Personal Finance Investing

Good capital allocation is the secret sauce of business success and investment returns. How could what you spend money on inside a business not be of utmost importance? I looked for a business person's guide to effective capital allocation for years. I thought, "What a nice gift to send to the CEOs of my portfolio companies!" as visions of outsized returns danced in my head. To my dismay, the search came up dry. I decided I'd have to write my own. I started at the individual customer transaction level and built all the way up to M&A, share buybacks, and beyond.

Looking for some extra monthly income? Tired of living from paycheck to paycheck? Sitting in cash, scared to buy stocks, but sick of savings accounts that pay next to nothing? Then you are ready for a Monthly Cash Machine.

The guidelines, strategies, and tips included here will teach you how to not just get into the market, but to work it just like a pro. If you’ve long been curious about the wealth that can be gained from investing in stocks, this audiobook opens the door and gives you an inside view of how to work the market to your advantage.

Find out where and how to invest your money in order to secure a wealthy future. This audiobook has been written to help people like you who are looking for the smartest ways to build on their savings in order to secure a comfortable and wealthy future. You’re about to discover how to choose your best investing options, allocate and diversify your portfolio, set a plan for the long term, and more!

In The 52-Week Low Formula: A Contrarian Strategy That Lowers Risk, Beats the Market, and Overcomes Human Emotion, wealth manager Luke L. Wiley, CFP, examines the principles behind selecting the outstanding companies and great investment opportunities that are being overlooked. Along the way, Wiley offers a melding of the strategies used by such investment giants as Warren Buffett, Howard Marks, Michael Porter, Seth Klarman, and Pat Dorsey.

While our investments should bring returns that meet our needs for expected and unexpected life events, our investments can also be a powerful extension of our values, intentions, and commitments: we can invest in what we care about. The Social Justice Investor is ready to help you put your money where your values are. This step-by-step guide to personal finance removes all the technical jargon and introduces you to the basic building blocks of investment management.

There's a secret world of investing controlled by angel investors and venture capital. One investment has been the secret of the wealthy for more than 80 years. It accounts for nearly a fifth of the wealth for million-dollar investors and nearly four times the return compared to stocks. Investing in startups has led to an average 27 percent return for wealthy investors, nearly four times the average 7.4 percent annual return on stocks over the decade to 2013.

Michael Covel’s Trend Following podcast has delivered millions of listens across 80+ countries for over a decade. On the podcast, Michael invites you to take a seat next to him as he interviews the world’s top traders. Encouraged by Michael’s skilled and knowledgeable questions, legendary guests reveal the best of their wisdom, strategies, guidance, and trading stories. It is the ultimate mentorship circle serving one goal: to give everyone the chance to learn how to profit in the markets.

A common assumption about investors is that they don't care who wins as long as they're making money. For some investors, this mindset still rings true. Yet, many investors today want to make money and do good. Using a user-friendly format and insights from noted investment professionals, Sustainable Investing: What Everyone Needs to Know demystifies sustainable investing. By covering everything from the changing investment landscape and the roles of social and religious values in finance to how to build a portfolio with purpose, the authors provide an essential introduction.

Would you jump out of an airplane without a parachute? Then why would you start making trades online before you learned what you were doing? It’s crazy! But with deep discount brokers making it look so easy for individual investors, it’s no wonder consumers today are lulled into a false sense of security. You can’t rely on outdated textbooks and strategies anymore. But if you adapt, you can make a considerable fortune with these new market conditions.

As incomes shrink and the cost of living continues to rise, more and more people are searching frantically for ways to build a stable financial future. But in the crowded and volatile world of today's financial marketplace, the sheer number of available investment options has even sophisticated investors scratching their heads.

From building your reputation as a smart investor, to negotiating fair deals, adding value to your portfolio companies and helping them implement smart exit strategies, David provides both the fundamental strategies and the specific tools you need to take full advantage of this rapidly growing asset class.

Building off the framework of Schultheis' The Coffeehouse Investor philosophy, this book will instill the common man and woman with the confidence to take control over their long-term financial goals and journey toward financial freedom in retirement. The Coffeehouse Investor's Ground Rules encourages listeners to ignore stock market "rules" and "perfect portfolio" pursuits to focus on the only three essential components to long-term financial security: saving, investing, and planning.

In the updated edition of The Elements of Investing, authors Charles Ellis and Burton Malkiel-two of the world's greatest financial thinkers - have again combined their talents to produce a straight-talking book about investing and saving. Written with every investor in mind, this reliable resource will put you on a path towards a lifetime of financial success.

In this controversial, hard-hitting account of today’s explosive market, Robert J. Shiller, a leading expert on market volatility, evokes Alan Greenspan’s infamous 1996 reference, “irrational exuberance,” to explain the alternately soaring and declining stock market. Shiller’s unconventional yet persuasive argument credits an unprecedented confluence of events with driving stocks to uncharted heights, and he analyzes the structural, cultural, and psychological factors behind these levels of growth not reflected in any other sector of the economy.

Discover the investment strategies of everyday millionaires and learn how you can become wealthy too. Best selling author and chartered financial analyst Charles Carlson reveals the keys used by the newly wealthy to reap extraordinary dividends. Learn how to determine the amount of time needed to research and watch over your portfolio, when to buy, and equally important, when to sell.

Sports Card Collector 101 is jam-packed full of all of the content you could possibly desire to kick-start your collection on the right foot. As with collecting any types of cards, it is essential that you understand which cards carry the most value, and which ones are the rarest to find. This book will show you how to make sure your cards remain at the highest value possible, giving you the best chance of your investment paying off.

Finally, a step-by-step how-to guide for wholesaling real estate! If you’ve ever wanted to get started in real estate investing, then wholesaling is the fastest path to becoming a real estate investor.

50 Prosperity Classics examines the great works of entrepreneurship, personal finance, investing, economics, and philanthropy. Applying the 50 Classics formula, it highlights the key titles in the literature of prosperity, giving concise summaries of each book's main points, how they came into being, and what each offers the listener on their path toward a life of abundance. This is a comprehensive resource for creating wealth, managing financial assets, and finally giving something back.

Investing can be a roller-coaster of highs and lows, and the investors detailed here reveal just how low it can go; stories from Warren Buffet, Bill Ackman, Chris Sacca, Jack Bogle, Mark Twain, John Maynard Keynes, and many more illustrate the simple but overlooked concept that investing is really hard, whether you're managing a few thousand dollars or a few billion. Failures and losses are part of the game. Much more than just anecdotal diversion, these stories set the basis for the book's critical focus: learning from mistakes.