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Finding the next Starbucks
By Michael Moe. 2006
The stocks that generate the most spectacular return are small companies that become big companies. My objective is to identify…
and invest in what I call the stars of tomorrowthe fastest growing, most innovative companies in the world. Michael Moe was one of the first research analysts to identify Starbucks as a huge opportunity following its IPO in 1992, when its market cap was $220 million. Today, its market cap is $23 billion. Lucky? Maybe a little. Art or science? Both. For more than fifteen years Moe has made great calls on many other stocks, earning a reputation as one of todays most insightful market experts. Now, in his first book, Moe shows how winners like Dell, eBay, and Home Depot could have been spotted in their start-up phase and how you can find Wall Streets future giants. He forecasts the areas with the greatest potential for growth, including peer-to- peer networking, nanotechnology, and alternative energy. And he explains his four Ps of future superstars: great people, leading product, huge potential, and predictability. Ironically, while the opportunities for outsized returns for investors lie in identifying early-stage growth companies, large investment banks are driven by the economics of trading volume and therefore generally ignore the stars of tomorrow. If you are looking to invest in tomorrows winners its unlikely you will find them by reading Wall Street research. Mainly, Wall Street is focused on reporting on companies everybody already knows about. Coincidentally, to identify and invest in tomorrows stars, you are unlikely to be battling Wall Streets finestthey arent there. Throughout the book Moe includes interviews with some of the biggest names in businessfrom Howard Schultz and Bill Campbell to Vinod Khosla and Michael Milkenwho reveal their own insights into how they discover the stars of tomorrow. For Wall Street insiders and individual investors alike, Finding the Next Starbucksis an indispensable guide to spotting growth opportunities.The Real Retirement
By Bill Morneau, Fred Vettese. 2013
Straight Talk and solid retirement advice for all CanadiansIn the face of government changes, financial market volatility, and an aging…
workforce, Canadians are understandably concerned about the impact on their finances and their future retirement. This reassuring book debunks the generally-accepted claims about necessary savings rates, which can cause paranoia among those beginning to contemplate retirement. The authors offer greater insight into planning approaches that are not widely understood, demystifies retirement targets (age, savings, income), and outlines concrete approaches to maximizing retirement savings.Offers practical advice for dealing with the changes to Canada's retirement systemIncludes advice for calculating your Neutral Retirement Income TargetContains solid financial advice in accessible languageWritten by the Executive Chairman and Chief Actuary of Morneau Shepell Canada's national actuarial consulting firmThe Real Retirement offers a down-to-earth guide for preparing for comfortable retirement and shows what it takes to achieve it.It's Your Money, Honey: A Girl's Guide to Saving, Investing, and Building Wealth at Every Age and Life Stage
By Laura J. Mcdonald, Susan L. Misner. 2012
Turning smart girls golden; the women's guide to personal financ.e Rebranding finance with a feminine spin, It's Your Money, Honey…
is designed to encourage women of all ages to take a greater interest--and play a greater role--in the financial issues that affect their everyday lives and financial futures. Conversational, irreverent, and intelligent, this guide to wealth creation, wealth management, and financial protection as it relates to women and their families provides exactly the kind of advice that smart women today need to know in order to take charge of their finances. Organized by decade and the events--from childrearing to retirement--that need to be planned for, presently enjoyed, or recovered from, It's Your Money, Honey is packed with expert information in the no-nonsense style of a girlfriend who knows her stuff. Finances aren't that hard, you just have to deal with them yourself. Finally, a book that understand that every woman needs to make time for a personal finance education Highly accessible, the book is designed to be read whenever you find yourself with a spare second, providing important information in bite sized chunks Helps women prepare for major life events with the help of real life stories, helpful checklists, and easy-to-apply Golden Rules Born out of the notion that too many smart women let their financial situations be ignored, swept under the rug, or dictated by others, It's Your Money, Honey is everything you need to know about money but were too busy to ask. www.goldengirlfinance.caWall Street Versus America
By Gary Weiss. 2006
A shocking appraisal that shows how Wall Street is intrinsically corruptand what individual investors can do to protect themselves For…
