What is included with this book?
Preface to the Second Edition | |
Preface to the First Edition | |
Acknowledgements | |
The Top Ten Reasons Why You Shouldn't Buy Mutual Funds | |
A Hard Look at Mutual Funds | |
Fund Companies Have Outperformed the Funds | |
What's the Big Deal About a 1% Shortfall? | |
Bettering Your Odds | |
The Discount-Broker Alternative | |
What the Funds Aren't Telling You | |
Promises, Promises | |
You Can Do It, Too | |
The Playing Field Is Level | |
How Do Financial Advisors Make Money? | |
Going It Alone | |
A Word to the Wise | |
Mutual Fund Performance: Why Funds Don't Beat the Market | |
The Statistics | |
How Fees Reduce Returns | |
How Cash Reduces Returns | |
Why Funds Can't Keep Up | |
Why Fund Fees Are So High | |
Are Changes Coming? | |
How the Funds Have Really Done | |
Canadian Equity Mutual Fund Performance | |
Fund Family Performance | |
Trimark | |
Investors Group | |
Mackenzie Financial/Industrial Funds | |
Altamira | |
AGF | |
C.I. | |
Dynamic | |
Green Line | |
Phillips Hager North | |
Spectrum United | |
AIC | |
Index Funds | |
Other Canadian Equity Funds | |
Low MER Funds | |
Other Types of Funds | |
Dividend Funds | |
Small-Cap and Mid-Cap Funds | |
Precious Metals and Natural Resource Funds | |
U.S. Equity Funds | |
International Equity Funds | |
Bond Funds | |
Canadian Bond Funds | |
Bonds and Interest Rates | |
Balanced Funds | |
Canadian Balanced Funds | |
Mortgage Funds | |
Why Stocks and Bonds are Better Than Mutual Funds | |
Unfair Taxation | |
The Herd Mentality | |
Do Your Investments Match Your Ethics? | |
Day Trading | |
What Are You Learning About Business From Mutual Funds? | |
Information Sources | |
Annual Reports | |
Or Show Up in Person | |
Self-Directed RRSPs and Non-RRSP Discount Broker Accounts | |
The Can-Con Rules | |
It's Your Choice | |
The Falling Cost of Self-Directed Accounts | |
RESP Accounts | |
The Discount Brokers | |
Switching to a Discount Broker | |
Buying Stocks Through Discount Brokers | |
Stock Quotes | |
Placing Orders | |
Settling Trades | |
Odd Lots | |
The Breakdown: What Percent Stocks, What Percent Bonds? | |
What Is a Stock? What Is a Bond? | |
Preferred Shares | |
Stock and Bond Yields | |
Risk | |
Finding Your Breakdown | |
RRSP Strategy: What's In, What's Out | |
How Investments Are Taxed | |
What Goes In? | |
Which Stocks In, Which Stocks Out | |
Buy and Hold: The Smartest Approach | |
Don't Time the Market | |
A Good, Long Run | |
Dividend Reinvestment Plans | |
Why Buy-and-Hold Funds Don't Work | |
A Time to Sell | |
Reasons to Sell | |
Stocks That Nosedive | |
Hurry Up and Wait | |
Index Stocks Funds: Mutual Funds Without the Fees | |
How Index Stocks Work | |
i60s and the Nortel Effect | |
Other Canadian Index Stocks | |
U.S. Index Stocks | |
U.S. Mutual Funds vs. the Index | |
International Index Stocks | |
Taxation and Foreign Index Stocks | |
Other Canadian and International Indexing Options | |
Index-Linked GICs | |
Thoughts on Indexing | |
Diversification: Minimizing Risk in Your Portfolio | |
What Is Diversification? | |
Diversification With Individual Stocks | |
Other Eggs in Other Baskets | |
International Exposure | |
Diversified Portfolio Strategies | |
The All-Index Stocks Approach | |
The Index Stocks and a Lucky Stock Approach | |
The Index Stocks and Some Other Stocks Approach | |
The Index Stocks but Mostly Other Stocks Approach | |
The All-Stock Approach | |
The TSE 300: Your Guide to a Diversified Canadian Stock Portfolio | |
Why Buy Individual Stocks? | |
Your Picks Are As Good As Any Pro's | |
But My Broker Recommended... | |
Getting to Know the TSE 300 | |
The Checkup | |
Cyclical Stocks | |
Words to Pick Stocks By | |
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