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The Winning Portfolio: Choosing Your 10 Best Mutual Funds
The Winning Portfolio Choosing Your 10 Best Mutual Funds Author:Paul B. Farrell, Farrell Paul A smart, simple approach to selecting the handful of funds that are right for you. With nearly 10,000 mutual funds to choose from and very little objective advice on which ones are best for different goals, investors need clear guidance to select funds that are right for them. "The Winning Portfolio" presents a simple, practical remedy to the us... more »ual haphazard process of picking mutual funds. This is not another laundry list of "the best" mutual funds. Paul Farrell directs investors to the types of funds best suited to them. For example, someone moving into retirement shouldn't choose the same mix of funds as a thirty-something executive. The best portfolio of funds for each of us depends upon risk tolerance, portfolio objectives, and the length of time we want to be in the market. How do we go about finding the strongest handful of holdings to meet our needs? Beginning with the 100 best mutual funds out there, CBS Marketwatch columnist Paul B. Farrell offers a systematic, yet simple, approach to selecting the ten that will diversify and add value to specific portfolios while reducing volatility. He present criteria for narrowing investment choices to those that fir individual requirements. Farrell also includes critical guidance for monitoring portfolios over the years and rebalancing in a bear market. Lists of "hot" funds change every week, but this book gives a sustainable investing strategy, featuring reliable advice on: creating objectives for a mutual fund portfolio; finding the best high-growth, no-load, and tax-advantaged funds; selecting specific funds that meet long-term needs; assembling a diversified fund portfolio that reduces risk, readjusting assets to meet changing needs, plus: analyzing sample mutual fund portfolios to use as models.« less