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"Investing QuickStart Guide is an informative investment tool for those striving to achieve financial independence. Filled with valuable tips and practical advice, Ted Snow's Investing QuickStart Guide: Second Edition is for those interested in navigating the stock market, growing their wealth, and creating a secure financial future. Direct and progressive, this text covers topics like key asset classes, investment strategies and tactics, and related decisions and services. Its prominent concepts are shaded for emphasis and are marked with useful symbols and labels. The book's chapter overviews and recaps are clear guideposts through its lessons, reinforcing its central points well. The book opens with a compelling personal story about a pension paperwork error that led to financial ruin. To help others avoid such catastrophic financial mistakes, the book brims with up-to-date assessments of economic statuses, including regarding inflation and the risk of not investing. It treats topics like annuities in terms of their pros and cons, complementing these assessments with direct warnings and clear opinions about factors like commercial real estate investment and personal liabilities. Illustrations including graphs, charts, and figures encapsulate and extend key points in the text, representing visual quick-takes on factors like asset allocation; large-, mid-, and small-cap companies; and the ""buying low and selling high"" mentality. A tidy glossary clarifies elusive terms including ""blockchain,"" ""capital gain,"" ""risk tolerance,"" and ""value investing"" in a concise manner. However, the book's discussion of bond holders who act as creditors is a winding one, and its cautionary note about day trading comes sans a clarifying scale to place the cited numbers in context. Further, a reference to following a ""gut-hunch stock pick"" as a beginner contradicts its earlier dismissal of reliance on intuition. The book distinguishes itself most with its fascinating discussions of topics like behavioral finance, ethical investment decisions, and the FIRE (financial independence, retire early) movement. These are complemented by its probing personal assessment questions and suggested steps for achieving financial independence. Further, its smart recommendations about market strategies for winning in both good and bad times, and its overflowing takeaways (like its list of an investor's three biggest mistakes), prove edifying. It is also compelling in encouraging its audience to follow the decisions of notable investors like Warren Buffet and Sir John Templeton. Its naming of foolproof investment strategies, including riding out downturns in the market, help to make its recommendations stick. Presenting balanced positions with long-term vision, Investing QuickStart Guide is an informative investment tool for those striving to achieve financial independence. Reviewed by Andrea Hammer Foreword Clarion Reviews"

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"Ted D. Snow, CFP(R), MBA, is a best-selling author and has been working in the financial services industry since 1987. He has contributed to numerous articles featured in outlets like CNBC, Investopedia, and Forbes.Ted's first title, the Investing QuickStart Guide serves as the most comprehensive guide to investing in the stock market for beginners. While leaning on the expertise from famous books such as the Intelligent Investor, Ted expertly weaves age-old investing principles with his own wealth-building philosophy, formed over his thirty-plus year career in the financial industry. Lauded as one of the best investing books for beginners, the Investing QuickStart Guide has empowered thousands of people across the world to take control of their own financial destiny and achieve financial freedom in their lives.Ted is the founding principal of Snow Financial Group, LLC and brings to his firm and clients one of the most prestigious professional designations in the financial services industry, the CFP(R). Ted has been recognized publicly for his sound practices, experience, and ethical standards and offers his clients decades of experience in the field of financial planning.He obtained his MBA in financial planning from the University of Dallas in 1995 and earned the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER(TM) professional designation in 1997. Upon this accomplishment, Ted not only provided financial planning services to the public but he also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas' Graduate School of Management beginning in 1999.In 2002 and again in 2006 Ted was honored in D Magazine's list of ""Best Financial Planners."" He was interviewed by Forbes in 2004 for a financial column and has been recognized in the 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 editions of Guide to America's Best Financial Planners. He appeared in the December 2007 edition of Addison magazine. He is currently a registered representative and an Investment Advisor Representative with Kestra Advisory Services, LLC.Ted and his wife Mary live in the greater Dallas metro area."

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