Whether you’re young or old, married, contemplating cohabitation or tying the knot, consult
The Road to Wealth: A Comprehensive Guide to Your Money, for answers to your nearly all your personal finance questions. Suze Orman, Certified Financial Planner®, internationally known personal finance guru, and bestselling author, shares her wisdom in this densely-packed, encyclopedia-like guide. Orman explains everything from annuities to wills in an easy-to-digest, question and answer format. Through
The Road to Wealth, the topics you’ll learn about include:
- What issues to discuss before marriage, blending financial lives, and why each should contribute financially to the union.
- Divorce, dividing assets, retirement and social security, collaborative law, and how to start over after divorce or a loved one’s death.
- Prenuptial agreements, cohabitation agreements, and common law marriages.
- Why, in some instances, renting might make more sense than purchasing a home, and how to calculate how much mortgage you can really afford.
- Paying for college.
- Retirement plans, compounding, and dollar cost averaging.
- Stocks, indexes, measuring a stock’s value, and when to sell.
- Selecting mutual funds and evaluating risk.
- Bonds and bond funds, interest rates, and risks of ownership.
- Money market funds and CDs.
- Why annuities are controversial and the few instances in which they make “excellent financial sense.”
- The ins and outs of wills and trusts
