Beyond Work: How Accomplished People Retire Successfully
For boomers who aren't just retiring into old age, but are moving from their working lives into a personally satisfying life after work. Beyond Work is about the various facets of life after leaving the workforce, which the author calls "new adulthood." These include physical health, social network and the importance of avoiding isolation, and understanding emotional and spiritual awareness.
Kiplinger's Practical Guide to Your Money: Keep More of it, Make it Grow, Enjoy it, Protect it, Pass it On
Essentially 10 books in one, this guide is a resource for every one of life's financial milestones. This thorough personal finance bible shows you how to: Take charge of your money, from savings to credit; Buy a home and manage its value; Select the right insurance for a home, car, or your health; Control the costs of your car; Provide for children, from raising money-smart kids to child support to financing college; Invest for today and tomorrow; and Plan for retirement--and your estate.
Lifelines for Money Misfortunes: How to Overcome Life's Greatest Challenges
Written in a straightforward and accessible style, this practical guide offers effective advice on dealing with life's most serious situations. Each chapter focuses on a different crisis and presents a "Lifeline" for successfully navigating a specific circumstance. Some of the issues covered throughout these pages include: your parents or adult children need financial support, you're getting divorced, you can't make your loan or credit card payments, you're accused of a crime, you're facing large, uncovered medical bills.
Stocks for the Long Run: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns and Long-Term Investment Strategies Wharton School professor Jeremy Siegel provides a potent mix of new evidence, research, and analysis supporting his key strategies for amassing a solid portfolio with enhanced returns and reduced risk. In a seamless narrative that incorporates the historical record of the markets with the realities of today's investing environment.
You Can Do the Math: Overcome Your Math Phobia and Make Better Financial Decisions Drawing on his life's experiences and many years as a classroom teacher, Lipsman presents an easy-to-read introduction to the mathematics of personal finance. Although oriented toward the personal finance neophyte, even those with more sophistication in financial decision making will find the book and the companion Web site an interesting and useful reference.
November
Chain of Blame: How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis
"Chain of Blame is one of the first books to delve deeply into the central role that big banks played in the mess,…for a juicy, name-dropping read, Muolo and Padilla’s book is hard to beat."—BusinessWeek Chain of Blame chronicles the crisis in detail, showing readers what happened, who is to responsible, and what lies ahead.
Green Investing: A Guide to Making Money Through Environment-Friendly Stocks
A guide for those attracted to clean technology; both the beginner investor wanting to make environmentally aware investments and experienced investors looking for information on wind, solar, biofuels and other clean technology.
Guide to Surviving Debt
The National Consumer Law Center provides an accurate, concise text that consumers should read when they go through financial hardships. Some of the issues covered are: What debt to pay first, how to handle debt collectors, credit rating, credit record, collection law suits, credit cards, home foreclosures, evictions, repossessions, and bankruptcies.
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash The Trillion Dollar Meltdown explains how we got here, and what is about to happen. After the crash our priorities will be quite different. Whether you are an active investor, a homeowner, or a contributor to your 401(k) plan, The Trillion Dollar Meltdown will be indispensable to understanding the gross excess that has put the world economy on the brink—and what the new landscape will look like.
Zero Day Threat: The Shocking Truth Of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity
A white-collar true-crime story, Zero Day Threat is a powerful investigative expose on bank and lending policies that actually facilitate ID theft and fraud. USA Today reporters Acohido and Swartz reveal the many ways that established corporations and technology giants have fixated on the Internet to maximize their profits, heedless of increased risks to customers.
October
Getting Started in Value Investing
This book helps readers gain an overall understanding of the value approach to investing—popularized by Warren Buffet--and presents statistics that reveal the overwhelming success of this approach through a variety of markets. Engaging and informative, the author skillfully shows readers how to look for undervalued companies and provides them with the tools they need to succeed in today's markets.
The Modern Rules of Personal Finance for Professionals
An informative resource on personal finance for lawyers, and other professionals in every field. Readers will learn how to better understand their money, and how to make it work for them. Written by noted tax litigator, Susan A. Berson, this book will help any professional become a better steward of his or her own money. Topics include debt/student loans; saving; investing; philanthropy; real estate; preparing for a drop in income to change paths; and more.
