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

Larstan Publishing (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Black Book Series | Publication Date: September 29, 2005

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 $75,000. 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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: Larstan Publishing; 2nd edition (September 29, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976426668
• ISBN-13: 978-0976426660
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,599,695 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Larstan's The Black Book on Persona l Finance (Black Book Series), February 18, 2007

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Eugene F. Beauvais - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Larstan's The Black Book on Personal Finance: The Wealth-Creation Secrets of the World's Savviest Advisors (Black Book Series) (Paperback)

Thoughtful and forceful. Many good thought pieces by various authors, lots to think about and act upon. Well done.

2 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Financial Flight Plan, March 1, 2006

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Bob Shayne - See all my reviews

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

Asset Allocation
A Financial Flight Plan

This book is about making activity in the investment world easier. The book is about making the investment world less frightening. It is about not making decisions alone. It is about making the whole idea more secure, more stable. This financial flight plan is about having more fun.

Establishing diversity is essential. This concept accomplishes a profoundly expanded future in both the portfolio and the mind.
Having one's feet spread and more firmly planted during the winds of extreme confusion is a good feeling.

The article also helped me with, actual experience, that giving up old ideas, and gingerly accepting new ones, brought me
unimagined benefits. I learned that expanded acceptance of new ideas improved my desire to further learn more new ideas.
I learned the benefits of more current experience, emotionless
decisions, and practical evaluation.

The road to the future is obscured, circuitous and often across the sea. This is an unflown path for an old pilot.

"Asset Allocation A financial flight plan" is a very good read for anyone that wants to expand their knowledge base in the world of finance. A great example of a need to know more centers around an interest in automobiles. Which is right, for today? Hybrid, hydrogen, gas, diesel, electric? The answer is to read lots, study, learn.

The importance of this work for me is that it allowed me to see, in terms that I could relate to, the value of diversity.
The opportunity to more sensibly achieve my goals has been
afforded me. My being more confident and comfortable in my
lifes work is more joyful.

Robert M. Shayne,
Investor/Client