Mutual Fund Investing

John Bogle - founder of the Vanguard Mutual Fund Group and creator of the first index mutual fund - is an industry pioneer. Over the years, he has single-handedly transformed the mutual fund business, and today, his vision continues to inspire investors .It has been over a decade since the original edition of Common Sense on Mutual Funds was first published. While much has changed during this time, the importance of investing and the issues addressed in the original edition of this book have not.

Mutual Fund Mastery is your step-by-step guide to building lasting wealth using simple, low-risk strategies that actually work. Whether you're brand new to investing or looking to strengthen your retirement plan, this clear and practical audiobook will show you how to make smart, confident decisions with mutual funds, index funds, and ETFs.

This book explains how to research and understand fundamental data on stocks including equities, ETFs, and Mutual funds. It also explains how to use economic indicators to judge market conditions. Methods of trading stocks and options are explained with examples. Figures and tables are included for visual information. Some special methods described include small lot investing, dollar cost averaging, diversifiction, portfolio balancing, and tips for dealing with stock brokers.

Newly revised and updated, Mutual Funds for Dummies quickly and easily helps you pick the best funds, assemble and maintain your portfolio, and evaluate your funds' performance. In no time, it gets you up and running on exchange-traded funds, tax laws affecting investments in funds, how to evaluate different fund-investing strategies, and much more.

Updated with a new introduction by expert John Bogle, this comprehensive audiobook provides investors with the wisdom of the pioneer of mutual funds to help you identify and execute the ideal mutual fund investment choices for your portfolio. Bogle has long been mutual funds' most outspoken critic; in this classic book, he provides guidance on what you should and shouldn't believe when it comes to mutual funds, along with the story of persistence and perseverance that led to this seminal work.

John C. Bogle's The Little Book of Index Investing is a power-packed explanation of why outperforming the market is an investor illusion. Instead, the founder of The Vanguard Group—the man who's been called "the conscience of the investment industry"*—recommends a simple, time-tested investment strategy that can deliver the greatest return to the greatest number of investors: indexing.

Smart Investing with Mutual Funds gives you a simple, proven path to building long-term wealth—using index funds, bonds, and target-date portfolios that work quietly and consistently behind the scenes. Whether you’re just starting out, planning for retirement, or rebuilding your financial foundation, this audiobook will help you invest with clarity, confidence, and control. You’ll learn how to build a diversified portfolio, reduce risk, and achieve real results—without obsessing over market headlines or chasing hot trends.

The fourth edition was published in 2022. This book is written for anyone wishing to get an overview of investing in the stock market and in precious metals. The book contains over 325 topics and describes investing techniques from the simple to the complex, written in easily understandable terms for high school level and up. Over 50 years of investment experience are contained in this book.

An index fund does not pick and choose its investments, but instead holds all of the stocks or bonds on an index.So what’s an index? Basically, it is a list of investments. For example, the S&P 500 is a roster of the 500 largest US companies with publicly traded shares. Index funds don't try to beat the market; they simply aim to harness the power of the markets to deliver healthy long-term returns.

If You Can is a short, inexpensive e-booklet aimed at getting twenty-somethings with their first 401(k) started on the path to retirement saving and investing.

The Wellington Fund is Vanguard's oldest mutual fund, dating back to 1929. It's been through a Great Depression, World War, Double Digit Inflation, Tech Bubbles, Global Financial Crisis, Pandemics and it has survived to tell about it. In this book, I document the BEST strategies you can incorporate into your RETIREMENT PLAN from analyzing the 91 years of the Wellington Fund. In this book, I document the BEST strategies you can incorporate into your RETIREMENT PLAN from analyzing the 91 years of the Wellington Fund.

It is important to understand that investing is no longer a strategy that is reserved for the elite and wealthy. Instead, it is a smart and necessary strategy for anyone who desires to have any form of financial stability in their life. What if I told you that by the end of this audiobook, you'll know the specific steps to take in order to become an expert investor and to grow your income to where you want it to be?

Many individuals want to invest in mutual funds. However, many of them are clueless about how to start the process. Before acquiring shares in any fund, an investor must first identify his or her goals for the money being invested. Mutual funds offer professional investment management and potential diversification. Investing in mutual funds offers benefits you won't get from trading individual stocks and bonds on your own. Find out how to invest in mutual funds by clearly defining your objectives, shortlisting the fund types, comparing the funds, and cleverly diversifying.

Written by a practicing emergency physician, The White Coat Investor is a high-yield manual that specifically deals with the financial issues facing medical students, residents, physicians, dentists, and similar high-income professionals. Doctors are highly-educated and extensively trained at making difficult diagnoses and performing life-saving procedures. However, they receive little to no training in business, personal finance, investing, insurance, taxes, estate planning, and asset protection.

Discover how you can make index funds and ETFs work for you without falling into the usual traps. Are you lured into the index fund game without knowing what you are actually investing in and who really profits from your monthly contributions? Tired of always being on the losing end of the money game while fund providers reap their profits? Torn between hardened critiques and over-jubilant proponents?

This book describes in detail how to find quality dividend paying stocks and research further using certain criteria to select the best investments at a given time. The book also provides a list of stocks that have increased dividends every year for the last 50 years. The book explains the relationship between dividend yield and risk. Stocks are listed that pay from 2.5% to over 10% interest per year. A list of criteria is given to allow the reader to do his own research.

Financial Boot Camp will teach you what you need to know to joint the ranks of these financially secure doctors. It starts at the very beginning and is filled with straight talk and clear explanations. Although appropriate for the financial novice, it also contains advanced concepts unknown to many financial advisors. Besides giving you the information you need, the included anecdotes from real doctors will also inspire you to finally take action and get control of your financial life.

The best-selling author of Pioneering Portfolio Management, the definitive template for institutional fund management, returns with an audiobook that shows individual investors how to manage their financial assets. In Unconventional Success, investment legend David F. Swensen offers incontrovertible evidence that the for-profit mutual-fund industry consistently fails the average investor. From excessive management fees to the frequent churning of portfolios, the relentless pursuit of profits by mutual-fund management companies harms individual clients.

Investing doesn’t have to be hard. This audiobook goes over the basics of investing and what type of investments are the best depending on your financial situation and the amount of money you want to make.

In a fast-moving and compelling narrative, reporter David Ricketts takes listeners inside the rooms where extraordinary sums of other people’s money were wagered, trapped, and, ultimately, lost, in a scandal still sending shockwaves through the world of finance.