Someone will make money on your money.

Some people will make money on your funds.

A valuable guide for the thoughtful investor, this book is a treasure trove of practical research and pithy thoughts based on Gastineau’s decades of experience. Harold Evensky is Chairman of Brown & Katz.

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There is a table of contents.

Acknowledgments.

There is an introduction.

There is a framework for saving and investing.

Chapter 2 contains Assets, Liabilities, and Financial Planning.

Chapter 3 deals with tax efficient financial planning and investing.

Chapter 4 deals with controlling investment costs.

Chapter 5 shows how to cut costs.

Chapter 6 deals with reducing costs with index funds.

Chapter 7 is about fund advisory services.

Chapter 8: Winning funds and why they win.

Can you find a manager who can beat the market?

Chapter 10 is called Reinventing the Mutual Fund: Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Funds.

Chapter 11 deals with improving the efficiency of custom investment management.

There are additional information on the internet.

Making Choices: Conventional Mutual Funds versus Exchange-Traded Funds.

Glossary.

Notes.

There are references.

Index.

About the author.

Information about the author.

GARY L. GASTINEAU is a Portfolio Manager in the Dickerson Division of H.G. Wellington & Co., Inc. He was the managing director for product development at Nuveen Investments. He was the senior vice president of new product development at the American Stock Exchange. The Exchange-Traded Funds Manual, The Options Manual, and the Dictionary of Financial Risk Management are all written by Gastineau. He graduated from Harvard College and the Harvard Business School.