Product Description
3 Easy Steps to Better Stock Investing
Lessons explain key stock investing concepts clearly and simply to help you learn quickly.
Quizzes reinforce and build on what you learn.
Worksheets let you put what you learn into practice immediately to improve your own investing.
Morningstar Investing Workbook Series helps you build skills progressively at your own pace. Look for these other titles in the Workbook Series:
Stocks 1: How to Get Started in Stocks
Stocks 2: How to Select Winning Stocks
Mutual Funds 1: Find the Right Mutual Funds
Mutual Funds 2: Diversify Your Fund Portfolio
Mutual Funds 3: Maximize Your Fund Returns
Morningstar has been helping investors make better investing decisions for more than 20 years with independent information and analysis. Morningstar people are passionate about helping you invest successfully.
Paul Larson is the editor of the Morningstar Investing Workbook Series: Stocks. He is also one of Morningstar’s Equities Strategists and editor of Morningstar StockInvestor. As editor, Larson manages the publication’s two market-beating portfolios: Tortoise for conservative and Hare for aggressive investors.
6 Aug
6:34 pm on August 6th, 2010
I’ve already reviewed the first two books in this series, and after giving each of them 5 stars I think it is not surprising that I think highly of this final book as well.
One thing that I don’t think I have hit on in my previous reviews has been the fact that these are workbooks. There are chapter by chapter quizzes and questions to encourage you to get out a pen/pencil and some paper and start doing some work. After all, that is probably what you will need to be doing in your own real investment studies when you are making decisions on how to invest your money.
I had the feeling like I was in school again, and while that felt strange, it was completely appropriate. I bought these books to learn, to educate myself in how to do something, (invest my own money wisely, without outside help), and you need to be willing to do some homework.
I feel that this book has done what it’s two predecessors did, and that was to walk me slowly through the decision making process of how to invest in securities. The authors are expert at writing in a very easy to digest style that won’t confuse, it will entertain, and it will take the stuffy, tight collared intellectualism out of what is truly a very complex subject. They don’t downplay the risk involved with investing, but it doesn’t accomplish anything for me, or most people, to be scared away from trying to invest independently.
Rating: 5 / 5