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The Lazy Person's Guide to Investing
A Book for Procrastinators, the Financially Challenged, and Everyone Who Worries About Dealing With Their Money
by Paul B. Farrell
List Price: 19.95


Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Business Plus (January 08 2004)
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Chapter 1: The Couch Potato Portfolio Is Microwavable
A Book for Procrastinators, the Financially Challenged, and Everyone Who Worries About Dealing with Their Money. You don't trust your brokers as far as you can drop-kick them. Stock market listings make your eyes swim.

Chapter 1: The Couch Potato Portfolio Is Microwavable
A Book for Procrastinators, the Financially Challenged, and Everyone Who Worries About Dealing with Their Money. You don't trust your brokers as far as you can drop-kick them. Stock market listings make your eyes swim.



Book Description

A Book for Procrastinators, the Financially Challenged, and Everyone Who Worries About Dealing with Their Money.

You don't trust your brokers as far as you can drop-kick them. Stock market listings make your eyes swim. And you'd rather watch paint dry than study financial statements. Guess what! There's a simple, hassle-free, time-tested, and low-cost way to outsmart the experts and gain financial security...

In this straightforward and easy-to-follow guide, nationally known columnist and stock market commentator Dr. Paul Farrell shows you exactly how to build wealth with your personal portfolio or 401(k)-even if you hate numbers and finance. In fact, you'll discover that the Wall Street wonder boys, the brokers who play "portfolio management" with other peoples' money, quietly invest their own private nest eggs in the same way that Dr. Farrell suggests you invest yours. You'll learn:

  • Why you don't need a stockbroker or financial planner-and may do better without one

  • The Couch Potato, the No-Brainer, and other easy-to-understand investment techniques-that make money for you without making you sit up and worry at night

  • How to use as few as two mutual funds to sock away your money and virtually forget it-while it multiplies more reliably than 90 percent of actively managed portfolios

  • Why you should never, never, never have to pay a brokerage commission again-not for a mutual fund, or even for a common stock

  • How to adjust your investments once a year, in less time than it takes to microwave a potato-unlike full-time day traders, trend watchers, and stock market nerds, you can build a retirement nest egg of a million bucks or more and still have a life!

Free hint: The sooner you start, the more your money can grow and compound-until you're ready to put a kid through college or retire. That's why you need to start relaxing with The Lazy Person's Guide to Investing today!

About the Author

Paul B. Farrell, J.D., Ph.D.Paul B. Farrell, J.D., Ph.D.

Paul B. Farrell, J.D., Ph.D. is the author of six books on personal finance and investing, including The Millionaire Code, The Winning Portfolio, Expert Investing on the Net, and The Lazy Person's Guide to Investing. Earlier Dr. Farrell was an investment banker with Morgan Stanley; executive vice president of the Financial News Network; executive vice president of Mercury Entertainment Corp; and associate editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner.

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