Your Money Matters: 21 Tips for Achieving Financial Security in the 21st Century [Hardcover]

Jonathan Pond (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 6, 1999

One of the best-recognized names and faces in the financial advice world reveals how to greet the new century with money in your pocket.

As host of his PBS series, Your Financial Future with Jonathan Pond, weekly personal-finance commentator on The Nightly Business Report, and host of successful semiannual public-television specials, Jonathan Pond is turned to by millions for financial advice.

Now, Pond sets his financial sights on the challenges of the 21st century. Concise, memorable, and pithy, his new book dispenses the sort of revelatory yet commonsensical advice that has made him a fixture on TV and the lecture circuit. Reducing complicated financial matters to fundamental concepts everyone can understand, Pond delivers his financial lessons in brief, easy-to-digest chapters. These short takes are balanced with a cross-referenced web site, www.JonathanPond.com, which provides readers with in-depth information.

21 Tips for Achieving Financial Security in the 21st Century breaks new ground by taking a human look at meeting life's financial challenges. Pond's tips present important lessons essential to achieving financial peace of mind and new ideas for prospering in the new century. Index.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Your Money Matters, by prolific financial author and TV commentator Jonathan Pond, proposes a 21-point money-management program for those nearing retirement age as well as those for whom retirement is still a distant consideration. With humor and a clever division of the particulars into tip-packed chapters bearing such titles as "Live Beneath Your Means (Without Depriving Yourself)," "Learn How to Tolerate Your Loved One's Annoying Financial Habits," and "Bulls Make Money, Bears Make Money, but Pigs and Lambs Get Slaughtered," Pond dispenses a wealth of practical data on handling "the most important financial matters that you'll need to attend to in the 21st century." A bold claim, but one backed up with a slew of sensible suggestions for increasing your savings and apportioning the resultant nest egg to provide comfortably for your future needs. Along the way, Pond offers opinions and outlines applicable strategies on issues including technology stocks as a viable investment, the need for long-term-care insurance, and the best ways to fund a child's education or the care for an aging parent. He also includes pointers to pages on his Web site that offer additional information on health-insurance plans, home-equity loans, investment-allocation procedures, and many other supportive issues. --Howard Rothman

From Library Journal

Take a lesson in personal finance from Pond, host of PBS's Your Financial Future with Jonathan Pond. And look for a PBS special to launch the book.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Putnam Adult (December 6, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399145699
• ISBN-13: 978-0399145698
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,394,291 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for new families, April 5, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Your Money Matters: 21 Tips for Achieving Financial Security in the 21st Century (Hardcover)

My husband and I both read this book and thought it was excellent. We have children just starting their households and are sending copies to them. This is not a book for experienced investors. Excellent advice for young families. Advice includes meeting your bills, insurance, beginning investments, retirement and much more. All the basics. Good review for anyone at any age.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I see JBQ's shill has struck here too!, October 29, 2003

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Sharon Lovely (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Money Matters: 21 Tips for Achieving Financial Security in the 21st Century (Hardcover)

Call me old fashioned, but I was brought up on the principle that you get ahead by being of service to other people, not by attacking other people. With that in mind, why does this JBQ shill continue to go from one financial book to another attacking every other financial author and hawking Quinn?

Jonathan Pond has written an excellent book and unlike Quinn, is a recognized authority on investing and personal finance.

I highly recommend this excellent book by Pond. I also recommend the excellent books by Ray Linder, if you want real financial advice and not regurgitated, outmoded advice ala JBQ.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good review of the big picture of one's financial life, January 29, 2001

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P. Rank - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Money Matters: 21 Tips for Achieving Financial Security in the 21st Century (Paperback)

I am not a beginner investor, and still, I found in the book some good reminders, answers to some ideas that I was bouncing around and even some things I did not know. It feels a bit awkward to provide a good review after seeing mostly negative ones, but I stand behind my rating. First of all, this is not a book on how to pick a winning stock or how to make a killing on the market. It is about making general decisions about one's financial life, and then waiting for the money to accummulate in the due process. If you set your expectations correctly, the book is useful and enjoyable. Secondly, at no point I felt that I needed any services from the Pond's firm. On the contrary, he gave me some ideas on how to finetune my own handling of my finances. Finally, I believe Jonathan Pond brings a great value in educating potential investors in his PBS appearances and in the book. Even if his ideas are not earth-shattering, they are to the point and delivered with a good sense of humor.