several years high-profile corporate wrongdoers have been vilified by the media. Yet the problem, according to Gary Weiss, is not just a few isolated instances of malfeasance. The problem is in the very fabric of Wall Street and its practices that enable and even encourage corruptionpractices that are so pervasive and so difficult to combat that they are in effect perfect crimes, with the small investor left holding the bag. In this blistering report from the front, Weiss describes how the ethos of Mafia chophouses, boiler rooms, and penny stock peddlers now permeates all of Wall Street. Protected from investor lawsuits by laughably corrupt arbitration systems, Wall Street firms are free to fleece unsuspecting clients with little or no risk. But as this empowering book shows, ordinary investors can fight back and come out on topif they learn to recognize warning signs, filter media chatter, and spot looming corporate meltdowns in advance. Prepare to be surprised, get angry, and then get even. Wall Street Versus America is a wild ride you can’t afford to miss. .Relax Into Wealth
By Alan Cohen. 2006
In Relax into Wealth, master storyteller Alan Cohen demonstrates the intrinsic link between passion, authenticity, and prosperity. He shows that…
nothing pays like . . . being yourself. This popular national speaker and bestselling writer delivers his prosperity principles in fifty-two true stories of successful people he has encountered, including celebrities, Midas-touch entrepreneurs, shuttle-bus drivers, wide-eyed children, and even a stripper. Then, in his unique way, Cohen highlights the lesson within each parable and expands upon it, enabling readers to apply the principle to their own lives. Cohen uses the story, the most cogent teaching device in history, to give readers an entertaining and accessible model. Relax into Wealth makes use of personal (and sometimes quite intimate) tales to capture the reader’s attention and impart the wisdom found in the experience. Each of its fifty-two anecdotes ends with a personal affirmation to help readers remember the lesson and carry it into real life. Most popular books on success in business or personal finance are formula-driven, focusing on techniques to make more money, climb the corporate ladder, or outpower competition. Relax into Wealth is character-driven, shining the spotlight on the kind of heart, faith, and vision required to overcome fear, peer pressure, limiting beliefs, or a history of failure. The book is about real people—in whom readers can recognize themselves—featuring moneymakers who have been true to their passion and successful in their chosen domain. Every reader will see his own financial hopes—and how to achieve them—in the lives of the various characters. .How to Pay Less and Save More For Yourself
By Rob Carrick. 2006
From Canada's leading expert on consumer banking, this easy-to-read, indispensable book will help you keep your hard-earned money working for…
you.Canadians are savvy consumers of everything - except financial products. We comparison shop for new cars and new clothes, but when it comes to our money, most of us passively hand it over to banks and other institutions. The result? Our earnings languish in bank accounts that pay out zero interest while raining down fees, or in mutual funds that make more money for the people running them than for investors. This book is the remedy: written especially for Canadians, it is the definitive guide to getting the best possible deal on everything from savings accounts to mortgages to RRSPs. Rob Carrick puts the key information in the reader's hands through comparison charts, rankings and easy-to-follow tables, as well as good old-fashioned advice. He explains how to construct a banking profile, where to find the best bargains in financial services, how online banking and investing is changing everything, and much more. This book shows how to get the best while paying the least, so you can use your money for the things you really want and need.From the Trade Paperback edition.Secrets of Six-Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to Up Your Earnings and Change Your Life
By Barbara Stanny. 2004
According to the Department of Labor, the average woman in 1998 was bringing home less than $25,000 a year. For…
every dollar that a man makes, a woman makes between 50 and 75 cents, and that is hardly news. But what you may not know is that, quietly and steadily, the number of women making six figures or more is rapidly increasing. Currently, over fifteen million women make $100,000 or more, and the number continues to rise at a rate faster then for men. And these women come from every industry - psychologists, dot com founders, consultants, freelance writers, and even part-timers. What makes these particular women able to do so well in the workplace? Fueled by curiosity, Barbara Stanny, author of Price Charming Isn't Coming: How Women Get Smart About Money, set out to research this phenomenon. What she discovered was that, though the high-earning women she interviewed came from different backgrounds and had had greatly different work experiences, they all had certain characteristics in common. Secrets of Six Figure Woman: Surprising Strategies of the Successful High Earners will be a ground breaking book for high earners who want to ensure their wealth, enhance their success, and learn from others who are in the same boat. It will also offer inspiration, guidance, and motivation to those who aspire to make more.The 100 Best Stocks to Buy in 2018
