Book description
Become a savvy investor with this updated bestseller
Want to make confident choices about your own investments? This
bestselling guide has been thoroughly updated to provide you with the
latest insights into smart investing -- from weighing your investment
options across different asset classes to understanding risks and
returns, managing your portfolio, and making sound, sensible
investment choices.
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Get time-tested investment advice -- expert authors James
Kirby and Barbara Drury share their extensive knowledge and reveal
how to invest in challenging markets
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Discover all the fundamentals of investing -- explore your
investment choices, weigh risks and returns, and choose the right
investment mix
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Navigate the sharemarket -- understand Australian shares and
build your portfolio, take advantage of online trading, and evaluate
investment research
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Build wealth with managed funds, bonds and cash -- steer
clear of the duds, minimise costs, and diversify your investments
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Get rich with real estate and art -- find the right property,
finance your investments, work with agents, and buy and sell art at
auctions
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Take more control of your superannuation -- understand your
superannuation options and take advantage of tax benefits
James Kirby
has held senior positions on the
Australian Financial Review
, the
Australian
,
Business and Finance
in Dublin and the
South China Morning Post
in Hong Kong. A veteran of reporting on and analysing Australian
corporations, he wrote for
Business Review Weekly
before co-founding
Eureka Report
. He has written several business books, including biographies of Janine
Allis, Gerry Harvey and Richard Pratt, and was a contributor to
Investing for Australians All-in-One For Dummies
. James is also a columnist on the
Sunday Age
.
Barbara Drury is a personal finance and business writer for
publications in Australia and overseas. She is a regular contributor
to the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age, and writes for
a number of financial newsletters and corporate publications. She is
the author of Personal Finance For Dummies and Sorting Out
Your Finances For Dummies, Australian Edition, a contributor to
Investing for Australians All-in-One For Dummies and
co-author of The Fairfax Experience: What the Management Texts
Didn't Teach Me with Fred Hilmer, also published by Wiley.
Barbara began her career in journalism more than 20 years ago as a
staff writer for publications including the Australian Financial
Review, the Australian and the Sun newspaper in
Sydney. These days Barbara works from her home office on the New South
Wales north coast. When she's not writing, she can be spotted on the
sidelines at junior soccer or being dragged along the beach by a
hyperactive labrador.
