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by: Richard Ferri List Price: $18.95 Amazon.com's Price: $12.89 You Save: $6.06 (32%) as of 07/30/2010 07:30 EDT Used Price: $6.97 Collectible Price: $18.95 Third Party New Price: $7.99 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 332.6327 EAN: 9780071484923 Edition: 2 ISBN: 0071484922 Label: McGraw-Hill Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: December 22, 2006 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Studio: McGraw-Hill Related Items: The ETF Book: All You Need to Know About Exchange-Traded Funds All About Asset Allocation Psychology of Investing (4th Edition) (The Prentice Hall Series in Finance) A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing (Revised and Updated) The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio see more Alternate Versions: Click to Display Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: All The Tools and Techniques You Need to Invest Successfully in High-Yield, Low-Risk Index Funds The updated Second Edition of Richard Ferri's bestselling All About Index Funds offers individual investors an easy-to-use guide for capitalizing on one of today's hottest investing areas_index funds. This wealth-building resource provides essential information on index funds; expert advice on how to start investing; and winning strategies for high returns with low risk. The Second Edition of All About Index Funds features: Updated tables, charts, and data on performance, fees, and new funds Step-by-step guidance on active indexing and discussion of its expanding role Coverage of all new U.S. equity indexes that have changed the dynamics of the index fund marketplace and a new chapter on commodities and commodity index funds Vanguard's revision of the indexes it uses for benchmarking Discussion of the increasing popularity of ETFs for effective asset allocation Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Dated, old thoughts Not worth your time reading. This is old ideas that are not relevant in the 2000s. Try another book. The "All About" series of books in below the information in the "___blanK____ for Dummies" books. Rating: - Helped me learn the basics about Index Funds Written well enough, a family member recommend I buy this book, I did, and now know more options for investing my money. Rating: - Excellent information but lots of errors and omissions I have almost finished reading this book (happily, borrowed from the library, it isn't worth owning) and I think it has a lot of excellent and useful information. I just finished The Four Pillars of Investing and felt that there wasn't quite enough info on how to create my own portfolio - not only asset allocation percentages but the actual choice of funds, ETFs, etc. So, I had hoped this book would help in filling in that gap, and to some degree it does. Although somewhat narrow in scope, I ... Read More Rating: - A bit dry compared to All about Asset Allocation but still very very good I love Richard Ferri's books. This is one of them. If you are clueless about financial investment and want to get started on it, then read this book. Also recommended are All about Index Funds, Serious Money, and The ETF Book. Unlike books that promote sales pitch and sell garbages like (IBD: Investor's Business Daily or even Wall Street Journal) Ferri provides sound studies done on investment strategies, sound strategies, expectation and mindset. However it does not cover all ... Read More Rating: - My favorite book on index funds I have been doing a self-study on investing topics this year and previously read several books on indexing by Jack Bogle [my hero, and an erudite writer], and Morningstar's Christine Benz [Clear and concise], but I think this is my favorite. Ferri is laser sharp in explaining investing concepts, and reads like you are learning one-on-one from an excellent business school professor. I bought this book because I had already read his also excellent book on asset allocation. This would be a perfect book ... Read More see more