By Peter Sander, Scott Bobo. 2017
Updated for today’s market, the 2018 edition of the 100 Best Stocks series picks the top stocks you should invest…
in based on the authors’ investing philosophy—which has consistently beaten the S&P average for seven straight years!While the economic climate is constantly changing, it’s still possible for smart investors to turn a profit. Peter Sander and Scott Bobo share what the best stocks are for the upcoming year and explain their value investing philosophy, low-volatility investing, and how to find stocks that consistently perform and pay dividends. An essential guide for anyone investing in today’s unpredictable market, The 100 Best Stocks to Buy in 2018 is a proven source of dependable advice you can take straight to the bank.Tax Havens: How Globalization Really Works (Cornell Studies in Money)
By Richard Murphy, Ronen Palan, Christian Chavagneux. 2001
From the Cayman Islands and the Isle of Man to the Principality of Liechtenstein and the state of Delaware, tax…
havens offer lower tax rates, less stringent regulations and enforcement, and promises of strict secrecy to individuals and corporations alike. In recent years government regulators, hoping to remedy economic crisis by diverting capital from hidden channels back into taxable view, have undertaken sustained and serious efforts to force tax havens into compliance. In Tax Havens, Ronen Palan, Richard Murphy, and Christian Chavagneux provide an up-to-date evaluation of the role and function of tax havens in the global financial system-their history, inner workings, impact, extent, and enforcement. They make clear that while, individually, tax havens may appear insignificant, together they have a major impact on the global economy. Holding up to $13 trillion of personal wealth-the equivalent of the annual U. S. Gross National Product-and serving as the legal home of two million corporate entities and half of all international lending banks, tax havens also skew the distribution of globalization's costs and benefits to the detriment of developing economies. The first comprehensive account of these entities, this book challenges much of the conventional wisdom about tax havens. The authors reveal that, rather than operating at the margins of the world economy, tax havens are integral to it. More than simple conduits for tax avoidance and evasion, tax havens actually belong to the broad world of finance, to the business of managing the monetary resources of individuals, organizations, and countries. They have become among the most powerful instruments of globalization, one of the principal causes of global financial instability, and one of the large political issues of our times.The Crisis Hits Home: Stress Testing Households in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
By Victor Sulla, Victoria Levin, Erwin R. Tiongson, Kalanidhi Subbarao, Ashley Taylor, Naotaka Sugawara, Anna I. Gueorguieva. 2010
The crisis threatens the welfare of about 160 million people in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region who are…
poor or are just above the poverty line. Using pre-crisis household data along with aggregate macroeconomic out-turns to simulate the impact of the crisis on households--transmitted via credit market shocks, price shocks, and income shocks--this report finds that adverse effects are widespread and that poor and non-poor households alike are vulnerable. By 2010, for the region as a whole, some 11 million more people will likely be in poverty and over 23 million more people will find themselves just above the poverty line because of the crisis. The aggregate results mask the heterogeneity of impact within countries, including the concentration of the poverty impact in selected economic sectors. Meanwhile, stress tests on household indebtedness in selected countries suggest that ongoing macroeconomic shocks will expand the pool of households unable to service their debt, many of them from among the ranks of relatively richer households. In fact, already there are rising household loan delinquency rates. Finally, there is evidence that the food and fuel crisis is not over and a new round of price increases, via currency adjustments, will have substantial effects on net consumers. Lessons from last year's food crisis suggest that the poor are the worst hit, as many of the poor in Albania, Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan, for example, are net food consumers, with limited access to agricultural assets and inputs. The resilience of households to macroeconomic shocks ultimately depends upon the economy's institutional readiness, the flexibility of the economic policy regime, and the ability of the population to adjust. However, compared with previous crises, the scope for households to engage in their traditional coping strategies may be more limited. Fiscal policy responses in the short-term are also constrained by rapidly falling revenues. Governments in ECA have to make difficult choices over what spending items to protect and what items to cut, social protection programs to reform and scale-up, and new interventions to mitigate the impact of the crisis.Tax Deductions for Professionals (4th edition)
