Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012: A Fortune Magazine Book

When Carol Loomis first mentioned a little-known Omaha hedge fund manager in a 1966 Fortune article, she didn’t dream that Warren Buffett would one day be considered the world’s greatest investor—nor that she and Buffett would quickly become close personal friends. As Buf­fett’s fortune and reputation grew over time, Loomis used her unique insight into Buffett’s thinking to chronicle his work for Fortune, writ­ing and proposing scores of stories that tracked his many accomplishments—and also his occa­sional mistakes. 
  
Now Loomis has collected and updated the best Buffett articles Fortune published between 1966 and 2012, including thirteen cover stories and a dozen pieces authored by Buffett himself. Loomis has provided commentary about each major arti­cle that supplies context and her own informed point of view. Readers will gain fresh insights into Buffett’s investment strategies and his thinking on management, philanthropy, public policy, and even parenting. Some of the highlights include: 
The 1966 A. W. Jones story in which Fortune first mentioned Buffett. The first piece Buffett wrote for the magazine, 1977’s “How Inf lation Swindles the Equity Investor.” Andrew Tobias’s 1983 article “Letters from Chairman Buffett,” the first review of his Berk­shire Hathaway shareholder letters. Buffett’s stunningly prescient 2003 piece about derivatives, “Avoiding a Mega-Catastrophe.” His unconventional thoughts on inheritance and philanthropy, including his intention to leave his kids “enough money so they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing.” Bill Gates’s 1996 article describing his early impressions of Buffett as they struck up their close friendship. Scores of Buffett books have been written, but none can claim this work’s combination of trust between two friends, the writer’s deep under­standing of Buffett’s world, and a very long-term perspective. 

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The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing

The essential stock market guide, now updated with even more timely and necessary information

Now in its fifth edition, The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing has established itself as a clear, concise, and highly effective approach to stocks and investment strategy. Rooted in the principles that made it invaluable from the start, this completely revised and updated edition of The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing shares a wealth of information, including:

• What has changed and what remains timeless as the economy recovers from the subprime crash 

• All-new insights from deep historical research showing which measurements best identify winning stocks

• A rock-solid value averaging plan that grows 3 percent per quarter, regardless of the economic climate

• An exclusive conversation with legendary Legg Mason portfolio manager Bill Miller, revealing what he learned from the crash and recovery

• Thoroughly updated resources emphasizing online tools, the latest stock screeners, and analytical sites that best navigated recent trends 

Accessible and intelligent, The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing is what every investor needs to keep pace in the current market.

Read more here: The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing: 2013 Edition

Dividend Yield Fact Books For A Donation

I've recently updated my Dividend Yield Fact Books and I'd like to share these wonderful books with you. 

All you need to do is to make a donation for our blog. We've published around 2,000 articles over the recent years and we really enjoyed it to work for you and hope you could get some wonderful dividend stock ideas for your own asset allocation.

Here is what you get:

- Dividend Champions Yield Fact Book (5 Pages, approx. 105 companies)

   Stocks with over 25 years of dividend growth

- Dividend Contenders Yield Fact Book (8 Pages, approx. 176 companies)
   Stocks with 10-25 years of dividend growth

- Dividend Challengers Yield Fact Book (8 Pages, approx. 190 companies)
   Stocks with 5-10 years of dividend growth

- Dividend Aristocrats Fact Book (over 50 companies)
   All stocks from the Dividend Aristocrats Index with fundamentals

- Dogs of the Dow Jones Fact Book
   The 10 cheapest stocks from the Dow Jones

- International Dividend Achievers Fact Book

   Over 60 foreign companies with over 10 years of consecutive dividend growth

- Dividend Yield Fact Book "Indices" (16 Pages, approx. 560 companies)
   Dividend stocks from major indices with fundamentals and ratings


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25 Years Of Ken Fisher - Forbes Reviews The Making Of The Market Guru

Ken Fisher is founder and CEO of Fisher Investments, an independent money management firm managing over $35 billion (as of Dec. 31/09) for individuals and institutions. And, Fisher has written the monthly "Portfolio Strategy" column for Forbes magazine for the last twenty-five years—since 1984—making him, so far, the fourth longest-running columnist in the magazine’s history. During this time, he’s seen everything from the stock market crash of 1987 and the great bull markets of the 1980s and 1990s to the Tech bubble of 2000 and the global market meltdown of 2008.

