Mutual Fund Investing

Bogle on Mutual Funds
New Perspectives for the Intelligent Investor
Author: John C. Bogle
Publisher: Irwin
Hardcover Published 10/93 300p. List $25.00

This book shares the author's wealth of wisdom and expertise with the reader, explaining not only the basic principles of mutual fund investing, but also revealing the unique nuances and subtleties of this alluring field.



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Building Your Mutual Fund Portfolio
A Passport to Low-Risk, High-Return Investing
Author: Albert J. Fredman Russ Wiles
Publisher: Dearborn Financial Pub.
Hardcover Published 10/95 246p. List $19.95

This book provides the reader with a clear, easy-to-follow way of investing in mutual funds. It specifically shows how to put together a tailor-made portfolio of funds based on an individual's age, circumstances, risk tolerance, and other factors.



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Business Week Guide to Mutual Funds
Author: Jeffrey M. Laderman
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Softcover Published 07/96 216p. List $14.95

This book has easy-to-understand guidance on successful investing for both long-term and short-term goals, choosing between no-load and load funds and equity versus bond versus closed-end funds. It also features pretax and aftertax returns on equity funds and includes the top-rated Business Week Mutual Fund Scoreboard with performance rankings of more than 1800 mutual funds, including 3, 5, and 10 year results.



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A Commonsense Guide to Mutual Funds
Author: Mary Rowland
Publisher: Bloomberg Press
Hardcover Published 03/96 227p. List $19.95

This book offers advice for understanding and investing in mutual funds that the author has developed from her years of experience and access to the best pros in the business. It will help you with hunting down better information, making disciplined choices, and avoiding seductive misconceptions.



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Consumer Reports Mutual Funds Book
Author: Greg Daugherty
Publisher: Consumer Reports Books
Hardcover Published 04/94 ???p. List $22.95

This book provides a clear-cut, jargon-free blueprint for investors that's tailored to different incomes and life stages.



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Fidelity's World
The Secret Life and Public Power of the Mutual Fund Giant
Author: Diana B. Henriques
Publisher: Scribner
Hardcover Published 10/95 416p. List $26.00

This book provides an in-depth examination of Fidelity, America's largest mutual fund company. It is filled with startling revelations about the entire industry, profiling the two little-known eccentrics who built the empire, the people they recruited, and the methods, occasionally brash and brutal, which they employed.



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Herzfeld's Guide to Closed-End Funds
Author: Thomas J. Herzfeld
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Softcover Published 07/93 453p. List $22.95

This book covers virtually everything the reader needs to know to invest wisely in closed-end funds. It has introductory sections that clearly outline what closed-end funds are, how they are brought to market, and how investors should evaluate and trade them. It also includes a listing of more than 300 closed-end funds, statistical analyses, comparisons and rankings of each fund, easy-to-read graphs that chart net asset value against price for every fund, and profiles of each fund's portfolio-including major holdings.



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How to Buy Mutual Funds the Smart Way
Author: Stephen L. Littauer
Publisher: Dearborn Financial Publishing
Softcover Published 11/92 216p. List $16.95

This book provides sound advice and a valuable guide to the best mutual funds, both load and no-load, for the many people who already own mutual funds, as well as those who are planning to invest. (Book & CD-ROM)



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How to Select Top-Performing Mutual Fund Investments
Author: Aaron H. Coleman David H. Coleman
Publisher: International Information Associates
Softcover Published 07/93 177p. List $15.95

This book provides strategies for successful mutual fund investing that vary depending on the investor's goal. It also provides several different market timing models that the reader can use to choose the fund that best meets his/her current investment level and goals.



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Jay Schabacker's Winning in Mutual Funds
Author: Jay Schabacker Marjory Ross
Publisher: Amacom
Hardcover Published 06/94 257p. List $24.95

This book presents the author's safety-first high performance mutual fund investing system that he has been perfecting for nearly 20 years. The reader will learn to assess his/her own risk preference, build a mutual fund portfolio, allocate assets securely and select the best funds using these proven methods.



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John Bogle and the Vanguard Experiment
One Man's Quest to Transform the Mutual Fund Industry
Author: Robert Slater
Publisher: Irwin Professional Pub.
Hardcover Published 11/96 300p. List $24.95

This book chronicles Vanguard from startup in 1975 to the second-largest mutual fund company in the nation in 1996 and the industry's number one service firm. It reveals how John C. Bogle, Chairman of The Vanguard Group, realized his remarkable vision to build a company with over $160 billion in assets and a reputation for keeping costs low and putting the interests of the investor first.



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The Mutual Fund Masters
A Revealing Look into the Minds and Strategies of Wall Street's Best and Brightest
Author: Bill Griffeth
Publisher: Probus Pub. Co.
Hardcover Published 12/94 240p. List $22.95

This book provides the reader with dozens of insights and techniques that he/she can apply to their own personal portfolios. In a series of hard-hitting interviews the author presents a revealing look into the minds and strategies of Wall Street's best and brightest fund managers, providing investors with everything they need to know to make the most of their mutual fund investments. Some of the fund managers interviewed include Phillip Carret, Sophia Collier, Palomba Weingarten, Tom Herzfeld, Don Philips, John Bogle, Jeff Vinik, Kenneth Heebner, Bill Berger, and Mark Mobius.



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Mutual Funds
Your Key to Sound Financial Planning
Author: Lyle Allen
Publisher: Avon Books
Softcover Published 12/94 132p. List $10.00

This book offers readers the knowledge they need to master mutual funds, the hottest financial investment of the decade.



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The 100 Best Mutual Funds You Can Buy
Author: Gordon K. Williamson
Publisher: Bob Adams Pub.
Softcover Published 10/95 ???p. List $12.95

The author has systematically evaluated every one of the over 3,000 mutual funds on the market to determine their authortative ranking of the top 100. Each fund is analyzed for total return, risk, quality of management, current income, and expense control.



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The Right Mix
How to Pick Mutual Funds for Your Portfolio
Author: Howard Keller Harvey Sontag
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Softcover Published 10/92 214p. List $12.95

This financial planning guide supplies the sound strategy and techniques investors need to set prudent financial goals, showing them how to build, manage, and monitor a profitable portfolio.



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The Right Way to Invest in Mutual Funds
Author: Walter Updegrave
Publisher: Warner Books
Softcover Published 10/96 293p. List $9.99

This book will show the reader how to develop a reasonable investment strategy, find superior funds, build a balanced portfolio and increase his/her wealth with mutual funds.



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Surviving the Coming Mutual Fund Crisis
How You Can Take Defensive Measures to Protect Your Money
Author: Donald Christensen
Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
Hardcover Published 08/94 261p. List $22.95

In this book the author presents his theory about the coming collapse of the mutual fund market and explains when it will happen, why, and what investors can do to protect themselves and their money now.



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The Ultimate Mutual Fund Guide
19 Experts Pick the 33 Top Funds You Should Own
Author: Warren Boroson
Publisher: Irwin Professional Pub.
Softcover Published 10/96 276p. List $18.95

This book is designed to simplify the process of choosing the best funds by providing the top fund recommendations of leading mutual fund experts. It selects the 33 top funds, the best funds in various fund categories and the best no-load and load funds. In addition, the experts select their favorite and least favorite fund families and their most admired fund managers.



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William E. Donoghue's Mutual Fund Superstars
Invest in the Best, Forget About the Rest
Author: William E. Donoghue
Publisher: Pub Group West
Hardcover Published 04/94 ???p. List $24.95

This book has been described as "one of the most entertaining and profit-filled investing guides ever written, destined to be the classic mutual fund guide for the '90s."



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