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Title: Dunnan's Guide to Your Investment$ 2001 (Dunnan's Guide to Your Investment, 2001) by Nancy Dunnan ISBN: 0-06-273728-7 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 26 December, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good reference book but too vague for me
Comment: First of all let me say that I am in the securities business and I only bought this book because it was a required text in a class I was taking. I have some fundamental differences of opinion with the offer on some of the advice she offers. Mainly I disagree with the chapter on life insurance and stocks. The author endorses purchasing stocks and for the average investor mutual funds provide the added diversification that most people need, especially in this market with some stocks down 80% from their highs last year. She also says you should only buy annual renewable term insurance and only buy term it if you need insurance for less than 10 years and THEN buy convertible term. Why would you want to convert to cash value insurance? You buy 20-25yr level term and invest the difference if you don't smoke and are reasonably healthy you can get three times the coverage with level term for less peer month. Then you can invest the difference and be self insured by retirement. Now maybe she sells this stuff, I don't know.
I also think that it gives you a lot of information but due to the format it can't give you any sort of in depth information.
I do have to applaud the calender in the front of the book though. It is a good tool to help you keep your financial house in order.
Rating: 5
Summary: The most comprehensive, easy-to-use book of its kind
Comment: Since becoming an investment professional in 1988, I've been purchasing this book regularly for my library since it caught my eye in the early 90's. Dunnan employs a simple, easy-to-read style in compiling an investment sourcebook that serves simultaneously as a "how-to" manual and a reference guide, without implying that the reader is some kind of dummy.
Each of the 36 chapters contains easy to understand, practical information interspersed with helpful hints and cautionary asides (denoted by a checked box and a little cannonball bomb, respectively) that add a clever dimension to the financial discourse. What impresses me most about this book is that Dunnan has no bias (unlike other noteworthy publications) when it comes to the topic of investment advice and fees. She provides encouragement and insight as to how to get the most out of your own efforts, if you feel comfortable on your own, or out of your investment professional, if you don't. Topics range from beginning to complex investment vehicles, choosing financial professionals, financing major purchases, on-line investing, and considerations related to insurance and retirement. There's even a chapter on the tax status of your investments, arranged alphabetically by subject. All throughout, there are numerous listings of alternative information sources (e.g., organizations and publications) to bolster your education. In the back of the book you'll find a decent glossary (conspicuously absent in other books) of Wall Street jargon. Unless your goal is to day-trade, this book is for everyone who has a question involving the world of money and investments.
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Title: How to Invest $50-$5,000 8e : The Small Investor's Step-By-Step Plan for Low-Risk, High-Value Investing (HOW TO INVEST $50 TO $5000) by Nancy Dunnan ISBN: 006008779X Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 24 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Never Call Your Broker on Monday: And 300 Other Financial Lessons You Can't Afford Not to Know by Nancy Dunnan ISBN: 0062701649 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $8.50 |
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