Now, with The Making of a Market Guru, you’ll gain an insightful look at Fisher’s prolific career over the years and discover the high-profile market calls he’s made so far in these monthly columns. At times engaging and timely, at others revealing and informative, this book is a sweeping look at a recent and eventful slice of stock market history. You’ll read about what’s changed, but you’ll be more amazed by what hasn’t. And you’ll see investing wisdom that still applies, now and for the foreseeable future, from a quarter-century of Fisher’s concise and witty market wisdom.

Preceding Fisher’s columns for each year are a few pages of commentary—putting them in historic context, pointing out areas that are still salient, and others where Fisher’s perspective has changed over the years—highlighting key points that deserve extra attention.

Chapter by chapter, this book offers practical investment advice from a leading market voice, while:

• Looking at Fisher’s market analysis over the years and providing an industry insider’s view of major, and not-so-major, market events
• Examining how Fisher called three of the last four bear markets
• Showing that what many commonly think impacts markets doesn’t—and some very surprising things that do impact markets that few are aware of.
• And much more

The more things change, the more they stay the same—at least when it comes to investing. And seeing history through the eyes of a market guru can help improve your overall investment endeavors today. If you take the time to read this unique, historic compilation, you’ll be taking your first steps to understanding how to become your own market guru.

Read more here: The Making of a Market Guru: Forbes Presents 25 Years of Ken Fisher

David Einhorn: Fooling Some of the People All of the Time

Could 2008's credit crisis have been minimized or even avoided? In 2002, David Einhorn-one of the country's top investors-was asked at a charity investment conference to share his best investment advice. Short sell Allied Capital. At the time, Allied was a leader in the private financing industry. Einhorn claimed Allied was using questionable accounting practices to prop itself up. Sound familiar? At the time of the original version of Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short Story the outcome of his advice was unknown. Now, the story is complete and we know Einhorn was right. In 2008, Einhorn advised the same conference to short sell Lehman Brothers. And had the market been more open to his warnings, yes, the market meltdown might have been avoided, or at least minimized.

• Details the gripping battle between Allied Capital and Einhorn's Greenlight Capital
• Illuminates how questionable company practices are maintained and, at times, even protected by Wall Street
• Describes the failings of investment banks, analysts, journalists, and government regulators
• Describes how many parts of the Allied Capital story were replayed in the debate over Lehman Brothers

Fooling Some of the People All of the Time is an important call for effective government regulation, free speech, and fair play.

Read more here: Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, A Long Short (and Now Complete) Story, Updated with New Epilogue

Income Investing with Bonds, Stocks and Money Markets

Whether you're a Baby Boomer or Gen Xer planning for the future, or a serious investor looking to learn more tricks of the trade, this detailed strategy guide will help you understand and choose the steadiest bonds, dividend-paying stocks, and low-risk securities on the market. Filled with specific examples, insider advice, and portfolio planning tips, it's your guide to today's complex marketplace.

You don't need to be ultra-rich or even moderately wealthy to look toward your nest egg for income.

This step-by-step guide from leading investment manager Jason Brady will show you how to use your savings to build a steady income stream and compound returns over time. His strategies help you:

• Tap into the money-making potential of bonds
• Reinforce your portfolio with income-producing assets
• Understand how options affect your investments
• Avoid adverse outcomes
• Plan your retirement and reach your long-term goals

Read more here: Income Investing with Bonds, Stocks and Money Markets

Dividend Investing 101: Create Long Term Income from Dividends

Creating another income stream is becoming must-have thing nowadays with increasing insecurity at the work place resulting from overall economic slowdown. 

