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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.

Starting on the path toward financial independence is crucial, and real estate offers one of the best paths to financial freedom due to its tax advantages and accessibility to leverage for generating passive income. Having faced financial ruin after the 2008 economic meltdown, I achieved financial freedom in just three years and built generational wealth as the market rebounded. I invite you to embark on a journey that merges my personal experiences, wisdom gained from high-net-worth families, and a tried-and-true approach to real estate investing.

The chief investment officer of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management explains why goals, not markets, should be the primary focus of your investment strategy - and offers a practical, innovative framework for making smarter choices about aligning your goals to your investment strategy.

Investment funds with great performance and potential often fail for one simple reason—the enormous challenge for investor relations and fundraising professionals to raise the necessary capital to make the fund profitable. The only book to tackle this critical issue, Marketing Alternative Investments builds on the experiential wisdom and best practices from numerous thought leaders in the industry and provides a comprehensive look at investor-centric marketing and fundraising strategy.

Whether you're mired in loss aversion, suffer from anchoring bias, or you're sorting your portfolio into various mental accounts, investor biases will prevent you from maximizing your wealth. But you can learn to challenge your own biases and prevent costly investment errors! In Behavioral Finance and Your Portfolio, veteran investor and advisor Michael M. Pompian delivers a thorough grounding in the most important investor biases you're likely to encounter when making crucial investment decisions.

Trading psychology doesn’t have to be complex and hard work. A few simple changes can make a huge difference. Affirmations are one of the easiest and most effective ways to change your trading psychology for the better. Affirmations are a deceptively simple technique to improve your trading and can be done by anyone.

Following on the heels of the national bestselling The Little Book that Beats the Market, which has sold over 275,000 copies since its November 2005 publication, The Little Book of Value Investing offers investors (professional and amateur alike) the necessary tools to follow a value-investment model that consistently beats the market. Written in an easy-to-understand tone by Christopher H. Browne, the managing director of Tweedy, Browne Company, one of the most highly-regarded investment firms in the country, The Little Book of Value Investing is sure to be the next big thing in investing.

Getting bored with residential real estate? Do the exact same thing in the commercial space for ten times the profit—with no extra time, money, risk, or corporate red tape. Most commercial real estate books leave you with plenty of information but no idea where to start. That’s why Commercial Real Estate Investing provides one simple, proven, step-by-step roadmap for doing your first commercial deal. Stop competing against rookies who watched an HGTV episode and decided they were house flippers. Everything you need to find and fund your first deal is right here.

Soon after he opened his vineyard for business many years ago, the Wealthy Gardener noticed a puzzling fact. Everyone wanted money, but only a few people managed to accumulate it. The reason, he realized, is that most people focus on short-term gains instead of achieving lasting wealth. As he grew old and aware of his dwindling time on this Earth, the Wealthy Gardener began to share his hard-earned wisdom with the financially troubled in his community, patiently mentoring those who asked for his practical advice on the ways of prosperity.

Are you learning about investing? Then it's important that you learn and understand some basic investment terminology. If you are a new investor, you will likely encounter terms that you don't understand. It may seem overwhelming in the beginning, but like anything, once you become familiar with it, you realize there is no reason to be intimidated. This is an introduction to some of the more common investing terms that you may encounter.

My journey from seven to 250 million dollars. This audiobook will give you a step-by-step guide on how to make apartment syndication easy and take your business to the next level.

Understand and take advantage of the fluctuations of markets and come out ahead by learning when and where to invest your money. Economies, companies and markets operate in accordance with patterns which are influenced by naturally occurring events combined with human psychology and behaviour. The wisest investors learn to appreciate these rhythms and identify the best opportunities to take actions which will transform their finances for the better.

Current global trends are bleak: weak economic growth, too much debt, declining incomes for the lower 99 percent, a dangerous addiction to fossil fuels, and ecological destruction - just to name a few. Many of us understandably feel resigned to an eroding standard of living in the years to come. At best. But what if we told you that there are specific attainable steps you can take today that can limit your vulnerability to these trends and help you be richer, healthier, and happier?

TV analysts and money managers would have you believe your finances are enormously complicated, and if you don't follow their guidance, you'll end up in the poorhouse. They're wrong. When University of Chicago professor Harold Pollack interviewed Helaine Olen, an award-winning financial journalist and the author of the best-selling Pound Foolish, he made an off­hand suggestion: Everything you need to know about managing your money could fit on an index card.

The incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to beat the dealer and, as the first of the great quantitative investors, ushered in a revolution on Wall Street.

The story the Vanguard Group as told by its founder, legendary investor John C. Bogle, Stay the Course traces the history of Vanguard - the largest mutual fund organization on Earth. An engaging blend of company history, investment perspective, and personal memoir, this book provides a fascinating look into the mind of an extraordinary man and the company he created.    

Do you have enough money for retirement? Want to cash out of the nine-to-five corporate workweek while young enough to pursue your dreams? Are you ready right now to live off the income from a handful of real estate rental properties? Beginners start here. Learn about the technique called House FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early). Find out how to create the life you want to live with just a few real estate investments so you can fast-forward to a stress-free early retirement.

Completely revised and updated with clear and witty explanations, The Motley Fool Investment Guide deciphers all the new information - from evaluating individual stocks to creating a diverse investment portfolio. Also: The Motley Fool You Have More Than You Think.

The chief endowment officers at (CIOs) at endowments, foundations, family offices, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds are the leaders in the world of finance. They marshal trillions of dollars on behalf of their institutions and influence how capital flows throughout the world. But these elite investors live outside of the public eye. Across the entire investment industry, few participants understand how these holders of the keys to the kingdom allocate their time and their capital.

Is there an ideal portfolio of investment assets, one that perfectly balances risk and reward? In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio examines this question by profiling and interviewing ten of the most prominent figures in the finance world—Jack Bogle, Charley Ellis, Gene Fama, Marty Leibowitz, Harry Markowitz, Bob Merton, Myron Scholes, Bill Sharpe, Bob Shiller, and Jeremy Siegel. We learn about the personal and intellectual journeys of these luminaries and their most innovative contributions. In the process, we come to understand how the science of modern investing came to be.