Mladjenovic Paul J. - Investing in Shares For Dummies

Investing in Shares For Dummies, 2ND EDITION

by David Stevenson and Paul Mladjenovic

Investing in Shares For Dummies, 2nd Edition

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About the Authors

David Stevenson is the Adventurous Investor columnist for the Financial Times and also writes the Contrarian column for trade newspaper Investment Week. Hes a regular contributor to the Investors Chronicle and to Money Management and has written a number of books on the subject of investing, including the main European book on investing in ETFs. In whats left of his spare time David edits PortfolioReview, a free investment based online newsletter at www.portfolioreviewonline.com and tweets via #Advinvestor. If all that wasnt enough David is also director of a number of media and technology companies including Coalition Labs, based in sunny Bournemouth, and was a founding director of The Rocket Science Group. He also finds some time to be a magistrate and to run his own investment portfolios.

Paul Mladjenovic is a certified financial planner practitioner, writer, and public speaker who has a Web site at www.mladjenovic.com . His business, PM Financial Services, has helped people with financial and business concerns since 1981. In 1985 he achieved his CFP designation. Since 1983, Paul has taught thousands of budding investors through popular national seminars such as The $50 Wealthbuilder and Stock Investing Like a Pro. Paul has been quoted or referenced by many media outlets such as Bloomberg, MarketWatch, CNBC, and many financial and business publications and Web sites. As an author, he has written the books The Unofficial Guide to Picking Stocks (Wiley, 2000) and Zero-Cost Marketing (Todd Publications, 1995). In 2002, the first edition of Stock Investing For Dummies was ranked in the top 10 out of 300 books reviewed by Barrons. In recent years, Paul accurately forecasted many economic events, such as the rise of gold and the decline of the U.S. dollar. He maintains a financial database for his readers and students at www.supermoneylinks.com .

Dedication

For my beloved Fran, Adam, Joshua, and a loving, supportive family, I thank God for you.

I also dedicate this book to the millions of investors who deserve more knowledge and information to achieve lasting prosperity. Paul Mladjenovic

Authors Acknowledgements

From Paul: First and foremost, I offer my appreciation and gratitude to the wonderful people at Wiley. It has been a pleasure to work with such a top-notch organization that works so hard to create products that offer readers tremendous value and information. I wish all of you continued success! There are some notables there whom I want to single out.

The first person is Jennifer Connolly (my project editor). She is a true publishing and writing professional who has been extremely helpful, understanding, and patient. Those words are not enough to express my thanks for her fantastic guidance. May God bless her growing family! (Jennifer took over in mid-stream for the wonderful Sherri Pfouts.)

Sarah Faulkner (my copy editor) has made sure my mish-mash of content is readable and professional (no small feat). I thank her sincerely and I am grateful she worked on this book with her impressive editing skills.

My gratitude goes out to the acquisitions editor Stacy Kennedy for making this For Dummies book happen. For Dummies books dont magically appear at the bookstore, they happen due to the foresight and efforts of people like Stacy. Wiley is fortunate to have her (and the others also mentioned)!

Fran, Lipa Zyenska, you helped make those late nights at the computer more tolerable, and you helped me focus on the important things. Te amo and I thank God that you are by my side. With you and the rest of my loving family, I know that the future will be bright.