The Wall Street Journal Guide to the New Rules of Personal Finance: The Essential Strategies for Saving, Investing, and Building a Portfolio in a World Turned Upside Down

by Dave Kansas

Overview

From the world’s most respected business publication comes the definitive guide to the new, ever-changing landscape of personal finance. The Wall Street Journal Guide to the New Rules of Personal Finance is an essential tool for anyone looking for sound financial advice in a world where everything you thought you knew about saving, managing risk, and constructing a portfolio has been turned upside-down. In the aftermath of the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression, The Wall Street Journal Guide to the New Rules of Personal Finance is the navigator every investor needs to thrive in a still uncertain financial climate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780061986321
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	12/28/2010
Pages:	185
Sales rank:	1,108,341
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

The editor of The Wall Street Journal's Money & Investing section and editor in chief of TheStreet.com, Dave Kansas is the chief markets commentator and a personal finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal. He is also the author of The Wall Street Journal Guide to the End of Wall Street as We Know It, The Wall Street Journal's Complete Money & Investing Guidebook, and TheStreet.com Guide to Investing in the Internet Era. He lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi

The New Rules of Personal Finance xix

1 Brave New World 1

2 Thrift Is the New Black 21

3 Diversification-for Real This Time 43

4 Rebuilding Your Retirement 63

5 A House Is a Home 85

6 Investing in Commodities 107

7 Investing Overseas 129

8 A New Kind of Wealth 149

New Rules, Old Values 163

Acknowledgments 171

Index 175