Each book review will tell you how easy the book is to read, how technical the material is, and what you'll learn. All books reviewed are on the topics of investing, retirement and wealth building.
Wealth Strategies - Investing For Your Retirement by Hunter William Bailey is incredibly thorough, providing solid, practical financial advice that everyone should follow. It is interspersed with checklists, charts and detailed glossary-like definitions of common terms you will encounter in the world of finance.
Getting Started In A Financially Secure Retirement by Henry Hebeler is the book I wish I'd had when I started my career as a financial advisor. It's a must read for anyone serious about their retirement planning.
The Great Depression Ahead by Harry S Dent Jr is a bunch of crap. You mind as well read your horoscope.
A must read for anyone who says they will never be able to afford retirement. 4-Hour Work Week gives an alternate plan to follow with specific step by step instructions.
How To Get Started In Real Estate Investment is one in a series of books by John T. Reed, all filled with practical, how to advice, checklists and scripts.
The Coffeehouse Investor is a delightful book, perfect for those looking for a simple introduction to investing, how to diversify and what types of funds to buy.
The Intelligent Investor, by Benjamin Graham, contains over 500 dense pages of solid data. It could be considered its own college level course.
One Up On Wall Street provides insight into the mind of one of history's great money managers. Many years later, Peter Lynch's sage advice is still rock solid.
This book is a must read for every woman over 40, especially if she's in the workplace. Your look can improve your odds of getting, and keeping, the career you want.
Securing A Retirement Income For Life, by Bill Griffith Jr. CFP(R),is a text book like approach to giving you all the knowledge a financial planner uses when creating a retirement plan for you. If you like techical stuff and want to do your own planning, this book is for you.
This book is a great starting place to learn about alternative investments like tax liens, tax deeds, high yielding investments, options and currency trading.
In the book Die Broke the authors challenge the traditional views of retirement and retirement planning and offer a contrarian approach to the rest of your life.
This book should be required reading for every investor. The Four Pillars of Investing by William Bernstein is fabulous. It will give you perspective, something that many investors lack.
A Random Walk Down Wall Street, by Burton Malkiel, covers everything you need to know about making smart investment decisions. If you want to be a smarter investor, read this book.
The Number, by Lee Eisenberg, provides great insight into why we do, or do not, plan for retirement and how much is enough. So, what's your number?
If you want to accumulate wealth read Rich Dad, Poor Dad, by Robert Kiyosaki. Discover how the wealthy view assets and liabilities in a different way than those who never accumulate wealth.
Free Money, by Roger Malcolm Mitchell, is a book which challenges some of the commonly held beliefs about our economy. Free Money does an amazing job of explaining many of these complex economic concepts in a way that is simple and easy to understand, and tells you what he thinks would be necessary to get us out of this economic crisis.
