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F.I.R.E. For Dummies
By Jackie Cummings Koski. 2024
Take control of creating your own financial independence and the option to retire early on your terms The Financial Independence,…
Retire Early (F.I.R.E.) movement has inspired many to optimize their finances and retire sooner than they ever imagined. This creates the time freedom and happiness you want years, or even decades, before the traditional age. F.I.R.E. For Dummies shows you how to make financial freedom and early retirement a reality. With the easy-to-follow steps in this guide, you can set yourself up to follow your big dreams without worry of money being an obstacle. Decrease debts, taxes and expenses while increasing earnings, savings and investing, is what gets you on the road toward building your wealth. You’ll learn how to maximize this process and speed up your time to financial independence and retiring early. Discover why the Financial Independence, Retire Early (F.I.R.E.) movement has grown so rapidly Get concrete instructions and advice for retiring earlier or putting yourself in the powerful position to leave your job on your terms Plan and organize your finances in a way that doesn’t make you feel reliant on a job to financially thrive Overcome the common obstacles for retiring early like losing social connections, filling your time, strict rules around accessing retirement accounts early or health insurance Learn from someone that has achieved F.I.R.E. and helps light the way for you on your own journeyThis is the perfect Dummies guide for anyone looking to move from the basics of their finances to reaching F.I.R.E. and enjoying the time freedom it creates. Regardless of where you currently are with your money or career, now is the right time to get started.Invest Like a Girl: Jump into the Stock Market, Reach Your Money Goals, and Build Wealth
By Jessica Spangler. 2024
&“If you&’re looking for advice that will help you start investing right away, Invest Like a Girl delivers this and…
more. Jessica&’s engaging guide will help women close the wealth gap, start important conversations, and finance their biggest dreams.&”—Tiffany &“the Budgetnista&” Aliche, New York Times bestselling author of Get Good with Money In a world where many women need to contend with the gender pay gap, take career breaks to raise families, and account for their longer lifespans when saving for retirement, investing is a surefire way to put yourself on firm financial footing. And when women do start investing, they often land higher returns than men. However, as Dr. Jessica Spangler discovered when she shared her financial know-how online, understanding that investing is crucial is just the beginning. Many of her followers, as well as her real-life friends, coworkers, and even patients, wanted to know exactly how and where they could start.With Invest Like a Girl, Jessica shares the essential information and offers the game plans that women need to begin investing right away and according to their unique financial profiles. Filled with easy-to-implement tools, practical strategies, and real-life examples, this go-to guide to investing will provide the blueprint for you to take the next step with your money, teaching you how to ● Prep your finances: Get a clear picture of your net worth and know exactly how much you can allocate for investing—no matter your income.● Pick up the lingo of investing: Understand the differences between ETFs, index funds, mutual funds, bonds, and options—and weigh the pros and cons of each.● Manage risk without breaking a sweat: Determine your risk tolerance with a short quiz, learn to use the ups and downs of the market to your benefit, and discover how investing helps you beat inflation.● Craft a customized strategy: Outline your most important financial goals, figure out your personal investing style, and decide how to allocate your assets with the help of worksheets, checklists, and sample portfolios along the way. Whether you&’re looking to achieve financial independence, make strides toward important life goals, or set aside enough for retirement, Invest Like a Girl will get you up to speed and empower you to start investing and make sound decisions about your money.Global Pension Challenges: Pensions, Saving and Retirement in the Twenty-First Century (Contemporary Issues in Finance)
By Patrick J. Ring, Jonquil Lowe, Lien Luu. 2024
National pension systems face a range of tough social and economic demands and pressures. These are complex to navigate, especially…
