Investing For The Rest Of Us: How To Invest In Stocks Using Index Funds: Passive Investing Strategies Everyone Can Use

Investing For The Rest Of Us is an investing book for both beginners and seasoned investors alike. Learn how to easily construct an investment portfolio even if you don't have the time, inclination, or skills to closely monitor your portfolio.

• Outperform 80% of Professionals: Learn investing strategies which have outperformed 80% of professional fund managers.
• Increase Your Returns By 123%: Many investors underperform the market. Learn how to easily, significantly improve your portfolio's returns.
• Pitfalls to Avoid: Discover why investors underperform the market and how you can avoid these common mistakes.
• 5 Model Portfolios: Includes five model portfolios designed by industry professionals.
• DIY: Learn how to construct your own personal investment portfolio.
• Easy to Implement: Follow the strategies outlined in this book to easily construct and manage your portfolio.
• One Hour a Year: Spend as little as one hour or so each year monitoring and adjusting your portfolio.
• Easy to Understand: Many people are confused, intimidated, and overwhelmed by the stock market. Wright's book is easy-to- understand and will help you learn how to investment in the stock market.

Who This Book Is For:

• Beginners & Seasoned Investors:Anyone looking for practical investing strategies.
• Easy to Implement: Anyone looking for an easy-to- implement investing approach which doesn’t require frequent monitoring.
• Investors Looking For Direction: People with money invested, but don’t know what to invest in.
• Planners: People looking to invest for retirement or major financial events (buying a new home, their children’s higher education, etc.)
• Transition: People moving money from a former employer’s 401(k) plan to an IRA and need to select investment options for their IRA account.

What This Book Is Not:

• Looking To Be a Trader: This book will not make you a stock market professional. Instead, it is a concise, easy-to-understand primer that offers sound, practical advice for people who do not intend to closely monitor their portfolio.
• This is NOT a Get-Rich-Quick Book. If you're looking for a book to uncover the next get-rich-quick stock, look elsewhere. The strategies presented won't make you rich overnight, but they will improve the chances that you'll do well over the long haul and that you will likely outperform many professional fund managers.

Topics Covered in this Book Include:

• Passive Investing: What's passive investing? What's the difference between active and passive investing?
• Is Your Broker Looking Out For You? Learn why investment professionals’ interests and yours might not be aligned and how you can avoid this situation.
• Model Portfolios: Find actual portfolios that you can use for your own investments.
• Portfolio Rebalancing: What is portfolio rebalancing? Do you need to rebalance?
• Asset allocation: Learn what this is and why it’s important.
• Timing the Market: What is market timing? Should you try to time the market?
• DIY: Learn how to construct and customize your own investment portfolio.
• Dollar Cost Averaging: Which is better: dollar cost averaging or lump sum investing?
• Much more information about investing.