"Moneywise" Guide to Personal Finances (The Moneywise guide to...)

"Moneywise" Guide to Personal Finances (The Moneywise guide to...) Review

This work aims to set out a definitive, easy-to-understand guide to personal finances.

Money Talks: Black Finance Experts Talk to You About Money

Money Talks: Black Finance Experts Talk to You About Money Review

Black America's Financial Elite Tell You How the Money Machine Works-and How to Increase Your Personal Wealth

"Investment books tend to be as dry as the Sahara at high noon, but Money Talks is a stellar exception. Fairley has compiled a book full of practical tips . . . a guided tour through the labyrinth of finance with some of the most savvy money people in America. The chance to take that journey is well worth the price of admission."-Ellis Cose, author, The Rage of a Privileged Class and Color-Blind

"All Americans will cherish this literary work which captures the thoughts and deeds of Black America's financial elite. These men and women are playing a major role in reshaping the economic fabric of America. They are pioneers; they are trailblazers; but more importantly, they are Financial Freedom Fighters."-Kelvin Boston, author, Smart Money Moves for African Americans and publisher, Moneywise Magazine

"In her distillation of these successful individuals' approaches to wealth-building, Fairley creates models by which the reader can learn to adjust his or her attitude about investing. Each person's story reiterates basic approaches to saving and allocating money, always in the context of individual achievement."-Alvin D. Hall, author, Getting Started in Stocks

"In Money Talks, Juliette Fairley achieves a rare combination: she tells the inspiring stories of financial experts, coupled with sound advice on managing money and building wealth. This book is not only for African Americans, it's an understandable, jargon-free guide for everyone."-Jane Tillman Irving, broadcast journalist

The Fairy Godmother's Guide to Finance for Couples

The Fairy Godmother's Guide to Finance for Couples Review

Financial planning doesn't have to be hard to do - or hard to talk about. In this little book, the Fairy Godmother teaches couples how to share their dreams and turn them into goals. She gives them the tools they need to reach their goals, from IRAs to life insurance, all in a simple and easy to understand style.

Internet Guide to Personal Finance and Investment

Internet Guide to Personal Finance and Investment Review

Turning to the Internet for personal finance information and guidance has become an obsession for an increasing number of Americans in recent years. This useful guide provides expert direction to the current sources available to answer researchers' questions about their personal financial needs. Covering over 1,400 carefully selected Web sites, part 1 includes resources for financing personal goals, such as education and retirement. Other sections of the book describe sites on investment choices and services, the management and protection of assets, personal banking, debt management, estate planning, insurance, and taxation. Entries include summaries highlighting the contents, features, and sponsors of each site. Sites are included in this convenient volume based on their ease of navigation, timeliness of information, scope, and level of free access. Also included are Web site sponsor and subject indexes.

Your Money - Your Life: Managing Your Finances in Today's Ireland

Your Money - Your Life: Managing Your Finances in Today's Ireland Review

When many people have an income more than adequate to their needs why do they find themselves constantly struggling to make ends meet, juggling outgoings and credit card debts? If this seems like you Your Money - Your Life is the book for you. In clear jargon-free language, financial adviser Liam Croke shows how you can manage your finances to make your money work for you instead of being a victim of circumstances.

Smart Guide to Managing Personal Finance (The Smart Guides Series)

Smart Guide to Managing Personal Finance (The Smart Guides Series) Review

Smart Tips on setting up a realistic budget that works for your individual circumstances

Smart Ways to stick to your budget, establish savings, invest wisely, and develop good credit

Smart Advice on overcoming previous credit problems, choosing the right bank, and finding a trustworthy broker or accountant
* Smart Advice on the most effective ways to take control, plan ahead, and stop living paycheck to paycheck
* Smart Tips for getting the best rates on credit cards, buying or leasing a car, and purchasing a home
* Smart Insights on maximizing your health and life insurance benefits, reducing your taxes, and ensuring that your estate goes to your heirs rather than to the government
* Quick reading and easy referencing with a comprehensive index and loads of sidebars and tables


