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Index Mutual Funds : Profiting from an Investment Revolution
W. Scott Simon
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Recent fluctuations aside, the stock market continues its seemingly inexorable ascent; declines have always righted themselves over time. For investors who believe this will continue, Simon argues that the safest and surest way to participate in the market is to put money into index mutual funds. An index fund is one with a portfolio made up of securities that constitute a particular market index, such as the Standard and Poor's 500 or the Russell 1000. Simon explains how the "indexing revolution" came about and contrasts index investing with selecting individual stocks or relying on the fortunes of any particular fund manager or investment "guru." He also provides nuts-and-bolts details on how index funds work, and he spells out their advantages--less risk, minimal cost, and less emotional stress. Taking on such sacred cows as Peter Lynch and Morningstar, he also suggests that those in the investment information industry oppose index fund investing because it eliminates the need for their services.

Index Your Way to Investment Success
Walter R. Good, Roy W. Hermansen
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Index funds have experienced explosive growth over the past 10 to 15 years, primarily from institutional investors. In this book, two investment insiders reveal why index funds are the way to go. Throughout the book, the emphasis is on developing a plan, implementing strategies, and gauging performance. Graphs. Online feature.

The Neatest Little Guide to Mutual Fund Investing
Jason Kelly
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The world of mutual funds can be bewildering, but finding one's way in it has become a little easier in the past few years, with the arrival of books such as Mutual Funds for Dummies . Yet even this Dummies guide, weighing in at 406 pages, can be a little intimidating. Someone should write a smaller book, readable in an hour or so, with just the basic information on how mutual funds work and how to identify and evaluate the appropriate ones. Which is exactly what Jason Kelly has done. The Neatest Little Guide to Mutual Fund Investing is admirably brief at 131 pages. It could be used as a textbook example of how to render a complex subject in the simplest and clearest way possible. Yet nothing essential has been left out, and even experienced fund investors could benefit from this quick read. How many investors fully grasp, for example, the various measurements of a fund's riskiness? Kelly explains what to make of a fund's alpha, beta, and standard deviation, and he does it in a way that anyone can understand and use.

Mutual Fund Investing on the Internet
Peter G. Crane
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This book teaches you how to simplify your finances, your investing, and your life. Mutual Fund Investing on the Internet provides an overview of investment and mutual fund resources on the Web. Beginning Internet users will find help getting online, choosing an ISP, and searching for financial information. Descriptions of Web sites covering mutual funds, discount brokerage, and general financial news help you save time and money in your investment research. The guide also suggests how to make and save money with no- and low-load mutual funds and provides information on online trading, online investment banking, and security issues.

Mutual Funds on the Net : Making Money Online
Paul B. Farrell
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Many books offer tips on using the Internet to invest, but few say much about the investment vehicle of choice for most Americans and many others: mutual funds. Fortunately, this gap is nicely filled by Mutual Funds on the Net by Paul B. Farrell. It provides a selective guide to fund-company Web sites and other online sources of information invaluable to mutual fund investors. Farrell does a good job of explaining the fundamentals of mutual funds, offering a 10-step program for choosing, buying, and tracking funds electronically.

The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You'll Ever Need : Index Mutual Funds and Beyond
Larry E. Swedroe
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Swedroe explains how index mutual funds out-earn older investment strategies; how to pick the right balanced "passive" portfolio that will reward investors with the highest expected return for the amount of risk the investor is willing to accept; and how to play the winner's gamer with the growing investor trend. The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You'll Ever Need provides you with a road map to growth and investment opportunities that will help you become a successful investor who consistently makes money rather than loses it. In this guide, investment professional Larry E. Swedroe describes the crucial difference between "active" and "passive" mutual funds, and tells you how you can win the investment game through long-term investments in such indexes as the S & P 500 instead of through the active buying and selling of stocks. In clear language, he shows how the newer index mutual funds out-earn, out-perform, and out-compound the older funds, and how to select a balanced "passive" portfolio for the long haul that will repay you many times over.

