Your Money Milestones

Here is a lively new guide that offers fresh and actionable ways to approach everyday financial problems. Whether youre rich or just getting by, starting your career or winding down, youll benefit from the authors insightful observations and suggestionsall delivered with warmth and wit.

Evan Cooper, Deputy Editor, InvestmentNews

The authors unique gift is to make complex ideas from the world of high finance simple to understand, and his new book gently coaches readers in how to think about their personal finances. Best of all, readers can use Milevskys financial calculators online to test these ideas, so they can make choices with confidence. Investing in this book might be the wisest financial decision you make this year.

Gil Weinreich, Editor, Research Magazine

The author has accomplished the near impossible. He has made the complicated, confusing, and often contradictory world of personal financial planning easy to understand. More importantly, hes made it easy to act on his ground-breaking advice and guidance and has made it easy for readers to address their most important financial decisions in a thoughtful, practical, and painless manner.

Robert Powell, Editor, Retirement Weekly and Retirement Columnist, www.MarketWatch.com/retirement

What are the nine crucial financial decisions every person must make over the course of a lifetime? If you dont know, read this book. The authors nine choices revolve around his core concept of human capital and how it must be gradually converted to financial capital to achieve a successful retirement.

Jonathan Chevreau, National Post Columnist and Author of Findependence Day

Your Money Milestones helps just about anyone see lifes most important money decisions in a fresh and completely rational light. If you want a smart, practical roadmap to a financially sound future, you need this book.

Eric Schurenberg, Editor-in-Chief, BNET

Your Money Milestones illustrates how four principles inspired by basic arithmetic can be applied to manage the most important financial decisions (money milestones) people face over their entire financial lifecycles.

• Addition: Identify the true value all of your financial resources.
• Subtraction: Budget for the hidden liabilities in your future.
• Division: Spend your total resources evenly over time.
• Multiplication: Prepare for many alternative and unexpected universes.

This book offers a complete framework for thinking about money thats every bit as provocative as Freakonomics. Drawing on the newest research into psychology and personal finance, Milevsky helps you identify the tr...