Investing for Canadians for Dummies - Softcover

Eric Tyson; Tony Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470833610 ISBN 13: 9780470833612

Publisher: For Dummies, 2004

Synopsis

Making your own investment decisions can be intimidating and overwhelming.

Now more than ever, people are taking control of their financial futures by learning how to invest their hard-earned cash. With the second edition of the bestselling Investing For Canadians For Dummies, the unbeatable author duo of Eric Tyson and Tony Martin show readers how to make the most of the stock market and other investment vehicles like mutual funds, bonds, and index funds.

Updated for the 2nd Edition

• Investment options: New material on asset allocation: what it is and why it's important
• Risks and returns: New material on the often confusing concept of risk and how understanding it can help you make wiser investing choices
• RRSPs: New information on RRSP grants, updated material on dollar cost averaging
• Researching stocks: Expanded material on earnings per share and dividend yield
• Borrowing money: Expansion and updates on coverage of high-interest rate accounts and money market funds
  
• Mutual funds: New material on exchange traded funds, including holding funds in an RRSP, Canadian content rules, and clone funds
• Investing in real estate: Expanded coverage of this popular new investment tool
• Plus new material on small business and investing resources

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Make the right choices for your financial goals

Your guide to the most important aspects of personal and financial investments

From investing fundamentals to real state and small business resources, this completely revised, easy-to-use guide shows you how to assess your financial situation and make sound investment choices.

Eric Tyson is an internationally acclaimed and best-selling personal finance author, lecturer, and advisor.

Tony Martin is a nationally recognized Canadian best-selling personal finance writer, speaker, and commentator.

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About the Author:

Eric Tyson

Eric Tyson is an internationally acclaimed and best-selling personal finance author, lecturer, and advisor. Through his work, he is dedicated to teaching people to manage their money better and to successfully direct their own investments.

He earned a bachelor's degree in economics at Yale and an M.B.A. at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. An accomplished freelance personal finance writer, Eric is the author of numerous best-selling books including for Dummies books on Personal Finance, Mutual Funds, Taxes (co-author) and Home Buying (co-author) and is a syndicated columnist. His work has been featured and quoted in hundreds of national and local publications, including Newsweek, Kiplinger's Personal finance Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, and Bottom Line/Personal, and on NBC's Today Show, ABC, CNBC, PBS's Nightly Business Report, CNN, CBS national radio, Bloomberg Business Radio, National Public Radio, and Business Radio Network. To stay in tune with what real people care about and struggle with, Eric still maintains a financial counseling practice.

Tony Martin

Tony Martin is a nationally recognized best-selling personal finance writer, speaker, and commentator. Tony's focus is on providing Canadians with the means to understand the world of personal finance and the tools to better manage and grow their own investments. Tony has produced both television and radio programs about personal finance. He is the co-author, along with Eric, of the national bestseller Personal Finance For Dummies For Canadians. He also writes the popular and widely read Me and My Money column that has appeared in the Globe and Mail's Report on Business for many years, and which keeps him in touch with the real-life investment concerns and conundrums of Canadians. His work has appeared in numerous other publications, including The Financial Post, Readers' Digest, ie: Money, and Canadian Business, and he has reported or appeared on ROB TV, CBC Television, TVOntario, CBC Radio, as well as numerous other TV and radio stations across the country.

About this edition

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0470833610
• ISBN 13: 9780470833612
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 384