Dividends are one such opportunity for you to create a truly passive long term income if you play the game right. An income stream that has been there and it has been known to work. Warren Buffet has said good thing about it and several other know stock market gurus vouch for it. 

Start investing now in income generating stocks and you will see a steady stream of income in your bank account for years to come. And when I say years I am talking about more than 20 + years of free income. 

Dividend Investing ebook: Create Long Term Income from Dividends will cover the following topics: 

1) Basics of Dividend Investing for beginners
2) Dividend Reinvestment Plans
3) How to select the Dividend stocks and create a income generating portfolio
4) What are Dividend ETF's
5) Do Dividend ETf's pay dividends
6) Dividend Investing Strategies
7) Top Ten List for 2012
8) Highest Paying Dividend Stocks 2012 
9) Highest dividend paying monthly stocks 2012

Read more here: Dividend Investing 101 : Create Long Term Income from Dividends

Dividends: Pros, Cons, Sources and Strategies To Make Money

Aren't you tired of all the talking heads on TV screaming for you to "buy! buy! buy!" and "sell! sell! sell!" the same stocks day in and day out? Aren't you tired of all the self-important commentators telling you that "it's a trader's market"?

You should be. They've been screaming the same thing for decades, all to their audience's detriment.

It's common sense, really. If your retirement hinges on stock prices going up, you are not investing. You're hoping. You're gambling. You might as well add baseball cards and comic books to your nest egg. Or go to Vegas. At least there the odds are pure and you'll have a good time losing your money.

Companies have no more control over their share prices than you
do. Some years they are up, some years they are down, but only
rarely, if ever, do they reflect the underlying business. If you're
relying on capital gains to fund your retirement and there's a stock
market crash, that means you can't retire--even if the underlying
businesses are as profitable as ever. How crazy is that? There has
to be a better way than playing this rigged game.

There is: dividends and other income generating investments.
Although companies have zero control over their stock prices, they
have almost complete control over how much of their earnings they
pay their owners. That's what you are when you invest in a business:
an owner. And there's no point in owning a business if it doesn't
pay you.

Study after study, over numerous time periods, shows that buying
and holding dividend paying stocks and other income generating
assets results in superior returns--with less risk.

There are thousands of businesses that want to pay you
handsomely for the use of your capital. That's what investing is all
about. Those that have capital provide it to businesses that need
it, in exchange for a cut of the profits.

This book shows you where to find income, from dividend growth
stocks to preferred shares, master limited partnerships, real estate
investment trusts, closed end funds, business development
corporations, and all sorts of other types of investments. (Did you
know, for instance, that you can buy royalty rights to oil and gas
fields through the stock market and earn a high-yielding, mostly tax
deferred income?) The book outlines the advantages and risks of each
asset class. In addition, it discusses the costs and benefits of
various income strategies from dividend capture to option writing.

The book means to provide new savers with the tools they need to
begin investing and veteran investors with ideas, asset classes, and
strategies that might not have occurred to them previously.

Read more here: Dividends: Pros, Cons, Sources and Strategies

Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

Starting from scratch, simply by picking stocks and companies for investment, Warren Buffett amassed one of the epochal fortunes of the twentieth century--an astounding net worth of $10 billion, and counting. His awesome investment record has made him a cult figure popularly known for his seeming contradictions: a billionaire who has a modest lifestyle, a phenomenally successful investor who eschews the revolving-door trading of modern Wall Street, a brilliant dealmaker who cultivates a homespun aura.

Journalist Roger Lowenstein draws on three years of unprecedented access to Buffett's family, friends, and colleagues to provide the first definitive, inside account of the life and career of this American original. Buffett  explains Buffett's' investment strategy--a long-term philosophy grounded in buying stock in companies that are undervalued on the market and hanging on until their worth invariably surfaces--and shows how it is a reflection of his inner self.

