How to Fund the Life You Want: What everyone needs to know about savings, pensions and investments

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Robin Powell Jonathan Hollow

How to Fund the Life You Want

What everyone needs to know about savings, pensions and investments

Robin Powell, Jonathan Hollow

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English

Bloomsbury Business
31 January 2023

Investment & securities; Pensions; Budgeting & financial management; Personal finance; Retirement

Managing personal finances is an unavoidable but laborious element of our day-to-day lives. From ISAs and pensions to the stock market and even cryptocurrencies, there are a dizzying number of complex options available to us when it comes to saving and investing our personal wealth.

With everyone seeming to have their own opinion on the best options for saving money and boosting your pension (particularly on the internet), the task of deciding where to place your money and how to effectively save it is a difficult one. In How to Fund the Life You Want, the reader will gain clear objective guidance that cuts through the jargon and is adaptable to their personal circumstances. Jonathan Hollow draws upon his vast expertise as a financial expert to provide rational advice backed by academic research while Robin Powell, as a prominent financial journalist and commentator, clarifies how this advice can be applied to your own circumstances to provide growth and security to your personal finances.

The authors exhaustively bust the myths and get-rich-quick schemes that pervade across the internet, and clarify the approaches that are likely to lead to solid growth while avoiding excess risk. While such information may be unreliably scattered across the internet, this book provides a comprehensive step-by-step guide and a practical workbook through which the reader can adapt their behaviour and gain the best results.

How to Fund the Life You Want a highly practical and refreshingly honest book written by two independent experts who have seen how the investment industry works from the inside, and how it profits from complexity, ignorance and fear. They set out to show in clear and practical terms how you can beat this system and, crucially, make money for yourself, instead of lining the pockets of financial professionals.

By: Robin Powell, Jonathan Hollow
Imprint: Bloomsbury Business
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781399404600
ISBN 10: 1399404601
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 31 January 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

About the Authors Foreword by Iona Bain Introduction 1Your Money of Your Life? 2Invest in ... Yourself 3Manage Your Money 4 Capture Market Returns 5Avoid Charlatans and Sharks 6Take the Right Risks 7Manage Your Mix 8Face Your Feelings 9Find a First-Rate Adviser Our Six Rules and the Downloadable Workbook Jargon-Buster Endnotes Acknowledgements Index

Robin Powell is an award-winning journalist and campaigner for positive change in global investing. He previously worked in broadcast news and current affairs – he was a news reporter and documentary maker for ITV for 14 years, before freelancing for organizations such as Sky News and BBC. He was also a Visiting Media Fellow at Duke University in North Carolina and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Journalists. Robin is the founder and editor of The Evidence-Based Investor, a news and content syndication site that works to dispel myths and vested interests in the investment industry. He is also the editor of Adviser 2.0, a blog which explores the changes taking place within the financial advice sector. Robin is Founder and Executive Director of Ember Regis Group and its subsidiaries Regis Media, a provider of content marketing for financial advice firms, and Ember Television, which produces and distributes video content based on sharing new ideas in the industry. Jonathan Hollow recently worked for the UK Government’s Money Advice Service and the Money and Pensions Service. He worked with leaders and regulators in government and the financial services industry to create the ‘UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing’. He previously worked as Editor-in-Chief for the Cabinet Office’s online publications, before becoming the Innovation Director at Serco.

Reviews for How to Fund the Life You Want: What everyone needs to know about savings, pensions and investments

This is such a valuable guide to DIY investing, I recommend you make this book your first investment. -- Claer Barrett * Consumer Editor, Financial Times * If you’re serious about getting things right with your money – and avoiding costly mistakes – then set time aside to work through this excellent book. You will end up better off. No question. -- Paul Lewis * Freelance Presenter, Money Box BBC Radio 4 * Wonderfully researched, jargon-free, thought-provoking, interactive and engages the reader from start to finish. -- Jeff Prestridge * Personal Finance Editor, Mail on Sunday * I welcome this much-needed book, here to help anyone make sense of their money and pensions. With their human touch, no-nonsense language and a relentlessly practical approach, Robin and Jonathan have written the “missing manual” for everyday investors. -- Jackie Leiper * Managing Director, Pensions & Stockbroking at Lloyds Banking Group *