Personal Financial Planning

Time-Proven Strategies for Getting the Most from Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, Insurance, Stock Options, Estate Planning, and More "Personal Financial Planning has long been regarded as "the financial planning resource for private individuals and professional money managers. Today, the array of financial products and strategies available to individuals and families--mutual funds, employee stock plans, IRAs, estate and wealth conservation techniques, newer forms of life insurance, annuities--has made informed, decisive financial planning more essential than ever. "Personal Financial Planning, Seventh Edition, contains the information you need to understand each of today's key financial planning issues and questions. Substantially revised and updated for today's fast-moving, online world, its examples, planning tips, charts, graphs, and case studies will help you assemble the ideal mix of investments, insurance, retirement plans, trusts, and other products to build and protect your--and your family's--long-term financial future. A savings account in the local bank may have worked for your grandparents, but you'll need much more than that to ensure yourself and your family a solid, comfortable financial future. "Personal Financial Planning will help you confront the numerous financial choices open to you--and show you where to put your money now for a comfortable and financially secure future. Over the past quarter century, the six previous editions of "Personal Financial Planning have helped more than 135,000 individuals invest and protect their hard-earned income and savings.

The interest in protecting one’ s wealth is universal. Everyone has a desire to protect their family’ s wealth from the threats of investment downturns, taxes, lawsuits, education costs, poor health, and death. Wealth Protection: Build and Preserve Your Financial Fortress serves as the ultimate handbook for readers who want to build their family’ s financial fortress and shield it from these risks. In Wealth Protection, attorney David Mandell and financial planning expert Christopher Jarvis share their Wealth Protection knowledge and experience with the world. With this book as your guide, you can begin to protect, build, and enjoy your wealth– instead of worrying about it. Wealth Protection opens with a critical lesson on how to understand " your own personal economy." What many people don’ t realize is that the state of their " personal economy" is the single most important factor to building their financial fortress. Unfortunately, many people are obsessed with the world’ s economic indicators. As a result, since no one person can change the economy, many people feel helpless in their planning. How does Wealth Protection allow you to take control of your " personal economy?" This book includes the proprietary Risk Factor Analysis (RFA), a questionnaire designed to tailor recommendations directly to you. These eighty-five questions include: Do you own property jointly? (a huge Wealth Protection mistake) Do you know why your pension, 401(k), or IRA is a looming 80%+ tax trap?Do you own life insurance in your name?(a potential Wealth Protection mistake) Based on your answers to these RFA questions, you will bedirected to the appropriate chapter in the book’ s next section, which contains over sixty chapters, each with its own distinct Wealth Protection strategy. These self-contained chapters will allow you to use this invaluable resource as your personal financial advisor time and again.