investing basics resource guide 2.2
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Investment Management
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Once you have a firm background on the financial market, and have chosen a personal investment path, these resources will assist you with managing your assets. By continuing your financial education, staying up to date on market trends and by following industry news, you will increase your opportunity for financial success.
Print Resources
Books:
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Faerber, Esme. All About Stocks: The Easy Way to Get Started. New York: McGraw Hill, 2008. Print.
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Little, Ken. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Stock Investing. New York: Alpha Books, 2012. Print.
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Masonson, Leslie. All About Market Timing: The Easy Way to Get Started. New York: McGraw Hill, 2011.
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Minervini, Mark. Trade like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance Stocks in Any Market. New York: McGraw Hill, 2013. Print.
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Thomsett, Michael. Getting started in stock investing and trading. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2011. Print.
Periodicals:
Barron’s Bloomberg Businessweek – Available in print and online through Zinio The Economist- Available in print and online through Zinio Forbes – Available in print and online through Zinio Fortune Kiplinger- Available in print and online through Zinio NBER Report Value Line Investment Survey Value Line Small & Mid-Cap Investment Survey
Electronics Resources
EBooks:
Dorsey, Pat. The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing: Morningstar’s Guide to Building Wealth and Winning in the Market. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2004. (Ebsco Ebooks)
Skousen, Mark. Investing in One Lesson. Ashland: Blackstone Audio, 2008. (Audiobook on Overdrive)
Online Resources & Websites:
CNN Money: http://money.cnn.com/
CNN Money provides up to the minute investing and business news, with quick links to market overviews. CNN offers a variety of articles by financial advisors on trends, popular stocks, and portfolio management. This is a great resource for finding information on all current aspects of the financial market.
Investopedia: http://www.investopedia.com/
This site is an excellent educational resource for all levels of investors, with easily understandable tutorials and guides and a well-defined dictionary of financial terminology. Current market news articles are available, but are geared toward providing information in a manner understandable to non-professionals.
Investor.gov: http://investor.gov/ (anti-fraud)
Operated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Investor.gov is focused on ensuring investors are knowledgeable about their financial choices and aims to protect citizens from fraud. The site contains a variety of educational tools to ensure investor due diligence at all stages of life events.
Kiplinger’s Investor: http://www.kiplinger.com/fronts/channels/investing/index.html
One of the most trusted names in the financial market, this site is unique in the strength and emphasis on their financial advice. The site frequently promotes “Best Of” lists and guides to improve the strength of your portfolio. Kiplinger’s site also contains trending market info, including a “most active” list, which is easily accessible.
Mint: https://www.mint.com/
Mint is a free, online financial planner which helps users track all of their financial information in one streamlined and secure location. By providing a simplified overlay, users can easily view their entire “financial life” and adjust their budgeting and investing accordingly.
Yahoo! Finance: http://finance.yahoo.com/
Yahoo provides a site which is easy to navigate and personalize in order to track your investments and overall portfolio. In addition to providing industry news and real-time stock ticker of multiple markets, this website allows users to customize their homepage to quickly lookup stock quotes and market data. The Personal Finance section also contains a number of useful calculators and tools to help you track your investments and answer common questions.
Databases:
Business Insight’s Global
This database allows users to research potential investments, providing company and industry financial reports (including many SWOT reports), fundamentals analysis, and dashboard overviews on a wide range of businesses.
Morningstar.com Library Edition
An investment research center which allows users to screen companies, funds and markets. This is a comprehensive database which screens international stocks, bonds, and funds and utilizing internal rating guidelines and analysis. Morningstar is very useful for finding potential investments and tracking current investments, but it also includes a moderate number of tutorials and tools for how to create and manage investment portfolios.
Standard & Poor’s Net Advantage
S&P’s NetAdvantage offers financial research, data and analysis on stocks and bonds, credit rating, and financial education. The homepage includes easily accessible stock picks, market snapshots, and current industry information, as well as company, fund and bond screeners.
Value Line
Value Line is research & investing of stocks, investment education, up to date news articles on stock market and individual companies- must go to “Browse Research” > “Library Elite” to locate stock list. This database offers a unique daily update of the stock market which analyzes trends and their impacts on the market throughout the day.