Welcome to the second edition of the Investing For Simple People blog carnival. We hope you will find a lot of interesting articles here.

This edition consists of the following sections:

• Mutual Funds
• Education
• Investing
• Personal Finance
• Miscellaneous

Enjoy!

Education
Edith Yeung presents 7 Habits of Highly Effective Money Managers, which you can follow to become your own successful
money manager.

Josh presents Why Invest in Stocks?, saying, “Simply put, of all the possible types of investments, stocks will provide the best opportunity for growth over time and are a great solution for long-term investing.” While I agree with the fact that stocks may outperform other investment vehicles like mutual funds, in reality stocks are more riskier and demand very deep research of a company, thus it’s more for the advanced investors with 10+ years of investing.

ChristianPF gives nine tips about investing, business, and life from the world’s greatest investor in 9 Tips from Warren Buffett.

Warren Wong is giving the basics of money and the mechanics of the economy and markets in his Do You Get Money?

Mutual Funds

Matthew Paulson fights with naysayers, showing some of the positive sides in Mutual Fund investing in his Debunking Mutual Fund Naysayers. He has a lot of valid points, however his average annual returns for funds are a bit too high…

Larry Russell shows what to look for while checking the performance charts of the mutual Funds in his How to lie with statistics: Investment performance charts, saying, “Historical investment performance charts for investment funds might be historically accurate. However, their presentation in advertising, on line, and in printed materials can amount to lies from several perspectives. Performance charts are designed to lure gullible individual investors with an implied promise that superior past performance will continue. The financial research literature tells us clearly that on average this is a promise that cannot be kept. In other words, historical performance charts are a veiled lie. They may report factual information, but their purpose is to deceive. Here is why…”

ISPF gives another opinion on how to invest $5,000 in funds, and what criterias to use in $5K in “Extra” Savings: Narrowing down the investment choice

Look for the rest of the carnival categories in upcoming posts!

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