in a twenty-first century world that has ushered in global uncertainty and pressing challenges - even threatening the planet’s very sustainability – with implications for pensions that policymakers, financial services providers and individuals themselves must address.This book probes, and unpacks, what pension systems aim to achieve, the uncertainties they face and how they are attempting to resolve them. Analysing pension provision from the systemic, political-economy and individual perspectives, it sets out and contextualises commonalities and differences in pension systems across the globe, looking at current developments in both public and private pension provision, structures and regulation. Moreover, the reader is encouraged to question how national pension systems can best serve their populations and ensure the ‘sustainability’ of later-life incomes in the light of today’s global pension challenges.Global Pension Challenges: Pensions, Saving and Retirement in the Twenty‑First Century is an essential read for business, finance and social-policy academics and students, those working in the pensions industry and in the areas of welfare reform and advocacy, as well as the general public wishing to know more about the retirement issues we will all face in the coming years.Most parents do more harm than good when they try to teach their children about money. They make saving seem…
like a punishment, and force their children to view reckless spending as their only rational choice. To most kids, a savings account is just a black hole that swallows birthday checks. David Owen, a New Yorker staff writer and the father of two children, has devised a revolutionary new way to teach kids about money. In The First National Bank of Dad, he explains how he helped his own son and daughter become eager savers and rational spenders. He started by setting up a bank of his own at home and offering his young children an attractively high rate of return on any amount they chose to save. "If you hang on to some of your wealth instead of spending it immediately," he told them, "in a little while, you'll be able to double or even triple your allowance." A few years later, he started his own stock market and money-market fund for them. Most children already have a pretty good idea of how money works, Owen believes; that's why they are seldom interested in punitive savings schemes mandated by their parents. The first step in making children financially responsible, he writes, is to take advantage of human nature rather than ignoring it or futilely trying to change it. "My children are often quite irresponsible with my money, and why shouldn't they be?" he writes. "But they are extremely careful with their own." The First National Bank of Dad also explains how to give children real experience with all kinds of investments, how to foster their charitable instincts, how to make them more helpful around the house, how to set their allowances, and how to help them acquire a sense of value that goes far beyond money. He also describes at length what he feels is the best investment any parent can make for a child -- an idea that will surprise most readers.Rich Bitch: A Simple 12-Step Plan for Getting Your Financial Life Together . . . Finally
By Nicole Lapin. 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this New York Times bestseller, journalist and financial expert Nicole Lapin shows women how to take…
charge of their lives by taking charge of their money“You might not know this but stressing over money can harm your overall health. Let Nicole be the doctor for your financial health and you will feel better in more ways than you’d think.”—Dr. Oz, host of the “Dr. Oz Show”, and Lisa Oz, host of the “Lisa Oz Show”Do your eyes glaze over just thinking about the mumbo-jumbo language of finance? Do you break out into hives when faced with getting your financial life together? Well, sister, you are not alone.In Rich Bitch, money expert and financial journalist Nicole Lapin lays out a 12-Step Plan in which she shares her experiences—mistakes and all—of getting her own finances in order. She talks to you not like a lecturer but as your friend. And even though money is typically an “off-limits” conversation, nothing is off-limits here.Lapin rethinks every piece of financial “wisdom” you’ve ever heard and puts her own fresh, modern, sassy spin on it. Sure, there are some hard-and-fast rules about finance, but when it comes to your money, the only person who can tell you how to spend it is you. Should you invest in a 401(k)? Maybe not. Should you splurge on that morning latte? Likely yes. Instead of focusing on nickel-and-diming yourself, Nicole’s advice focuses on investing in yourself so you don’t have to stress over the little things. Rich Bitch rehabs whatever bad money habits you might have and provides a plan you can not only sustain, but also thrive on. You won’t feel deprived but rather inspired to go after the rich life you deserve, and confident enough to call yourself a rich bitch.Diary of a Very Bad Year: Interviews with an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager
By Hedge Fund Manager, N 1, Keith Gessen. 2010
“Diary of a Very Bad Year is a rarity: a book on modern finance that’s both extraordinarily thoughtful and enormously…
