Strategies in Personal Finance

Library Bookwatch, March, 2005

Strategies In Personal Finance

Keith V. Smith & Jane A. Smith

Purdue University Press

1207 South Campus Courts, Bldg. E, West Lafayette, IN 47907

www.thepress.purdue.edu

1557533474 $49.95 1-800-933-9637

Written by expert business and financial consultants Keith and Jane Smith, Strategies In Personal Finance: Basic Investment Principles For Today And Tomorrow is a guide especially for ordinary fam-ilies. Stressing the importance of using careful preparation to ward away financial chaos or retirement disaster, Strategies In Personal Finance presents basic tools and strategies in layman's terms, from how to read a financial statement to basic measures of return and risk to how to construct, revise and protect an optimum investment portfolio for one's needs, to estate planning concers and more. Written in plain terms for the non-specialist general reader, Strategies In Personal Finance spells out its points with charts, tables, and graphs throughout and is especially recommended for families in need of a solid and reliable retirement plan.