The Women’s Guide to Successful Investing: Achieving Financial Security and Realizing Your Goals

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Wealth Accumulation Is an Attitude: Investing for Your Future Requires a Few Goals and Much Less Capital Than You Think....Pages 1-13
Why Women Make Excellent Investors: Women Inherently Display the Traits Required for Successful Investing....Pages 15-24
In Order to Get There We Need to Know Where We Are Going: Establishing Financial Goals Informs Successful Savings and Investment Plans....Pages 25-36
Developing an Investment Discipline That Will Achieve Our Goals: For the Diligent Student and Practitioner, Investing—Like Any Skill—Can Be Perfected; Matching Our Investment Strategy with Our Goals Is Paramount....Pages 37-56
Developing an Investment Discipline That Will Achieve Our Goals—Continued: The Stock Market Is a Tug-of-War between Fear and Greed; Arm Yourself with the Tools to Succeed....Pages 57-75
Construct Your Portfolio Like a Dinner Party Invitation List: Holdings Should Be Balanced and Behave Well If Things Get Out of Hand....Pages 77-92
Meet Your Research Team: A Smartphone and Sirius XM Radio Account—Accessible and Timely Financial Information for Busy Women....Pages 93-99
Apple Computer—A Case Study in How to Select a Core Holding: A Role Model Investment You Will Want to Emulate....Pages 101-115
A Case Study of a Stalled Luxury Brand—Coach, Inc.: Whether Coach Bags Fit Your Budget or Style, We Can Learn a Great Deal from This Former Darling....Pages 117-129
Stocks to Own for a Lifetime: Identifying Industry Leaders Provides the Conviction Required to Buy Stocks We Are Willing to Hold for Decades....Pages 131-150
ETFs to Own for a Lifetime: How Women Investors Can Get Their Groove Back....Pages 151-158
Five Critical Lessons and Warnings: Don’t Touch a Hot Stove, Don’t Talk to Strangers, and Other Lessons for the Ages....Pages 159-168
Eleven Intelligent Investing Rules—And One More for Good Measure: Rules for Women to Invest By....Pages 169-173
If You Are Going to Hire a Professional Investment Advisor, Let’s Make Sure You Hire the Best: You Really Can Do This on Your Own but for Those of You Who Won’t, Consider the Following Guidelines....Pages 175-182
Back Matter....Pages 183-210