The Money Therapist: A Woman's Guide to Creating a Healthy Financial Life
The Money Therapist offers women of every financial strata the advice, tips, and solutions they need to get out of debt, create a budget, spend wisely, and save money. With information on organizing financial records, getting out of credit card debt, safeguarding against identity theft, and taking advantage of interest through automatic deductions, this book could be the first step to achieving financial peace of mind.
Pop Finance: Investment Clubs and the New Investor Populism
Takes a look at the phenomenal rise and membership of investment clubs, particularly in America. Divided into three strands, the investigation runs an eye over investment clubs in the context of the 'ownership society', the performance of such organizations and what it has meant to be involved in particular clubs since the 1990s, with sociological insight, anecdotal evidence and well thought-out analysis.
Reworking Retirement: A Practical Guide for Retirees Returning to the Workplace
Filled with expert advice, company case studies, and stories from other retirees returning to the workforce, this is a guide to post-retirement employment. It takes the difficulty out of finding, applying, and working a job while retired by teaching how to:
capitalize on available job opportunities, explore online, alternative, and volunteer career paths, tailor your resume, cover letter, and pitch appropriately, transfer your skills into a different field, and succeed in your new work setting.
Wealth Secrets of the Affluent: Keys to Fortune Building and Asset Protection
Reveals the ten "keys" to financial success that super-affluent families have used for decades. This is a must read for anyone who earns over $150,000 per year. Wealth Secrets of the Affluent teaches readers the way to effectively achieve affluence, and provides a variety of practical strategies for protecting assets, investing wisely, maximizing family wealth, and reducing unnecessary income, capital gains, and estate taxes.
September
The Busy Family's Guide to Money
A book that addresses the complexities of family finances in an easy-to-read style that doesn't dumb-down the content.
It's Not About the Money: Unlock Your Money Type to Achieve Spiritual and Financial Abundance
A Buddhist influenced financial planning guide promising both a better financial strategy and greater fulfillment and happiness. The author recommends focusing awareness inward to identify your financial archetype to find useful advice on how to think about money, as well as insight into what makes us tick.
Please Send Money!: A Financial Survival Guide for Young Adults on Their Own With the average student loan debt reaching almost $20,000 and credit card debt continuing to rise at staggering levels, Please Send Money contains useful financial tools for determining budget, net worth, cost of credit, and safe debt levels.
The Secrets of Money: A Guide for Everyone on Practical Financial Literacy
Written to be the single source of what you really need to know to be financially literate in the real world in a conversational and easy-to-read format, the information is presented in a practical versus a theoretical manner and is appropriate for consumers of all education and income levels. Chapters include: Consumer Credit, Mortgage Lending, Real Estate, Car Buying, Insurance, Taxes, Investing, Estate Planning and the author's Keys to Financial Success.
August
All About Stocks: The Easy Way to Get Started
All About Stocks explains in easy-to-understand language: What stocks are, and why you should own them, how to use the Internet to develop buying and selling strategies, how fundamental and technical analysis can help you find undervalued stocks, what mutual funds are, how they work, and which are right for you, and trades to increase your safety during turbulent markets.
The Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing
No matter what the market does, real estate still offers plenty of moneymaking opportunities. In this new edition, Gary W. Eldred presents the tools and knowledge new investors need to get started profitably. Concise yet comprehensive, this practical guide shows you how to: find great deals on properties with big potential, get started with low– or no–down payment financing, utilize creative financing options and other people's money, buy low-cost foreclosures and REOs, make value-adding improvements to any property, craft winning offers and negotiate like a pro, and manage rental properties hassle-free.
Hedge Funds Demystified: A Self-Teaching Guide
Financial expert Scott Frush first explains the basics of hedge funds and how they are different from mutual funds. He then provides methods for evaluating hedge funds, strategies for low-, moderate-, and high-risk investing, and the steps you need to take to incorporate hedge funds into your portfolio. Featuring end-of-chapter quizzes and a final exam, this straightforward guide gives you the inside edge for investing in hedge funds.
