Newly Updated in Paperback, With a New Introduction... What You Need to Do Now
For Immediate Release
April 29, 2003
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Lately, the Dow tends to tumble with the frequency of a professional gymnast; the U.S. deficit is expanding at mind-boggling speed; the corporate world is still baring the scars of the dot-com bubble burst; and the global political landscape is more volatile than ever. What is an everyday investor to do? According to bestselling financial planner and author Ric Edelman, ?This is not the time for worry. It?s the time for positive action.? In his updated paperback edition complete with a new introduction WHAT YOU NEED TO DO NOW: An 8-Point Action Plan to Secure Your Financial Independence (HarperBusiness; April 1, 2003; $9.95), Edelman offers readers timely, easy-to-follow guidance for these supremely complicated times. Using the same intelligent, accessible writing style that made his previous books The Truth About Money, The New Rules of Money, Discover the Wealth Within You, and the #1 New York Times bestseller Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth resonate with so many readers, Edelman confides he intends to ?return you to the basics, to help you put into today?s context all the aspects of your personal finances that you?ve ignored or failed to know about.? To this end, Edelman provides readers with quick, practical, and sound advice for getting started on the road to financial freedom. His book?s eight-point plan for financial stability shows how to preserve and protect financial assets, secure the financial future of loved ones, and ensure that our businesses and other sources of income are not compromised. WHAT YOU NEED TO DO NOW will help his readers to:
Prepare for money emergencies by establishing a cash reserve, with tips on checking and savings accounts and safe places to keep your cash.
Provide for their families with the right kind of health, life, disability, long-term care, auto, homeowners, and liability insurance.
Preserve their assets with proper estate planning, from wills, titles, and trusts to probate, powers of attorney, and taxes.
Secure their homes with a thirty-year mortgage that?s as big as they can get, and do so while they still have a job and can get the loan.
Protect their incomes with the right questions to ask their employers about business continuity coverage, Phoenix plans, and other company-saving procedures.
Defend their businesses with key man coverage, cross training, data backups, offsite storage, consultants, and other strategies.
Help others in their time of need, to make sure that no one is left aside during this period of national disturbance.
Plan their next investment moves by developing carefully designed, highly diversified long-term portfolios that will weather the storm.
Edelman closes with a comforting reminder to us that "[t]he economy will ultimately win because it reflects the economic strength of the United States, a $10 trillion economy. And more important than that, the economy reflects the strength of the American people, the strongest, the most highly educated, most highly skilled, best prepared and most dedicated people in the history of the world." WHAT YOU NEED TO DO NOW will enable Americans to safeguard themselves and their families, as well as to help those in need.
About The Book:
TITLE: WHAT YOU NEED TO DO NOW
SUBTITLE: An 8-Point Action Plan to Secure Your Financial Independence
AUTHOR: Ric Edelman
ON SALE DATE: April 3, 2003
ISBN: 0060094044
PRICE: $9.95
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