- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: Stanford University Press (15 Nov 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0804748535
- ISBN-13: 978-0804748537
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 16.2 x 3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,170,019 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
waste of money
8 April 2011
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This book was the worst financial book I've ever read. Stick with the classics like random walk down wall st. or intelligent investor. The author ends every chapter with "actionables" but many times the chapter content didn't contain a discussion on these actionables. This makes it hard to make an informed decision. One actionable was to buy growth stocks that are buying stock back over companies paying dividends. I would argue this is rather controversial as there are many stocks that companies are buying back billons of dollars worth and the stock is going no where. Companies simply do it to support the share price because each year all the executives are forced to sell a portion of their stock grants for tax withholding. Stocks paying out solid dividends have yield support where the stock wont remain a "bargain" for too long if the company is paying out a good dividend for the price. The author mentions at least 3 times about donating your highest stock gains to charity as if he discovered something earth shattering here and must repeat it till he's blue in the face. Give me a break. The drawn down table has a mistake, which drove me nuts trying to understand the math until I realized it was a mistake. The author asks many rhetorical questions, doesn't really take a stance on many of the topics and many of the sections felt very incomplete. Example, what about retiring early? This wasn't even a full page. The author mentions there being a 10% penalty if you draw from your 401k before 59. Well not entirely true. If you leave the workforce at 55 you are ok. You can also setup a specific periodic withdrawal, which as long as you choose to draw the same amount till 59 you can without the 10% penalty.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
An Excellent Marriage of Academic Insight and Practical Wisdom
16 Jan 2011
Format:Hardcover
At first blush, one might expect a book by one of the world's foremost international economists to be theoretical, dry, and rather challenging to read. But prepare to be surprised. In "Your Money and Your Life," Bob Aliber has reached deep into his personal and academic experience to fashion a guide that is both practical and highly readable. The only thing "dry" about it is his famous dry wit, honed by decades of teaching experience as a popular and highly respected professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and his frequent appearances at that school's annual Business Forecast Lunches where his presence on the program regularly drew thousands of executives from across the country.
The book itself covers a wide variety of topics in personal finance and investments, where his insights and practical recommendations reflect a deep yet pragmatic appreciation of the some of the best academic research in finance and investments. All in all, a first rate example of writing that combines "thorough and rigorous" with "practical and enjoyable." Don't pass this one up.
The book itself covers a wide variety of topics in personal finance and investments, where his insights and practical recommendations reflect a deep yet pragmatic appreciation of the some of the best academic research in finance and investments. All in all, a first rate example of writing that combines "thorough and rigorous" with "practical and enjoyable." Don't pass this one up.
3 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Two five-star books
28 Dec 2010
Format:Hardcover
These two reviews by David Warsh capture the essence of two great books:
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Your Money and Your Life: A Lifetime Approach to Money Management
By Robert Z. Aliber.
I am a great fan of the walk-around-the-pond-with-a-companionable-friend format. This new version of a 1982 book began when the benefits office at the University of Chicago asked Aliber to speak to retiring faculty about financial planning.
He discovered that many of them (at least those not involved in serial marriages) were millionaires, the result of generous pensions, rising real estate prices and the bull market in stocks. "After my presentation, I would get calls -- let's have lunch," he writes. This book collects a couple of dozen such conversations and organizes them under three headings: decisions involving expenditure, investment and financial planning. Wondering whether to buy a new car or one that has been slightly used? Whether to go for public or private education? To rent or buy? To load up on insurance? To annuitize or not? Curious about how to construct a bond ladder? Anxious about senior health care? Aliber is full of wisdom on all these counts and more.
Retired now after 39 years as a professor at Chicago's Booth School of Business, he is author of The International Money Game, as well as the inheritor who has turned Charles P. Kindleberger's classic Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises into an ongoing text.
Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
By Charles P. Kindleberger
This book first appeared in 1978. The author, professor of international economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wanted to remind his readers about a phenomenon that the efficient markets craze of the 1970s deemed impossible: "bubbles," meaning price changes that would grow large before they inevitably burst. He did so by illustrating the '70s counter-fad -- Hyman Minsky's mathematical (and largely unfathomable) model of financial fragility -- with a wealth of historical examples dating all the way back to the Tulip manias of the Dutch Republic. "Some time in the next five years you may kick yourself nor not reading and re-reading Manias, Panics and Crashes," blurbed Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson. Kindleberger revised the book three times, then turned it over to Aliber, who has updated it twice, inevitably diluting Kindleberger's distinctive kinetic, astringent style as he incorpoated his own views.
A paperback version of the canonical fourth edition goes for nearly $50. The latest version, in which Aliber becomes the lead author, is due out this spring.
(source: [...]/)
Your Money and Your Life: A Lifetime Approach to Money Management
By Robert Z. Aliber.
I am a great fan of the walk-around-the-pond-with-a-companionable-friend format. This new version of a 1982 book began when the benefits office at the University of Chicago asked Aliber to speak to retiring faculty about financial planning.
He discovered that many of them (at least those not involved in serial marriages) were millionaires, the result of generous pensions, rising real estate prices and the bull market in stocks. "After my presentation, I would get calls -- let's have lunch," he writes. This book collects a couple of dozen such conversations and organizes them under three headings: decisions involving expenditure, investment and financial planning. Wondering whether to buy a new car or one that has been slightly used? Whether to go for public or private education? To rent or buy? To load up on insurance? To annuitize or not? Curious about how to construct a bond ladder? Anxious about senior health care? Aliber is full of wisdom on all these counts and more.
Retired now after 39 years as a professor at Chicago's Booth School of Business, he is author of The International Money Game, as well as the inheritor who has turned Charles P. Kindleberger's classic Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises into an ongoing text.
Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
By Charles P. Kindleberger
This book first appeared in 1978. The author, professor of international economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wanted to remind his readers about a phenomenon that the efficient markets craze of the 1970s deemed impossible: "bubbles," meaning price changes that would grow large before they inevitably burst. He did so by illustrating the '70s counter-fad -- Hyman Minsky's mathematical (and largely unfathomable) model of financial fragility -- with a wealth of historical examples dating all the way back to the Tulip manias of the Dutch Republic. "Some time in the next five years you may kick yourself nor not reading and re-reading Manias, Panics and Crashes," blurbed Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson. Kindleberger revised the book three times, then turned it over to Aliber, who has updated it twice, inevitably diluting Kindleberger's distinctive kinetic, astringent style as he incorpoated his own views.
A paperback version of the canonical fourth edition goes for nearly $50. The latest version, in which Aliber becomes the lead author, is due out this spring.
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