Alan Kohler's Eureka Report Guide to Personal Investing

by Alan Kohler, Barbara Druery, Barbara Drury

Alan Kohler's Eureka Report Guide to Personal Investing provides the tools you need to understand all aspects of your personal finances. Written in plain language for the self-directed investor, it will help you seize control of the money accumulating in your superannuation, your home and, most importantly, in your investment accounts. Designed to be read either from cover-to-cover or dipped into as a key reference tool, this is a comprehensive guide to the basic building blocks of wealth creation.

Tap into the resources of Australia's No. 1 Investment Report to learn the fundamentals goal setting, borrowing to invest, investment structures, the property market, tax planning, superannuation.

Using this knowledge, along with your deeper understanding of risk, return and the major asset classes, will help you uncover the key principles for lifetime mastery of your personal finances.

Alan Kohler's online investment website Eureka Report has become the leading personal investment publication in Australia. Alan Kohler's Eureka Report Guide to Personal Investing brings the very best principles and lessons we have learnt along the way into one easily accessed reference.

Genres: Nonfiction

352 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2011

About the author

Alan Kohler is finance presenter on ABC News and a columnist for The New Daily. A former editor of The Age and The Australian Financial Review, he founded the Eureka Report and has written for The Australian, AFR, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. His books include It's Your Money.

Reviews

[Jacob Pogson]

A good overview of financial and legal structures for investment in Australia. It should emphasise more that most people ought to choose passive index funds.