Lifespan Investing: Building the Best Portfolio for Every Stage Of Your Life
The smartest, healthiest way to invest is for the long haul. In Lifespan Investing, veteran investor and author Clifford Pistolese deftly explains the need for this approach and provides proven techniques for maximizing wealth at every age and stage of your life. He reveals the best ways to take advantage of capital gains opportunities during bull markets, avoid loss of capital during bear markets, and increase your assets and income flow during range-bound markets. Pistolese also gives you failsafe procedures for evaluating the timeliness of potential investments, from stocks and bonds to ETFs, REITs, TIPS, and more.
The World Is Your Oyster: The Guide to Finding Great Investments Around the Globe
The opportunities for investing overseas are indisputable. The World Is Your Oyster is your travel guide: pinpointing five of the best reasons to go global, detailing various ways for investors of every temperament—from timid to adventurous—to cross financial borders, focusing on how to invest directly in hot spots from China to Turkey to Eastern Europe, and revealing how the Internet and other twenty-first-century technology has opened a world of direct overseas investment opportunities for you.
Invest Like a Shark: How a Deaf Guy with No Job and Limited Capital Made a Fortune Investing in the Stock Market
As an individual investor, you can swim circles around the “whales” of Wall Street…by investing like a shark! In this book, James “RevShark” DePorre reveals how to maximize your powerful and unique advantages as a small investor: speed and flexibility. You’ll develop a completely new way of looking at the stock market, learn when to attack, how to move aggressively, how to stay flexible…and when to swim away in the face of danger.
July
The Budget Kit: The Common Cents Money Management Workbook
No matter your financial goal, a well-defined budget is the first step to meet it. The bestselling classic, The Budget Kit, has helped hundreds of thousands of people across America develop effective budgets and gain financial freedom. In this fully updated and revised edition, you will gain the skills to control your money—and your future.
The Everything Personal Finance in Your 20s & 30s Book: Erase Your Debt, Personalize Your Budget, and Plan Now To Secure Your Future
Worried about your financial future? Living paycheck to paycheck? Find it hard to save money? This updated edition provides step-by-step instructions on how to: budget scarce funds, recover from credit card debt, pay off student loans, plan for large purchases, and build an emergency fund. You'll also find information on affordable insurance protection, the most useful (and free) online personal finance resources and tools, and how to use tax breaks to help pay for education.
Expecting Money: The Essential Financial Plan for New and Growing Families
This book is about the money aspects of pregnancy and parenthood, starting with familiar chapters like "The Meaning of Money" and "The Dangers of Debt" that prepare readers for an uncluttered financial picture going into familyhood. The needs of different families are addressed in chapters like "On the Double: Partner Issues and On Your Own: Single Solutions." Sandberg also costs out what new parents need to spend on the average (U.S.) baby's clothing, child care and other basic needs, even comparing the costs for different birthing options. Later she compares types of day care and analyzes different ways of meeting long-term needs. These concrete details are what make this book most valuable and helpful for new parents who need real numbers and facts to plan out their family's financial future.
Financial Planning for the Utterly Confused
To make the right decisions about your financial future it's important to understand the wide array of investment options available. From Roths and 401(k)s to social security benefits and Medicare to mortgage and life insurance, you'll have a helpful, easy-to-understand guide that takes the confusion out of financial planning.
Get Real, Get Rich: Conquer the 7 Lies Blocking You From Success
Born in Chicago's projects, Gray put his considerable energy and confidence into escaping the poverty that surrounded him to become the youngest person with an office on Wall Street. Now at age 22, he is a multimillionaire, entrepreneur and money coach who attributes his success to rejecting the seven lies that keep people from wealth. The attitudes Gray considers lies and concentrates on are some of the most widely believed: people must be born lucky to get rich, have money to make money or be financial gurus.
Make Money, Not Excuses: Wake Up, Take Charge, and Overcome Your Financial Fears Forever
Today, more than ever before, wealth is something every woman has the power to create. Yet Jean Chatzky constantly hears all the excuses why women can’t and don’t master their money. Now she reveals the secrets and the strategies she created to take control of her own money–strategies through which she gained her “money confidence.” Jean explains money and investing in simple, straightforward ways. She breaks down the scariest parts of dealing with money – from investing in stocks to saving for your retirement – and makes them practical, easy, empowering, and enjoyable.
