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covers quite a bit of ground. some of it over and over again.

but it is a good starting point for almost all possibilities, good and bad for those looking for money management.

I've read several books on this subject and this one was by far the best. Many of the other books in the field have some rather dubious tactics listed, but this book focuses on reasonable steps people can take to protect their asstes that are legal and likely to stand up in court. I found this book to be a well organized, well written professional text in a field filled with a lot of books hawking expensive and legally questionable scams and schemes.

This book does an excellent job of introducing the concept of asset protection and includes strategies to protect assets. A number of protection strategies are analyzed to show the pros and cons of each strategy. Examples and diagrams are shown to help communicate protection concepts. Past court cases for some of the protection asset strategies are discussed to show the pros and cons of the particular strategy. I would highly recommend this book to learn about how trusts, corporate entities, and other strategies can work to help the reader make a decision to protect their assets.

BUY IT. READ IT. THEN READ IT AGAIN. AND AGAIN. EACH TIME YOU READ IT YOU WILL PICK UP YET ANOTHER USEFUL NUGGET OF INFORMATION. THE UNIQUE THING ABOUT THIS 'BIBLE' IS THAT IT IS USEFUL FOR THOSE WISHING TO PROTECT ASSETS FROM FUTURE CREDITORS, AND JUST AS USEFUL FOR THOSE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE, TRYING TO SEIZE ASSETS AS WELL. A VERY POWERFUL, DETAILED AND GENEROUS BOOK. NOT YOUR TYPICAL A/P BOOK. THE 'RIGHT' WAY TO SAFELY PROTECT YOUR ASSETS.

Being in the financial services I am always looking for new and exciting books in my field...sadly, this is not one of them. The book was dry and made for a long read.

The upside is that the authors seem to know what they are talking about and are able to explain the ideas behind a variety of different asset protection strategies.

The authors also explain the benefits and drawbacks of each asset protection strategy, though they do not go into very much detail on some of their ideas.

One of the reasons is probably because at the end of the book, they provide their website as a reference. I don't have a problem with that, but it would have been nice if they had been able to make the information more interesting so that you didn't feel like you had to go to their website to "get the good stuff".

Though maybe a tad longer than it could have been, Ric Edelman does a good job of discussing the perils of mutual funds and what to look out for when investing. He makes occasional arguments for hiring financial advisers, but always states that he is not trying to make a case for hiring him. His sections are short, simple, easy to ride and provide a relatively straightforward explanation of the topics. There's a whole theory section on assessing risk that was probably unnecessary, but he warns readers that they are free to skip it. There's an enormous section that is simply a day-by-day timeline of mutual fund scandals that is incredibly tedious and makes its point three pages in (so the other 20 or so are just a waste of paper). Pick it up and read it on a plane, you'll finish quickly and have learned a thing or two.

This book is largely self-serving. The author shows how hard it is for ordinary people to invest wisely, so that they need investment advisors like him.

His advice to have a wide diversity of investments is contrary to Warren Buffet's technique: own a small amount of investments and study them carefully.

This book led me to a major change in my retirement investment strategy.

I had already rolled my various 401(k) plans into IRAs. I had a mix of index mutual funds and individual stocks. But reading this book crystallized for me what the problems were with that.

Although it is true he makes a big pitch for institutional mutual funds, which you can only get from a company like his, he does say you can "do it yourself" with ETFs.

For me it was not a big deal to go to his website for a more tailored asset allocation -- which was free by the way. Then I did some research to map those asset classes to specific ETFs.

The biggest benefit is that I no longer have to agonize about if I am in the right stock or if I should get out of a stock and what should I replace it with. With the market down so much lately, I am able to keep on track and not sell based on fear. All I have to do is apply a constant ratio approach to re-balancing and that's it.

I have done this for the last 3 1/2 months and I am barely down (< 1%) compared to the S&P 500 down 10%. So far so good. Using his approach, you can see the rotation in and out of different asset classes and not worry -- you are in all of them!

As for the sales pitch, I could imagine someone not having the time and inclination to do their own investments and they would benefit from his company's services.

OK, after getting to about page 40 I realized that this was an advertisement of his company. Basically, he says to buy every possible stock and go long-term. About 4x10^2 times, he was saying that "his" company was doing just that. Didn't find anything useful, except that you spend more when you retire (never knew that one!). The book's name is really great - it captures attention.

As with Mr. Edelman's other books, there is information contained that is worth knowing and reviewing often. He writes with the experience of years of helping with financial matters.

