Fund Your Future: Winning Strategies for Managing Your Mutual Funds and 401(K) FROM OUR EDITORS
The Barnes & Noble Review
Julie Stav has a welcome message: Financial planning -- with its confusing array of acronyms, numbers, and technical terms -- is, in fact, a skill we can all acquire with a modicum of effort. Stav, the author of the bestselling Get Your Share, speaks from personal experience -- as a divorced schoolteacher, she was forced to stop ignoring her financial situation and start planning for her young son's future. Putting aside her fear of numbers, she took control of her own money, eventually becoming a successful stockbroker and financial planner.
Fund Your Future was written for people who want to have access to the benefits of investing but don't want to take big risks or feel compelled to readjust their investments every day. Stav begins by guiding readers through the basics (coming to terms with your financial picture, setting goals, determining your needs) and then focuses on two potential vehicles -- mutual funds and company-sponsored 401(k) plans. Her advice is straightforward, accessible, and sure to be appreciated by entry-level investors who need to master the basics. One added bonus of the book is that Stav also talks readers through the process of using the Internet to get reliable information.
Above all, readers will appreciate the positive and encouraging message that inspires Fund Your Future: You can enjoy life while also making smart decisions that will help guarantee your financial future. (Sunil Sharma)
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Financial planner and broker Julie Stav first took the American and Spanish markets by storm with the bestseller and PBS Series Get Your Share. She spoke specifically to women, showing them how to strike it rich in the stock market. Now she speaks to everyone-men and women, young and old, new and seasoned investor alike-sharing her wisdom on how to make long-term financial dreams come true.
One of the keys to achieving successful financial goals is in mutual funds and 401(k)s. And while most people do participate in such investment plans, they may not be participating profitably. In this smart, sensible and down-to-earth guide, Julie Stav shows investors and prospective investors how to get the most out of their mutual funds and 401(k) plans. She explains how to set financial goals-whether they are to retire with financial dignity, send the kids to college, or purchase a new home-and achieve them.
But most of all, Julie Stav's fun, conversational, and easy-to-understand approach takes the fear out of investing and puts the roadmap to riches within reach.
AUTHOR DESCRIPTION
Julie Stav, a financial planner and broker, was born in Cuba and came to the United States as a teenager. A former
teacher, she is the founder/owner of Retirement Benefits Systems, a financial planning firm in California, and also runs a network of
investment clubs. Known for her speaking engagements and investment guide videotapes, she has been profiled in the Los Angeles Times
and other papers, and has appeared on Lifetime's "New Attitudes," ABC's "Eyewitness News," and appeared numerous times on ABC's "The
View." She is also the author of Get Your Share.
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