entertaining.”— James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds“A great read. . . . HFM offers a brilliant financial professional’s view of the economic situation in real time, from September 2007, when problems in financial markets began to surface, until late summer 2009.”— Booklist “n+1 is the rightful heir to Partisan Review and the New York Review of Books. It is rigorous, curious and provocative.” — Malcolm Gladwell A profoundly candid and captivating account of the economic crisis and subprime mortgage collapse, from an anonymous hedge fund manager, as told to the editors of New York literary magazine n+1.Pit Bull: Lessons from Wall Street's Champion Trader
By Martin Schwartz, Amy Hempel, Dave Morine, Paul Flint. 1998
Welcome to the world of Martin "Buzzy" Schwartz, Champion Trader--the man whose nerves of steel and killer instinct in the…
canyons of Wall Street earned him the well-deserved name "Pit Bull." This is the true story of how Schwartz became the best of the best, of the people and places he discovered along the way and of the trader’s tricks and techniques he used to make his millions.King of the Club: Richard Grasso and the Survival of the New York Stock Exchange
By Charles Gasparino. 2007
Rags-to-riches stories abound in American lore, but even Horatio Alger would have been hard-pressed to write one as powerful as…
Richard Grasso's: the son of a working-class family whose childhood dream was to become a cop. He grew up in New York City's outer boroughs, far removed from the marble halls, expensive suits, and imported cigars of the New York Stock Exchange. Here is the riveting story of how he rose to become the most influential CEO in the Exchange's history. Minus the tony upbringing, affluent prep schools, or inside connections that were de rigueur for top Wall Street players, Grasso would master the subtle deal-making and politics necessary to succeed in the most competitive business on Earth. But despite his successes, Grasso would soon sow the seeds of his own downfall, an event that would change the Exchange forever.The King of the Club paperback edition, featuring a full update on the story, chronicles the amazing rise, fall, and possible rise again of Richard Grasso, and also tells the modern history of the all-powerful institution that he came to symbolize: The New York Stock Exchange.The Aspirational Investor: Taming the Markets to Achieve Your Life's Goals
By Ashvin B. Chhabra. 2015
The Chief Investment Officer of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management explains why goals, not markets, should be the primary focus of…
your investment strategy—and offers a practical, innovative framework for making smarter choices about aligning your goals to your investment strategy.Today all of us bear the burden of investing wisely, but too many of us are preoccupied with the wrong priorities—increasing returns at all costs, finding the next star fund manager, or beating “the market.” Unfortunately conventional portfolio theory and the grand debates in finance have offered investors only incomplete solutions. What is needed, argues Ashvin B. Chhabra, is a framework that shifts the focus of investment strategy from portfolios and markets to individuals and the objectives that really matter: things like protecting against unexpected financial crises, paying for education or retirement, and financing philanthropy and entrepreneurship.The Aspirational Investor is a practical, innovative approach to managing wealth based on key goals and the careful allocation of risks rather than responding to the whims of the financial markets. Chhabra introduces his “Wealth Allocation Framework,” which accommodates the three seemingly incompatible objectives that must underpin every sound wealth management plan: the need for financial security in the face of known and unknowable risks; the need to maintain current living standards over time despite inflation; and the need to pursue aspirational goals for wealth creation.Chhabra reveals some surprising facts about wealth creation, reinterprets the success formulas of investing greats like Warren Buffett, and closes the gap between theory and practice by simplifying our understanding of key asset classes and laying out a concise roadmap for identifying, prioritizing, and quantifying financial goals. Raising the bar for what we should expect from our investment portfolios—and our financial advisors—The Aspirational Investor sets us on a path to more confident and fulfilling financial lives.The bestselling author of The Sellout tells the explosive story of the government’s crackdown on insider-trading networks—an investigation that has…
