Synopsis
Discusses stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and securities, explains how brokers work, and tells how to plan an investment portfolio
Reviews
Fowler's money-making advice is to invest in stock and bonds, track the Dow Index, join an investment club, and bypass mutual funds ("You can do better"). She provides a 15-page guide to "understanding economic cycles," and other once-over-lightly, not particularly timely, instruction on how brokers and analysts work, speculation, charting, and reading newspaper stock quotations. It's unclear why this is a "woman's guide." Perhaps suggesting that "it's fashionable" as a reason to buy stocks, or judging members of a board of directors by whether or not she would want "her daughters to marry them," might seem strange under other rubrics. The work's sample portfolios may be useful to some readers; overall, not a necessary purchase. Justine Roberts, Univ. of California at San Francisco Lib.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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