I boutht this book as required text book for my personal finance class. The book is very informative, and is written in a way that even a beginner in the relm of finance would understand.

Professor Keown has written an excellent overview of the personal finance issues and topics that impact our lives. This is a thoroughly readable text covering a wide range of topics including financial planning, cash and money management, insurance, investments and tax-related subjects. The author skillfully combines theory and practical application to educate the reader in a meaningful way. Highly recommended as a resource to increase your financial literacy quotient.

I live by the motto if you don't train your kids to survive financially you are training them to live life below standard. This book is a great entry level book. My daughter is doing great in her beginning of what I hope is a life long associations with the financial markets.

This is a great book written so kids can easily understand it and get them started on the road to investing, saving, and money management. I presented it to my grandchildren with their first shares of stock.

A must read book! Growing Money: A Complete Investing Guide for Kids

*Awesome explanation for kids to understand how to invest money
*Easy Reading

This is a great book to get kids interested and started in investing money. I would recommend it to all parents, grandparents, guardians, whatever! The kids seem to actually pay attention to what it is saying---I read it to/with them and it uses kid friendly language...KUDOS!

The larger font size implies this book should be for ages eight to around twelve. If you purchase it for ages older than that, my guess is the child will feel like the book is too young for them. That is not to say that teenagers and adults cannot benefit from the information inside. This is a great investment book to begin understanding terms relating to different types of investments.

I like that special attention is given to the word investor itself, describing it as anyone who uses their money to make money. Thus, owning a simple savings account would make you an investor. I think children will be proud to be able to claim, "I am an investor!" Responsibility and financial money management will sneak in as part of the learning package and children will be well on their way to a successful financial future.

There are quizzes and trivia facts throughout the book which make it fun and maintain children's interest. The book goes into detail explaining stocks, mutual funds, and bonds, addresses the fact that personality plays a role in investing, discusses how everyone has a different investment style, what sets a stock price, the bulls and the bears, and more.

The last chapter challenges children to play an investment game. Children pretend they have $10,000 with the objective being to make as much as they can in six months. Charts are provided for tracking stocks and a portfolio value. I hope parents or teachers actually take the time to complete this last part with their children as nothing beats hands on experience.

My daughter has been asking about ways to make money for the last couple of weeks, so I decided to get her this book. It gave her some ideas and encouraged her to look for more ideas on her own.

Does your young lady know the value of money? How do you teach her to make money work for her is wonderfully expressed in this book. Preteens(and all of us) need to know how to live on what money they have and refrain from debt and overspending ..a life-style habit can begin early when the young girl knows expectations of her in regard to money.

This book isn't as good as the other ones. I mean,it was a good book,but I think the other ones were better. But it does help you about spending money and stuff. But it also was a little boring at parts.

Money is such a simple thing, but the way we earn it, save it, spend it, owe it, etc. is a very complex thing, indeed.

A Smart Girl's Guide to Money is an exceptionally well done book aimed at a young audience -- hopefully before they make the uninformed miscalculations that drive an alarming number of Americans into debt, sometimes before they graduate from school.

How wonderful that American Girl has combined both survival skills and entertainment to benefit their target audience! Well done!

The first thing my daughter, age 11, read was the 101 moneymaking ideas and unfortunately, she was "smart" enough to point out that it really wasn't 101 unique ideas. For example: Decorate tins for Valentines day (#98) is similar to #99, #100 and #101 which are to decorate tins for other special days. Nevertheless, I pointed out that one idea can have different uses... She seemed satisfied with that answer and quickly moved on to "How to get a raise" in the allowance section.

I was impressed at the succinct ways in which ideas are addressed. The book includes:
~ many different emotions associated with money (including friendships and partnerships),
~ how everyone's personality is different (creating a different spending style)
~ values of money (good or bad purchases and needs or wants)
~ budgeting (including plastic money, use of checks with ledger entry, and types of investments)
~ a few quizzes such as one to figure out what type of work is best for you

Don't expect a lot of heavy discussion and explanations. As I said, the text is succinct, even to the point where you may need to add some parent explanations. Parent involvement is a good thing though, because the sooner you discuss finances with your child, the better off he or she will be.

* When you know the common mistakes people make, you will learn from them and will not do the same.
* Not only you will learn the common mistakes, but this book describe clearly on how to correct the situation in details.
* Indeed a fresh knowledge for me. I love this book.

