Your Money Ratios: 8 Simple Tools for Financial Security at Every Stage of Life
A leading financial adviser offers a groundbreaking and simple approach to tackling personal finance by breaking down formulas used by the most successful businesses.

A troubled economy calls for answers. People need sound, easy-to-follow financial advice that can be implemented immediately. For the first time, a leading financial adviser has developed a remarkable set of guidelines to give individuals the same kind of objective insight into their personal finances that successful businesses have. Your Money Ratios will help readers effectively manage debt, invest prudently, and develop a realistic and effective savings plan to ensure both financial success and security. Readers need only plug their income and age into Farrell's ratios to get an instant picture of their savings status and overall financial health, as well as a road map for the important choices for the future. Some key ratios include:

• The Capital-to-Income Ratio: how much capital (savings) you should have if you plan to retire at 65
• The Mortgage-to-Income Ratio: the maximum mortgage debt you should carry and still have sufficient capital left for comfortable savings
• The Education-to-Average-Income Ratio: the amount of education- related debt you can safely incur based on anticipated average earnings after obtaining your degree
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Your Money Ratios: 8 Simple Tools for Financial Security at Every Stage of Life
A leading financial adviser offers a groundbreaking and simple approach to tackling personal finance by breaking down formulas used by the most successful businesses.

A troubled economy calls for answers. People need sound, easy-to-follow financial advice that can be implemented immediately. For the first time, a leading financial adviser has developed a remarkable set of guidelines to give individuals the same kind of objective insight into their personal finances that successful businesses have. Your Money Ratios will help readers effectively manage debt, invest prudently, and develop a realistic and effective savings plan to ensure both financial success and security. Readers need only plug their income and age into Farrell's ratios to get an instant picture of their savings status and overall financial health, as well as a road map for the important choices for the future. Some key ratios include:

• The Capital-to-Income Ratio: how much capital (savings) you should have if you plan to retire at 65
• The Mortgage-to-Income Ratio: the maximum mortgage debt you should carry and still have sufficient capital left for comfortable savings
• The Education-to-Average-Income Ratio: the amount of education- related debt you can safely incur based on anticipated average earnings after obtaining your degree
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Your Money Ratios: 8 Simple Tools for Financial Security at Every Stage of Life

Your Money Ratios: 8 Simple Tools for Financial Security at Every Stage of Life

by Charles Farrell J.D., LL.M
Your Money Ratios: 8 Simple Tools for Financial Security at Every Stage of Life

Your Money Ratios: 8 Simple Tools for Financial Security at Every Stage of Life

by Charles Farrell J.D., LL.M

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Overview

A leading financial adviser offers a groundbreaking and simple approach to tackling personal finance by breaking down formulas used by the most successful businesses.

A troubled economy calls for answers. People need sound, easy-to-follow financial advice that can be implemented immediately. For the first time, a leading financial adviser has developed a remarkable set of guidelines to give individuals the same kind of objective insight into their personal finances that successful businesses have. Your Money Ratios will help readers effectively manage debt, invest prudently, and develop a realistic and effective savings plan to ensure both financial success and security. Readers need only plug their income and age into Farrell's ratios to get an instant picture of their savings status and overall financial health, as well as a road map for the important choices for the future. Some key ratios include:

• The Capital-to-Income Ratio: how much capital (savings) you should have if you plan to retire at 65
• The Mortgage-to-Income Ratio: the maximum mortgage debt you should carry and still have sufficient capital left for comfortable savings
• The Education-to-Average-Income Ratio: the amount of education- related debt you can safely incur based on anticipated average earnings after obtaining your degree

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781583334164
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/28/2010
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Charles Farrell, J.D., LL.M., is an investment adviser with Northstar Investment Advisors, which has more than $300 million assets under management. His column, “Retirement Roadmap,” appears on the CBS Moneywatch site, and his research is frequently cited in The Wall Street Journal, Smart Money, the Chicago Tribune, and many other consumer and professional media outlets. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

Table of Contents

Introduction A Simple, New Perspective 1

1 The Capital to Income Ratio 15

2 The Savings Ratio 28

3 Social Security 48

4 Where to Save Your Money 59

5 The Debt Ratios 75

6 The Investment Ratio 112

7 Stocks and Bonds 101 138

8 Ignoring Wall Street 159

9 The Disability Insurance Ratio 167

10 The Life Insurance Ratio 178

11 The Long-Term Care Insurance Ratio 188

12 Health Insurance 207

13 Getting Professional Help 221

14 Pulling It All Together 235

Appendix Special Situations 239

Acknowledgments 247

Index 249

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