A practical, encouraging financial manual.
A seasoned wealth-management consultant outlines a system for family financial planning in this how-to guide.
Doyle, a chartered financial analyst with 30 years’ experience, notes that she drew on her professional background, “my real-life experience as a wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend,” and input from others to create this book, which aims to “help you take an objective view of your finances, build on your understanding of finance and investing concepts, and apply that knowledge in your everyday life.” She urges women to empower themselves and take a “family office approach” to organizing finances and understanding their family’s financial profile. To that end, she advises doing a “spring-cleaning” to determine which documents to keep or discard and to develop ongoing tracking systems, including an assets/liabilities balance sheet, a cash flow versus debt/expenses assessment, and an investment asset-allocation breakdown. She then segues into discussing investing, emphasizing that parents shouldn’t forget to save for their own retirements, even as they focus on saving for kids’ college educations. She also provides an overview of investment fundamentals and asset classes, as well as the finer aspects of financial literacy, such as how to understand basis points. The book concludes by outlining the different types and legal accountabilities of financial advisers. Debut author Doyle offers an appealing blend of expert and relatable perspectives in this guide; for example, at one point, she shows how she keeps organized by creating folders for each of her children’s schools. The tracking templates she provides here will also be excellent tools for anyone who’s trying to get a handle on managing their finances. Although Doyle’s discussion of the Sharpe ratio and other, lesser-known investing terms may be intimidating to some lay readers, it’s to her credit that she believes that her audience can and should understand these concepts, and that she explains all in a clear, accessible fashion.
A practical, encouraging financial manual.Pub Date: N/A
ISBN: N/A
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Publisher: CreateSpace
Review Posted Online: Oct. 26, 2016
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.
Greed, depravity, and serial murder in 1920s Oklahoma.
During that time, enrolled members of the Osage Indian nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world. The rich oil fields beneath their reservation brought millions of dollars into the tribe annually, distributed to tribal members holding "headrights" that could not be bought or sold but only inherited. This vast wealth attracted the attention of unscrupulous whites who found ways to divert it to themselves by marrying Osage women or by having Osage declared legally incompetent so the whites could fleece them through the administration of their estates. For some, however, these deceptive tactics were not enough, and a plague of violent death—by shooting, poison, orchestrated automobile accident, and bombing—began to decimate the Osage in what they came to call the "Reign of Terror." Corrupt and incompetent law enforcement and judicial systems ensured that the perpetrators were never found or punished until the young J. Edgar Hoover saw cracking these cases as a means of burnishing the reputation of the newly professionalized FBI. Bestselling New Yorker staff writer Grann (The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, 2010, etc.) follows Special Agent Tom White and his assistants as they track the killers of one extended Osage family through a closed local culture of greed, bigotry, and lies in pursuit of protection for the survivors and justice for the dead. But he doesn't stop there; relying almost entirely on primary and unpublished sources, the author goes on to expose a web of conspiracy and corruption that extended far wider than even the FBI ever suspected. This page-turner surges forward with the pacing of a true-crime thriller, elevated by Grann's crisp and evocative prose and enhanced by dozens of period photographs.
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.Pub Date: April 18, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-385-53424-6
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Doubleday
Review Posted Online: Feb. 1, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2017
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the...
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
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