The Kitchen Table Investor: Low Risk, Low-Maintenance Wealth-Building Strategies For Working Families - Softcover

Wasik, John F.

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Synopsis

Finally, a time-tested, low-stress investment strategy for the rest of us.

Despite all the media hoopla about manic day traders, tech-stock speculators, and teenage millionaires, most Americans have neither the time nor the inclination to play games with their hard-earned savings. This sensible guide is for the millions of average investors -- from new wage earners to single moms to middle-age workers anticipating retirement -- looking for easy-to-execute, money-making investment strategies. Targeting households with annual incomes below six figures, personal-finance writer John F. Wasik explains how to:

--find extra cash each month to save and invest
--learn from the commonsense tactics of local investment clubs
--take advantage of dividend-reinvestment and direct-purchase plans
--maximize 401Ks, IRAs, and other retirement plans
--select the right mutual funds, government securities, or time-tested stocks
--commit to a strategy and let the money do all the work

Based on proven techniques that minimize risk, stress, and the demands on one's time, The Kitchen-Table Investor contains all the tools investors need to build a safe, secure nest egg.

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About the Author

John F. Wasik is the author of The Late-Start Investor, The Investment Club Book, and Retire Early. He is currently a special-projects editor for Consumer's Digest. He lives with his wife, Kathleen, and daughter, Sarah, near Chicago.

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Wasik, special projects editor for Consumers Digest and author of eight other books, suggests sound investment strategies for households netting less than $100,000, such as joining an investment club and capitalizing on employer-sponsored retirement plans. This user-friendly guide is peppered with chatty anecdotes and "kitchen table tips" (among the best is a list of "25 More Ways to Automatically Save for Investments"), as well as chapter summaries and a guide to financial resources online. (Jan.)
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