Just about every month, housing values in the U.S. fall. That, in turn, increases the number of people who owe more on their houses than they are worth—either trapping them in homes they may no longer want or putting them in danger of financial catastrophe if they lose a job or are otherwise unable to meet the mortgage. Underwater: Options When Your Mortgage Is Upside Down offers valuable advice to homeowners on ways they can unload a house they no longer want, save a home from fo...

Insightful summaries of fifteen outstanding management booksSince 1978, Soundview Executive Book Summaries has offered its subscribers condensed versions of the most relevant and influential business books published each year. The company has won acclaim as the definitive selection service for business book readers.Following its successful first collection, The Marketing Gurus, Soundview has now compiled The Management Gurus, which includes summaries of fi...

The safe, profitable alternative to a losing betWhile many of us were learning the hard way that a buy-and-hope strategy is bound to fail, Don Schreiber, Jr., and Gary E. Stroik were busy updating All About Dividend Investing--the proven answer to a highly flawed, totally outdated, but all-too-common investing approach.This back-to-basics book argues that dividend-paying stocks, not growth stocks, form the best foundation for any portfolio. Used strategically, di...

This essential guide to retirement planning provides accessible, practical strategies for financial security"If you want a handy guide that provides information in small chunks, Solin's book is it." —Newark Star-LedgerIn The Smartest Retirement Book You'll Ever Read, Daniel R. Solin provides easy-to-follow explanations of key financial concepts, from investment guidance to money management and withdrawal methods. Whether y...

The aim of this book is to guide the beginners when they start investing in stocks. This ebook covers the basics for the beginners such that they can avoid costly mistakes at the very start and make sound decisions when they buy and sell the stocks.The basis of this book is my own struggle to get the right advice. Though I learned a lot while investing and had a lot of failures. This steep learning curve can be a bit challenging and it with this perspective I have penned my advice ...

Financial expert Martin Hawes realised at the age of 50 that he needed to make his next twenty summers really count if he was going to achieve all the things he wanted to in life. In this book he shows you how to invest your money in order to fund the lifestyle you want when you retire.Most books on investment are about how to build up wealth. This book is different - it gives practical advice on how to use your investment capital to give you the income that you need when you are n...

Use market timing to generate positive returns—with lower volatility!Events of the past decade have proven beyond doubt that buy-and-hold strategies don’t work in bear markets. Market timing, however, is extraordinarily effective in declining markets—and it provides positive returns in bull markets, as well.All About Market Timing, Second Edition, offers easy-to-use market-timing strategies you can weave into your investment approach. And it’s not ...

Become a “gold bull”—for more profits and less risk!Gold is among the best investments for meeting both long- and short- term goals—and the market has never been easier or cheaper to enter!All About Investing in Gold walks you through the often overlooked intricacies of investing in gold with a clarity and coherence you won’t find in other books. Using real-world examples and simple, jargon-free language, All About Investing in Gold illust...

One of the best-known futures traders explains how to trade for profit in today's global futures marketplaceLook into the bookcase of any successful futures trader, and odds are you’ll find a worn, well-used copy of Mark Powers’s Starting Out In Futures Trading. In this new edition—the best-selling book’s first update since 1993—Powers reflects on the many new forces that are shaping the industry. From new rules and regulations to the emergence of electronic trading and the Interne...

50 RULES FOR BEATING THE STREET IN ANY MARKET CONDITIONS INVESTINGThe go-to stock-investing guide for more than a decade, Stock Market Rules gives you the knowledge and clarity you need to invest like the wizards of Wall Street.This proven guide reveals the unwritten rules on which Wall Street investors have long relied to help you draw outsized profits even in volatile markets. Stock Market Rules, Fourth Edition, analyzes 50 maxims to show you which one...

Over the past few decades, certified financial planner Andrew Horowitz has helped countless clients make loads of money in the market; now he's written a basic investing guidebook to share his expertise with the rest of us. Want to know the difference between ETFs and mutual funds? He tells you. Want to know how you can possibly select the best investments when you have so many choices? He explains that too.Whether you're just getting started or you want to manage your money more cl...

Proven ways to increase profits while reducing risk in one of today’s fastest growing marketsFinding a safe investment in today’s markets makes looking for that needle in a haystack seem easy. With a single whale able to move a market, herds of elephants ready to stampede after it, and a global computer network executing high-frequency trades in milliseconds, an investor might think stuffing cash under a mattress is safe financial planning. But those dollars have l...