Detailed item info | Synopsis | In this title these 15 ladies explain exactly what you need to do to guarantee a financially secure retirement. Included is information on: how to create your own personalized investment portfolio, straight facts about 401Ks and other investment plans, insurance, mutual funds, CDs, Treasury bills, stocks and bonds, and Social Security and Medicare.
| | Size | | Length: | 255 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in. | | Width: | 6.0 in. | | Thickness: | 1.0 in. | | Weight: | 20.8 oz. |
| | Publisher's Note | The fifteen ladies who make up The Beardstown Ladies' Investment Club have been making money together since 1983, outperforming mutual funds and professional money managers 3 to 1. Over the years, the Ladies have applied the same principles they learned in the club to managing and building their personal portfolios. Now they bring their homespun wisdom to retirement planning in The Beardstown Ladies' Stitch-in-Time Guide to Growing Your Nest Egg. In this handbook you'll learn everything there is to know about planning for your financial future and a comfortable retirement. Including worksheets, charts, graphs, and the Ladies' own stories of how they spend their time and their money, The Beardstown Ladies' Stitch-in-Time Guide to Growing Your Nest Egg is the perfect handbook for everyone who cares about their financial future.
| | Industry reviews | Having received due recognition for their investment success described in The Beardstown Ladies Common Sense Investment Guide (LJ 1/95), these 15 members of an investment club located in Beardstown, Illinois, turn to giving financial planning advice. After marveling at the awesome power of compound interest, the ladies recommend taking stock of one's assets, identifying goals, diversifying investments, and purchasing a home wisely. Life, disability, and long-term care insurance are treated as afterthoughts in the estate planning chapter. Fifty pages of various resource lists and a sample will round out the advice. While this superficial treatment may be better than having no financial plan, it is more suitable for Ozzie and Harriet than for most people living with the economic consequences of changing demographics, corporate downsizing, and declining medical benefits that characterize the 1990s. Joseph Barth, U.S. Military Acad. Lib., West Point, N.Y.
Breitman
The Beardstown Ladies have gone big-time. From an Illinois river-town investment club featuring prayer, exchanged recipes and remarkably successful stock market investments, the group has parlayed its bestselling Common-Sense Investment Guide into national TV interviews on Donahue and elsewhere, scores of public appearances, receipt of star-quality fan mail and this professionally packaged sequel, with a last-page mail-in coupon for its own Beardstown Lady video feature. For building a comfy retirement nest egg, the Ladies urge all the standard stuff ``Pay yourself first,'' ``the magic of compound interest,'' ``dollar cost averaging'' and so on but with their own special charm and hometown persuasiveness. Individual club members attest in sometimes touching personal terms to the value of good living, sensible saving for investment and contented retirement. Included here is a wealth of source materials, checklists, financial and legal forms. (Jan.)
Bernstein
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