Investing For The Rest Of Us: How To Invest In Stocks Using Index Funds: Passive Investing Strategies Everyone Can Use

Everyone knows that they need to invest You need money for your future; for a down payment on a house, for your children’s college education, and most importantly, to fund your retirement. Without enough money, you might never be able to retire.

Investing for your future is crucial You know you need to invest, but how do you go about it? The stock market looks convoluted and scary to many people. What do you invest in? Do you buy stocks? Do you buy bonds? What about mutual funds? There are so many choices, so many options. How do you decide? How can you build a portfolio which will help you achieve your goals?

Wall Street makes investing in the stock market seem complicated Making matters worse, Wall Street makes investing in the stock market seem complicated. Over the years, Wall Street has made plenty of money promoting complex investment strategies with high fees on unsuspecting clients. Do you know what to buy? Do you know when to sell? Do you have the skills, the time, and the desire to first construct a portfolio, and then closely monitor your investments on a daily basis?

Who Can You Trust When seeking investment advice, who can you trust? Does Wall Street have your best interest at heart? Do you know how to determine if your portfolio manager is doing a good job managing your money?

A Plan of Action What you need is a plan-of-action; an easy to understand way to determine what you should invest in and how you should go about investing. You need a simple, clear, straight-forward strategy; one which should maximize your returns while keeping your money as safe as possible. It is possible to create a simple, easy-to-understand portfolio which not only perform well, but will also likely outperform 80% of professional money managers.

Investing For the Rest of Us Investing For the Rest of Us is an introductory guide to investing for people who lack the time, the inclination, the desire, or the skills needed to closely monitor their investment portfolio. In this easy-to-read book, you will learn how to invest and create a portfolio. The book provides strategies which are incredibly easy to implement and maintain. You will learn everything you need to know to construct an investment portfolio, one which not only is easy-to-build and easy-to-monitor, but one which will likely outperform 80% of professional money managers.

Five Model Portfolios The book includes five model portfolios which can be used “right out of the box” or customize yourself. These professionally designed model portfolios have been back-tested, and all outperform 80% of professional money managers.

Every You Need to Construct a Portfolio You will learn everything that you need to know to construct an investment portfolio quickly and easily. There is no need to spend your time closely monitoring your portfolio. Simply use one of the model portfolios included in the book and then “invest” about an hour or so once a year updating your portfolio. The book provides you with everything that you need to know.
Bonus: Get a free spreadsheet to help you update your portfolio. This spreadsheet will shorten the time it takes to update your portfolio annually from about an hour to about five minutes!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A retired financial Chief Financial Officer, David L. Wright was responsible for selecting, designing, and managing a 401(k) plan. Having been accountable for the creation of a plan for 1500 participants, Wright understands what goes in to designing a portfolio. Wright was inspired to write this book after countless friends, colleagues, and employees expressed frustration over how to invest. They all communicated the same concern: they knew they needed to invest, they simply did not know what to invest in. Wright’s goal was to write an easy-to-understand guide to investing for the rest of us.