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The Neatest Little Guide to
Do-It-Yourself Investing
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USA
Today
Since 1996, Jason Kelly has been spinning
out easy-to-use paperbacks for neophyte investors. These slim
books, all of which bear the moniker The Neatest Little Guide,
are filled with useful, basic information that's easy to digest.
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The
Neatest Little Guide to
Mutual Fund Investing
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by Barry Mitzman
...Someone should write a smaller book,
readable in an hour or so, with just the basic information
on how mutual funds work and how to identify and evaluate
the appropriate ones.
Which is exactly what Jason
Kelly has done. The Neatest Little Guide
to Mutual Fund Investing is admirably brief at 131 pages.
It could be used as a textbook example of how to render a
complex subject in the simplest and clearest way possible.
Yet nothing essential has been left out, and even experienced
fund investors could benefit from this quick read. How many
investors fully grasp, for example, the various measurements
of a fund's riskiness? Kelly explains what to make of a fund's
alpha, beta, and standard deviation, and he does it in a way
that anyone can understand and use.
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It's amazing that amid the crowded mutual-fund
field no one has thought to explain the ABC's of mutual
funds objectively--until this computer tech writer, unaffiliated
with any financial services company, decided to tackle the
subject on his own. The result, though aimed 100 percent at
invest-o-phobes, is remarkably easy, even, at times, fun to
read. (After all, how many of the serious specialized journalists
would define bear, bull, and lobster markets in one illustration?)
Readers learn about the fallacies of investing for your age,
the different categories of funds, and the how-to's of interpreting
a prospectus and an annual report. Unbiased data on fund monitoring
through publications and media (e.g., Morningstar is
truly for the serious investor) and on taxes, capital gains
and losses, and other related topics are presented both in
words and in charts, leaving little to the imagination. A
worthy prequel to heavy readings such as Jacobs' Handbook
for No-Load Fund Investors.
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The
Neatest Little Guide to
Stock Market Investing
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by Michael Griffis
Jason Kelly's book, The
Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing, is a neat
little book for novice investors. Kelly cuts through the mumbo-jumbo
of Wall Street and makes the art and science of investing
simple and clear. He tackles this complex topic and makes
it accessible to everyone.
Kelly starts by teaching why stocks are a
good investment. He explains the techniques of prominent investors
like Ben Graham, Peter Lynch, Warren Buffet and William O'Neill,
and shows how to make these styles your own. Each step of
the process is explained: how to choose a strategy, how to
research a stock, how to open an account and how to place
an order. Which stock to buy? When you should sell? This book
shows how to construct a core portfolio and keep it stocked
with excellent investments. Then he shows you how to watch
your stocks.
...this is an excellent introduction to the
world of stocks. For the price, you can't go wrong.
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The
Neatest Little Guide to
Personal Finance
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WritersWrite.com
The Neatest Little Guide
to Personal Finance is a reference for those who need
to restructure their personal finances and learn how to manage
their money. Coverage in the book includes calculating net
worth, tracking expenses, spending plans, bad debts, credit
cards, car loans, home loans, student loans, banking, investing,
retirement, insurance, taxes and worksheets. Tables, charts,
calculations and real-world examples help illustrate the text.
Author Jason Kelly writes that everything
you need to know about money is "Spend less than you
earn, invest the difference, and protect what you have."
For many people, that statement is much easier to say than
to put in to practice. However, Kelly's book helps makes following
this advice easier by explaining everything from simple tasks
such as balancing a checkbook to more complex subjects including
bankruptcy, investing and insurance. Both easy-to-follow and
informative, this book can teach and motivate you to get out
of debt and achieve your personal finance goals.
SoundMoney.org
The third book on finances and investing by
Kelly, who specializes in explaining and simplifying concepts
for the beginner. This book focuses on basic issues such as:
"cutting your tax bill, teaching your children about
money, getting the best value on insurance, escaping credit
card debt, managing student loans, buying vs. renting, financing
a home, finding the best checking accounts, how and when to
open an IRA, dozens of ways to cuts costs and put money in
your pocket." Also contains graphs and worksheets for
help in beginning your own financial plans. Jason Kelly is
the founder of NeatMoney, a company that offers money management
publications.
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The
Neatest Little Guide to
Making Money Online
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After penning three popular Neatest Little
Guides that deliver helpful information on investing and personal
finance in user-friendly terms, Jason Kelly has moved away
from personal money management with The
Neatest Little Guide to Making Money Online. But, as he
explains from the outset, in reality this is merely an offshoot
of his previous books because it focuses on "a new way
to make additional money so that you actually have something
left to manage after the bills have been paid". Those
who have a worthwhile product to sell or service to provide--and
who fully understand that no advice, no matter how clear and
insightful, can ever guarantee success on the Net--will find
it as comprehensive and useful as Kelly's earlier efforts.
Under the "Getting Online Can Boost Your Bottom Line"
mantra, it addresses every step from the preliminary (buying
the right computer, selecting the proper Web hosting company,
building and tracking your site) to the advanced (getting
listed with top search engines, encouraging visitors to make
your site their homepage, using autoresponders to close sales)
involved in making "your site the best it can be".
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Some readers may be more inclined to pick up
a book that bills itself as a "neat little guide"
than one that targets "dummies," but Kelly's intentions
are the same as the authors who write those other books. He
aims to simplify a subject that seems intimidating and make
it accessible and understandable. Kelly's "neatest"
series includes such topics as the stock market, mutual funds,
and personal finance. Kelly also conducts money management
seminars and is a frequent guest on financial talk...
Los
Angeles Times
“Truth may be stranger than fiction, but
that didn’t stop Los Angeleno Jason Kelly from turning
a real-life technology nightmare into a novel. Kelly’s
Y2K—It’s Already Too Late—apparently the first
novel inspired by the year 2000 computer glitch—envisions
massive failures of banks, phones and power plants that ultimately
make the U.S. vulnerable to an attack by the Chinese military.”
Denver
Post
“With dizzying action...it carries you
through a worldwide power outage, runs on banks, bloody raids
on suburban grocery stores, plane crashes, massacres in the
streets of Los Angeles. The second half of the book even takes
a turn into international espionage.”
USA
Today Online
“If you’re interested in learning
more about the Y2K bug and the geek-speak used in more technical
non-fiction books doesn’t appeal to you, Y2K—It’s
Already Too Late may be a good choice. It features a lot of
factual information and is a good example of fiction being
cleverly wrapped into a scenario that’s frighteningly
plausible.”
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