Read the first chapter here:  Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

Dividend Investing - The Truth About Dividends and Long Term Income Investing

Have you ever wanted to make a passive income from the stocks you purchase? When many people think of dividend investing they think of retirees trying to preserve their nest egg. 

What if I told you dividends aren't just for retirees, they are for everyone and anyone that is looking for long term, steady wealth from the stock market. When you take into account a stocks total return from dividends and appreciation it is quite easy to get a respectable total return that over a period of years can make you financially secure. With the added benefit of dividend growth you can ensure your income grows to help keep pace with inflation.

Dividend Investing - The Truth About Dividend and Long Term Income Investing covers the following topics.

1) What Is Dividend Investing
2) Who Is Dividend Investing Good For
3) What You Need To Get Started
4) What Types Of Companies Pay Dividends
5) Building Your Prospect List
6) Building Your Watch List
7) Building Your Dividend Stock Portfolio
8) What To Do After You Buy Your Dividend Stocks
9) When To Sell 
10) Mindset, Discipline and Confidence When It Comes To Dividend Investing
11) List of Dividend Aristocrats
12) Company Profiles (updated periodically)

You can read the first chapter here: Dividend Investing - The Truth About Dividends and Long Term Income Investing

The 10 Best Dividend Paying Stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average

This guide is investors who want to get started investing in dividend stocks and want to know the basics to begin.  If you are already a seasoned investor, then it's probably not for you.

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Want to receive checks from your investments every month or quarter (depending on how often the company pays out) rather than wait around for the stock price to increase? 

Then investing for the dividend income is a wise strategy in both good and bad market conditions.

In fact history has shown that investors that choose stocks that pay good dividends actually fare better than those investors that don't.

In this guide, finance blogger and author Tracey Edwards has done the research for you and lists the 10 best paying dividend stocks in the Dow Jones right now.

You'll learn:

* Why investing for the dividend income can help reduce your risk in the stock market.

* What a good yield is and what a great yield is.

* Why it's a good strategy to choose blue chip stocks so that you can take advantage of capital growth as well as income.

* The top 10 highest paying dividend yield stocks within the Dow, whether they have dividend reinvestment plans and what the stock price increase (or decrease) has been over the past twelve months.

* Whether you should reinvest your dividends or take the cash.
This guide will help you decide whether investing for the dividend income is a good strategy for you and which stocks are the best options.

Read the first Chapter here: The 10 Best Dividend Paying Stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average

Get Rich with Dividends: A Proven System for Earning Double-Digit Returns

A comprehensive guide to dividend investing that shows how to obtain double-digit returns with ease.

Dividends are responsible for 44% of the S&P 500′s returns over the last 80 years. Today they present an excellent opportunity, especially with investors who have been burned in the dot com and housing meltdowns, desperate for sensible and less risky ways to make their money grow. Designed to show investors how they can achieve double-digit average annualized returns over the long-term, Get Rich with Dividends: A Proven System for Earning Double-Digit Returns is the book you’ll need to get started making money in any market.

The beauty of dividend investing is that it’s extremely easy to understand and takes up almost none of the investor’s time. The investor doesn’t have to constantly watch over their investments, and can and focus on other things, secure in the knowledge that the system is working and they are accumulating wealth or generating the income they need on a quarterly or even monthly basis.

Using the author’s proprietary 10-11-12 System, investors can achieve average annual returns of 12% or more, if they know which stocks to invest in and how to do so – even with below average growth in the share price.     

• Dividend investments are easy to set up and require little to no maintenance, and this book shows you how to do it.
•  A method so easy to use, you’ll want to teach your children how to do it early, setting them up for financial independence and avoiding the problems that plagued many investors over the past decade
• Full of expert advice from a 15-year veteran of equity markets.

By showing investors how to find and invest in these unique but conservative and proven stocks, Get Rich with Dividends is the only book on dividend investing you’ll ever need.

You can read the first Chapter here:

Get Rich with Dividends: A Proven System for Earning Double-Digit Returns (Agora Series)