Street Wise: A Guide for Teen Investors
by Janet Bamford
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Author: Janet BamfordEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-09
ISBN: 1576600394
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Bloomberg Press
Summary of Street Wise: A Guide for Teen Investors
Teen investors have powerful advantages over the rest of us. Many are whizzes at financial research on the Internet. They?re quick to master online stock trading. According to an August 2000 Wall Street Journal article, today more young Americans own investments than ever before, with 35 percent of eighth through twelfth graders owning stock or bonds, usually in a parent?s name, while about one-fifth own mutual funds. Often these teenage investors have amassed substantial nest eggs?even before they?ve finished high school. Although teen investors need adult cosigners for their brokerage and mutual fund custodial accounts, it?s not unusual for them to be the driving force behind their parents? and relatives? investment decisions.Now teens have another leg up?a book that explains the successes and investment strategies of real-life teen investors, along with the wisdom of Wall Street pros, and tips on how to make the most of the Web. The popularity of stock-picking contests and high school investment clubs?along with successful marketing vehicles, such as Stein Roe?s Young Investors Fund?have created a growing demand for investment information focused on teens, written for teens. Street Wise provides exactly what they want.
Today's young people are not only interested in money, they're quite knowledgeable about it--which is apparently what happens when you mix computer know-how with full employment and parents who play the market. Most, however, still require some assistance as they begin to build their nest eggs. Janet Bamford's Street Wise: A Guide for Teen Investors fits this bill nicely because it assembles virtually everything these budding financiers need, and presents it in language they understand. Bamford addresses the market's operation, full-service versus discount brokers, taxes, investment clubs and games, and even the possibility of a Wall Street career. Her best advice concerns stocks and mutual funds and is again delivered in a relevant, complete, and thoroughly noncondescending manner. "A stock is to a mutual fund," she writes at one point, in a style familiar to her audience, "as: (a) a can of soda is to a six pack, (b) the Dallas Cowboys are to the NFL, (c) a kitten is to a dog, (d) a flower is to a garden." The answer, by the way, is (d). Bamford also discusses specific kid-friendly investment vehicles, as well as the initial fiscal forays of high-fliers like thestreet.com's James Cramer. --Howard Rothman
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