The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need Paperback – April 26, 2016 by Andrew Tobias

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Author: Tobias Andrew

Brand: Mariner Books

Edition: Reprint

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• Mariner Books

Package Dimensions: 24x204x260

Number Of Pages: 320

Release Date: 26-04-2016

Details: Product Description “The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need . . . actually lives up to its name.” — Los Angeles Times “So full of tips and angles that only a booby or a billionaire could not benefit.” — New York Times For nearly forty years, The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need has been a favorite finance guide, earning the allegiance of more than a million readers across America. This completely updated edition will show you how to use your money to your best advantage in today’s financial marketplace, no matter what your means. Using concise, witty, and truly understandable tips and explanations, Andrew Tobias delivers sensible advice and useful information on savings, investments, preparing for retirement, and much more. Review “Mr. Tobias’s ideas about saving money — you can’t build a portfolio without savings — are his real gems. And the reason for that is his approach. He combines humor — it starts with the dedication, “to my broker — even if he has, from time to time, made me just that” — with common sense presented in an uncommon way.”—New York Times From the Back Cover “So full of tips and angles that only a booby or a billionaire could not benefit.”—New York Times For nearly forty years, The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need has been a favorite finance guide, earning the allegiance of millions. This completely updated edition will show you the best way to manage your money, no matter what your means. Chapter two alone should save you thousands of dollars. With passion and wit, Andrew Tobias delivers sensible advice and useful information on spending, saving, investing, and much more.  “The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need . . . actually lives up to its name.”—Los Angeles Times  “Andrew Tobias is a funny fellow, but he’s also canny and sensible, and his book is well worth its modest price.”—Boston Globe“Andrew Tobias is one of the financial community’s most pithily perceptive observers.”—Forbes   ANDREW TOBIAS is the author of twelve books, including the New York Times bestsellers Fire and Ice and The Invisible Bankers. He has been a regular contributor to such magazines as Time, Esquire, New York, and Parade and cohosted the PBS series Beyond Wall Street. Visit his website at www.andrewtobias.com. About the Author ANDREW TOBIAS is the author of more than a dozen books, including The New York Times bestsellers Fire and Ice and The Invisible Bankers. He has been a regular contributor to such magazines as Time, New York, and Parade, and cohosted the PBS series Beyond Wall Street.  Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Preface  If it is brassy to title a book The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need, it’s downright brazen to revise it. Yet not to do so every few years would be worse, partly because so many of the particulars change, and partly because so many people, against all reason, continue to buy it.      In the 38 years since this book first appeared, the world has spun into high gear. Back then, there were no home-equity loans, no 401(k) retirement plans or Roth IRAs .?.?. no variable annuities to avoid or index funds to applaud or adjustable rate mortgages to consider .?.?. no ETFs, no 529 education funds, no frequent-flier miles (oh, no!), no Internet (can you imagine? no Internet!)’?”?not even an eBay, Craigslist, or Amazon. (How did anyone ever buy anything?)      The largest mutual fund family offered a choice of 15 different funds. Today: hundreds. Stock prices were quoted in fractions and New York Stock Exchange volume averaged 25 million shares a day. Today: 3 billion shares would be a slow day.      The top federal income tax bracket was 70%.      The basics of personal finance haven’t changed’?”?they never do. There are still just a relatively few commonsense things you need to know about your money. But the welter of investment choices and the thicket of jargon and pitches have grown a great deal more dense. Perhap