Jonathan D. Pond delivers clear, essential, and easy-to-apply secrets for people ready to get serious about their finances.
People today wrestle with all sorts of financial dilemmas—from paying for their kids' education to making mortgage payments to investing for retirement to putting some money aside to spend now. Pond, the father of three lively daughters and the most successful fund-raiser in PBS history, knows what it's like to juggle myriad financial demands at once. Grow Your Money features his 101 top easy-to-use financial secrets, including details on:
—Why you should pay off your credit balances later rather than sooner
—Successful stock investing
—Boring ways to get rich
—Tricks for home buyers that can save thousands of dollars
—Creating a real estate empire—sensibly
And much more.
With Grow Your Money! Pond has written a book that even the most investment-phobic people can quickly use and enjoy while straightening out their finances.
Internationally acclaimed, best-selling business author Fernando TrIas de Bes pens a strikingly original fable that explores the nature of work and time-and a system that demands too much of each. In The Time Seller, AG and his family live in a smallish apartment with a not-so-smallish debt to the bank. But AG dreams of a different life and steps onto a path of exhilarating uncertainty.
In the world of investing and financial planning, understanding the fundamentals wins. Personal finance guru Greg McGraime shares the secrets he teaches executives at Fortune 500 companies. With over 30 years of experience helping people just like you reach their goals, he offers time-tested advice you can apply immediately to execute a winning investment strategy.
No matter where you are in your investment planning stages, the strategies and recommendations in this accessible audio course offer just what you need to meet your goals. In 24 lively audio lectures that you can enjoy while commuting or exercising, you will master the skills and strategies employed by America's top investing experts.
A seasoned personal wealth advisor and broker, Greg McGraime leads workshops for companies like Google, Yahoo, HCA, and Intuit. These talks allow you to sit in the audience of one of his celebrated workshops, learning the answers to questions like these:
How do you create a solid investment plan that best suits your needs? Should you be investing in individual stocks or mutual funds?
How can you get the most wealth from buying and selling your home? How should you prepare for retirement? When should you buy or sell an investment?
What's the best way to save for college?
After exploring these and many more topics, you will walk away with deep wisdom and renewed confidence about your personal finances.
This course is part of the Learn25 collection.
Within the genre of financial selfhelp, 'Trusts A Practical Guide' is an invaluable and rare resource for financial experts and members of the public alike who need a reference work on a subject that is, on the face of it, complex but which undeniably affects many people's lives at one point or another.
Whatever your occupation or background, you are almost certain at some time to need some understanding of this subject, whether in your own financial planning or in advising those around you - and this guide is particularly helpful when dealing with a relative's probate or the complex issues arising from an inheritance.
After thirtyfive years at the top of his profession, FSA member Terry O'Halloran writes passionately and informatively, not only about his subject but also about the importance of spreading the word to others. He has seen many times first hand the benefits of well organized and implemented financial planning on people's lives. More poignantly, he has seen what can happen when such matters are left to chance.
Imagine being able to invest your money the same way the nation's biggest institutional investors, pension funds and endowments invest their money. Ric Edelman shows you how to reduce risk, lower your fees and improve your returns, just like the professional investors who manage billions of dollars -- using time-tested, proven methods based on the latest academic research. You'll discover that ordinary retail mutual funds don't follow these fundamental principles, using instead deceptive business practices that interfere with your investment goals.
With insight and strategies that will change people's lives, The Lies About Money offers the truth that everyone is looking for. So come learn how to correctly handle the money in your retirement plan at work (you're doing it wrong), the best way to save for college (grandparents must read this!), and how retirees can generate high current income (that's both stable and secure). Best of all, Ric actually gives you the investment portfolio you need. Use his Guide to Portfolio Selection to find out which of his 43 portfolio models is best for you! With his entertaining and breezy style, Ric gives you the most valuable advice on investing you'll ever have.
