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No Hype – The Straight Goods on Investing Your Money

No Hype – The Straight Goods on Investing Your Money
by Gail Bebee
Get the knowledge you need to cut through investment industry hype and profitably invest your hard-earned money. This easy-to-read book of investing basics is written expressly for Canadians by a savvy financial industry outsider. Benefit from the author’s school of hard knocks experience in the investment trenches and unbiased opinions on the best investment choices for the typical Canadian. Find out how to choose the right financial advisor, build a successful investment portfolio, keep investing costs down and much more. The book includes a detailed table of contents and complete index. It’s the guide to investing that belongs on the bookshelf of every Canadian investor. And it's recommended by Toronto Star personal finance columnist Ellen Roseman.

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The Streetsmart Guide to Overlooked Stocks : A Guide to Investing in the Best Overlooked Stocks for Superior Returns

The Streetsmart Guide to Overlooked Stocks : A Guide to Investing in the Best Overlooked Stocks for Superior Returns
by George Fisher
From Amazon.com: Today's stock market is filled with highpotential companies that, for one reason or another, have slipped beneath the radar screens of analysts and money managers. The Streetsmart Guide to Overlooked Stocks outlines a simple yet effective approach for uncovering these outstanding opportunities ahead of the pack. It shows readers how to find investment gems through:
*Fundamental research and management analysis
*Understanding underlying market trends
*Quantitative analysis of stock price value
This latest addition to McGraw-Hill's popular Streetsmart series provides indepth analyses of 30 actual companies that have remained a secretbut are destined to be discovered.

All About Drips and Dsps by George C. Fisher

All About DRIPs and DSPs
by George C. Fisher
From Amazon.com: The numbers are astonishing: of the 45 million Americans who invest in today's stock market, only 5 million realize they can invest commission-free through dividend reinvestment plans (DRIPs) and direct stock purchase plans (DSPs). But as more and more investors clamor to cut costs and take control of their own portfolio decisions, this number is destined to rise--dramatically! All About DRIPs and DSPs tells investors everything they need to know about where to find direct investment opportunities, and how to profit from their affordable compounding benefits. Author George Fisher--a pioneer of more than 30 years investing in DRIPs and DSPs--discusses: * Today's top 100 DRIP/DSP companies * Advice for building a personalized, diversified mutual fund * How to use PEG (price to earnings growth ratio) to identify superior long-term opportunities

Eight Steps to Seven Figures : The Investment Strategies of Everyday Millionaires and How You Can BecomeWealthy Too

Sleep Easy Investing
by Gordon Pape
What is your number one investment priority? Finding the next "hot" stock? Making huge profits? Making 10 percent a year on your money? If you found yourself nodding at any of these suggestions, you need to rethink your whole approach to money management. The number one goal of every investor should actually be to sleep comfortably at night. Simplistic? Sure! Personal finance expert Gordon Pape explains that if you adopt the sleep-easy philosophy as your basic credo, both your health and wealth will benefit. In this must-read book, Pape explains this investing philosophy and how it can be used by everyone to avoid the greed and fear traps.

Eight Steps to Seven Figures : The Investment Strategies of Everyday Millionaires and How You Can BecomeWealthy Too

The Future for Investors: Why the Tried and the True Triumph Over the Bold and the New
by Jeremy J. Siegel
"The constant pursuit of growth--through buying hot stocks, seeking out the next big thing, or investing in the fastest growing countries--dooms investors to poor returns."Siegel presents a framework for understanding world markets and offers strategies for protecting and enhancing long-term capital. Warren Buffet, the preeminent investor, suggests that those interested in investments should study Siegel's new facts and ideas.

Eight Steps to Seven Figures : The Investment Strategies of Everyday Millionaires and How You Can BecomeWealthy Too

The Dividend Rich Investor: Building Wealth with High-Quality, Dividend-Paying Stocks
by Joseph Tigue and Joseph Lisanti
This invaluable resource distills Standard & Poor's successful dividend investment philosophy into a user-friendly guide for the individual investor. the authors, both editors of Standard & Poor's high-rated investment newsletter, The Outlook, tell readers why dividends are a vital part of the investment equation, what to look for in a dividend-paying stock, which stocks are the dividend leaders, and who successfully uses dividends as a stock picking tool.

