Comfort Zone Investing

by Gillette Edmunds

When you reach your 'comfort zone', investing is fun and fulfilling. This guide shows you how to recognize your personal interests and emotions and use them to create a successful portfolio.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564145913
• ISBN13: 9781564145918
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Career Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

worth its weight in gold

Useful as Gillette Edmunds' other book ("How to Retire Early and Live Well") is, I wished it had been possible to read this one first! For anyone who's been duped into believing stock funds are the only viable long-term hedge against inflation, who's been sold a "conservative" asset allocation and then watched it lose 25% of its value, this book is a lifesaver. Simply by working through the steps here and understanding what mixture of "saver," "investor," and "speculator" you are will result in greatly increased clarity and vastly lower stress. Belongs at the top of the list of books the typical financial advisor would prefer you not know about!

Comfort Zone Investing another useful guide

Gillette's latest, Comfort Zone Investing, provides a sound, practical guide for removing the inherent "flip the coin" jitters that many lay investors I and my clients (I'm a CPA) both experience as we save for retirement or other major life events (college funds, weddings, etc.). I particularly liked his grouping of investment vehicles into "savings", "investment" or "speculation" and his down to earth analysis of each. I would highly recommend this book for first time out investors as well as those who have alrady built a sizeable portfolio.

This may be the best book ever written on investing

In my investments, I have made many more emotional mistakes than I have intellectual. Finally there is a book out that says this is true for most people. This may be the best book ever written on investing. It is the first book any beginner should read. It will save you a lot of trouble. Just knowing whether you are a saver, investor, or speculator will save thousands of dollars and many nights of lost sleep. Savers like myself should have never been fooling around in the stock market.This book debunks the myth that stocks are the best investment for the long-run. Stock returns may or may not be high, but most investors are incompatible with the volatility and games that go on in the stock market. They end up getting caught up in all the hype and buying at the top of the bubbles and then their grandiosity drops into depression as the market crumbles and they selling at the bottom. I know, I did it with two tech funds. Since most of us do not have the personality to ride out the ups and downs of the stock market, stocks are not the best investment for us, whether they do well in the future or not, because we need to face up to the fact that we won't get those returns. Plus I am tired of fighting with my wife over where I invest our retirement money.The best thing about this book is the depth of information on many different investments. It tells you what sort of person will do well and who will do poorly with stocks, bonds, real estate, mutual funds, Ginnie Mae funds, tax lien certificates, CDs, money market funds, REITs, index funds, stamp collections, and many more types of investments. Buy this book. You will save far more than the cover price immediately and you will start getting a good nights sleep regardless of what the market does.

An excellent resource for any investor

I've read both of Gillette Edmunds' investing books, and Comfort Zone Investing is even better than his first. It's a great book for our current uncertain climate, but I think it would make a good read regardless of what the market is doing. I have made many of the mistakes he discusses, especially in becoming over-attached to my stocks on an emotional basis. I wish I had read this book two years ago!