Bogle on Mutual Funds : New Perspectives for the Intelligent Investor
John C. Bogles, John C. Bogle
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John C. Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group of Investment Companies, has built a $100 billion mutual fund company on principles of candor, fairness, and low cost. The most outspoken critic of the mutual fund industry, Bogle speaks to the serious mutual fund investor, both novice and seasoned, in this straightforward assessment of an industry Bogle himself helped revolutionize. Here he offers the essential principles of canny mutual fund investing, as well as caveats to protect the investor. Readers will learn how to: Ask three critical questions before investing. Evaluate risk tolerance and design a portfolio to meet current financial objectives. Develop a diversified portfolio of equity funds, bonds, and money market funds that will weather the market's short term variations. Apply Bogle's eight model portfolios to achieve their own financial goals. Always find themselves in a winning money market fund. Protect themselves from inflation Use index funds to effectively balance risk/return. Anyone who is serious about mutual funds can apply the dynamic investment principles of Bogle On Mutual Funds to establish a winning, long-term investment portfolio.

Common Sense on Mutual Funds : New Imperatives or the Intelligent Investor
John C. Bogle
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Bogle's vision of the mutual fund industry and mutual fund investing is elucidated clearly, including the benefits of simplicity in investing, the level of consistent profits to be made from index funds, the importance of low costs to investment profits, and the place of bonds in the investment portfolio.

Mutual Funds for Dummies (For Dummies)
Eric Tyson, James C. Collins
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This revised and updated edition contains all new market data and analysis about the every-changing world of mutual funds. Tyson takes the fear out of making investment decisions by offering savvy advice on choosing the mutual fund that is right for one's income, lifestyle, and financial needs. Cartoons & charts.

But Which Mutual Funds? : How to Pick the Right Ones to Achieve Your Financial Dreams
Steven T. Goldberg
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Goldberg walks readers through the basics of mutual funds, helping them decide how much they'll need to invest and for how long--and at what risk--to reach their dreams. Tables & worksheets.

Earn More (Sleep Better) : The Index Fund Solution
Richard E. Evans, Burton Gordon Malkiel
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Although sometimes derided as "plain vanilla" investments when more exotic financial flavors are the rage, mutual funds designed to mirror precisely the performance of a particular index like the Standard & Poor's 500--called, appropriately enough, index mutual funds--have performed solidly if not spectacularly ever since they were first made available to the public in 1976. In Earn More, Sleep Better: Investing with Index Funds, however, advertising executive Richard E. Evans and Princeton economics professor Burton G. Malkiel argue that these vehicles actually outperform most actively managed funds over time and should therefore be strongly considered by anyone who seeks investments with a simple foundation, low operating costs, and a profitable track record. "It is certainly true that the index-fund investor gives up the chance of boasting to one's golfing partners about the fantastic gains made by picking stock-market winners," they write. "But experience conclusively shows that index-fund buyers obtain results exceeding those of the typical fund managers." The book is divided into two parts: it first compares index and managed funds and discusses development of a relevant financial plan; its second explains how to create and monitor just such a portfolio in order to meet one's individual needs optimally.

The Art of Astute Investing : Building Wealth With No-Load Mutual Funds
C. Todd Conover
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Conover is an investment advisor whose clients are individual investors, but he also heads a management consulting firm that specializes in counseling companies in the financial services industry. He also happened to be the comptroller of the currency under President Reagan. He begins by emphasizing the value of investing and explains the importance of setting financial goals, considering, in turn, the four basic goals he says are most common: home buying, college, retirement, and leaving an estate. Conover then explains the importance of the right "portfolio mix," focusing on the role of no-load mutual funds. They have the advantages of "instant diversification" and professional management and come without sales charges. Conover advises how to select and monitor this type of investment, recommending a subscription to Morningstar No-Load Funds. A chapter on tax planning includes provisions of the newest tax law enacted in 1997.

The New Commonsense Guide to Mutual Funds
Mary Rowland
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The best book on mutual funds just got better-and bigger-in this up-to-the-minute new paperback edition. This is the expanded edition of the acclaimed hardcover guide that earned raves from consumers, reviewers, and booksellers. The Wall Street Journal called Rowland's 1996 guide "outstanding." And The Boston Globe praised it as "a lifetime reference for mutual fund investors," applauding Rowland's clear, concise, jargon-free approach to building a mutual fund portfolio. As one of America's preeminent finance journalists, Rowland has offered top-drawer advice on investing for over 20 years. The New Commonsense Guide to Mutual Funds now includes 75 of her signature DOs and DON'Ts-practical, savvy solutions for the problems, frustrations, and missed opportunities encountered by anyone who owns shares in mutual funds. Inside this new guide, investors will find smart questions to ask before investing. A risk assessment quiz. Powerful techniques and strategies professional money managers use for asset allocation and rebalancing. And guidance about when and how to get into (and out of) a mutual fund. Includes: Roth IRAs; Education IRAs; Over a dozen new DOs and DON'Ts; More resources, including top-ranked fund managers, research tools for investors, key web sites; Greatly expanded guidance on risk-taking and strategies; Over 12 sample portfolios; Answers to most frequently asked questions from baby boomers, retirees, and Gen-Xers who follow Rowland's online column at www.moneyinsider.com. Mary Rowland is a contributing editor to Bloomberg Personal Finance and is one of the most respected authors in the field of personal finance. She has written extensively for The New York Times, Fortune, Worth, Business Week, Money, Modern Maturity, Woman's Day, USA Today, and many other major consumer and financial publications. Her books include A Commonsense Guide to Your 401(k) and Best Practices for Financial Advisors.

