Personal Financial Planning

Through four best-selling editions, Personal Financial Planning has given more than 130,000 people the tools and information they need to control and plan their financial futures. Now this classic guide is substantially updated and revised to reflect the latest changes in tax laws, new investment strategies, and up-to-date advice on such topics as insurance, estate planning, and medical coverage. With this definitive resource, readers will learn how to set financial goals and how to reach those goals with intelligent and systematic investment strategies.

Personal Finance Planning has long been regarded as the financial planning resource for private individuals and professional money managers. And as we turn the corner to 2000 and beyond, the array of financial products and strategies available to individuals and families­­mutual 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, Sixth 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, Web-centered 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 techniques 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 assure 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.