Product Description

Becoming An Investor: Building Wealth By Investing In Stocks, Bonds, And Mutual Funds gives you practical knowledge and insight that will help you protect and grow your investment portfolio.

By reading Becoming An Investor you will learn:
* The Difference Between Active and Passive Portfolio Management
* The Power of Compounding and How It Applies To Building Wealth
* The Concept of Margin of Safety
* The Importance of Diversification
* Ratio Analysis
* Professional Company Valuation Using Dividend Discount Calculations
* How To Measure Rates of Return And Know How Your Investments Are Really Doing
* How To Preserve Principal
* How To Avoid Making Bad Investment Decisions That Lose Money
* How To Select Mutual Funds
* How To Select And Invest In Turnaround Companies
* How To Select And Invest In Growth Companies
* How To Evaluate Company Risk
* How To Invest For Income
* How To Know If You're Saving Enough For Your Retirement

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #915539 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Review
Becoming An Investor is urgently recommended, essential reading for participants in today's volatile stock and bond markets... -- Midwest Book Review

From the Author
The short excerpt chapter on amazon (The Loser's Game) says what many conservative investors know--that trying harder to force high returns usually leads to bad investment decisions. I hope you'll read and enjoy the online chapter! And, amazon.com has a Table of Contents, so you can see the other topics which are covered.

Many conservative investors will want to select their own stocks, and I hope I provide some valuable insight into selecting solid businesses which will prove to be profitable investments for you.

Another big theme of the book is avoiding the common mistakes that cost investors money and protecting your portfolio from loss. It's important to remember that money lost isn't just money lost. It's money that is unavailable to compound and build future wealth. This is where the conservative investor who focuses upon buying stock in great companies at reasonable prices has a big advantage.

I tried to make investment more lively by relating it to more personal topics like tennis, golf, shopping for toothpaste, or survival on a desert island. I hope this makes the investing lessons memorable and fun. I think investors will find "Becoming An Investor" a valuable addition to their investment libraries.

I hope you will order your copy of "Becoming An Investor" today because I think it will help you become a better long-term investor. I hope you'll enjoy reading it!

Customer Reviews

A good place to begin learning how to manage your money
Hupalo gives you simple (good) advice to manage your money.

The book is very balanced and it is aimed mainly to the educated general public. You will need only some simple algebra to understand his few valuation formulas.

He writes basically about common stocks and has a chapter discussing bonds. But do not expect market timing methods. It is more directed to Investing than to Trading.

Conclusion: A good place to begin learning how to manage your money. To good sense people.

A diamond in the rough!
Only available in paperback, no fancy artwork on the cover, no glowing reviews by a big time newspaper publisher, no forward by a prestigious luminary, even the editing is second rate. In a word, this is a rough book.

However, when it comes to content, this book is loaded as the author does not include a lot of fluff or selfish stories about himself. However, the author is obviously very well read, because he includes numerous references to plently of other investing books. Some may conclude it's a value investing book, but growth investing is covered as well.

So, what this book presents is a careful and comprehensive distillation of just about everything commonly available on the subject of investing. Also included are numerous clever stories which illustrate important investment truths and strategies and a recognition that a lot of what the mass media presents is almost worthless for somebody wishing to become an investor.

Proven Way to Sound, Successful, Long-Term Investing
This excellent book is highly commended to anyone who is truly serious about investing. Peter Hupalo is a consultant and frequent columnist on money and entrepreneurship matters. With clear and convincing data to support him, Mr. Hupalo debunks many of the myths Wall Street pushes on the investing public. Author demonstrates the futility of trying to "beat the market", whether through stock picking and market timing or by following mutual funds that have shown high levels of performance in the past. After he makes a convincing case for trying to meet, rather than beat the market. Thus, Mr. Hupalo advocates investing in a diversified basket of mutual funds. The chapter on investing during retirement is particularly insightful.

Whether or not one ultimately agrees with Mr. Hupalo's point of view, "Becoming An Investor: Building Wealth By Investing In Stocks, Bonds, And Mutual Funds" is a book, which deserves attention. Anyone wishing to base his/her investment decisions on solid methodology needs to read this book. You will have a much clearer understanding of markets, and your investment decisions will be firmly rooted in proven soil.

I highly recommend this book for everyone.

Alexander Petrochenkov