Financial Freedom: A Positive Strategy for Putting Your Money to Work

This book aims to provide straightforward advice on how to launch a personal plan to develop money power and gain financial freedom. It explores and analyzes a wide range of investment opportunities, showing readers how the risk-reward potential of each type might fit into their complete financial plan. It shows readers how to determine their financial "comfort zone" - an investment area that offers the investor a sufficient sense of security. Using charts, tables, and worksheets, the book presents advice on investing in stocks, bonds, and commodities, and more exotic investments such as precious metals, gems, art, and antiques. Focusing on long-term financial security, "Financial Freedom" suggests how and when to buy property for maximum gain; how to choose and manage financial advisors; how to capitalize on annuities and pension plans; how to understand the insurance puzzle; how to find and use preferred tax shelters; how to manage skyrocketing health care and higher education costs; and how to plan for a comfortable retirement.