Full Description
The old cliché about the "starving" artist may have a basis in reality, but it isn't set in stone! The Thriving Artist provides valuable advice for the performing artist, whether you're an actor, dancer, lighting guru, costumer, or stagehand, on investing, saving, and building a diversified and stable financial portfolio. Written specifically for artists who have fluctuating, uncertain, and sometimes limited streams of income, this book promotes an understanding of finances and the investment world for the artist by offering clear, basic explanations of how finances work and instruction on how to participate in them as an investor. It also provides unique strategies for integrating financial awareness and planning into your life as an artist, and how that can help to provide a better sense of financial security. With The Thriving Artist, author David Maurice Sharp guides you with unflappable good humor through the tricky financial waters that come with following your passion.
Contents
List of Tables
Foreward by Edith Meeks
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Having Choices
2. Six Basic Financial Habits
3. A Brief Discussion of Risk
4. The Raw Fundamentals
5. Tax Talk
6. All About Cash
7. Banks & Credit Unions
8. Your Cash Stash
9. First Intermission
10. The Basics of Bonds: Bonding
11. US Treasury Bonds: Uncle Sam Wants You
12. Municipal Bonds: Keeping It Local
13. Corporate Bonds: Gems and Junk
14. Second Intermission
15. The Basics of Stock: Stocking Up
16. Accrual Securities: A Snowball Called Compounding
17. Brokerage Firms: Take My Order, Please
18. Choosing Individual Stocks: Going Shopping
19. Stock Analysis: The Dreaded Data
20. Third Intermission
21. Mutual Funds: The Basic Ingredients
22. Mutual Funds: The Flavors
23. Exchange Traded Funds: A Different Kind of ET
24. Fourth Intermission
25. Retirement Planning
26. Intro to Insurance: Countering Risky Business
27. Investment Strategies: Climbing Up the Ladder and More
28. Some Practical Applications for Investing
29. Union Benefits
30. Financial Advisers and Financial Planners
31. Closing Comments: Curtain Call
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