Smart and Simple Financial Strategies for Busy People

Quinn, Jane Bryant

ISBN 10: 0743551915 ISBN 13: 9780743551915

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio, 2006

Synopsis

Are you too busy to pay much attention to your money?Do you worry that maybe you haven't been doing the right things? This audiobook is for you, from Jane Bryant Quinn, the most trusted voice in personal finance today. Her classic bestseller, Making the Most of Your Money, guided a generation toward smart and sensible financial choices. Here she offers money management the No Worry way, choosing from the best financial ideas and products available today to give you all you need to create a successful and long-lasting financial plan.To start with, she tells you to forget all the complicated stuff the financial industry sells. You don't need it, it costs too much, and some of it is downright bad. It's designed to make the banks, brokers, and insurance companies rich, not you.The best ideas are simple, low in cost, and easy to use. They're also sophisticated and smart. These strategies are followed by some of the most successful planners and money managers around today, yet they're something everyone can understand. They'll give you what you need from your money -- regular savings, financial security, long-term investment growth, personal control, and best of all, peace of mind.

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Financial maven Quinn's upbeat audio helps busy people put their finances on autopilot with fairly foolproof action plans. Whether she is touting the benefits of repaying a mortgage early, heralding the marvelous innovation of the automatic payroll deduction or encouraging the purchase of index funds, Quinn's attitude is professional and motivational. Her voice suggests that she does not brook fools gladly (witness her clear disapproval for get-rich-quick schemes and the too-good-to-be-true "option ARM" mortgage), but any schoolmarmish moments are balanced by the performance's overall can-do attitude and encouraging tone. While it remains to be seen how effective personal finance advice is on audio—it's an inconvenient way to retrieve specific information when you need it quickly—Quinn does her best to overcome the medium's limitations, carefully spelling the addresses of financial Web sites and repeating important telephone numbers. While the print version of this book is clearly divided into helpful sections (buying a home, planning for retirement, saving for college, etc.), listeners have a harder time locating various topics because the audio package contains no information on locating them. Despite such hassles, this is a lively rendition of Quinn's trademark intelligent, sensible advice.
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Bryant Quinn's slow and gracious voice narrates this traditional lesson on how to manage one's finances. The NEWSWEEK columnist provides an array of numbers, acronyms, and investment products, all designed to help listeners make choices that promote financial health now and in the future. More than just information, she also offers a way of looking at money, and this is where her style works especially well. It's safe to say that the program is aimed less at people who struggle with money than at people who have enough of it to make choices. A wonderful tool, and very easy to hear, for waking up the money manager within you. T.W. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743551915
• ISBN 13: 9780743551915
• Binding: Audio CD