This book will show you how and why people lose or waste money. From ego, to overconfidence, to anchoring, to mental accounting. All of these areas of psychology affect our way of thinking about money. This easy reading book will open your eyes as to how to save more money. You may even laugh at yourself knowing you have fallen for some of these mental traps. Highly recommended.

For more than 20 years I have been fascinated why so many people make financial decisions which defy rationality. Unfortunately, I find it extremely difficult to read and comprehend most of the research papers that has been done in the field of behavioral finance. The last 5 years have seen several good books explaining the results of the emerging field of behavioral finance. This book is one of those good books.

As a fan of index funds, I enjoyed reading this book's explanation and recommendation for suggesting index funds.

This book is very readable and is an excellent primer on the major concepts which are emerging from behavioral finance research.

Socrates was right when he uttered his famous quote "Know Thy Self". One of the hardest things to do is to understand why we do what we do sometimes. This book helps explain some of this natural human behavior, and how we can manage it to make more rational financial decisions.

I would suggest companion books to supplement this book including:

Index Mutual Funds: How to Simplify Your Financial Life and Beat the Pro's
How to Use Psychology to Achieve Your Financial Goals
Are You Using the Right Rules to Plan Your Retirement?
The Richest Man in Babylon
Bogle on Mutual Funds: New Perspectives for the Intelligent Investor
The Millionaire Next Door
The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing, Ninth Edition
The Coffeehouse Investor: How to Build Wealth, Ignore Wall Street, and Get On With Your Life
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

The book is easy to read and it also covers a lot of interesting topics. Highly recommended.

This book is well worth reading. Even though I am sixty-nine years old with an extensive background in finance, I still found the contents of this book very interesting. Much of what is written I already know and have practiced for many years, which has lead me to accumulate a fair amount of wealth to live a comfortable life in retirement.

What I have learned from Messrs. Belsky and Gilovich is an ability to teach my grandchildren (and children, if they will listen) some financial fundamentals which will also allow them to accumulate wealth. My oldest granddaughter who is 23 is well on her way, not only saving in a Roth IRA and 401(k) plan, but also understanding some basic principals, such as saving small amounts and the power of compounding.

I recommend this book to everyone who wants to begin to make smart money decisions and get financially ahead. As Ben Stein says, wealth accumulation is freedom. Freedom from worry and freedom to buy the things you need to enjoy living a comfortable life. If you accept the economic principals presented in this book you will achieve financial freedom.

Harris has written a book which is scholarly yet highly entertaining. A crystal clear, in depth ,and accurate explanation of the Federal Reserve and its Chairman.Also included are numerous short anecdotes
and clever comments from Fed history.

I teach for both a state university and for an online university. I cannot imagine what this author is trying to sell. The money in teaching adjunct and online is notoriously low in most cases. I suspect that if the author is making six figures, it is from book sales. I have never encountered a legitimate teaching institution that would accept less than a master's degree. After viewing the Today show interview, I was convinced that the author was not being wholly honest. Beware.

* Wow, this book is truly excellent. I don't know we can teach people around the world just by using the power of Internet.
* The steps shown on how to start this business is really well written.
* You will feel motivated to start your online teaching once you have finished reading this book.
* Who says that you can't make any money at home? This book has prove those theory wrong.

Great book for learning what you need to know about this subject. I highly recommend it.

Book was described accurately and was delivered in a timely fashion. Would purchase from this seller again.

I purchased this book hoping to expand my online teaching. Most of the information is geared for individuals who have never taught online before or who have limited information about online teaching. The information is accurate and supportive for newcomers to the field, and I picked up a few new tips that may help me build my business. The authors are knowledgeable and forthcoming with informaiton from their own experiences. If you're thinking about moving into online teaching, read this book first!!

This was a gift for my 9 yr old granddaughter. She told me she loved it.She had rented from the library and was overjoyed to have her own copy.

Be sure to keep reading to reach chapter three where entrepreneurship takes off in the most subtle way, selling mini toys at school. (We had a little trouble getting entranced in chapters one and two.) But soon after, Greg is creating and selling homemade comic books. The comic book assembly is explained (including drawings) which is a nice touch for readers who would like to try and create their own. It's never too early to let your child write and create their own book.

I especially enjoyed the competitive relationship with the girl next door and how feelings (anger, admiration, jealousy, etc.) were expressed throughout. My son would often ask to continue reading as I finished a chapter.