June
Portfolio Life: The New Path to Work, Purpose, and Passion After 50
Author David Corbett points out that boomers' longer life expectancy and better health means that reprioritizing may be more rewarding than simply to stop working. He explains why the concept of retirement needs to be retired, and encourages readers to focus on building a portfolio of skills, which allows them to shuffle their skills in the same way they would remix a financial portfolio, rather than follow a linear career trajectory. Instead of abandoning work altogether, people can refocus later in life on the preferred skills and meaningful pursuits that suit them best.
Help! I Can't Pay My Bills: Surviving a Financial Crisis
No matter how you got into a financial crisis, it’s never too late to take steps to turn things around. CPA Sally Herigstad provides a step-by-step guide to: Create a realistic plan for reaching your financial goals, find cash you didn’t know you had, talk to creditors when they call, build – and stick to – a budget, and get help with catastrophic medical bills.
The Millionaire Maker's Guide to Creating a Cash Machine for Life
Building on her foundation of smart-and often counterintuitive-advice for generating real wealth, Loral Langemeier has produced a savvy, practical
guide that can help anyone create and sustain a viable business.
Trump University Wealth Building 101: Your First 90 Days on the Path To Prosperity
In Trump University Wealth Building 101, you'll learn how to: Develop the right mind-set for continued success, learn millionaire moneymaking habits, create your own financial vision statement, adopt the seven proven practices of the rich, start your own business, become a real estate entrepreneur, build your investment portfolio, master money-saving tax strategies, and more.Work Less, Live More: The Way to Semi-Retirement
Offers intelligent and practical tips on systematic savings, sensible spending and rational investing to make retirement money, even if it is not a fortune, last a lifetime.
You're So Money: Live Rich, Even When You're Not
Twenty-something financial reporter Farnoosh Torabi tells you that you can satisfy your sophisticated tastes and achieve financial bliss. The key: prioritizing your expenses according to what you want the most—splurging when you can and saving on other things. From sensible grocery shopping to cyberbanking, empower yourself to live a guilt-free, Gucci- and gadget-clad good life without sacrificing financial security.
May
Easy Money: How To Simplify Your Finances and Get What You Want Out Of Life
Like most financial advice books, this collection covers the basics such as creating a financial toolkit, investing, planning for retirement and saving for college, but also charts new territory with a 60 Percent Solution and 50/30/20 Plan, both aimed at spending control, as well as getting the most out of your credit cards and what to do if you've overspent on a car purchase.
Investing Online For Dummies
This book helps you set reasonable expectations, assess your risk tolerance, choose an asset allocation, analyze and select investments, and maximize financial success.
The Little Book that Builds Wealth: The Knockout Formula for Finding Great Investments
How can you accurately identify companies that are great today and likely to remain great for many years to come? The answer to this question lies in competitive advantages, or economic moats. The author shows how this concept--made famous by Warren Buffet--works.
A Million is Not Enough: How to Retire With the Money You'll Need
Whether you're getting a head start, starting on time, or playing catch-up, Michael Farr's plan presents a specific financial and investment plan to help Boomers reach this million-dollar goal and become safe and worry-free in their later years.
You're Broke Because You Want to Be: How to Stop Getting By and Start Getting Ahead
Whether your aim is to get out of debt, save for a house, or simply stop kidding yourself when it comes to savings (for retirement, for your kids’ college, whatever your goal) this book encourages you, through easy-to-complete worksheets and Larry’s bullying yet wise counsel, to make it happen.
April
Rich Dad's Increase Your Financial IQ: Get Smarter With Your Money Kiyosaki lays out his 5 key principles of financial intelligence for all to understand: How to increase your money; How to protect your money; How to budget your money; How to leverage your money; and How to improve your financial information.
Grow Your Money!: 101 Easy Tips To Plan, Save, and Invest
A regular on The Today Show, CNN, and PBS, Pond’s financial advice includes: Using debt to your advantage, why collecting Social Security early is (usually) a mistake, dual-income homes: does that second paycheck help as much as you think?, getting rich slowly, give Uncle Sam his due at tax time—but not one penny more. How Come That Idiot's Rich and I'm Not?
Bestselling author Robert Shemin reveals for the first time the inner-circle secrets of the mega-wealthy. The key is wealth-friendly, upside-down thinking. Stick with all the old moneymaking rules and stay broke. Break them and get rich. This is the book that shows you how.
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