$20,000 to $2 million in only three years— the greatest stock-picker you never heard of tells you how you can do it too
Chris Camillo is not a stockbroker, financial analyst, or hedge fund manager. He is an ordinary person with a knack for identifying trends and discovering great investments hidden in everyday life. In early 2007, he invested $20,000 in the stock market, and in three years it grew to just over $2 million.
With Laughing at Wall Street, you’ll see:
How Facebook friends helped a young parent invest in the wildly successful children’s show, Chuggington—and saw her stock values climb 50%
How an everyday trip to 7-Eleven alerted a teenager to short Snapple stock—and tripled his money in seven days
How $1000 invested consecutively in Uggs, True Religion jeans, and Crocs over five years grew to $750,000
How Michelle Obama caused J. Crew’s stock to soar 186%, and Wall Street only caught up four months later!
Engaging, narratively-driven, and without complicated financial analysis, Camillo’s stock picking methodology proves that you do not need large sums of money or fancy market data to become a successful investor.
This is a powerful story woven around one theme—TAX PLANNING CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE
Tackling the fundamental question asked by all taxpayers – How can I save on taxes? — attorney and CPA Mark J. Kohler empowers you to dismiss standard CPA viewpoints like your tax payment is what it is and you just make too much money.
Simplified through the mastery of storytelling, Kohler invites you to immerse yourself in the compelling tale of a typical family’s tax awakening. Through their journey, you’ll discover critical, but underutilized tax strategies to achieve huge tax savings, greater wealth, and, ultimately, a winning pursuit of the American Dream.
In Managing Retirement Wealth, award-winning author, columnist, and seasoned personal portfolio manager Julie Jason will help you:
Understand how to deal with the uncertainty of the markets so that you can anticipate, not react to market-moving events.
Graduate from hit-or-miss buying and selling to a big-picture portfolio approach to managing your assets
Construct a goal-directed personal portfolio customized toserve you and your family for a lifetime
Establish a workable oversight system to enable you to correct missteps so that you get back on course ton meeting your goals
Develop a sense of healthy skepticism to help you evaluate investment opportunities and advice
Whether you're a novice or an experienced investor, you'll find resources, insights, and strategies here to make effective decisions upon which a sound financial future can be based in good markets and bad.
Here's what the reviewers are saying about First Job ~ First Paycheck:
"Parents, this one is for the kids" - Central Florida Future - university newspaper
"Lehman's book aims to save students from the often repeated myths about money, jobs and living in the paycheck-to-paycheck trap" - Rebekah Kubik, Contributing Writer, Central Florida Future
Over 25 college students and graduates from major universities pre-read the book and gave it an overwhelming "must have" thumbs-up.
First Job ~ First Paycheck is a book for college juniors and seniors, and recent graduates. It gives ideas on how to get that all-important first job, how to get the most out of that first job, and how to handle money and the responsibilities that come with that first paycheck.
The book is written by award winning author Jeff Lehman. He has guest lectured to thousands of college students and mentored hundreds more.
A practical guide to getting personal investing right
Somewhere along the way, something has gone very wrong with the way individuals save and invest. Too often, households are drawn in by promotional suggestions masquerading as impartial investment advice. Consumers get saddled with more risk than they realize. Authors Zvi Bodie and Rachelle Taqqu understand the dilemma that today's investors face, and with Risk Less and Prosper they will help you find your financial footing.
Written in an accessible style, this practical guide skillfully explains why personal investing is all about you—your goals, your values and your career path. It shows how to understand investment risk and choose the particular blend of risk and safety that is right for you. And it lays out several simple yet powerful ways for small investors to cast a reliable safety net to achieve their financial goals and truly prosper. Coauthors Bodie and Taqqu challenge the myth that all investments require risk, then highlight some important risks that families often disregard when deciding where to put their money. Later, they connect the dots between investment and investor, showing us all how to grasp our own investment risk profiles and how we may use these insights to make more fitting investment choices.
Making sound investments is tough enough without having to worry about unscrupulous financial advisers and outright frauds. But recently strengthened laws aren't enough to stop the professionals intent on profiting from just plain stealing your money. As an Enforcement Branch Chief at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Pat Huddleston witnessed countless people lose their life savings to reckless stockbrokers and fraudulent schemes. Now an SEC-recommended Receiver and CEO of a securities and investment fraud investigation agency, Huddleston has intimate knowledge of how scam artists and bad brokers operate. In The Vigilant Investor, he explains WHY we fall for investment scams, HOW con artists play on our emotions, and WHAT we can do to protect ourselves from predators. With its unique look into the science of financial decision making, the book blows up the popular myths and simplistic ôdoÆs and donÆtsö of investing while sharing techniques anyone can use to perform due diligence even better than the experts. With gripping stories of actual cases, Huddleston sheds light on the dark corners of the investment industry and teaches investors and professionals alike how to spot fraud and guard themselves against financial catastrophe.
