If you want to diversify your portfolio and lower your risk exposure with hedge funds, here’s what you should know: Hedge Funds For Dummies explains all the different types of funds, explores the pros and cons of funds as an investment, shows you how to find a good broker, and much more. 
Authored by Ann Logue, a financial writer and hedge fund specialist, this handy, friendly guide covers all the bases for investors of all levels. Whether you’re just building your first portfolio or you’ve been investing for years, you’ll find everything you need to know inside: <ul>
<li>What a hedge fund is and what it does</li> <li>How hedge funds are structured</li> <li>Determining whether a hedge fund is right for your portfolio</li> <li>Calculating investment risk and return</li> <li>Short- and long-term tax issues</li> <li>Developing a hedge fund investment strategy</li> <li>Monitoring and profiting on macroeconomic trends</li> <li>Evaluating fund performance</li> <li>Evaluating hedge fund management</li> </ul>
If you’re investing for the future, you definitely want to minimize your risk and maximize your returns. A balanced portfolio with hedge funds is one of the best ways to achieve that sort of balance. This book walks you step by step through the process of evaluating and choosing funds, incorporating them into your portfolio in the right amounts, and making sure they give you the returns you expect and deserve. You’ll learn all the ins and outs of funds, including: <ul>
<li>What kind of fees you should expect to pay</li> <li>Picking a hedge fund advisor or broker</li> <li>Fulfilling paperwork and purchasing requirements</li> <li>Performing technical analysis and reading the data</li> <li>How to withdraw funds and handle the taxes</li> <li>Tracking fund performance yourself or through reporting services</li> <li>Hedge fund strategies for smaller portfolios</li> <li>Performing due diligence on funds that interest you</li> </ul>
This friendly, to-the-point resource includes information you can’t do without, including sample portfolios that show you how to invest wisely. Hedge funds are an important part of every balanced portfolio, and this friendly guide tells how to use them to your best advantage. With important resources, vital information, and commonsense advice, Hedge Funds For Dummies is the perfect resource for every investor interested in hedge funds.

Hedge Funds For Dummies

Business & Money

Ann C. Logue

Economics

For Dummies

Hedge Funds for Dummies

Day trading is undoubtedly the most exciting way to make money from home. It's also the riskiest. Before you begin, you need three things: patience, nerves of steel, and a well-thumbed copy of Day Trading For Dummies—the low-risk way to find out whether day trading is for you. 
This plain-English guide shows you how day trading works, identifies its all-too-numerous pitfalls, and get you started with an action plan. From classic and renegade strategies to the nitty-gritty of daily trading practices, it gives you the knowledge and confidence you'll need to keep a cool head, manage risk, and make decisions instantly as you buy and sell your positions. Learn how to: <ul>
<li>Set up your accounts and your office</li> <li>Connect with research and trading services</li> <li>Plan and research trades carefully and thoroughly</li> <li>Comply with regulations issues and tax requirements</li> <li>Leverage limited capital</li> <li>Cope with the stress quick-action trading</li> <li>Sell short to profit from price drops</li> <li>Evaluate your day-trading performance</li> <li>Use technical and fundamental analysis</li> <li>Find entry and exit points</li> <li>Use short-term trading to establish a long-term portfolio</li> </ul>
You'll also find Top-Ten Lists of good reasons to go into day trading, or run from it in terror, as well as lists of the most common (and expensive) mistakes day traders make. Read Day Trading For Dummies and get the tips, guidance, and solid foundation you need to succeed in this thrilling, lucrative and rewarding career.

Day Trading for Dummies

Generate a good return as well as goodwill with this guide to ethical investments 
Want to make money while you make a difference in the world? Socially Responsible Investing For Dummies, a 2010 Green Book Festival award winner, is as practical, hands-on guide to smart social investing that shows you how to maximize your profits while remaining true to your values. You get expert advice in targeting an issue you're passionate about, researching potential investments, and putting your socially responsible choices into action. <ul>
<li> Get started with social investing basics — understand what it is, why it works, and how investors define social responsibility </li> <li> Navigate the socially responsible enterprise — discover the business principles that help ethical organizations thrive </li> <li> Conduct your research — determine whether an investment has financial potential and also serves your personal needs </li> <li> Evaluate your investment choices — from stocks and bonds to mutual funds and ETFs to real estate and high finance, select the best investments and adjust your portfolio over time </li> <li> Get help from the pros — find brokers, financial planners, and mutual fund companies that can help you with your decisions </li> <li> Ensure your success — see how to diversify, monitor your investments, join forces with others, vote your proxies, keep your perspective, and more </li> <li> Keep up with investment trends — discover how to take advantage of new investment products and stay on top of industry changes </li> <li> Recognize truly socially responsible investments — understand how to tell socially responsible investment opportunities from "feel good" opportunities </li> </ul>
In Socially Responsible Investing For Dummies you will find: <ul>
<li> A clear introduction to social investing </li> <li> Issues to invest in, from environmental to international </li> <li> The different types of investments </li> <li> How to buy and sell </li> <li> Fiduciary responsibilities for the social investor </li> <li> How to use your investment clout to influence a company's performance </li> <li> Ten social investing traps you must avoid </li> <li> Activist investing success stories </li> </ul>

Socially Responsible Investing For Dummies

Investing

Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John

High-Powered Investing All-In-One for Dummies

Peter J. Sander

Russell Wild

Barbara Rockefeller

Paul Mladjenovic

Amine Bouchentouf

Brian Dolan

Kerry Pechter

Joe Duarte

Mark Galant

Wiley-India

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