TheStreet.com Ratings
Consumer Tools Binder
2009 Edition

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Pub. Date: September 2009 with monthly updates
Binder: 300 pages annually
Price: Annual Subscription $189

Every month subscribers to Consumer Tools receive user-friendly essays, indexes, how-to articles and more that provide the step-by-step advice needed to understand and make important financial decisions in the insurance, banking and investment sectors. This educational resource helps the consumer make better use of the wide range of financial information they need to access, such as the TheStreet.com Rating Guides, with more depth and understanding.

• Sections for Banking, Investments and the Insurance Industries
  
  
• What to look for when selecting an insurer, bank or investment
  
  
• Top 10 Lists, updated every month, for life, health and property insurers, for stock, bond and exchange-traded mutual funds, banks and common stocks
  
  
• Current market trends & how to invest in today’s economy
  
  
• Easy-to-read explanations of important industry events, and how they affect the consumer
  
  
• Comprehensive coverage of the top companies in these important areas, and how they are changing in the face of the current economic conditions
  
  
• Special coverage geared towards Investment Clubs

This careful compilation of monthly tools provide the important background that consumers can then use to make informed investment decisions. Consumer Tools makes sure that subscribers stay informed on current events, newest companies, latest trends and outlooks that are so much a part of the world of investing. In addition there are important tips on how to navigate the decision making process with special insights available only from TheStreet.com editors.

This new resource will make a perfect complement to a library's subscription to the line of Ratings Guides from TheStreet.com Ratings.

TheStreet.com Ratings Guides

TheStreet.com’s rating scale is extremely straightforward and easy to understand. There are no complicated number grades to interpret, no colored paper to decode, and no stars to count. Instead, each entry gets a simple, intuitive letter grade that immediately identifies the wheat from the chaff. This is one more reason why TheStreet.com Ratings is widely recognized as "America's Consumer Advocate for Financial Safety." The TheStreet.com Safety Ratings have been proven to be the most accurate available from any of the major rating agencies. Plus, unlike the other major rating agencies, TheStreet.com does not accept compensation from the companies it rates, and thus does not allow companies to influence the ratings they receive or to suppress the release of their ratings. In fact, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) validated TheStreet.com’s accuracy in its Insurance Ratings study, and that same superior rating methodology is used when deriving all other ratings as well.

Pub. Date: September 2009
Binder: 300 pages annually
Price: Annual Subscription with monthly updates $189

Note: If you find this work does not fit your budget, please print out this page and bring it to your local library. There is a reasonable chance they either have a copy, can direct you to a library that does, or will be willing to purchase it for their reference collection.