How to Survive in the Real World: Financial Independence for the Recent Graduate - Softcover

Lowell, James

9780140238730: How to Survive in the Real World: Financial Independence for the Recent Graduate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140238735 ISBN 13: 9780140238730

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1995

Offering financial guidelines to college graduates making the transition to graduate school or career, this practical guide presents strategies for setting up realistic budgets, paying off student loans, developing a good credit history, getting insurance, and investing. Original. Tour.

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The transition from parental pocketbook to personal checkbook usually occurs during the twentysomething period. Financial writer Lowell, editor of Funds Net Insight and a senior writer at Financial Planning Information, Inc., suggests here that it is never too late to develop a financial plan and tells how to do it. He begins with the basic issues of creating a filing system for financial records, making a budget, renting, banking, and credit and then moves on to the more complex issues of insurance, saving, and investing. Each chapter ends with a list of resources for further study. The entire range of financial areas is covered clearly and systematically in a form that introduces the problem, defines the terms, makes suggestions (some of which, like giving up MTV, might be unpalatable), and offers pros and cons. For those of us who do not know the difference between sector funds and index funds, the book could be helpful, but it is targeted to people just graduating from college and is therefore recommended primarily for academic libraries or career-development offices. Public libraries serving younger patrons might consider.?Joshua Cohen, Mid-Hudson Lib. System, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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