By 2 Cents on October 24th, 2011 | Category: Book Reviews |  It’s about taking control of your future so that when you finally get there you’re not surprised at what it looks like. And it’s about making sure you know the truth and deal from a place of fact, not fear.
~ Gail Vaz-Oxlade
Planning for retirement can be confusing – so much so that many of us avoid it altogether. If you’re Canadian, you might be further confused by the fact that much of the information out there is directed at Americans. While the basic principles of retirement saving know no borders, there are significant differences in the types of retirement saving vehicles out there and their corresponding tax laws.
It goes without saying that avoidance is not a good retirement strategy. No worries. Gail Vaz-Oxlade’s latest book called Never Too Late: Take Control of Your Retirement and Your Futurecan help you set a course for [...]
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By 2 Cents on February 11th, 2011 | Category: Book Reviews |  When they do arrive, Jump Points are necessarily startling and disruptive periods. They upset the status quo, threaten existing leaders, and rattle the complacent. . . . Most of our prevailing business assumptions will be challenged and a whole set of new ones will be born as businesses everywhere make the Jump.
~ Tom Hayes
I received a book called Jump Point: How Network Culture is Revolutionizing Business for Christmas in 2009. I didn’t get around to reading it until recently. That’s noteworthy because the topic of the book is quite time sensitive. You realize that when MySpace is referenced as the top dog in the social media world and Facebook is mentioned as an up-and-comer – and the book just came out in 2008!
It’s been interesting to read this book at the beginning of 2011 because that’s the year in which its author, Tom [...]
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By 2 Cents on January 28th, 2011 | Category: Book Reviews |  Play the song that is natural for you to play, in the way that is natural for you to play it, and in front of the fans that most need to hear it.
~ Scott Ginsberg
Update: This review was included in the Totally Money Blog Carnival #4 posted at Budgeting in the Fun Stuff. Thank you!
Scott Ginsberg has branded himself as “The Nametag Guy.” In fact, he’s all about branding, marketing and finding every way possible to make yourself more approachable. He writes a lot. His latest book, -Able offers “35 strategies for increasing the probability of success in business and in life.”
35 Ways to Be More Able
Each of the 35 chapters offers specific strategies to be more “able” in a certain area, and each offers a catch-phrase designed to crystallize the [...]
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By 2 Cents on January 14th, 2011 | Category: Book Reviews |  Stock market activity over the last ten years has proven that “buy and hold” is a dead concept and it’s very likely that going forward over the next ten years, “buy and hold” will continue to be an invalid and ineffective concept. Because over the last ten years, the S&P 500 has generated a negative rate of return and that doesn’t even factor in the ravaging effects that inflation has on your portfolio.
~ John Nyaradi
Update: This article was included in the Carnival of Wealth#21 at Personal Dividends as well as the Wealth Builder Carnival #24 at My Wealth Builder. Thanks!
John Nyaradi’s book Super Sectors: How to Outsmart the Market Using Sector Rotation and ETFsis relatively new, having been released in September of 2010. Much of the information it contains, however, marries the analysis of contemporary market conditions [...]
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By 2 Cents on November 26th, 2010 | Category: Book Reviews |  Our generation might have grown up in an era of relative opulence, but as I make use of a closet full of second-hand baby clothes and a hand-me-down crib, I can’t help but feel lucky that we had the chance to learn some of that old-school frugality.
~ Kimberly Palmer
Today’s opening quote comes from a new book by Kimberly Palmer, the Alpha-Consumer blogger and columnist for US News & World Report. It’s called Generation Earn: The Young Professional’s Guide to Spending, Investing, and Giving Back. It hit the shelves shortly after Kimberly and her husband welcomed their first child, so she’s knee-deep in all of the opportunities and challenges she discusses in the book. You can win a free copy by leaving a comment below. (Sorry, but this particular draw is only available to U.S. readers.)
The “generation” referred to in the title and [...]
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By 2 Cents on November 19th, 2010 | Category: Book Reviews |  Synchronized markets warp perception and force politicians and investors alike into historic errors – but eventually collapse under their own contradictions.
~ John Authers
John Authers, investment columnist for the Financial Times, explains why so many market orthodoxies were smashed during the financial crisis in The Fearful Rise of Markets: Global Bubbles, Synchronized Meltdowns, and How to Prevent Them in the Future. Published by FT Press, the book offers a comprehensive treatment of the factors that led to the global synchronization of markets as well as some cautions for those who still cling to these orthodoxies. More than that, Mr. Authers has some concrete suggestions for how to prevent these synchronized bubbles in the future.
5 Trends from the Fearful Rise of Markets
Mr. Authers weaves five main themes throughout the book. Over and over we see these trends borne out in the [...]
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By 2 Cents on October 22nd, 2010 | Category: Book Reviews | Saving for your child’s education will likely improve the odds that she will participate in post-secondary education by diminishing financial barriers and building a financial nest egg.
~ Mike Holman
Whenever I was looking for detailed information about RESPs, I would always end up at Mike Holman’s blog. It used to be called Four Pillars, but the name has since changed to Money Smarts Blog. Mike’s always had a very comprehensive section on RESPs on his site and it was my go-to reference on the topic.
Still, I’m a huge fan of physical books rather than their cyberspace cousins and I wished I could have a concise book about RESPs on hand to use as a reference. It’s so easy to forget the details of relatively complex financial products like RESPs given that you likely don’t revisit them more than once or [...]
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By 2 Cents on October 8th, 2010 | Category: Book Reviews |  This is not just a symbolic black mark. The markets rely on investor confidence, and when that is shaken the results are recorded in tangible declines on balance sheets.
~ Maria Bartiromo
A couple of weeks ago a representative of the public relations firm handling CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo’s new book sent me an email asking if I would care to review it. I quickly agreed, but my interest stemmed more from a curiosity about the tenor and approach the book would take rather than its actual contents. The book is called The Weekend That Changed Wall Street: An Eyewitness Account. It’s about that fateful September weekend a little over 2 years ago when the 158-year-old financial icon Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy, sending global financial markets into a panic.
Before I read the book, I wondered whether it would offer substantive information about the financial crisis. Given [...]
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