Fighting For Your Financial Future

Published together with: Fighting for your financial future, round 2: the personal finance fundamentals everyone should know about money management / Randy Neumann, CFP. [Bloomington, Indiana]: Xlibris Corporation, [2011].

RANDY NEUMANN, a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University, achieved a world ranking and came within one bout (a loss to top-ranked challenger Chuck Wepner) of a title fight against Muhammad Ali in the 1970s. After retiring from boxing, Randy worked as a commercial banker and became a financial planner in 1979. Randy earned the Certified Financial PlannerTM practitioner designation in 1983 and was admitted to the Registry of Financial Planning Practitioners in 1984. He was an instructor for the National Institute of Finance, where he prepared candidates for the CFP® designation. His personal finance columns-Financial Fitness and Keep Punching-have run in The Bergen Record and The Ridgewood News, respectively, along with other regional and local newspapers. He has written articles for Forbes, The New York Times, Harper's, New Jersey Lawyer, Microsoft Moneyinsider, and other publications. He is a frequent seminar speaker and has talked about financial planning on MSNBC's Moneyline and many other local and network television programs. Randy has developed and written extensively on his firm's sophisticated asset allocation system for managing clients investments, which is based on the Nobel Prize-winning Modern Portfolio Theory. He continues to be involved in boxing; he set up a worldwide pension plan for professional boxers through the International Boxing Federation, and he referees local fights in New Jersey as well as championship fights around the world. Randy is currently a member of the board of directors of F.I.S.T. (Fighters' Initiative For Support And Training). About The Author The information in this book is extensive. You can use it to sound glib at the water cooler, on the golf course or at a cocktail party. But that would not be it's best use. Instead, use it to improve your life. The information contained in this book will provide you with the questions to ask, and motivate you to find an advisor you can