The Mutual Fund Business
Robert C. Pozen, Sandra D. Crane
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In the last decade, the number of mutual funds has tripled to more than 6,000 funds with more than $4 trillion in assets and more than 60 million individual shareholders. Yet there has been no book on the mutual fund business designed for MBA and undergraduate business courses. The Mutual Fund Business, assembled by a leading industry expert, fills this gap. Each chapter contains not only a lengthy introduction and selected articles, but also a detailed case study or class exercise

The Complete Guide to Managing a Portfolio of Mutual Funds
Ronald K. Rutherford
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Book Description Written by a veteran financial planner, this guide uniquely covers the statistical and non-statistical issues involved in selecting and managing a balanced portfolio of mutual funds. It explains investment policy development techniques, explores all asset classes of mutual funds, and covers the critical issues of style analysis, data interpretation and style management.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Money With Mutual Funds
Alan Lavine, Gail Liberman, Jonathan D. Pond
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Mutual funds are attracting more investors than ever before, and this informative, easy-to-understand guide shows readers how to create an investment portfolio that works for their financial goals. Includes the authors' best mutual fund picks for the 1990s and beyond.

Business Week Guide to Mutual Funds (8th Ed)
Jeffrey M. Laderman (Editor)
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The annual Business Week Mutual Fund Scoreboard is consistently the magazine's bestselling single issue. For investors who want all of its meaty details--along with the kind of supporting data and analysis that simply cannot be crammed into a monthly periodical--senior writer Jeffrey M. Laderman has assembled the comprehensive Business Week Guide to Mutual Funds. Totally updated and revised, it contains the latest information on 885 equity, 653 bond, and 260 closed-end funds in two sections. The first outlines essentials from building fund portfolios to taxes and record-keeping; the second provides specifics on performance, costs and risks.

Smart Guide to Profiting from Mutual Funds
Susan Karp, Michael Cader
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This accessible, easy reference gives an introduction to mutual funds and shows how they work, how to pick them, and how to understand a prospectus.

The Right Way to Invest in Mutual Funds
Walter L. Updegrave
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Money magazine's associate editor shows investors how to define their goals and pick the right mutual funds to achieve them, as well as how to build a portfolio, how to lower their investments costs, and much more.

If You're Clueless About Mutual Funds and Want to Know More
Seth Godin
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With the new series, If You're Clueless About . . . And Want To Know More, Seth Godin launches a group of helpful, humorous, and easy-to-read guides to smart money management. In this title, Godin quickly brings people up to speed on more intelligent mutual fund investing. Beginning with a lively look at the history of mutual funds, the guide goes on to provide a worksheet for estimating the total cost of a fund, and lists ten questions to ask before investing.

Mutual Fund Mastery: Wealth-Building Secrets From America's Investment Pros
Kurt Brouwer, Stephen Janachowski, Charles Schwab
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Kurt Brouwer and Stephen Janachowski, mutual fund specialists who manage more than $500 million in no-load portfolios, share their decade-long experiences obtained by handling today's hottest investment vehicle in Mutual Fund Mastery. Their comprehensive guide, geared toward those who want to plan how to fulfill specific needs and goals, offers clear explanations of fund types and common investment strategies as well as helpful details on top funds and inspiring profiles of successful individuals. Illuminating interviews with industry leaders such as Charles R. Schwab and Jane Bryant Quinn are included throughout the narrative.

Funding Your Future : The Only Guide to Mutual Funds You'll Ever Need
Jonathan Clements
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A Wall Street Journal columnist clears a path through today's financial minefields and shows why mutual funds are the smartest way to create a secure financial future. "Excellent advice . . . sorely needed."--Leslie Eaton, Mutual Funds Editor, Barron's.