Finally in paperback, this breakthrough money-management guide written by the financial correspondent for NBC's Today show offers families easy-to-use financial advice for the nineties and beyond. Available now in trade paperback, this invaluable volume offers families down-to-earth financial guidance from one of America's most respected financial planners. A monetary encyclopedia full of step-by-step instructions, worksheets, and checklists, it addresses the extensive range of questions and concerns of families looking to survive--and thrive--in the nineties. With his clear and accessible style, Pond makes even the most complex issues easy to grasp and helps readers analyze their individual needs to create a solid strategy for the future.
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Head of a Boston-area financial planning service, Pond ( 1001 Ways to Cut Your Expenses ), who appears weekly on the Today show, here offers an uncommonly far-reaching and clearly organized money manual. He presses for budget programming (" . . . live beneath your means"), regular cash-flow evaluation and prudent, habitual investment. Chapters cover future planning, home and auto ownership, college and health-care costs, insurance and taxes. Pond also offers sage advice on the range of domestic and foreign investment possibilities: banking, borrowing, brokerage accounts, mutual funds, stocks and bonds, Social Security, company pension plans, personal IRAs and annuities.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Library Journal
Pond, a financial planner who appears weekly on the Today show, writes with clarity and good cheer, an appropriate approach when contemplating death and taxes. His book will be of interest to the unsophisticated household financial manager. The coverage takes us from birth ("the arrival of children") through marriage to death and broadly embraces "getting started" through the labyrinth of insurance, investing, and taxes to the finalities of retirement and estate planning. The book is timely, addressing such money matters as cohabitation and "surviving a divorce." This starter book is action oriented: throughout, we are bombarded with pithy "smart money move" suggestions. The disappointing concluding chapter, "It's Up to You," takes the author off the hook. Some chapters do provide suggestions for finding more information, but further guidance is generally lacking. All things considered, and recognizing the audience for which the book is intended, this is a useful compendium.
- Peggy Smith, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
- Peggy Smith, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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This review is from: The New Century Family Money Book (Paperback)
I have owned this book for several years and it has seen me through the poorest of times into home ownership, stock ownership, insurance, safe deposit box, and mutual fund ownership, and more. This book explains all aspects of finances in terms a beginner can understand. It also gives strategies for becomming financially secure that even the more experienced can appreciate. I use this book again and again. It is a great motivator and teacher. The only reason I gave it four stars rather than five is because it is due for a reprint. So much has changed financially in the past five years that I think it may be a little outdated for those just starting out now. I would definitely buy a new release. Buy it, read it, do it, and get out of the hole!
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