A Commonsense Guide to

Mutual Funds

By Mary Rowland

Bloomberg Press, $19.95
ISBN 1-57660-000-9

From years of covering the best pros in the business, Mary Rowland has selected what is most worth knowing investing in mutual funds.

Because they are a terrific vehicle for most investors, mutual funds are proliferating rapidly. But with so many offerings, success means hunting down better information, making disciplined choices, and avoiding seductive misconceptions. This book helps with all three. It will equip you to do efficient research, make excellent purchase decisions, allocate your assets wisely, build a portfolio steadily, and periodically rebalance it so it keeps meeting your objectives.

A Commonsense Guide to Mutual Funds clarifies the strategies that winning fund managers use to gain the edge in performance. Easy-to-remember DOs and DON'Ts fill in what marketing literature from the fund companies and even ratings in personal finance magazines leave out of the picture.

Concentrated, authoritative, and easily put to work, this is mutual fund investing distilled to its most useful form.

MARY ROWLAND is a distinguished columnist and author whose work appears in The New York Times as well as Bloomberg Personal and many other major magazines. A trusted voice in personal finance journalism, she is the author of the top-selling Fidelity Guide to Mutual Funds.

MARY ROWLAND
concisely, on mutual funds.
Just what you need:

• More than 50 essential DOs and DON'Ts

• THE BEST MUTUAL FUNDS and how to spot them

• Where to look, WHOM TO CALL, what to ask

• WHAT YOU MUST KNOW to buy in (and get out) effectively

• INVESTMENT STRATEGIES for IRAs, 401(k)s, college tuition, and retirement

• SECRETS professional advisers and portfolio managers know

• READING BETWEEN THE LINES in ratings, recommendations, reports, and prospectuses

• COMMON MISTAKES and how to avoid them

• THE RISK QUIZ: You may be invested more than you want to be

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