already racked up more than 60 convictions.In Circle of Friends, award-winning journalist Charles Gasparino—one of Wall Street's most knowledgeable observers—follows government investigators and prosecutors as they pursue one of the most aggressive and broad-reaching series of insider-trading cases in the nation's history. A richly textured page-turner of investigative journalism based on extensive reporting, Circle of Friends chronicles the massive federal crackdown that has already put some of the biggest names on Wall Street behind bars, including Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon Group, and Rajat Gupta, a former CEO of consulting giant McKinsey & Co. Other similarly sized targets are still waiting nervously, including the biggest one of them all—financial impresario Steve Cohen of SAC Capital, the giant hedge fund that has confounded regulators for years by cranking out a steady stream of market-busting returns.Gasparino goes behind the headlines to reveal how the government makes its case, using every tool at its disposal—and at great expense to taxpayers—to supposedly make the investing world safer for average Americans. Gasparino asks why federal officials are so eager to prosecute these cases: What is the real damage to individuals? Do average investors really care? He explores why insider trading is all the rage these days when the U.S. government has failed to bring a single criminal case against the culprits who caused the 2008 financial crisis. Circle of Friends is not a defense of insider trading, but it does offer an account of the politics of Wall Street crime fighting, revealing the behind-the-scenes ambitions that motivate headlines and burnish political careers. A riveting work of narrative nonfiction, as engrossing and explosive as fictional thrillers of the finest magnitude, Circle of Friends is a wakeup call to the investing public.Ask Questions, Save Money, Make More: How to Take Control of Your Financial Life
By Matt Schulz. 2024
Asking credit card companies, banks, hospitals, schools, and other businesses for better rates and discounts works. Here’s how to do…
it. In this must-have money manual, personal finance expert Matt Schulz empowers you to ask 45 fiscal questions in seven key areas of life: credit and debt, healthcare, housing, shopping, travel, work, and relationships. The questions feature decision trees, success stories, potential risks, and other practical tools that skillfully guide you through the pros and cons and explain the relevant data. Every request also comes with an easy-to-follow, fill-in-the-blank script. Gain the confidence to request a lower rate on your rent or mortgage, better financing for an auto loan, a higher salary, a refund on a cancelled flight, a lower phone bill, and even a fair split for that group dinner. You are the lifeblood of every company that you pay, and you have more power over your money than you realize. Put more of it in your pocket and keep it there. Sometimes all you have to do is ask.Budget Family Food: Delicious Money-Saving Meals for All the Family
By Rebecca Wilson. 2024
Sunday Times best-selling author Rebecca Wilson shows you how to bring comfort to your table with 80 recipes for nourishing,…
low-cost meals perfect for all the family.From quick mini-breakfast tacos and tasty hand pies to satisfy the pickiest of palettes, to addictive mushroom lasagna and decadent chocolate puddings, choose from 80 recipes packed with exciting flavors that will appeal to everyone at the table from 6 months and over. Whether you want to make fresh, fruity breakfasts; light snacks and air-fryer treats; hearty, slow-cooked casseroles; or sumptuous desserts, Rebecca's easy-to-follow recipes are designed to save you time and money, making the most of your favorite seasonal ingredients and pantry essentials. With recipes tailor-made for air-fryers and slow cookers, cooking for the whole family has never been simpler.With useful tips on budgeting, batch cooking, freezing, and storing; easy substitutions for lots of ingredients; and catering to fussy eaters, Rebecca takes the worry out of meal planning and prep so you can spend more quality time with the ones you love.An American Nightmare: The Pitfalls of Home Ownership
By Toni R. Harris. 2012
All of our lives, we have been taught that owning a home was part of the American dream. Recently, millions…
of people have found that home ownership can turn into a nightmare. Many home owners have found themselves “house poor” as a result of upside down mortgages, unexpected maintenance expenses, and taxes. Sometimes having the dream and not counting the cost of home ownership will bankrupt you, fi nancially, physically, and emotionally. Toni Harris takes an honest look on how owning a home became a prerequisite for success in America; how in this present day economy you may want to look at your options before you dive into a 30-year mortgage and how renting may be a more cost effective means for you in the 21st century. Topics covered in the book include: • Toni’s Personal Home Ownership Nightmare • The History of Home Ownership • The Psychology of Home Ownership • The Real Cost of Home Ownership • Understanding Mortgages • Viable Solutions for Today’s Potential Home OwnerYou Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits
By Joel Greenblatt. 1997
A successful stock fund manager reveals the secrets behind a fifty percent return in this comprehensive, practical guide featuring all…