By Stephen Fishman. 2009
Understanding tax deductions is an essential part of any small business without the money saved by taking deductions, many businesses…
couldn't even get started or operate profitably once they are up and running. With this book, professionals who own their own practice can rest assured that they will learn all they need to know about the many deductions that they are legally entitled to take. Organized into practical, easy-to-use categories of the most commonly-used business deductions, also provides basic general information on how businesses are taxed and how tax deductions work, many people (including professionals) quit a job to start their own business, which means that they have no previous experience with business deductions and they need to get up to speed quickly. The 4th edition is updated with all the latest laws and tax numbers for 2009.Repare su crédito ahora (How to Fix Your Credit)
By Luis Cortes, Karin Price Mueller. 2006
Usted no está solo. Alrededor de 51 millones de familias estadounidenses tienen deudas en tarjetas de crédito con un saldo…
promedio de 12.000 dólares. El problema del crédito es algo que no se debe ignorar. No importa cuánto dinero gane ni dónde viva, si ha cometido errores de crédito en el pasado, esos errores lo perseguirán, a menos que se empeñe en enmendarlos. Y usted puede hacerlo. Controlar su crédito puede ser un asunto complicado, pero el libro Repare su crédito hoy le ofrece un método fácil de seguir para ayudarle durante el proceso. Cualquiera que sea el monto de su deuda, no importa cuán alarmante sea la cifra, puede saldarse, con un poco de planificación y mucha determinación. Cuanto antes comience, más fácil le resultará la tarea. El libro Repare su crédito hoy lo ayuda hoy antes de que su situación empeore mañana.Financial Serial Killers
By Bruce Kelly, Tom Ajamie. 2010
By using true tales of thieves, swindlers, and fraudsters at work, Financial Serial Killers illustrates how these perpetrators get their…
hooks into investors' wallets, savings accounts, and portfolios--and never let go. The worst financial crisis since the great depression revealed that thousands of mom and pop investors had lost millions to so-called Mini-Madoffs. They are the thieves and conmen who had used phony financial acumen to steal investors' money, wipe out savings, and damage lives. Financial Serial Killers reveals the cons--from the grand to picayune--advisers cultivate with their victims--relationships that are essential to the fraud. Take the story of Lillian, the little old lady who invested with Warren Buffett, one of the richest men in the world. After her husband died, she thought her family's treasure of $24 million in stock controlled by Buffett was safe. It was--until a family relative introduced the eighty-nine-year-old grandmother to a pair of unscrupulous insurance agents who convinced her to reinvest her savings in life insurance--decimating her nest egg while padding the agents' pockets. Lillian's story, as well as other accounts of deceit and fraud are the core of Financial Serial Killers. Readers will learn how to better protect their family's wealth and savings after reading this book.Compre su casa ahora (How to Buy a Home)
By Luis Cortes. 2006
No Slack
By Michael S. Barr. 2012
The financial crisis exposed the potentially unsavory results of the interaction between low- and moderate income households and alternative and…
mainstream financial institutions. Many households were overleveraged or paid high costs for financial services, while others lacked access to useful financial products that can cushion against economic instability. The financial services system is not well designed to serve low- and moderate-income households, leaving them without financial slack: they did not have adequate breathing room for making the financial adjustments that would permit them to better meet their own needs. No Slack shows us why these families were the least prepared to handle the shock of the deep recession.This pivotal analysis focuses on the Detroit metropolitan area's low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, which are similar to those of other Rust Belt communities. The Detroit Area Household Financial Services study-conducted at the height of the subprime lending boom-examines these households' decisionmaking processes, behaviors, and attitudes toward a full range of financial transactions. No Slack reveals widespread problems in home mortgage lending, the common threads among people who file for bankruptcy, the reasons so many households are unbanked, and how behaviorally informed financial regulation can make the market work better. Drawing on his deep policy experience, Michael Barr advocates helping families seek financial stability in three primary ways: enhancing individuals' financial capability, using technology to promote access to financial products and services that meet their needs, and establishing strong protections for consumers.How Not to Move Back in With Your Parents
By Rob Carrick. 2012
In this era of the Boomerang Generation, here at last is a full and frank guide to avoiding the need…
