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The 100 Best Mutual Funds You Can Buy, 2002
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The 100 Mutual Funds You Can't Afford to Miss!
Mutual funds are the best investment vehicle developed in the last century. They are easy to purchase and redeem, require simple recordkeeping, are less risky than stocks, and can perform superbly. It's all a matter of finding the right fund.
For the 2003 edition of this bestselling guide, noted financial planner Gordon Williamson has thoroughly reanalyzed every one of the more than 15,000 mutual funds available to consumers to determine an authoritative ranking of the best 100. The result is a brand-new list of offerings for the savvy investor, with easy-to-follow star ratings and performance rankings.
The 100 Best Mutual Funds You Can Buy, 2003 brings you the best choices for:
-Growth funds
-Global funds
-Technology stock funds
-Tax-free funds
You'll find everything you need here, in one handy volume. This is the only resource to rate each fund annually for long-term performance, management stability, risk sensitivity, up-market and down-market performance, tax minimization, and predictability of returns. Completely revised and updated, The 100 Best Mutual Funds You Can Buy, 2003 is the guide you'll rely on-year after year.
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Uses old data, poor labels and tables would be better.......2004-04-08
The 2003 edition of The 100 Best Mutual Funds uses data through December 31, 2001.
The book is primarily a collection of two page profiles on each fund. The profiles start with a 5 star ranking system to grade Total Return, Risk Reduction, Management, Current Income and Expense Control. Next the author uses 5 category grades to evaluate up-market performance, down-market performance and predictablility of returns. The grades are excellent, very good, good, fair and poor. I have two problems with these grading systems. First, the categories are too broad, second the author does not specify which time period or periods he used to determine the up and down market performance.
Finally, the two page profiles should be replaced with tables. Tables would make it easier to compare the mutuals funds in each category to one another. Tables would also eliminate the "same words but different numbers" monotony of the text.
I would recommend using Standard & Poor's Net Advantage database if it is available at your local library. If not the American Association of Individual Investors www.aaii.com provides a quarterly mutual fund data table, focusing on low load funds, at a reasonable price. The table can be downloaded into an Excel Worksheet so you can use Excel's filter feature to produce a list of funds with specific criteria.
100 Best Mutual Funds You Can Buy in 2004 by Williamson.......2004-03-11
A mutual fund is essentially held by shareholders and managed
for an investment fee. This book discusses some of the top
mutual funds in the market together with the considerable
returns. Top funds are American Century Global Gold,
Vanguard Health, Longleaf Partners, Clipper and Calamos Growth.
These funds all have a double digit yearly rate of return.
Aggressive growth funds tend to have the maximal capital gains.
These funds can turn downward in a faltering economy so it is
critical to invest coincidentally with an upturn. If you catch
the bottom of a recession and invest, it is possible to
have three to four times your money in just a few years.
Many of these funds have good investment newsletters which
are important to read carefully. The key is to diversify risk
by placing your portfolio in a managed risk mix of investments.
i.e. safe returns, intermediate risk and aggressive funds
Not worth the money.......2003-11-14
general information about mutual fund, something you can easily find on the internet.
Helpful.......2000-04-21
It seems to be a very useful and helpful book for me. Since I usually ask the opinions about the mutul funds from my financial advisor, I found this book can even replace him! Now, I am waiting for the profits I will get from buying those mutul funds.
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The Top Picks, All New Listings!
Stocks remain the most popular form of investment. However, in today's volatile climate choosing the right stock isn't easy. In fact, it can be a risky, stressful, and time-consuming experience.
In The 100 Best Stocks You Can Buy, 2003, investment analyst John Slatter helps you minimize your risk by narrowing the options down to the 100 stocks you can't afford to miss. Mr. Slatter has painstakingly researched thousands of stocks to bring you those that demonstrate the best potential for both long- and short-term growth. The 100 best are companies with innovative marketing, great products, cutting-edge research, sound management, financial strength, and consistent growth.
The 100 Best Stocks You Can Buy, 2003 brings you the best choices for the following investment strategies:
-Income
-Conservative Growth
-Growth
-Aggressive Growth
Each stock listing includes invaluable background on the company, contact information, stock and ticker symbols, Web site address, S & P rating-plus insider tips on reasons to buy, potential shortcomings to bear in mind, and a snapshot of company financials. The 100 Best Stocks You Can Buy, 2003 is the guide you'll rely on-year after year.
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Great place to start looking for stocks.......2006-05-24
This is a great place to start if you are looking for stocks to buy. It gives a great breakdown of a stocks 8 year history of:
>Revenue
>Net Income
>Earnings per share
>Dividends per Share
>Highest and Lowest stock price for each year
It gives you the basic profile of the company,the shortcomings to bear in mind,and reasons to buy.