Alfred and Emily Glossbrenner have written more than fifty books together, including Online Resources for Business and Making More Money on the Internet. They live in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Larstan's The Black Book on Personal Finance: The Wealth-Creation Secrets of the World's Savviest Advisors (Black Book Series)

Larstan's The Black Book on Personal Finance: The Wealth-Creation Secrets of the World's Savviest Advisors (Black Book Series) Review

Written by experts who advise higher-income clients on finances, taxes, insurance, and business, The Black Book of Personal Finance combines its authors’ years of experience into a single volume. Written from an advanced perspective that is intelligible to the layperson, this book presents a wide range of topics for those who either have or aspire to an annual household income in excess of ,000. Individual chapters cover reasons to avoid the advice of most self-anointed “experts” and cover topics including: an 11-step investing process, a sector rotation strategy that generates gains in any market condition, using life insurance premium financing to dramatically increase cash flow, maximizing bequests to beneficiaries, and more. Like other books in this series, this one is designed with an engaging “spy” motif on each spread that simplifies complex information.

Making Sense Of Your Finances: 21 Weeks to a New Financial You

Making Sense Of Your Finances: 21 Weeks to a New Financial You Review

This book is the only book looking at personal finances in this way. Get it quickly, become a new financial person within six months. Debts, lack and want will be able to be reduced methodically, savings begun, and your self concept built up. With each section you'll be saying, "I can do that!" Gaining a substantial financial bottom line means you will be learning new ways to handle your money. Twenty-one weeks of pondering one a chapter each week exposing each of six problems, processes to follow, and potential provisions will bring you to a revitalized view of finances. An improved net worth will begin changing your life, because You will begin Making Sense of Your Finances. Everyone can find fifteen minutes a day to get on their way to a great future. Easy, step by step style budges your money into the right categories and percents for your lifestyle. Get Making Sense of Your Finances today and begin today toward the new financial you.

Managing Money in Retirement (Essential Finance)

Managing Money in Retirement (Essential Finance) Review

Developing an understanding of your retirement plan options can be much simpler than you think-without taking hours of reading. In Managing Money in Retirement, the information is organized into short, clear explanations to help you handle finances through the rest of your life. This book addresses ways to budget and invest as well as programs designed specifically for seniors. Smart tips help you avoid the scams and frauds that focus on seniors, protect the money you have, and find ways to make your money last. Increased interest in do-it-yourself money management is a defining trend of our modern world, and the DK Essential Finance series provides the perfect personal finance library to help take advantage of this phenomenon. These outstanding guides provide a practical and impartial resource to guide you through important financial decisions. Useful questionnaires pinpoint one's financial status while easy-to-use charts and graphs help track cash flow, cut through the complexities of financial lingo, and gain the confidence needed to build real financial security. Readers can learn to invest online, live debt free, plan for retirement, or pay for a child's education.

How The Stock Market Works

How The Stock Market Works Review

This book explains the workings of the securities industry, including the initial public offering, types of stocks, who's who inside the brokerage firm, back-office operations and investment analysis. This new edition includes new chapters that cover ongoing changes at the NYSE, the AMEX, Nasdaq, online trading and the globalisation of the stock market. It has been thoroughly updated to reflect changes that have taken place on Wall Street and in the way securities transactions are conducted.

Making Your Money Grow: Balance Risks and Rewards - Control Your Own Finances - Watch Your Money Grow (Essentials)

Making Your Money Grow: Balance Risks and Rewards - Control Your Own Finances - Watch Your Money Grow (Essentials) Review

A handbook on personal finance, seeking to deliver the essential in a digestible style and simplify financial jargon, with real facts and examples. It covers different kinds of investments and incentives including pensions and unit trusts, the stockmarket, and the risk/reward relationship.

