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Investing for Canadians All-in-One For Dummies

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ISBN 978-1-119-73665-3 (pbk); ISBN 978-1-119-73667-7 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-119-73668-4 (ebk)

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Making investment decisions can be intimidating and overwhelming. Investors have a ton of options available to them, and sorting through the get-rich-quick hype can be exhausting. Investing for Canadians All-in-One For Dummies is here to help you with an overview of the investing landscape unique to Canada.

Investing for Canadians All-in-One For Dummies provides guidance, tools, and resources for determining and making the right investments for your needs. Here, you get tips on investment choices, risks, and returns as well as the basics on stocks, mutual funds, precious metals, day trading, cryptocurrencies, and real estate.

A quick note: Sidebars (shaded boxes of text) dig into the details of a given topic, but they arent crucial to understanding it. Feel free to read them or skip them. You can pass over the text accompanied by the Technical Stuff icon, too. The text marked with this icon gives some interesting but nonessential information about investing.

One last thing: Within this book, you may note that some web addresses break across two lines of text. If youre reading this book in print and want to visit one of these web pages, simply key in the web address exactly as its noted in the text, pretending as though the line break doesnt exist. If youre reading this as an e-book, youve got it easy just click the web address to be taken directly to the web page.

Here are some assumptions about why youre picking up this book:

• Youre a millennial or novice investor and eager to find out more about saving, investing, and taking care of long-term needs.
• Youre an experienced investor who wants even more sound guidance and trusted investment strategies.
• You want to improve your financial situation and build your wealth.
• Youre interested in methods beyond stocks, such as mutual funds, day trading, gold and silver, and cryptocurrencies.
• Youre intrigued by real estate investing and want to know more about available opportunities.

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In addition to the material in the print or e-book youre reading right now, this product comes with some access-anywhere goodies on the web. Check out the free Cheat Sheet for information on Canadian ownership investments, Canadian stock exchanges, and the risks of real estate investing in Canada. To get this Cheat Sheet, simply go to www.dummies.com and search for Investing for Canadians All-in-One For Dummies Cheat Sheet in the Search box.

You dont have to read this book from cover to cover, but you can if you like! If you just want to find specific information on a type of investment strategy, take a look at the table of contents or the index, and then dive into the chapter or section that interests you.