Mary Farrell's Beyond the Basics: How to Invest Your Money, Now That You Know a Thing or Two - Hardcover

Farrell, Mary

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Synopsis

Offers investment advice on everything from mutual funds and fixed-income investments to retirement and estate planning, with an emphasis on a thematic, long term approach

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About the Author

Mary Farrell is an investment strategist, managing director, and member of the Investment Policy Committee of PaineWebber, Inc., one of the nation's leading securities firms. Ms. Farrell brings more than twenty-eight years of experience as an investment analyst to her frequent seminars across the country, and she is frequently quoted in leading business publications and seen on national television networks as a prominent stock-market expert. A regular panelist and a designated guest host of Wall $treet Week With Louis Rukeyser, she is also a trustee of New York University and serves on the Board of Overseers of its Stern School of Business. Ms. Farrell is married and has homes in Manhattan and Connecticut.

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Tips from a Paine Webber strategist seen often on Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street Week.
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Farrell is a managing director at PaineWebber and occasionally guest hosts for Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser. Two summers ago she spearheaded her firm's effort to attract women investors, promoting its 38-page guide Beyond the Basics: Investment Strategies for Women. Now, though, she broadens her spiel to target anyone who "know[s] something about investing" but is "only interested in financial theory if it can help . . . accomplish real world goals." Farrell identifies those goals as retirement planning, paying for college, and gaining more financial freedom. Her basic point of view is that investing in common stocks is the best way to build wealth over time. She begins by reviewing such basics as diversification, asset allocation, investment research, using the Internet as a tool (not a strategy), and choosing and using financial advice. She then discusses "thematic investing" and covers stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and other investments. Farrell does include a chapter on "women and investing" but emphasizes that this is a "discussion for everyone." David Rouse

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