Synopses & Reviews
Stop working for your moneyand put your money to work for you!
Tens of thousands of readers trust Dan Solins advice when it comes to investing, managing their portfolios and their 401(k)s, and planning for retirement. Now Solin offers the smartest guide to money management and financial planning yet.
From managing your debt, maximizing savings, and making smart decisions about home ownership (or not) to insurance, investing, and retirement, The Smartest Money Book Youll Ever Read will be your guide to financial independence for a lifetimeand beyond.
Written in the same no-nonsense style as his previous bestsellers, The Smartest Money Book Youll Ever Read breaks financial planning and money management into bite-size pieceswith immediately actionable advice. Covering the key tasks in every area of personal finance, Solin shows you how to:
Analyze your money problems and get motivated to solve them
Get out of debt fast, and draw up a budget you can live onand live with
Blow off useless commission-based advisors and learn to take control of your own financial future
Buy the health/life/disability/auto insurance you needand only what you need
Invest so thatfinallyyour money works for you, not someone else
Step by simple step, this is advice that you can actually understand and follow. You can avoid debt-addiction and other financial hazards, as well as learn to harness the power of the web to put your money to work.
The Smartest Money Book Youll Ever Read is recommended by Mint.com, the worlds largest free online financial planning site, for use by its members. However, all of the advice in this book is readily accessible to all readers.
Review
Five Best Money Books of 2011: "Building on his other 'Smartest' money books, Solin lays out sensible ways of constructing safe portfolios that are customized to where you are in life. As with his other advice, Solin favors low-cost, passive portfolios that are diversified and tempered for risk."
Review
"Acclaimed and prolific investment author, Dan Solin, has written another terrific book that offers the reader timeless advice on building a portfolio. The Smartest Portfolio You’ll Ever Own concentrates on constructing a portfolio of low cost funds with a bent toward small cap and value stocks. Based on the Fama-French 3 Factor model, this type of portfolio construction can give you higher returns as compensation for taking more risk."
Review
"The Smartest Portfolio You’ll Ever Own… is intelligent, straightforward, and very close to common wisdom."
Synopsis
Achieve financial security in 90 minutes or less.
Daniel Solin cuts through financial propaganda to show readers exactly how assets should be invested, using trusted, brand name fund managers like Fidelity and Vanguard. Solin's easy-to-follow plan allows investors to create and monitor their portfolios in 90 minutes or less a year, explaining how to assess risk and how to allocate assets to maximize returns and minimize volatility. Readers will also learn how to avoid the biggest mistakes investors make, from buying into media hype to giving their hard earned cash to hyperactive brokers and investment advisors.
Synopsis
What Are You Waiting For? This book will change the way you think about investing-and the results will prove it!
"This is the simple hands-on, how-to and why book many readers have been looking for."
-Scott Burns, syndicated columnist
Daniel Solin cuts through the financial hype to show you exactly how to invest-with an easy-to-follow four-step plan that lets you create and monitor your investment portfolio in ninety minutes or less...and put your investment earnings in the top 5 percent of all professionally managed money.
If you want to gamble, go to Las Vegas-or try stock picking and market timing. If you want to be a Smart Investor, follow this effortless and effective plan.
"The Smartest Investment Book You'll Ever Read will provide the enlightenment and gumption to free yourself from the clutches of the investment industry and the wisdom and direction necessary to get yourself back on track."
-William Bernstein, author of A Splendid Exchange and The Four Pillars of Investing
Every day you wait costs you money. Take control of your financial future now!
Synopsis
Acclaimed and bestselling author Dan Solin shows you how to create a SuperSmart Portfolio that follows the same strategies used by the most sophisticated investment advisers in the world—but previously unavailable to most do-it-yourself investors. Providing the specific information and guidance lacking in most investment guides, Solin leaves nothing to chance in this accessible and thoughtful guide that will put you in control of your investment future.
About the Author
Daniel R. Solin is a leading securities arbitration lawyer who has committed himself to recovering millions of dollars on behalf of clients who were misled by unprincipled brokers and financial advisors. He is a principal in Academic Wealth Management, LLC, and a Registered Investment Advisor. The author of Does Your Broker Owe You Money?, Solin has been interviewed on many radio programs, including USA, CBS, ABC, and on a number of regional NPR programs. Formerly the host of his own financial cable television show in Southwest Florida, he is a sought after speaker for groups of investment professionals, lawyers, and accountants.