The Teenage Investor : How to Start Early, Invest Often & Build Wealth

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Summary: great for little kids... not great for anyone who's not
Review: Material is repeated over and over again. If your already familure with investing you probably should keep searching for another book.

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Summary: Disappointed by theme developed inTeenage Investor
Review: Purchased Teenage Investor for my grandchildren but decided not to give it to them. While the book gives a reasonable survey of the stock market it promotes the negative theme throughout that we, average investors, cannot succeed and would be better off buying mutual funds. (So, why write a book about investing?)

This boy-writer (in my opinion) must have garnered a lot of help from dad, a lawyer, an accountant, a broker, a writer, and an editor. I read the whole book hoping to find something that read as if a teenager actually contributed, but I couldn't find it.


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Summary: I Learned So Much
Review: This book is wonderful! I am a more mature woman who has just begun investing. What a great book to help me make my decisions. Informative but not condescending. Many helpful facts and lots of useful information. I can't wait to begin investing! Should be used by schools to help children save money. I can't believe an adult didn't do a book like this. Hope there will be another.

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Summary: great for little kids... not great for anyone who's not
Review: This easy-to-read, nicely formatted (highlighted sidebars) 204-page paperback is fun to read and clearly written. It is one of the simplest and best expositions on the subject that I've come across. Although its title suggests that it was written solely for teenage investors, it could have been easily titled "Everybody's Guide to Investing". A 13-year old precocious investor, Timothy Olsen, wrote the book. Interestingly, the writing style, subject knowledge, and comprehensive coverage of the topic appears to be written by a much more experienced professional investor. Congratulations to Timothy on mastering a complex subject and explaining it so simply.

This book is suited for anyone who desires a quick and basic overview of stock market investing. It is perfectly suited for novices who have no idea about this intriguing and vital subject. Unfortunately, the high schools in this country do not spend much time, if any, on the basics of investing and savings. This book should certainly be recommended as supplementary reading by high school Economic classes. In addition to the stock market basics, other topics covered include mutual funds, index funds and bonds. The author also explains how difficult it is to beat the market, why market timing is not a good idea, and why selecting mutual funds with low expenses is critical. He then covers issues of trust with regard to analysts, brokers and financial planners. Also discussed are how to research stocks and the importance of asset allocation.

The book does not cover most subjects in great depth - as this is only a primer - but provides the basic tenets needed to understand the key investing concepts. Two shortfalls of the book are its lack of website addresses and bibliography. For example, there were several references to John Bogle (Former Vanguard Chairman) on pages 105 and 169 in wonderful sidebar notes. It would have been great if the Website of Bogle's speeches or titles of his books were included. (That site is: ........ Another example where Websites were lacking were when the author refers to index funds and exchange-traded funds. (Those sites are indexfunds.com, etfconnect.com, ishares.com, etc.)

If you have teenage children and you want them to learn about the stock market with a quick and enjoyable immersion in the subject matter, then I highly recommend this book. The future investors in America's capitalist system need to know what it's all about, and this book provides solid information and a head start on the investing journey.

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Summary: Basic Investing Primer for All Ages
Review: This easy-to-read, nicely formatted (highlighted sidebars) 204-page paperback is fun to read and clearly written. It is one of the simplest and best expositions on the subject that I've come across. Although its title suggests that it was written solely for teenage investors, it could have been easily titled "Everybody's Guide to Investing". A 13-year old precocious investor, Timothy Olsen, wrote the book. Interestingly, the writing style, subject knowledge, and comprehensive coverage of the topic appears to be written by a much more experienced professional investor. Congratulations to Timothy on mastering a complex subject and explaining it so simply.

This book is suited for anyone who desires a quick and basic overview of stock market investing. It is perfectly suited for novices who have no idea about this intriguing and vital subject. Unfortunately, the high schools in this country do not spend much time, if any, on the basics of investing and savings. This book should certainly be recommended as supplementary reading by high school Economic classes. In addition to the stock market basics, other topics covered include mutual funds, index funds and bonds. The author also explains how difficult it is to beat the market, why market timing is not a good idea, and why selecting mutual funds with low expenses is critical. He then covers issues of trust with regard to analysts, brokers and financial planners. Also discussed are how to research stocks and the importance of asset allocation.

The book does not cover most subjects in great depth - as this is only a primer - but provides the basic tenets needed to understand the key investing concepts. Two shortfalls of the book are its lack of website addresses and bibliography. For example, there were several references to John Bogle (Former Vanguard Chairman) on pages 105 and 169 in wonderful sidebar notes. It would have been great if the Website of Bogle's speeches or titles of his books were included. (That site is: ........ Another example where Websites were lacking were when the author refers to index funds and exchange-traded funds. (Those sites are indexfunds.com, etfconnect.com, ishares.com, etc.)

If you have teenage children and you want them to learn about the stock market with a quick and enjoyable immersion in the subject matter, then I highly recommend this book. The future investors in America's capitalist system need to know what it's all about, and this book provides solid information and a head start on the investing journey.