to move back in with your parents. Rob Carrick of The Globe and Mail is one of Canada's most trusted and widely read financial experts. His latest book is the first by anyone to target financial advice specifically at young adults graduating from university or college and moving into the workforce, into the housing market and into family life. Financial beginners, in other words. Carrick offers what can only be described as a wealth of information, on the full life cycle of financial challenges and opportunities young people face, including saving for a post-secondary education and paying off student debts, establishing a credit rating, basic banking and budgeting, car and home buying, marriage and raising children of their own, and insurance. The book is mindful throughout that parents have a big role to play in all this. It addresses young readers throughout but regularly asks them to see things from their parents' perspective. In that way, Rob Carrick is able to offer advice to both generations. He even recognizes that in these difficult times, moving back in with the folks is sometimes a short-term necessity. So there is a section devoted to such important questions as: Should your parents be charging you rent? For that and many thousands of dollars' worth of other reasons, this is a book that every parent needs to buy for each of their kids, plus one for themselves.From the Trade Paperback edition.Retirement Income Redesigned: Master Plans for Distribution -- An Adviser's Guide for Funding Boomers' Best Years
By Walter Updegrave, Katz, Harold Evensky, Deena B.. 2006
Clients nearing retirement have some significant challenges to face. And so do their advisers. They can expect to live far…
longer after they retire. And the problems they expect their advisers to solve are far more complex. The traditional sources of retirement income may be shriveling, but boomers don't intend to downsize their plans. Instead, they're redefining what it means to be retired--as well as what they require of financial advisers. Planners who aren't prepared will be left behind. Those who are will step up to some lucrative and challenging work. To help get the work done, Harold Evensky and Deena Katz--both veteran problem solvers--have tapped the talents of a range of experts whose breakthrough thinking offers solutions to even the thorniest issues in retirement-income planning: Sustainable withdrawals Longevity risk Eliminating luck as a factor in planning Immediate annuities, reverse mortgages, and viatical and life settlements Strategies for increasing retirement cash flow In Retirement Income Redesigned, the most-respected names in the industry discuss these issues and a range of others.The 100 Best Stocks to Buy in 2013
By Peter Sander. 2012
Now is the time to make money!You have watched the market swing amid concerns over the European debt crisis and…
heard the cautious optimism about U.S. economic recovery. Now, you're wondering where you should be putting your money for maximum safe return. With The 100 Best Stocks to Buy in 2013, you can reap high earnings with stock picks that promise a better return than the market average.In addition to naming 100 top-performing investments, this newest edition of the classic book includes:An evaluation of the current state of the marketInformation about significant investment opportunitiesTips for balancing your portfolio between aggressive and safety stocksAdvice about investing to cover rising college costs An essential guide for anyone investing in today's market, The 100 Best Stocks to Buy in 2013 gives you solid and dependable advice you can take to the bank.Get Out of Debt! Book One: Dealing with Challenges of Debt
By David Rye. 2011
As tens of millions of people have discovered, debt can be a crushing burden. It can tear down dreams and…
destroy lives. But debt can be avoided. With fiscal discipline and a clear plan, anyone can get out of debt and live debt-free.In the easy-to-read, accessible style of the Get Out of Debt! series, authors David and Marcia Rye explain how to:Assess debt problemsUse home equity to get rid of debtCut college expensesLive within a budgetUnderstand bankruptcy lawStay out of debtNo one has to live in the shadow of financial insecurity any longer. When the economy takes a turn for the worse, it's essential to get out of debt. With this series at your side, you’ll conquer debt and secure the financial future you deserve!Be sure to get all four books in the Get Out of Debt! series.How to Buy a Home
By Luis Cortes. 2006
It's hard to think about buying a home. Where do you begin? How do you know if you're ready? What…
forms must you fill out? How can you avoid being taken advantage of? You might even feel that owning a home is so far beyond your means that it's unattainable. Purchasing a home is easier than you think. The Reverend Luis Cortés Jr. guides you through this complicated process and shows you how to turn your dream into a reality. The home-buying experience can be difficult, but a house provides more than just a roof over your head. It is an investment that promotes stability, enhances your well-being, and empowers you. Attaining all of this is simple. All it takes is learning the process, developing a plan, setting a goal, and working toward it. The Reverend Luis Cortés Jr. shows you how.