Product Description With straightforward advice and a plethora of specific, up-to-date mutual fund recommendations, personal finance expert Eric Tyson helps you avoid fund-investing pitfalls and maximize your chances of success. Newly revised and updated, Mutual Funds For Dummies quickly and easily helps you pick the best funds, assemble and maintain your portfolio, and evaluate your funds' performance. In no time, it gets you up and running on exchange-traded funds, tax laws affecting investments in funds, how to evaluate different fund-investing strategies, and much more. Plan and implement a successful investment strategy that includes mutual funds Find the best-managed funds that match your financial goals Select among mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, and other investing options Mutual Funds For Dummies is your trusted resource for planning and implementing a successful investment strategy that includes mutual funds. About the Author Eric Tyson, MBA, is a personal financial writer, lecturer, and counselor. He is the author of several bestselling books in the For Dummies series, including the award-winning Personal Finance for Dummies. Eric's syndicated newspaper column is read by millions of readers weekly. He is a former columnist and award-winning journalist for the Sunday San Francisco Chronicle. His website, erictyson.com, rocketed into the top one percent of financial websites within its first year of operation. Eric's work has been featured and quoted in hundreds of local and national publications and media outlets, including Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, ABC, Fox News, CNBC, and NPR. He has also been a featured speaker at a White House conference on retirement planning.