the tools you’ll need.Fund manager Joel Greenblatt has been beating the Dow (with returns of fifty percent a year) for more than a decade. And now, in this highly accessible guide, he’s going to show you how to do it, too. You’re about to discover investment opportunities that portfolio managers, business-school professors, and top investment experts regularly miss—uncharted areas where the individual investor has a huge advantage over the Wall Street wizards. Here is your personal treasure map to special situations in which big profits are possible, including:Spin-offsRestructuringsMerger SecuritiesRights OfferingsRecapitalizationsBankruptciesRisk ArbitrageThis is a practical and easy-to-use investment reference, filled with case studies, important background information, and all the tools you’ll need. All it takes is a little extra time and effort—and you can be a stock market genius.Your Best Financial Life: Save Smart Now for the Future You Want
By Anne Lester. 2024
From Anne Lester—former head of retirement solutions for JPMorgan Asset Management and award-winning investor—a wildly simple, step-by-step blueprint that anyone…
can use to understand retirement savings and investing for the future you deserve. Start living Your Best Financial Life! Saving for the future can seem anywhere from daunting to downright impossible—especially for Millennials and Gen Zers, who’ve had to contend with economic setbacks, recessions, and layoffs since graduating college. But everyone—yes, even YOU—can find a way to save for your future, and Your Best Financial Life can show you exactly how. Here, you’ll find actionable steps to demystify the retirement tools at your disposal, an easy-to-use roadmap to ensure you’ve saved enough by retirement age, and help identifying and eliminating wasteful spending in favor of stashing your money where it really counts. You’ll learn how to turn $100 into $1,000 and leverage every single cent you earn to your advantage. Drawing on decades of investment experience and the latest research, you will:Better understand your spending habits and learn where you can improve themDiscover strategies for paying off student loans or other debts, all while saving for the most expensive parts of life—a wedding, a family, and emergencies (and don’t worry, you’ll have enough left over to have a social life, too!)Learn to make 401(k)s, IRAs, and other retirement tools work for you and the goals you’ve set for yourself Get no-nonsense info on why you suck at saving (and why it isn’t your fault), how to save for a rainy day and retirement (yes, it’s possible to do both!), and diversifying your investments so your future is secure no matter what life throws at you. You’ll have everything you need to lay the groundwork for Your Best Financial Life!Living Your Best Life After 50 All-in-One For Dummies
By The Experts at AARP, The Experts at For Dummies. 2024
Get inspired — and prepared — for your best life at 50+ Living Your Best Life after 50 All-in-One For…
Dummies is your guide as you explore new opportunities and make the most of your fifties and the decades that follow. Find a new job, travel for weeks or months at a time, boost your health with yoga routines, take up pickleball—whatever it is you want to do, this book will inspire you to improve your life and show you how to get there. You’ll also find timely information about planning and budgeting for retirement, withdrawing money from IRAs and 401(k)s, and taking Social Security. With this fun- and information-packed Dummies resource, you can look forward to your future with enthusiasm and purpose. Change jobs, move up in your career, or get ready for retirement Get tips for travel, living like a nomad, cooking after the kids leave home, downsizing, and other handy topics for this time of your life Stay in tip-top shape with fun activities like yoga and pickleball Get your finances in order and make sure you can live the life you want on Social Security and retirement income This book is a great choice for readers looking to make the second half of life the best half.The Little Book of Robo Investing: How to Make Money While You Sleep (Little Books. Big Profits)
By Elizabeth MacBride, Qian Liu. 2024
"This gem of a book should be required reading for everyone seeking to enhance their financial security."–Burton G. Malkiel, author of…
A Random Walk Down Wall Street (50th anniversary edition, 2023) Explore easy, automated, and low-cost ways to invest using online platforms In The Little Book of Robo Investing: How to Make Money While You Sleep, a pair of long-time investors and founding team members at the pioneering and award-winning online investment platform Wealthfront deliver a fun, invaluable, and simple roadmap to making your money make money. You’ll learn how to start investing with the easy, automated, and low-cost strategies that robo investment advisors have made super accessible to everyday people. You don’t need a ton of detailed knowledge about the financial and investment sectors to make impressive returns. The authors walk you through how to use techniques like automation, diversification and indexing to manage your risk and keep things absurdly simple. You’ll also learn: The most common mistakes that new investors make when they’re just getting started in the markets and how to avoid them Strategies for getting the ball rolling and investing your first dollar Valuable insights from behavioral economics and psychology to help you steer clear of major investing errors that even experienced and knowledgeable investors tend to make Perfect for working professionals, members of young and growing families, and people beginning to think about their retirement plans, The Little Book of Robo Investing is a straightforward, engaging, and fun read that will get you ready to put your money to work intelligently and responsibly.Rich Forever: What They Didn’t Teach You about Money, Finance and Investments in School
