Kiplinger's Practical Guide to Your Money - Hardcover

Miller, Theodore J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0938721542 ISBN 13: 9780938721543

Publisher: Kiplinger Books, 1998

Synopsis

Provides advice on how to deal with everyday monetary situations such as opening bank accounts, buying cars, taking out loans, investing, and other basic financial transactions

About this title

About the Author

Ted Miller has been the editor of Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine since 1987. He is the author of Make Your Money Grow and Invest Your Way to Wealth. He appears frequently on television, discussing money management and investing topics.

From the Back Cover

You don't need to know electrical theory to change a light bulb. Why should you need to know financial theory to make money-smart decisions?

You don't, says Ted Miller, editor of Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine. As a journalist with more than two decades of experience at the pioneer magazine of personal-finance journalism, Miller understands that many otherwise knowledgeable adults have a hole in their education: They've never been taught the basics of money management, saving or investing. And they've never learned how to address so many important financial decisions that come their way.

Not that there isn't plenty of financial information out there. In fact, Miller believes, there's so much that people are often frozen into inaction because they can't get what they need when they need it. Kiplinger's Practical Guide to Your Money cuts through the excess and provides the essential information you need to make money-smart decisions throughout your life. You'll learn how to:

*Figure out how much you have, and how much you owe, to determine your personal bottom line
*Avoid (or eliminate) excessive debt and use credit wisely
*Set ambitious financial goals
*Invest to reach those goals
*Make the best deals when you buy a car or a home
*Develop sound plans for building the nest eggs you'll need for your kids' college education and your own retirement
*Teach kids the value of money and help aging parents with their money and living arrangements
*Protect yourself and your family with the right amounts of life and health insurance at every stage of your life

In short - how to be a competent, confident, smart money manager.

From the Inside Flap

You work hard for your money, and spend it on life's necessities and frivolities. But do you know how to make your money work for you - to manage it, keep more of it, make it grow and protect it so you can enjoy it?

There's plenty of financial information available - magazines, books, newspapers, radio, television and the Internet. There are hundreds of financial companies trying to sell you their products and services. The problem isn't finding enough information, it's finding too much. The challenge is to identify the advice that is accurate, clear, trustworthy, untainted by salesmanship and - yes - practical.

Ted Miller, editor of Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, provides just that in Kiplinger's Practical Guide to Your Money: The kind of useful and usable advice millions have relied on from Kiplinger - the people who founded the first magazine of personal money management in 1947.

Miller focuses on essential facts and techniques that will enable you to become financially confident - and financially independent. He starts at the beginning - showing how to assess cash flow, net worth and debt situations - and takes you all the way through to retirement and estate planning. Along the way, he explains the basics of investing in stocks, bonds and mutual funds, and how to invest for different goals.

You'll also learn about money-smart ways to buy life's necessities (a home, a car, the right kinds of insurance) as well as its frivolities (a vacation home, for instance). Miller explains how to cope with the financial side of some tricky life situations (caring for aging parents, planning a funeral) and the fun ones (marriage, teaching kids about money, buying a car).

Kiplinger's Practical Guide to Your Money is the one guide you need to get started on the road to financial independence - and keep you there!

Reviews

Miller is the editor of Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine and author of Make Your Money Grow and Invest Your Way to Wealth, both of which have been revised several times. Make Your Money Grow was last released in 1995, and this new book by Miller is essentially an updated version with a new title--perhaps to appeal to a broader audience. Miller continues to offer the same sound guidance on basic personal financial planning and money management. In addition, with chapters on the financial aspects of life's various stages (marriage, divorce, having children, getting an education, funerals, and caring for older parents), this guide is one that users can turn to and rely on throughout their lives. Under the Kiplinger imprimatur, Miller provides advice that is not only practical but also reliable and dependable. David Rouse

As consumers continue to need help with their personal finances, Miller offers a complete financial check-up under the well-known Kiplinger brand of business publications.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kiplinger Books
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0938721542
• ISBN 13: 9780938721543
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512