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Start giftingInvesting QuickStart Guide - 2nd Edition
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Learn moreThe Best Selling QuickStart Guide, Now In an Updated and Expanded 2nd Edition – Over 100 Pages of New Content, Including Updates to Reflect the Realities of Investing
The ONLY investing book that is written by a CFP® practitioner with 30+ years of investment experience.
THE ULTIMATE BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO INVESTING!
Do you want to learn how to make your hard-earned money work for you?
Are you interested in learning how to create real wealth by harnessing the power of the stock market?
Have you ever dreamed of using stock market investing to create passive income retire early?
A robust investment strategy forms the basis of any wealth building journey—if your money isn’t working hard on your behalf, it’s slowly being devalued by inflation. It has never been easier—or more important—for everyday investors to get started investing in the stock market.
Bestselling author, advisor, and financial industry veteran Ted D. Snow CFP®, MBA brings over 30 years of experience to the pages of Investing QuickStart Guide. Presented in plain English and written with new investors in mind, Investing QuickStart Guide proves that with the right guidance anyone can find investing success and build the financial freedom we all deserve.
- A deeper dive into the asset classes that make up a robust portfolio including a thorough and expanded examination of investable real estate
- An increased focus on managing—and reducing—your tax liabilities related to investment activities in light of new tax law developments
- A tour of the pros and cons of new and emerging finance technologies (aka fintech) and an increased focus on ESG investing—the practice of Environmental, Social, and corporate Governance sustainable investing.
Discover the Secrets of Successfully Investing In:
- Stocks (Including Dividend Paying Stocks!)
- Mutual Funds
- ETFS
- Bonds
- Index Funds
- REITS and Real Estate
- Commodities
Investing QuickStart Guide is Perfect For:
Beginners with Zero Prior Investing Experience
Reading alongside other popular financial books such as The Intelligent Investor, A Random Walk Down Wall Street, and The Little Book of Common-Sense Investing
Experienced Investors who Want to Go to the Next Level
Teaching anyone to invest in the stock market – even kids and teens!
Investing QuickStart Guide Covers:
Everything You Need to Know Before You Make Your First Trade!
How To Take Advantage of Opportunities in the Market Without Relying on Guesswork!
How to Evaluate and Compare Stocks and Other Securities!
How Disciplined Approaches to Investing Can Lead to Early Retirement and Financial Freedom!
How National and Global Economic and Geopolitical Factors Can Influence Investment Prospects!
This book has been reviewed by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
Ted D. Snow, CFP®, MBA is a best-selling author, a 30+ year finance industry veteran, and the founding principal at Snow Financial Group, LLC. He has been featured in numerous outlets such as CNBC, Investopedia, Forbes, Kiplingers and Yahoo! Finance
Reviews
Investing QuickStart Guide is an informative investment tool for those striving to achieve financial independence.
Filled with valuable tips and practical advice, Ted Snow’s Investing QuickStart Guide: Second Edition is for those interested in navigating the stock market, growing their wealth, and creating a secure financial future.
Direct and progressive, this text covers topics like key asset classes, investment strategies and tactics, and related decisions and services. Its prominent concepts are shaded for emphasis and are marked with useful symbols and labels. The book’s chapter overviews and recaps are clear guideposts through its lessons, reinforcing its central points well.
The book opens with a compelling personal story about a pension paperwork error that led to financial ruin. To help others avoid such catastrophic financial mistakes, the book brims with up-to-date assessments of economic statuses, including regarding inflation and the risk of not investing. It treats topics like annuities in terms of their pros and cons, complementing these assessments with direct warnings and clear opinions about factors like commercial real estate investment and personal liabilities.
Illustrations including graphs, charts, and figures encapsulate and extend key points in the text, representing visual quick-takes on factors like asset allocation; large-, mid-, and small-cap companies; and the “buying low and selling high” mentality. A tidy glossary clarifies elusive terms including “blockchain,” “capital gain,” “risk tolerance,” and “value investing” in a concise manner. However, the book’s discussion of bond holders who act as creditors is a winding one, and its cautionary note about day trading comes sans a clarifying scale to place the cited numbers in context. Further, a reference to following a “gut-hunch stock pick” as a beginner contradicts its earlier dismissal of reliance on intuition.
The book distinguishes itself most with its fascinating discussions of topics like behavioral finance, ethical investment decisions, and the FIRE (financial independence, retire early) movement. These are complemented by its probing personal assessment questions and suggested steps for achieving financial independence. Further, its smart recommendations about market strategies for winning in both good and bad times, and its overflowing takeaways (like its list of an investor’s three biggest mistakes), prove edifying. It is also compelling in encouraging its audience to follow the decisions of notable investors like Warren Buffet and Sir John Templeton. Its naming of foolproof investment strategies, including riding out downturns in the market, help to make its recommendations stick.
Presenting balanced positions with long-term vision, Investing QuickStart Guide is an informative investment tool for those striving to achieve financial independence.
Reviewed by Andrea Hammer