Eight Steps to Seven Figures : The Investment Strategies of Everyday Millionaires and How You Can BecomeWealthy Too

The Single Best Investment: Creating Wealth with Dividend Growth
by Lowell Miller
This witty guide advises readers to stop playing the stock market or listening to television gurus and instead put their money into dividend-paying, moderate-growth companies that offer consistent returns and minimum risk. Citing statistics that show companies initiating and raising dividends at the fastest rate in 30 years, this analysis declares once-stodgy dividends to be "the next new thing" and provides simple rules for choosing the best stocks, using traditional evaluation tools, reinvesting dividends, comparing stocks and bonds, and building a portfolio. Technical aspects of the stock market are explained in the final pages that include two new chapters and revised statistics as well as academic studies, historic back-tests, examples of real-time performance, and a list of resources for further research.

Eight Steps to Seven Figures : The Investment Strategies of Everyday Millionaires and How You Can BecomeWealthy Too

The Lazy Investor
by Derek Foster
You need to stop enriching the fat cats on Bay Street and enrich yourself! I’m not an “expert” investor, but I retired at 34! This book uses a simple strategy to help you reach financial freedom – even if you only have $50 to start and no investment knowledge.

Eight Steps to Seven Figures : The Investment Strategies of Everyday Millionaires and How You Can BecomeWealthy Too

Eight Steps to Seven Figures : The Investment Strategies of Everyday Millionaires and How You Can BecomeWealthy Too
by Charles Carlson
From Amazon.com: In the tradition of the megabestseller The Millionaire Next Door, Eight Steps to Seven Figures brings together in-depth interviews with over two hundred everyday people whose investments have made them millionaires. But while The Millionaire Next Door describes its subjects' lifestyles and spending habits, Eight Steps to Seven Figures focuses squarely on the investing strategies and principles that ordinary people have used to achieve the magic million-dollar mark.

What Works on Wall Street: A Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies of All Time

What Works on Wall Street: A Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies of All Time
by James P. O'Shaughnessy
Reviewed on Amazon.com
Investors -- be they aggressive or conservative, self-directed or professionally managed -- are always on the lookout for an edge. And in James O'Shaughnessy's What Works on Wall Street: A Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies of All Time, they'll find a solid one: authoritative analysis of popular practices from the past. The author examines three decades of stock market data to show how 15 of the most common investment tactics have fared over time.

Beating the Street

Beating the Street
by Peter Lynch
From Publishers Weekly
Until retiring in 1990, Lynch ( One Up on Wall Street ) was manager of the spectacularly successful Fidelity Magellan Fund. Here he recalls with self-deprecating humor and disarming candor how he went about choosing winning stocks (and missing a few) for the $12 billion fund, which, during one five-year period in the 1980s, earned investors a 300% return. Lynch strongly favors stocks over other investment vehicles but insists that "investigative" research into a corporation's prospects, including credit checks and visits to the firm's installations, is essential. "Focus on companies, not the stocks," he stresses, adding that on this basis limited partnerships, banks and even S & Ls can be sound investments. Lynch's reputation and business writer Rothchild's deft touch should yield big sales for this inside story. Major ad/promo; first serial to Money magazine; BOMC and Fortune Book Club alternates; author tour.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Past Recommendations of Interest to DRiPpers

One Up On Wall Street : How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market by Peter Lynch

The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko

The Wealthy Barber: Everyone's Commonsense Guide to Becoming Financially Independent by David Chilton

The Millionaire Mind by Thomas Stanley

Investing in REITS: Real Estate Investment Trusts - Revised and Updated Edition (REIT) by Ralph L. Block

The Motley Fool's Investing Without a Silver Spoon by Jeff Fischer

Buying Stocks Without A Broker by Charles B. Carlson

Guide to Direct Investment Plans From Moneypaper.com

The Individual Investor Revolution by Charles B. Carlson

The Warren Buffett CEO: Secrets of the Berkshire Hathaway Managers by Robert P. Miles and Tom Osborne

101 Reasons to Own the World's Greatest Investment: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway by Robert P. Miles

The Kitchen Table Investor by John F. Wastik (* good easy read for getting started in investing and saving)

Wow the Dow by Pat Smith & Lynn Roney * (decent book for getting kids involved in investing)

Take Stock by Ellis Traub

The Winning Portfolio: Choosing your 10 Best Mutual Funds by Paul B. Farrell (* decent book published by Bloomberg on getting started, good for demonstrating diversification and for those who have to choose funds for retirement accounts)

Street Wise: A Guide for Teen Investors by Janet Bamford (* published by Bloomberg, another good one for getting middle and high school students involved in investing)

A Fool and his Money by John Rothchild (* not really for Drippers, but a light read on how to lose money)

The 100 Best Dividend-Paying Stocks to Own in America by Gene Walden (* good place to start researching ideas)

* Comments by Jennifer Krou

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