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The Random Walk Guide To Investing: Ten Rules For Financial Success

Burton Gordon Malkiel

Simply put, the essential first book for any investor.
Based on the million-copy seller A Random Walk Down Wall Street, this concise new guide by influential and irreverent author Burton G. Malkiel takes the mystery out of personal finance by outlining Malkiel's own ten-point plan for success. Easy to read and easy to follow, this practical book aimed at the investment novice cuts through the jargon to give readers the confidence and knowledge to make wise investment decisions that will provide consistent returns.
Beginning with the basics—"Fire your investment advisor" and "Start now"—Malkiel carefully and with good-humored authority lays out the rest of his "blessedly brief bare-bones guide to investing" (Business Bookpage).

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2003

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A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time Tested Strategy for Successful Investing

Burton Gordon Malkiel

The million-copy bestseller, now fully up-to-date and ready for post-dot-com investors.
Using the dot-com crash as an object lesson in how not to manage your portfolio, here is the best-selling, gimmick-free, irreverent, and vastly informative guide to navigating the turbulence of the market and managing investments with confidence.
A Random Walk Down Wall Street is well established as a staple of the business shelf, the first book any investor should read before taking the plunge and starting a portfolio. With its life-cycle guide to investing, it matches the needs of investors at any age bracket. Malkiel shows how to analyze the potential returns, not only for stocks and bonds, but for the full range of investment opportunities, from money-market accounts and real estate investment trusts to insurance, home ownership, and tangible assets such as gold and collectibles.
Whether you want to brief yourself on the ways of the market before talking to a broker or follow Malkiel's easy steps to managing your own portfolio, this books remains the best investing guide money can buy.

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A Random Walk Down Wall Street: Including a Life-Cycle Guide to Personal Investing

Burton Gordon Malkiel

This gimmick-free, irreverent, and vastly informative guide--with over half a million copies sold--shows how to navigate the turbulence on Wall Street and beat the pros at their own game. Skilled at puncturing financial bubbles and other delusions of the Wall Street crowd, Burton Malkiel shows why a broad portfolio of stocks selected at random will match the performance of one carefully chosen by experts. Taking a shrewd look at the high-tech boom and its aftermath, Malkiel shows how to maximize gains and minimize losses in this era of electronic brokers, virtual gurus, and flashy investment vehicles. Learn how to analyze the potential returns, not only for stocks and bonds, but for the full range of investment opportunities, from money market accounts and real estate investment trusts to insurance, home owning, and tangible assets like gold and collectibles. Decode the rating game for mutual funds and discover the unique advantages of index mutual funds over the wide range of riskier alternatives. Year in and year out the best investing guide money can buy, this enhanced edition includes an update of Malkiel's famous "Life-Cycle Guide to Investing," showing how to match an investment strategy to your stage in life.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1999, Softcover - 1996, Hardcover - 1995, Softcover - 1991, Hardcover - 1990

The Inflation Beater's Investment Guide: Winning Strategies for the 1980s

Burton Gordon Malkiel

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Strategies and Rational Decisions in the Securities Options Market

Burton Gordon Malkiel; Richard E. Quandt

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