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Miller is the editor of Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine and the 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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Author Ted Miller doesn't offer pie-in-the-sky promises or use Wall Street lingo. Just straight-forward, practical guidance about money-to help readers keep more of it, make it grow, use it to achieve their financial goals, protect it, and pass it on. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. |
