Download or read book The Bare Essentials of Investing written by Harold Bierman and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2007 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this book is to help an individual (or a family) design a personal investment strategy. It explains how stock markets can be used to make a large fortune from a small investment. It also recommends an approach to increase a reasonable return on investment and explains the importance of investment alternatives. The book is based on the premise that the US stock market is not too high compared to the long-term value of its securities. It further assumes that readers are interested both in return likely to be earned on investment and the risk of not earning the return target. The focus on this book is on OC personalOCO investing. It begins with three basic rules of investing and concludes with ten subordinate rules and other suggestions for investing."