Get your financial life in order. This comprehensive and objective guidebook will help you grow your net worth on a steady and increasing basis, regardless of your income level.

This new and expanded edition covers changes and strategies to maximize financial benefits and planning resulting from the recent tax legislation, beginning January 2018, and changes to the Affordable Care and Protection Act of 2010. Covering all the financial bases you can reasonably expect to confront in your lifetime, such as insurance, investing, income tax planning, Social Security, Medicare, and more, this vital resource begins with techniques to protect a consumer's personal and business assets. It then transitions into the wealth accumulation process and outlines tax management measures, as well as the distribution of wealth for higher education, retirement, and estate planning purposes.

Written by an expert and long-standing educator in the field of personal financial planning, Plan Your Financial Future is a no-nonsense, straightforward, and holistic view of the financial planning process. It is the one resource you need to become a more knowledgeable saver and translate those savings into the accumulation of future wealth.

What You'll Learn

• Insure yourself, your family, and your property against the possibility of significant loss
• Invest in financial or real assets―or both
• Implement effective tax planning and management techniques
• Distribute your estate at death to your intended beneficiaries in a tax-efficient manner
• Discover strategies to maximize financial health taking into consideration the new tax legislation, effective January 1, 2018

Who This Book Is For

Regardless of whether you are a recent college graduate or have spent the past several decades in the working world, this book will give you the smart, common sense advice you need to get your financial life in order.

Plan Your Financial Future: A Comprehensive Guidebook to Growing Your Net Worth| Keith R. Fevurly (Author)| Apress

         

Table of Contents

Part 1. The Financial-Planning Process
Chapter 1. Understanding the Challenge: The Need to Begin
Chapter 2. Do You Need a Financial Planner?
Chapter 3. Elements of Personal Financial Planning and the Wealth-Management Process

Part 2. Protecting Yourself, Your Family, and Your Property
Chapter 4. Insuring Yourself and Your Family
Chapter 5. Insuring Your Health and Long-Term Care
Chapter 6. Insuring Your Earning Power
Chapter 7. Insuring Your Property
Chapter 8. Optimizing Your Employment Benefits

Part 3. Accumulating Wealth
Chapter 9. Investing in Financial Assets
Chapter 10. Investing in Real Assets
Chapter 11. Investing in Use Assets

Part 4. Defending Wealth
Chapter 12. Income-Tax Planning and Management
Chapter 13. Transfer-Tax Planning and Management
Chapter 14. Life Events that Endanger Wealth

Part 5. Distributing Wealth During Your Lifetime
Chapter 15. Planning for Your Child’s Higher Education
Chapter 16. Planning for the Financial Aspects of Retirement
;Chapter 17. Planning for the Lifestyle Needs of Retirement
Chapter 18. Planning for Other Lifetime Financial Goals

Part 6. Distributing Wealth at Death
Chapter 19. Estate Planning
Chapter 20. Philanthropy

Part 7. Summarizing the Personal Financial-Planning Process        Chapter 21. Reaping the Rewards

Backmatter

LINK FOR THE BOOK

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