Louis Navellier has made his living by picking the top 1% actively traded stocks and making money off of them. In The Little Book that Makes You Rich, Navellier shows you how to find that top tier of companies able to take money and make their earnings climb. He explains the metrics that you'll need to figure out which stocks will grow their earnings and stock price, as well as how to measure volatility and performance and manage risk. Navellier gives investors the intuitive markers they'll need for reviewing stock prices based on analysts' moves, profit margins, and sales. He also presents succinct and easy to follow advice that will keep you from paying too much for stocks, alert you when you should sell your stocks, and how to monitor your portfolio for quality.
Donald J. Trump is an icon: the very definition of the American success story. The star of The Apprentice and developer of some of the planet's most prestigious real estate, he's been on the bottom and risen to become one of the world's wealthiest men.
Bill Zanker started The Learning Annex with $5,000 of his own money. After meeting Donald Trump, Zanker learned to Think BIG himself and grew The Learning Annex from a $5 million a year company into one that's generating over $100 million a year in sales—and still growing.
For the first time ever, you too can learn Trump's secrets to thinking BIG and kicking ass! Learn:
Momentum: the Big Mo. How to get it and how to get it back.
Revenge: how and when to get it (and why it's so sweet).
"I love you, now sign this!" Why contracts in business and personal life are so important.
Real-life stories from people who've applied the think BIG formula in their own lives.
Mark Penn argues that the biggest trends in America are the Microtrends, the smaller trends that go unnoticed or ignored. With years of experience as one of world's most highly regarded pollsters, Penn identifies the new microtrends sweeping the world, such as SINGLE WOMEN BY CHOICE and SUN HATERS. MICROTRENDS highlights everything from religion to politics, from leisure pursuits to relationships and will take the listener into the worlds of polling, targeting, and psychographic analysis, reaching tantalizing conclusions through engaging analysis.
This audiobook focuses on the core knowledge you need to understand financial statements If you have a basic knowledge of accounting, this audiobook will demonstrate ways to make your financial statements more helpful and transparent for use by companies, investors, suppliers, and other stakeholders. The author points out that many businesses today have far less financial complexity than they used to have due to not having factories, fewer if any physical assets, but now have a new burden to account for intellectual property, brands, good will, and other intangibles. The author recommends that companies consolidate categories when possible so the financial statements are more useful to make business decisions. The author suggests ways to most effectively portray and use the financial statements with outside parties.
This audiobook includes 11 sections:
1. Introduction
2. Balance Sheet
3. Income Statement
4. Cash Flow
5. Balance Sheet: The Elements
6. Income Statement: The Elements
7. Cash Flow: The Elements
8. How to Use Them
9. Investor Perspective: Open Space vs. Anchors
10. Credit: Trip Points
11. Summary
The Everything Improve Your Credit Book teaches you about the importance of good credit and how it affects your life. Author Justin Pritchard, M.B.A., the About.com Guide to Banking and Loans, demystifies the often intimidating world of credit, with practical guidance on how to improve credit history and increase your credit score. With tips on avoiding common mistakes that reduce credit scores and ways to improve bad credit, this easy-to-use guide provides you with valuable information on: The anatomy of a credit report; How the credit system works and what credit scores mean; Bad credit habits to avoid; How a good credit score will save you money (and how a bad score can cost a lot of money); How to get your free credit report (and when you should pay for one); and how to correct mistakes in your report. Packed with sensible, real-world advice, The Everything Improve Your Credit Book helps you to take control of your finances, save money, and build enough good credit for a lifetime!
Money Smarts is a powerful little resource that helps people gain sanity with their finances. Listeners will learn the 10 most common money mistakes, 5 simple commitments of wealth builders, how to set up a budget and even have doing it, becoming a smarter buyer, how and where to begin investing, getting started or enhancing their retirement planning, and the amazing miracle of generosity.
A husband and wife broadcast and writing team, who are also columnists for Money magazine, offer routine financial advice available from nearly any source. There is a note of huckstering in their presentation.