By Bianca Miller-Cole, Byron Cole. 2023
We all want financial freedom. But we also know just how much pressure the subject of money exerts on us,…
and many of us feel our personal finances are out of control. But that's not surprising - after all, no-one ever explained how to manage money properly - or if they did, we didn't listen.If a head-in-the-sand approach to personal finance ever worked, it doesn't now. Not only do we openly worry about the state of our finances and the cost of living, we increasingly yearn for the kind of financial independence which will enable us to do our own thing and live life to the full. This paradox is right at the heart of everything we do, and a solution is needed.This book will teach you everything you should have learned about money at school - but didn't. It will stop you waking in the middle of the night to check you have enough money for your home, your childcare, your summer holiday or your secret masterplan.And the process of learning how to embrace, not hide, from your financial responsibilities will release you from layers of anxiety, shame and confusion.You will learn how to be rich forever - rich in time, rich in freedom, rich in opportunity. It will revolutionise the way you think and feel about money and free you to grow!Female Founders’ Playbook: Insights from the Superwomen Who Have Made It
By Anne Boden. 2024
How do female entrepreneurs overcome hurdles, redress power imbalances and create a business with coveted unicorn status?High-growth enterprises on a…
rocket ship growth trajectory and tech unicorns with a value of more than£1billion have the potential to transform the economy. But building a unicorn is not an easy task. And it's even more difficult for female-led enterprises than it is for male-led start-ups.Female Founders' Playbook brings together the experiences of the leading women entrepreneurs and VC investors. These successful businesswomen share their thoughts on every aspect of launching a high-growth business, from coming up with a unicorn-worthy idea, through to building a multi-talented team to winning investment. Their tales of success and failure are drawn together by commentary and insightful analysis by award-winning technology founder and architect of Starling Bank, Anne Boden, creating an easy-to-follow guide for any female leader.Rather than talking about who might be the next Bezos, Gates or Jobs, Female Founders' Playbook tells the true stories of those women who are guaranteed to inspire and help the next generation of female entrepreneurs.The Latte Factor: Why You Don't Have to Be Rich to Live Rich
By David Bach, John David Mann. 2019
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, WALL STREET JOURNAL,AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Discover #1 New York Times bestselling author David Bach&’s…
three secrets to financial freedom in an engaging story that will show you that you are richer than you think. Drawing on the author&’s experiences teaching millions of people around the world to live a rich life, this fast, easy listen reveals how anyone—from millennials to baby boomers—can stillmake his or her dreams come true.In this compelling, heartwarming parable, Bach and his bestselling coauthor John David Mann (The Go-Giver) tell the story of Zoey, a twenty-something woman living and working in New York City. Like many young professionals, Zoey is struggling to make ends meet under a growing burden of credit card and student loan debt, working crazy hours at her dream job but still not earning enough to provide a comfortable financial cushion. At her boss&’s suggestion, she makes friends with Henry, the elderly barista at her favorite Brooklyn coffee shop.Henry soon reveals his &“Three Secrets to Financial Freedom,&” ideas Zoey dismisses at first but whose true power she ultimately comes to appreciate. Over the course of a single week, Zoey discovers that she already earns enough to secure her financial future and realize her truest dreams—all she has to do is make a few easy shifts in her everyday routine.The Latte Factor demystifies the secrets to achieving financial freedom, inspiring you to realize that it&’s never too late to reach for your dreams. By following the simple, proven path that Henry shows Zoey, anyone can make small changes today that will have big impact for a lifetime, proving once again that &“David Bach is the financial expert to listen to when you&’re intimidated by your finances&” (Tony Robbins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Money: Master the Game).