| In this long-anticipated, groundbreaking guide to building a portfolio, acclaimed stock pickers and Internet pioneers David and Tom Gardner lay bare the simple philosophy that they have used to help millions of grateful individual investors outfox the professionals on Wall Street.
The research, the stories, and the results that underpin this book stem from the revolutionary and wildly successful "Motley Fool Million Dollar Portfolio""—a one-of-a-kind Web experiment in which individual investors follow along as Motley Fool co-founder Tom Gardner invests and manages $1 million of The Motley Fool's own money.
In page after page of sound, sensible investment advice, readers are offered a rare glimpse into the inner workings of The Motley Fool machine—and offered a first-class education in building, growing, and defending an individual portfolio, one investment strategy at a time. From learning to think like an investor to finding a first stock, from dividend investing to blue-chip bargains to small-cap treasures, from international investing to community-based online tools that are revolutionizing stock selection and asset allocation, this book takes the reader through the essential strategies for building any portfolio—no matter how small its start or how big its ambitions.
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Through their many books, the folks at Motley Fool have a reputation for helping readers from many walks of life understand the sometimes foreign-seeming world of finance and for offering practical strategies for making money grow. THE MOTLEY FOOL MILLION PORTFOLIO is intended to effectively guide newcomers in assembling a group of stocks that will be safe in good and bad times. They offer strategies for getting past the first steps and buying that first stock; using dividends to grow; and finding bargain stocks. The Motley Fool investors invested $1 million of their own money specifically for the purpose of writing this book and guiding readers in plain language on the whats and hows of investing. Their commitment (and joy) comes through--and the pages on the financial crisis of 2008-9 underscore their idea that investing in bad times is as important as investing when the Dow is high.
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