Step by Step Bond Investing: A Beginner's Guide to the Best Investments and Safety in the Bond Market (Step by Step Investing)

"Joseph takes an unfamiliar concept like bond investing and gives readers a simple process to achieve their goals." - Barry Peters, Wealth Monitor Daily

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"As a Certified Financial Planner, I have often dealt with both clients and financial advisors who failed to understand the importance of utilizing bonds in their portfolio. This book does a terrific job explaining bonds, why they should be a part of a person's portfolio as well as offering bond investing strategies. It explains difficult concepts like how bond prices react to rising interest rates in a way that anyone can understand. The sections on types of bonds and risks in the bond market are particularly useful for when you're putting together your bond investing strategy." - Anne Schwab, CFP(R)

"Investing in the stock market is one thing, but investing in bonds is another level of confusing and complicated. Joseph Hogue not only has the experience and education in the industry to understand the subject matter, but also the ability to break down this subject in a way that makes sense to someone like me who's got no experience in how bond investing works." - Jay Fleischman, Esq.

"Don't neglect bond investing and don't neglect this book. Too many investors avoid bond investing because they aren't as hyped as stocks or other investments. The author does a good job of pointing out the advantages of bonds against these other investments and why you should build a bond investing strategy for your portfolio." -Darlene Fast, verified Amazon purchase

"Makes bond investing easy! I've always used mutual funds and ETFs for my bond investing but this book convinced me to add some individual bond investments to my strategy. The book goes into detail about the difference between mutual fund or bond fund investments and individual bonds. The investing strategy section then puts together a plan to use both for a simple strategy to get the best of both worlds." - Steven Clements

Ditch the Stock Market Game, Learn How to Get Safety and Returns in Bond Investing Of all the opportunities to invest and make money, bond investing is likely one of the most neglected. Stocks are the get-rich investment, hyped by Wall Street and favored by investors. Commodities are widely used to hedge risk and to gamble on price changes. Even real estate is more widely held for its cash flow and other benefits. According to research by fund manager Vanguard, the average investor holds just 15% of their portfolio in bonds. Since older investors typically hold much more of their investments in fixed-income, it's safe to assume that many younger investors are neglecting bond investment all together. What you might not realize is that bonds are critical to reaching your financial goals. No other investment provides the kind of safety and security you'll get from bonds and few other investments provide the kind of cash flow you'll get from these fixed-income opportunities. In fact, manage your bonds right and you might not need much more to meet your financial goals. You'll get stable returns for decades and won't have to worry about constant crashes in the stock market. You'll get nearly guaranteed cash flows to pay for expenses and the retirement you deserve. Putting a portfolio of bonds together that will meet your goals can be surprisingly easy if you know where to start. Understand bond basics and how to avoid the mistakes that cost other investors money and you'll find an investment that's easier to manage than any other while moving you closer to financial freedom. This book will do exactly that, help you put together a step-by-step investing strategy in bonds to understand how much of your portfolio to invest and how to do it. In this book you'll learn: * The five risks in bond investing, which can be reduced and how to avoid some altogether (pg 12) * Why investors neglect bonds and how you can use the asset class to reach your goals (pg 16) * The four types of bonds that should be in everyone's portfolio (pg 25) * How to put together a simple bond investing strategy to cover monthly living expenses without having to sell your investments (pg 50) * How to manage your bond investing strategy to minimize costs and maximize return (pg 53) Grab the only bond investing book to lay out the secrets to this neglected investment and give you a step-by-step guide to profit. Scroll back up and click buy now. Don't Get Caught in Complicated Investing Analysis and Trading Strategies - Get a Simple Investing Strategy that Fits YOUR Goals Most investing books don't even touch bond investing. Bond investing isn't exciting enough and investors are duped into a vague collection of trading strategies that only enrich the people selling investment analysis and collecting fees. The fact is that investing in bonds may be the best decision you make to reach your financial goals. Few other investments provide the kind of certainty and safety of bond investing. Learn what you won't find in other investing books, a simple and effective strategy for one of the best investments you can make. Scroll up and buy Step-by-Step Bond Investing. Check out the rest of the investing books in the series for simple investing strategies in bonds, emerging market stocks and dividend stocks. Each investment guide can be read on its own or as part of the series. Each provides a simple investing strategy and investing basics into different types of investments, giving you a well-rounded portfolio that will meet your goals.

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Everyone loves real estate and stock investing. Nobody wants to talk about bond investing even though it could be one of the safest and best returns you'll ever find. I have been investing in bonds for decades and have helped private clients put together hundreds of bond portfolios. It's one of the best kept secrets on Wall Street and I'm excited about sharing everything in this book with you.

Don't miss your chance to take the stress out of investing and reach your financial goals.

Young, old, rich or poor - it doesn't seem to matter. The vast majority of investors neglect bonds and fixed-income investments in their investment plan. That's fine when the market is going straight up. People are making money on stocks and there's no reason to question their investing strategy.

Then the inevitable happens, a stock market crash. Wall Street analysts give next-to-nil odds of a recession and talk about a new normal that will keep the economy humming along and stocks surging higher. Investors are happy to believe it because it means they'll keep making money. But don't fool yourself, the next stock market selloff is coming. When that happens, those portfolios helplessly over-weighted to stocks will crumble. Investors will see a decade of returns wiped out and will panic-sell at exactly the wrong moment.

This same investing cycle happens every five to ten years but it doesn't have to happen to you. Bonds and fixed-income investing is your chance to diversify your investments and avoid the next market crash. Besides protection against plunging stock prices, bonds provide a great source of passive income that can be reinvested or used to pay the bills.

In the book, Step-by-Step Bond Investing, I take you through understanding bonds and the types of bonds that should be in everybody's investing strategy. Bond investing does not have to be complicated and anyone can start.There are even bond funds you can buy just like stocks but that give you the protection of bonds. The book maps out a strategy for investing in bonds and how you can customize it for your needs and your investing goals.

Joseph Hogue, CFA
Born and raised in Iowa, Joseph Hogue graduated from Iowa State University after serving in the Marine Corps. He worked in corporate finance and real estate before starting a career in investment analysis.

Mr. Hogue has appeared on Bloomberg as an expert in emerging market investing and has led a team of equity analysts for sell-side research. His investment analysis has been featured in advisor newsletters, institutional research reports and in the financial press. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation, the gold standard for ethical and professional conduct in investment management.