn a user-friendly long-range investment strategy that tailors investors' financial objectives to their particular incomes at any age. It analyzes and rates the potential returns not only from stocks but also from bonds, money-market funds, and tangible assets including real estate, gold, and various collectibles. It also covers the dynamic but risky markets in futures and options, takes a shrewd look at derivative-type securities, and offers strategies to reduce the tax bite from investment earnings.



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The Small Investor
A Beginner's Guide to Stocks, Bonds, and Mutual Funds
Author: Jim Gard
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Softcover Published 06/96 282p. List $11.95

This book has simple, easy-to-read and authoritative advice for ordinary folks. It has everything they need to know about choosing stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. It also shows how not to fall for common errors, rip-offs, and market pitfalls.



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The 20 Hottest Investments for the 21st Century
Where to Invest Your Money Now to Create Wealth and Build Financial Security
Author: Andrew Leckey
Publisher: Contemporary Books
Softcover Published 10/95 ???p. List $14.95

This book provides the reader with meticulously researched and expertly advised financial forecasts that can help them build financial security. With the help of top portfolio managers, investment professionals, corporate CEOs, and others, the author has selected the hottest long-term investment opportunities.



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The Vest Pocket Investor
Everything You Need to Know to Invest Successfully
Author: Jae K. Shim Joel G. Siegel
Publisher: Irwin Professional Pub.
Softcover Published 07/95 300p. List $19.95

This book is an authoritative, easy-to-understand overview of every aspect of investment. It describes the instruments, the strategies and the principles of successful investing and it covers everything from mutual funds to options to sources of investment information.



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Wall Street Made Simple
Author: Merle E. Dowd
Publisher: Doubleday
Softcover Published 08/92 239p. List $12.95

This book covers subjects from no-load mutual funds to tax-free municipal bonds, T-Bills to securities, and stocks to debt instruments. It is a complete consumer guide for the conservative, novice investor and provides sound and thoughtful advice on the world of finance to help the reader gain the confidence to undertake a long-term investment plan.



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