The Actionable Investment Plan

a quick-start investment plan that will enable you to invest your money right away, and investment basics which will help you on your journey down the road of investing. If you employ the principles in this book, you will be taking the road less traveled. There are two reasons for this. The first is that you will be taking charge of your investing future. Most people never accept responsibility for the investments they make: they blame their broker or the managers who run their mutual funds for their portfolio's poor performance. Never again will the blame rest on someone else. With this crash-course on investing, you will have the knowledge to take charge of your investments and their performance. The second reason you are taking the road less traveled is that you are avoiding many fees normally associated with investing. The principles in this book teach you how to avoid average yearly fees of about 1.4% a year and instead take advantage of low cost funds that may have fees of less than .25%. It also teaches you how to avoid the high $15 and $30 commissions on each trade common with full-service brokers, and instead trade for as little as 4.50 or 4.95 per trade.