It is great for ideas on companies to buy with a great overview of the stocks history. It divides stocks into its industry, sector, and category. This book will be useful to use to understand and create a diversified portfolio of individual stocks.
But be warned of three things:
1). Use this book as a history book not a newspaper, go to Quotes/Yahoo or marketcenter.com for up to date information.
2). These are all large cap stocks, this book is not for investors looking for small cap stocks.
3)/ This is a basic beginners book, great for them, but an experienced investor will already have this information from other periodicals.
The usual suspects.......2006-02-25
I enjoy this book and use it as a reference. I try to keep a 20 stock portfolio and use this book to stay diversified. It doesnt contain many smaller companies. These are all large dividend paying companies. I think that it would be nice if it contained portfolios for folks of different ages and risk assumption.
Good place to Start.......2004-04-27
Mr. Slatter has a good idea in trying to narrow the universe of companies to invest in down to 100. He writes up a couple page profile on each company which tells you the pros and cons and some background history. He provides you with the web address which would be a good next step. All of the companies in the book are quite substantial and on average probably solid long term investments. It is always interesting to read his commentary at the beginning of the book, even if you do not agree with everything. He also does a good job of gathering significant reporting that has occurred in various publications into one place from the past year. THat is a time saver. Think of this book as an annual newsletter. It is a lot cheaper than most newsletters you can buy.
Good book on conservative investing.......2004-01-20
The main strength of this book is the 100 detailed company profiles, which give the rundown on the company's core businesses, their history of profitability, product and market area dominance, quality of management, and so on. What use is this, you might ask? Well, Peter Lynch once said that you should be able to tell at least a two-minute story about each stock you buy. Well, the coverage here amounts to a ten-minute story for each of the 100 stocks. Most of these were familiar to me, but some weren't, and so I learned something there. Perhaps the best stock I learned about was good ol' MMM, Minnesota Manufacturing and Mining. It has a 20-year record of 20 percent return on equity (ROE), and amazingly, 30 percent return on capital. You could do worse than buy this stock and just hold it. (By the way, it's up several points over the last few trading days in the market, and Proctor and Gamble has done pretty well also, another recommended stock). Anyway, for those wishing to follow a conservative, large-cap investment program, this book is packed with useful information. Anybody who buys the top dozen stocks in this book, distributing them among at least half a dozen sectors, should do pretty well over the long term. Remember, although 90 percent of all mutual fund managers don't beat the broad indexes, it's only necessary to match the market's performance over the long haul to become very well off financially and secure your retirement. This book will help you do that by concentrating on the fairly conservative strategy of buying and holding quality large-cap stocks.
Everyone has their own strategy anyway........2003-08-25
John Slatter's strategies to some may be archaic, to others nonsensical. But really, when it comes to investing, everyone has their own strategy anyway, so what is the fuss all about? Slatter's statement about stocks is really in reference to the "bond craze" that some people get, the real estate markets and commodities. People who don't understand those particular markets should stay away from them as they have a good potential to get burned if they are ignorant about their moves within it. More people understand stocks, he knows that, so he is going to speak to these people. The definitions of market lingo are great and very clear. The company profiles are great and give pretty good insight into each company and what makes them valuable. Updated information? Why try and find that in a book anyway? The internet will do for updated information. Afterall, the author is only giving an opinion as to what makes those particular stocks valuable. He is definately not writing a stock atlas or performance history. Good read, thought through all the way.
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The Political Economy of Japanese Monetary Policy
Thomas F. Cargill ,
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In The Political Economy of Japanese Monetary Policy, Cargill, Hutchison, and Takatoshi investigate the formulation and execution of monetary and financial policies in Japan within a broad technical, political, and institutional context. Their emphasis is on the period since the collapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates in the early 1970s, and on the effects of policies and institutions in shaping the modern Japanese economy. The authors present basic themes and recent developments, as well as their own research findings. They also review and integrate the large literature in the area. They consider theoretical arguments and empirical evidence for each topic discussed.
Topics covered include Japan's low inflation record (despite the central bank's lack of formal independence from the government); politically motivated business cycles and the timing of elections; exchange rate policy and international policy coordination; the historical development of central banking; Japan's "bubble economy" of the 1980s; and the causes, magnitude, and regulatory responses to Japan's banking and financial crisis of the 1990s.
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The Volatility Surface: A Practitioner's Guide (Wiley Finance)
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The Japanese capital markets were liberalized, decontrolled and increasingly opened to foreign participation in the 1970s. The fixed income market particularly expanded to finance the government fiscal deficits commencing in 1975. However, growth in the non-Government side of the market for Japan has been a more recent phenomenon and a goal of policymakers in Japan and Asia since 1997.
