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Morningstar's 30-Minute Money Solutions: A Step-by-Step Guide to Managing Your Finances

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A Very Practical Guide

By AdamSmythe - December 24, 2009

This is a very well-written and practical book, as I hope to describe. Morningstar is a reasonably well-known and well-regarded investment research firm, and the author, Christine Benz, is Morningstar's Director of Personal Finance. Benz rose rather quickly through Morningstar's analyst ranks--she eventually became the director of all Morningstar's mutual fund analysts--and she would have had a crack at a top corporate job, had she not decided to work in the area she loves best, financial planning.

The "30-minute" part of the title does not mean that you can read this book in 30 minutes or that you can build a personal financial plan in that short a time, either. The book is divided into 11 parts, and each part has several chapters that are oriented to help you accomplish specific goals in 30 minutes. So, the book's title might have been "36 Chapters of 30-Minute Discussions about Financial Planning." But that doesn't grab me very well.

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Very comprehensive but quite basic

By Akamai22 - March 22, 2010

I am a retired banker and I get asked financial management questions a lot, and I was looking for the perfect book for someone who is starting to manage their financial affairs. Not just young people, but people who have no financial training, such as new widows or divorcees or those worried about retirement planning...... or engineers or liberal arts majors.

Woody Allen famously said "80 percent of success is just showing up" and there's a lot of wisdom in that thought. This book is basic, but learning/doing the basics of financial planning will put you ahead of 80% of the population. And it will point out the things that are really critical that you need to focus on. You can polish your skills to a higher level later.... just make a commitment to cover the basics as she shows you and you'll be well ahead of your peers... and you'll probably sleep better.

The pluses with this book start with the fact that it assumes NOTHING, and the breadth of subjects... read more

Very Basic

By B. D. white - April 14, 2010

Based on the reviews I was expecting advice which I hadn't seen before in my financial education. The advice in this book was ok, but very basic and I didn't learn anything striking....there were no "moments of illumination". This is a good book for someone with no financial knowledge who is just starting out.

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