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A Beginner’s Guide to Investing: How to Grow your Money the Smart and Easy Way Claire Bochenko Florida Institute of Technology The Author Alex Frey is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He has been an avid investor since his teen years, sixteen to be exact. His financial pathway started to be paved when he began to construct discounted cash flow models on a dining room table in his parents ' house. Alex attended Harvard University 's Business School and graduated with a Master 's in Business Administration ("Alex Frey", 2014). Along with that title, he passed all three Chartered Financial Analyst exams. Aside his Master 's in Business Administration degree, he also holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland in …show more content…

("Alex Frey", 2014) Alex Frey did not stop at writing a book. He continued on by founding Ivy Publications LLC. Ivy Publications LLC is a California-based company. A portion of Ivy Publications is IvyVest, whose mission is to utilize technology in order to help individuals invest using data-driven models that were only made available to the ultra-wealthy. The point of IvyVest is to help investors bypass and avoid high fees and sub-par performance of financial products, and help subscribers and readers reach their financial goals. Along with his book, his Alex 's writing has been put in the spotlight on Amazon 's Money and Markets blog as well as the Huffington Post. His book continues to hold its position as one of the best-selling investing books in the investment category on amazon.com. ("IvyBest", 2014) The Book The marketing of "A Beginner 's Guide to Investing: How to Grow your Money the Smart and Easy Way" is not forceful. It includes interesting chapters with titles ranging from "How to Save Tens of Thousands of Dollars In Taxes, without Opening an Offshore Bank Account (or doing anything unethical)" to "How to Double Your Money Every Seven Years: The Parable of Jill and Average Joe". These types of chapter titles strike the interest of beginner investors because beginners may not know all the investment jargon. On top of the chapter titles, the information is provided in an applicable way so beginners can understand the

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