Money, sales and partnership ideas are nicely addressed. You read about advertisement examples kids are exposed to at school (there is a surprisingly long list), ideas on why money is important, compromises needed when working with a partner, and the good feelings that arise from making donations.

I think my favorite part is when Greg realizes (through discussion with the school board) that he was as guilty as all the other advertisers. He was also targeting the children at school. "He was the hunter, and they were the prey." Actually, this is not a bad thing as entrepreneurs need to understand their target audience but it is the first book I have read that addresses this issue. A++

My nine year old son has read my book so I wasn't surprised when he asked, "How come none of the books we read mention taxes?" (We've read a few entrepreneur books recently.) I had to laugh and remind him, "Not everyone enjoys doing taxes... or even reading about it, so maybe the author decided to leave that technical part out."

Of all the Andrew Clements school books I've read, Lunch Money was by far the least engaging. The reason for this is that a large part of the book focuses on numbers instead of people, and where Clements has succeeded in the past is in his ability to make us really like his leading characters. Greg, the lead character in this book, is not very nice. He's largely driven by money and selfishness, and although Clements does try to make Greg more personable by depicting his change of attitude, the change does not come off convincingly.

The concept itself behind the book is terrific: schools are hypocritical because while they profess to be trying to promote certain values and healthy lifestyles, the actions districts take are at times directly opposed to the high moral standards the districts are imposing on the students.

I did enjoy the book, and recommend it to those looking to read more of Andrew Clements' books. I would pick up Frindle, The School Story, or The Report Card first however.

Lunch Money is a good book for money lovers. Its about a boy who has all these good ideas to make money and then he comes up with his best idea yethe decides to make comic books!The princapal disagres but then Mrs Davenport decidesto let Greg sell comic books. I highly recomend this book!

I'm a nine year old boy from NY. This book is funny and serious, too. This boy Greg wants to make lots of money while copycats try to steal his ideas. He makes money by selling little chunky comics. I recommend this book to everyone.

WB

I am a frequent listener to the Disciplined Investor podcast and could not pass up the book. The two things that I most enjoyed were the comprehensive, no-nonsense overview of the investing world (including a bit of technical analysis and risk management) and the list of resources (most of them freely available on the web) in the final chapter. I had stumbled across some of the them, but not all, and I feel that my investment decisions are more focused and financially productive after reading this book. Thanks Andrew.

No doubt the best financial book I have ever read. Dr. Horowitz knowledge and wit is unsurpassed. I highly recommend for beginning investors or anyone with the desire to really learn how to properly invest without getting too technical. I also listen to his weekly podcasts which offer a wide variety of investment advice.

I have been a avid listener of Andrew Horowitz podcast, and was reluctant to buy the book only because of fear of reading the same stuff I hear. I wrong. His book compliments his podcast and provides an powerful way to help develop a discipline (profitable) investor.

I just finished reading Andrew's book. I feel that he wants to do the best job he can to give you a very complete overview of investing in a very clear and concise manner. He seems to want to help you protect yourself so that you can avoid many of the mistakes most beginning investor's make. I have already instituted many of his recommendations into my own investing strategies. You must make this book a part of your library.

I have been listening to Mr. Horowitz through his website and podcast. I was looking for one new idea. Being well versed in a number of areas of finance, investment, and trading, I ordered the book.

It delivered on a number of fronts. While not being in-depth on any one subject, it offered a good foundation to base further learning.

Basic Quantitative stock screening, and where the investor/trader can get a robust screener at no charge.

Financial definitions and application of those definitions i.e. GARP, PEG ratios, GICS,

Basic Technical Analysis - When the investor looks at a stock/index chart what does he or she see. The basics of trending, breakouts, and basic patterns are addressed. This is not a technical analysis book, again it is a basics book. If the reader would like that, there are a number of great in-depth volumes on the subject.

Basic Fundamental stock review - Reviewing the Balance Sheet, Price-to-Book and Debt to Equity Ratios are addressed.


Risk Management - As a professional trader, I see this as the most over looked aspect of investing for most people looking to invest.

Options- a basic overview of what an option is, and how it works. It is not a lottery ticket, it is a risk management tool. The book offers a few basic strategies for their use.

Mutual Fund - Overview of performance, expense ratios, and how to sort between the thousands of mutual funds.

This is a book I would feel comfortable giving to my mother, children, or friend looking to learn more regarding a variety financial topics. It covers many topics, and the unassuming 232 pages makes it an easy, non-intimidating read.

Lastly, it is a nice introduction to any of the topics the reader would like to explore further.