Investing in the Dream: Personal Wealth-Building Strategies for African Americans in Search of Financial Freedom - Hardcover

Brown, Jesse B.; Jackson, Jesse

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786864621 ISBN 13: 9780786864621

Publisher: Hyperion, 2000

Synopsis

This hands-on investment guide helps readers take control of their financial future by teaching them how to invest their earnings intelligently and prudently. With his signature warmth and encouragement, Jesse B. Brown combines inspirational success stories with valuable professional advice on how to invest, work with a broker, and evaluate rates of return.

About this title

About the Author:

Jesse B. Brown is the author of the Blackboard #1 Best Selling book Investing in the Dream: PERSONAL WEALTH BUILDING STRATEGIES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS IN SEARCH OF FINANCIAL FREEDOM AND PAY YOURSELF FIRST - A GUIDE TO FINANCIAL SUCCESS. He writes a free monthly electronic newsletter called Pay Yourself First, which is like taking a financial investment course at the basic levels in order to prosper. As President of Krystal Investment Management in Chicago, Illinois, Mr. Brown oversees millions of dollars in mutual funds, stocks and bonds for his investor clients.

Just as he has advised municipal agencies, corporations and others, Jesse Brown provides us with a step-by-step how to process that gives you the foundation that will aid you in taking charge of your destiny and placing your financial future on the road to independence.

Mr. Brown is a general securities principal and licensed representative of a securities broker/dealer. He is immediate past President of the National Association of Securities Professionals (NASP) Chicago Chapter which is a non-profit association of African Americans and women in the stock brokerage business.

Brown acknowledged as the "Alumni of the Year", is a graduate if the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (MBA) and holds a Doctor of Business and Finance degree (HDBF) from Kean University in New Jersey.

Mr. Brown also is acknowledged as the true Chicago "Bull" of the marketplace in a front page Wall Street Journal article that makes reference to his aggressive efforts to bring the middle class investor into the mainstream of the current economic boom.

Mr. Brown's has been selected as the Chicago Book Fair's Book of the Year.

Review:

In essence, he believes the accumulation of personal wealth is the logical step in the rights movement. A good book. -- Dallas Morning News February, 2000

Prosperity is your birthright. To claim it, you must commit to investing in wealth today .The book's on target. -- Black Enterprise January 2000

Qualify for $2,000 deduction on your taxes by simply contributing to an (IRA). Brown, tells it like it is. -- Ebony, April 2000

About this edition

• Publisher: Hyperion
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0786864621
• ISBN 13: 9780786864621
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304