Book 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.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- Foreword by Edith Meeks
- Acknowledgements
- 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 and 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
- Glossary
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Thriving Artist
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2015
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781317611417
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