These markets are now second only to those in the United States and dominate the issuance market in the Asian Pacific region. The latter does not surprise since Japan is second only to the United States in debt issuance globally and in recent years has had one of the worlds largest government bond and interest rate derivatives markets. However, these relationships are not static and the portfolio flows between Japanese fixed income markets, the Asia Pacific region and the rest of the world. This remains a matter of considerable importance for institutional investors, central banks and governments.
The efforts of the authors who have contributed to this volume will measurably add to our understanding of the Japanese Fixed Income Market. This volume is structured into four parts: Macroeconomic Environmental Development, Credit Risk Measures and Management, Interest Rate Analysis and Market Integration sections. There are seventeen chapters in the volume with thirty-one authors, many of whom are prominent in academic and practitioner aspects of the Fixed Income markets field, contributing their insight to this volume.
*A four part volume that adds to the understanding of the Japanese Fixed Income Market
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In this study, C. H. Kwan examines the phenomenal economic growth and integration in the Asia-Pacific region since the Plaza Accord of 1985 and the resulting decline of US economic hegemony. He explores the possibility of self-sustaining growth in the region and the formation of a Yen Bloc.
Economic Interdependence in the Asia-Pacific Region brings an analytical approach to recent macroeconomic developments in the area and focuses on the "real" and "monetary" aspects of creating a Yen Bloc.
Drawing on his wide experience in both Asia and Japan, Kwan presents a balanced view of the subject. He shows how Japan has replaced the United States as Asia's most important source of Direct Foreign Investment and how national borders have been opened to economic integration. He discusses exchange rate fluctuations, changes in the flow of trade, balance of payments trends and the "internationalization of the yen" as the key currency in the Asia-Pacific region.
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What brought about a financial crisis in the "miracle" economies of Asia? What went wrong with financial reform in Asia? What can the developing countries of the world learn from the reform experiences in Asia?
Financial Liberalization and the Economic Crisis in Asia analyses how financial liberalization was undertaken in eight Asian countries and how it might be linked to the subsequent crises. The country studies focus on China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea and Thailand.
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How has the Bank of Japan (BOJ) helped shape Japan's economic growth during the past two decades? This book comprehensively explores the relations between financial market liberalization and BOJ policies and examines the ways in which these policies promoted economic growth in the 1980s. The authors argue that the structure of Japan's financial markets, particularly restrictions on money-market transactions and the key role of commercial banks in financing corporate investments, allowed the BOJ to influence Japan's economic success.
The first two chapters provide the most in-depth English-language discussion of the BOJ's operating procedures and policymaker's views about how BOJ actions affect the Japanese business cycle. Chapter three explores the impact of the BOJ's distinctive window guidance policy on corporate investment, while chapter four looks at how monetary policy affects the term structure of interest rates in Japan. The final two chapters examine the overall effect of monetary policy on real aggregate economic activity.
This volume will prove invaluable not only to economists interested in the technical operating procedures of the BOJ, but also to those interested in the Japanese economy and in the operation and outcome of monetary reform in general.
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Keep it in balance.......2005-09-05
This a good book but I think the author goes a little nuts with datasets. Datasets are not the best solution for every situtation.
Good, but could use more depth.......2004-12-15
While this is an excellently written book and a very easy read, I find that it doesn't really have the depth for the really sticky problems. It's a great overview, but not a reference work.
Great KJob Shawn.......2004-12-09
Shawn has given me a lot of good advise on different LISTSERVS. So, I figured it was time I purchased his book and read it.
I guess you could call me the ADO.NET guru at our shop. We all try to specialize in something and this is what I chose 3 years ago. I have read a lot of books and white papers on ADO.NET.
That said, Shawn's book was a quick read for me (about a week, 1-2 hours a night). The book's content is invaluable though if you are learning ADO.NET.
Shawn writes with personality and a little humor. It makes the book fun to read and it flows well. He does not regurgitate the SDK. He introduces a topic, explains it well with a sample or two and a small amount of code (C#) and then moves on. He does not throw volumes of code samples or flow chart\grids at you. One of my pet peeves with tech books is too much code and too many fluffy pictures. There is nothing worst than reading and coming to 10-15 pages of copied\pasted code or 2-3 pages of pretty\fluffy flow charts. Boring IMHO. Stick it on a cd or web site and refer me to it.
Shawn does a nice job covering the things you will need to know and most likely use everyday. He does not waste time covering some cool and neat, that, though it's cool and neat, has little daily value to you as a developer. He covers design techniques very well to.
I did not read the chapter 6, as I am not a fan of typed datasets.
