About the Author
Eric Tyson is an internationally acclaimed and best-selling personal finance author, lecturer, speaker, and former advisor. Through his work, he is dedicated to teaching people to manage their money better and to successfully direct their own investments.
Eric is a former management consultant to businesses for which he helped improve operations and profitability. Before, during, and after this time of working crazy hours and traveling too much, he had the good sense to focus on financial matters.
He has been involved in the investing markets in many capacities for more than three decades. Eric first invested in mutual funds back in the mid-1970s, when he opened a mutual fund account at Fidelity. With the assistance of Dr. Martin Zweig, a now-famous investment market analyst, Eric won his high school’s science fair in 1976 for a project on what influences the stock market. In addition to investing in securities over the decades, Eric has successfully invested in real estate and started and managed his own business. He has counseled thousands of clients on a variety of investment quandaries and questions.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics at Yale and an MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Despite these impediments to lucid reasoning, he came to his senses and decided that life was too short to spend it working long hours and waiting in airports for the benefit of larger companies.
An accomplished freelance personal finance writer, Eric is the author of numerous best-selling books, including For Dummies books on personal finance, investing, mutual funds, and home buying (co-author), and is a syndicated columnist. His work has been featured and quoted in hundreds of national and local publications, including Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, and Bottom Line/Personal, and on NBC’s Today Show, ABC, CNBC, PBS’s Nightly Business Report, FOX, CNN, CBS national radio, Bloomberg Business Radio, National Public Radio, and Business Radio Network. He’s also been a featured speaker at a White House conference on retirement planning.
You can visit him on the web at http://www.erictyson.com.
Dedication
Actually, before I get to the thank yous, please allow me a really major thank you and dedication.
This book is hereby and irrevocably dedicated to my family and friends, as well as to my former students, counseling clients, and customers, who ultimately taught me everything I know about how to explain financial terms and strategies so that all of us may benefit.
Author’s Acknowledgments
First, I’d like to thank Elizabeth Rea. Thanks also to Kathy Simpson for all of her fine editing and to all of the fine folks in Composition and Graphics for making this book look great! Thanks also to everyone else who contributed to getting this book done well and on time.
And last but not least, a tip of my cap to the fine technical reviewers — Gary Karz and John Nelson — who helped to ensure that I didn’t write something that wasn’t quite right….
Publisher’s Acknowledgments
Acquisitions Editor: Erin Calligan Mooney
Project Editor: Elizabeth Rea
Copy Editor: Kathy Simpson
Technical Editors: Gary Karz, CFA; John L. Nelson, CFA
Production Editor: Antony Sami
Cover Image: rootstock/Shutterstock