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Investing with Exchange-Traded Funds Made Easy
“Possessing a rare skill set amongst professional investors and authors, Dr. Appel has successfully managed to provide readers with the perfect mix of up-to-date details on the various types and asset classes of ETFs, crucial, tried, and true concepts of risk management, and just the right mix of backing historical data to pull it all together–all in a “user-friendly” package. Upon conclusion of this book, readers will have experienced a paradigm shift in the thought process of their own current investment strategies. Taking it to the next level and actually implementing the concepts will automatically cause readers to experience a higher level of profitability and consistency; one t...
Should You Be Investing for Growth or for Financial Security?
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Higher Returns from Safe Investments: Using Bonds, Stocks, and Options to Generate Lifetime Income (9780137003358) by Marvin Appel. Available in print and digital formats. Why income investing may be your best strategy—now, and for the foreseeable future After the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, many investors wonder how they can get attractive returns and still sleep at night. The allure of investing for capital gains is that when you are successful, the profits can be large. But there’s significant risk of loss. Conversely, you can choose investments that pay you income for just holding them, regardless of how the markets are moving.
Basics of Bond Investments
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Higher Returns from Safe Investments: Using Bonds, Stocks, and Options to Generate Lifetime Income (9780137003358) by Marvin Appel. Available in print and digital formats. Don’t know anything about bonds? Start with this plain-English guide to the absolute basics! A thoughtful program of investing in bonds can help you achieve peace of mind: I explain what bonds are, how they work, and why they are usually (but not always) safe. To begin with, a bond is a loan that an investor makes to a business or government. Bond investors make loans and, in return, receive regular interest payments.
Higher Returns from Safe Investments
Today, many risk-averse investors simply can’t meet their income needs with conventional bank CDs, money market funds, or bonds. This book reveals how you can earn more, without exposing yourself to excessive risk or the costs of a highly active trading strategy. Dr. Marvin Appel shows how to take advantage of high-yield bond funds and income-producing equity strategies...when to purchase individual bonds, when to use bond mutual funds, and which bond funds are best...how to finally make diversification work again. Step by step, you’ll build a master portfolio for the coming years: one that can deliver attractive long-term returns more safely than you ever thought possible! Safer strateg...
Is Investing in Bonds Risky?
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Higher Returns from Safe Investments: Using Bonds, Stocks, and Options to Generate Lifetime Income (9780137003358)by Marvin Appel. Available in print and digital formats. ¿ How to accurately evaluate the risks associated with bond investing. ¿ Although the public considers bonds to be safe--and for the most part this reputation has been justified--in 2008 and early 2009, some areas of the bond markets experienced unprecedented losses. Your goal is to avoid the potential minefield that is today’s bond market. Drawdown is a visually intuitive way to measure risk. A drawdown is....
Bond Mutual Funds
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Higher Returns from Safe Investments: Using Bonds, Stocks, and Options to Generate Lifetime Income (9780137003358) by Marvin Appel. Available in print and digital formats. Using low-cost bond index funds to outperform most bond investors You might be overwhelmed by the hundreds of different individual bonds available, or you might not have a broker you trust, or you might not have enough money to buy a diversified portfolio of individual bonds. Don’t despair: Bond mutual funds can come to your rescue. By investing in a low-cost bond index fund, you can outperform most bond investors.
Choice Mutual Fund Investment Picks
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Higher Returns from Safe Investments: Using Bonds, Stocks, and Options to Generate Lifetime Income (9780137003358) by Marvin Appel. Available in print and digital formats. A world-class bond expert picks the specific bond mutual funds that look most attractive right now I suggest some of the most attractive, trustworthy bond mutual funds. But first, if your fund reports an SEC yield, that is the single most informative piece of data to describe potential return if interest rates and credit ratings remain stable. The SEC yield is the yield to maturity less fund expenses. Here is an example of how important it is.
How to Avoid Bond Investment Risk
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Higher Returns from Safe Investments: Using Bonds, Stocks, and Options to Generate Lifetime Income (9780137003358) by Marvin Appel. Available in print and digital formats. How to intelligently use credit ratings to manage and minimize the risks of bond investing Because default would be a disaster financially, how can you avoid the risk? If you have the time, temperament, and training, you could examine the bond issuer’s publicly filed financial statements. Fortunately, if you are not a do-it-yourself credit analyst, bond issuers offer you another option.
High-Yield Bond Funds
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Higher Returns from Safe Investments: Using Bonds, Stocks, and Options to Generate Lifetime Income (9780137003358) by Marvin Appel. Available in print and digital formats. When it might make sense to invest in high-yield junk bonds–and when you absolutely must stay away Wouldn’t it be great to get 8% per year or more in interest income from a bond mutual fund? This is not idle fantasy when the average investment-grade bond is paying just 4%. You can get very juicy yields if you are willing to bear the credit risk of high-yield “junk” bonds. In this chapter, you learn how to recognize propitious times to reach for their yield, and when to stay away.
The Down Side of Mutual Bond Funds
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Higher Returns from Safe Investments: Using Bonds, Stocks, and Options to Generate Lifetime Income (9780137003358) by Marvin Appel. Available in print and digital formats. ¿ Beware! Why most bond mutual funds aren’t worth the trouble or cost. ¿ Bond mutual funds can be desirable if you want the yield you can get from longer-term bonds but want the freedom to access some or all of your investment in the nearer term. But beware--most bond funds are not worth your trouble, especially those that come with an up-front or back-end sales load or funds with high-expense share classes such as class C shares.