I can honestly state I learned something from every chapter. Most was review, some was "oh yeah, I forgot about that". I especially like the Best Practices section in chapter 11.
My only complaint: he is obviously an Atlanta Braves fan ;-(
I would give the book at least a 4, maybe a 4.5 on a 5 scale. Nice job Shawn and thanks for all the tips.
Easily the most useful technical book I've read in years........2004-11-23
I have been a data application developer for over ten years. I've read, on average, two technical books per year on theory or practical application. This book has been my favorite for a number of reasons:
1) It covers the topics that are necessary to develop data applications in a .NET environment.
2) It gets to the point and doesn't waste your time needlessly.
3) It has concrete examples that are applicable to many situations with detailed descriptions.
4) It fully addresses the .NET focus on disconnected data centering around the Dataset. Making the paradigm switch from ADO to ADO.NET can be a daunting task. The sequence and examples of the book put all of the pieces of the puzzle together and allow you to start thinking in terms of disconnected data and not just DataReaders.
Data is the foundation of most every business application and it's essential to have a full understanding of the database/application interaction. Taking ADO.NET for granted is a common mistake, but spending time understanding to movement and manipulation of your data will result in a more stable and successful overall data application.
Mr. Wildermuth has done a great job. Highly recommended.
Excellent ADO.NET Book.......2004-06-24
Even though I am a VB/VB.NET developer and this book uses all C# examples, I found it to be extremely informative and packed with useful information. The concepts are explained in detail, but the author has written in such a clear and lucid style, that they are easy to grasp. If only all computer books were writen as well as this one! If you have been trying to get a firm understanding of ADO.NET, this is the book for you.
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The Job-Generation Controversy: The Economic Myth of Small Business
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Blowing The Whistle.......2000-01-12
Book Review-Author's Comments January 11, 2000
A September 1994 SBA's Office of Advocacy publication, "The Small Business Advocate," headlined as its lead story on page 1, "Small Business Job Generation: from Revolutionary Idea to Proven Fact," argues that "Small business is now widely regarded as the principal generator of net new employment in the United States." The article goes on to declare, "Small businesses create a vastly disproportionate share of the new jobs in the United States." This Office of Advocacy claim that is based on data for the 1989-91 period is misleading and just not true. My book explores and explodes this myth.
For the period when this claim was made, the Census Bureau data show that all businesses (all sizes) created 679,000 jobs. Small businesses lost or destroyed 192,000 jobs. Large businesses added 802,000 workers. Businesses that were large and became small, and businesses that were small and became large added 69,000. Therefore, the claim cannot legitimately be made that small businesses create all the jobs, when it's obvious that small businesses were destroying jobs.
SBA's Office of Advocacy is perpetrating a political hoax on the American people. Because of our need to work and the psychological benefits that a job provides, the small business job creation argument is emotionally powerful. However, the largest firms, not the smallest, are creating jobs. SBA's Office of Advocacy has been touting the fallacious 1989-91 data figures for years.
How does SBA's Office of Advocacy perpetrate its job-generation hoax? It cleverly applies the regression fallacy by counting its winners and ignoring its losers. Take a more careful look at the data for boundary crossovers.
Previously, I noted that businesses that were large and became small, and businesses that were small and became large added 69,000. However, SBA's Office of Advocacy takes the 192,000 job loss by small firms that remained small and adds 749,000 from the column of firms that were small and became large. For large firms that became small, SBA's Office of Advocacy attributes the 680,000 jobs as losses to large firms. Note: 749,000 less 680,000 = 69,000.
According to Milton Friedman (Journal of Economic Literature, Dec. 1992), and a host of academics, this is fallacious. Also, most college text books warn against the regression fallacy, but SBA's Office of Advocacy deliberately misleads the public by claiming the crossovers are small which they are on net, but it then misuses the gross flow statistics to complete the small business job creation hoax.
Using the Friedman methodology (he suggests that a firm's size classification should be determined by its end period size status) I can report that small businesses lost 872,000 jobs, while large businesses generated 1,551,000 jobs. This finding does not square with SBA's Office of Advocacy claims for the 1989-91 period.
More important, perhaps, is the argument that we should cut or eliminate the capital gains tax, because it will help small businesses, "they create all the jobs." Or we should not raise the minimum wage because it will hurt small businesses, "they create all the jobs." And finally, Americans should not have mandated health insurance, it will hurt small businesses, "they create all the jobs." Currently, a million and a half workers lose their health insurance benefits every year during these boom times. Virtually all those losing their benefits are working in small businesses.
Our democratic political system requires accurate data. This job-generation debate involves the integrity of the Federal statistical system, and affects the well-being of millions of Americans.
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