If you feel the need for more control over your financial future and are not convinced a financial planner is for you, you might want to join an investment club. This book helps you decide if this is an option and then tells you how to go about setting up and organizing such a group.

Financial advisor Christopher Brooke predicts the effects of the retirement of the Baby Boom generation on investments, equity markets, bonds, and more. According to Brooke, with sufficient planning, people of all ages can prepare by understanding the potential dangers and benefits of this wealth shift.

The Five Rules covers both the broad facts of stock investing for the novice as well as more detailed information for the advanced investor. Dorsey, the founder of Morningstar, also provides several chapters dealing with investing in specific types of markets, such as health care, banks, and media.

An analogy is made between physical and financial fitness; it may be hard to get started, but once you set up a schedule, you will see how easy it is to follow. This financial fitness program starts with the basics and moves you forward week-by-week to the peak of financial performance.

The Guidebook outlines the foundation and principles of investing in a no-nonsense manner, covering stocks, bonds, main street, and more. It offers helpful lists of online resources and suggested reading at the end of each chapter.

Standard & Poor's Guide offers guidelines for new investing, no matter the age of the investor. It covers and defines basic topics - stocks, bonds, funds, and retirement accounts - but also features helpful information about how debt fits into a long-term financial plan.

The Guide offers a broad range of information for the novice investor, covering the topics of stocks, bonds, indexes, mutual funds, options, and futures. With an abundance of helpful diagrams and easy to understand definitions, difficult concepts can be understood with ease.

Seasoned veteran of the stock, bond, and currency markets, Michael Panzer discusses changes in equity investing. While these changes have already altered investment practices and behaviors, The New Laws offers advice on how to capitalize on them. More experienced investors will benefit most from Panzer's rules.

Following the investing philosophy of Warren Buffett, How Buffett Does It outlines 24 investing strategies. Buffett's philosophy is simple: be patient, choose the tried and true stocks, and invest for the long term.

Swensen argues that the average individual investor is consistently short-changed and underserved by the for-profit mutual fund industry. To resist this trend, individual investors must take the unconventional approach of diversifying their portfolios and matching them up to market standards: mimicking the market.

The title says it all. This updated edition of a very popular investment guide offers the latest word in financial legislation and has expanded to include Internet investing. The book covers topics on having enough money to send your children to college through having enough money to live comfortably and still leave assets to your heirs.

Although this book is not as detailed as other books on basic investing, it has appeal because of the easy-to-understand examples and sound advice offered to the beginning investor with less disposable income to invest.

Reference Materials

ValueLine Investment Survey

Provides practical and comprehensive information of 1,700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market and the economy updated weekly.

Provides practical and comprehensive information of 1,800 stocks, including many small and mid-cap equities updated weekly.

Comprehensive survey of mutual funds updated weekly.

A set of handbooks that provide overviews on large public and private corporations, giving historical information, market share and key competitors.

Quarterly compilations of investment ratings and analyses.

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Barron's

Covers political, economic, and social news as it affects investments. For the professional investor, it includes 50 pages of detailed financial tables covering various investment mediums.

Provides financial information previously available only to Wall Streeters by a leading worldwide financial news organization.

In-depth perspectives on the financial markets, industries, trends, technology and people guiding the economy to help you make better decisions about your career, your business, and your personal investments.

Current news of interest to the Chicago area businesses, plus company profiles, surveys of the local economy, and biographies of prominent executives.

The leading magazine for the business and financial industries.

Offers readers a look at a wide range of business and economic news.

Personal finance.

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Investors Business Daily

A financial paper concentrating on investment information for the professional investor, with financial tables and statistical measures not found in standard listings.

One of the major financial and business daily newspapers that provides the latest business, political, social, and economic news along with statistical tables for investments.

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Articles from over 2,000 scholarly business journals, many of them full-text.

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Features news and commentary articles by S & P analysts and an index of S & P publications.

A full-text international newswire database.

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