The Secret to Money Mastery: Leveraging the Law of Attraction in Your Personal Finances

The Secret to Money Mastery: Leveraging the Law of Attraction in Your Personal Finances Review

The Law of Attraction shows us how to use the scientific principles we live with in order to deliberately attract into our lives those things that we most desire. This book focuses more narrowly on those principles and practices that can dramatically accelerate how quickly you attract financial prosperity to you. Your nonconscious brain is immensely powerful. Its impulses travel at 100,000 mph, compared to about 120 mph for conscious impulses. Likewise, it processes 400,000,000,000 bits of information per second, compared to about 2,000 bits per second in the conscious brain. You will learn the secret to unlock this phenomenal power that is already within you in order to create an ongoing income, get out of debt, and build an investment plan that will carry you automatically toward your own picture of financial prosperity.

The Financial Peace Planner: A Step-by-Step Guide to Restoring Your Family's Financial Health

The Financial Peace Planner: A Step-by-Step Guide to Restoring Your Family's Financial Health Review

The Financial Peace Planner: A Step-by-Step Guide to Restoring Your Family's Financial Health Feature

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The bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio host of "The Money Game" has helped thousands through his 12-week financial planning program. His workbook format allows readers to frequently assess their progress and to face their situation honestly by using the questionnaires and fill-in charts throughout the book--the most valuable purchase a debt-ridden reader could ever make.

The Best of Personal Excellence: The Magazine of Life Enrichment

The Best of Personal Excellence: The Magazine of Life Enrichment Review

This timeless collection of prize articles includes the most respected authorities on personal and professional development. From Montel Williams to Katharine Graham to William Bennet, you'll read about how you--as well as every other person--possess the potential to improve the quality of life, how facing obstacles is always better than running from them, and how taking risks is fundamental to personal growth. This insightful and inspiring book will help you in six areas: taking initiative, defining direction, meeting challenges, making progress, developing your career, and improving continuously.

Developing Self-Esteem for Students: A Guide to Personal Success (Crisp Fifty-Minute Books)

Developing Self-Esteem for Students: A Guide to Personal Success (Crisp Fifty-Minute Books) Review

Provides students with the skills and knowledge they need to develop a more positive self-image.

The Complete Idiot's Guide Personal Finance Workbook

The Complete Idiot's Guide Personal Finance Workbook Review

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A step-by-step guide to securing a solid future-no matter the financial climate. Interactive CD-ROM included.

This step-by-step workbook from a Certified Financial Planner gives readers a clear path for organizing their personal finances. From investing, debt management, and college financing to retirement, savings, and household expenses, content is written with easy-to-understand language and terms, this book includes:

*A detailed financial-profile overview
*An evaluation of priorities about spending, investment, and life goals
*A practical and prudent approach to income
*Advice on spending habits and savings initiatives
*A CD-ROM of basic worksheet forms, checklists and questionnaires

Personal Finance and Investments: A Behavioural Finance Perspective

Personal Finance and Investments: A Behavioural Finance Perspective Review

In this book, the author draws from finance, psychology, economics, and other disciplines in business and the social sciences, recognising that personal finance and investments are subjects of study in their own right rather than merely branches of another discipline.

Considerable attention is given to topics which are either ignored or given very little attention in other texts. These include:

• the psychology of investment decision-making
• stock market bubbles and crashes
• property investment
• the use of derivatives in investment management
• regulation of investments business.

More traditional subject areas are also thoroughly covered, including:

• investment analysis
• portfolio management
• capital market theory
• market efficiency
• international investing
• bond markets
• institutional investments
• option pricing
• macroeconomics
• the interpretation of company accounts.

Packed with over one hundred exercises, examples and exhibits and a helpful glossary of key terms, this book helps readers grasp the relevant principles of money management. It avoids non-essential mathematics and provides a novel new approach to the study of personal finance and investments.

This book will be essential for students and researchers engaged with personal finance, investments, behavioural finance, financial derivatives and financial economics.

This book also comes with a supporting website that includes two updated chapters, a new article featuring a behavioural model of the dot com, further exercises, a full glossary and a regularly updated blog from the author.