Family Fortunes

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781118171417 Author(s): Bill Bonner Format: Hardcover Language: English Year: 2012 Edition: 1st Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc Pages: 352 Series: Agora Series Series Number: 77

Description: Selected as one of Motley FoolA?s A‚ A?5 Great Books You Should ReadA? Advice on managing your wealth from bestselling author Bill Bonner From trusted New York Times bestselling author Bill Bonner comes a radical new way to look at family money and a practical, actionable guide to getting and maintaining multigenerational wealth. Family Fortunes: How to Build Family Wealth and Hold on to It for 100 Years is packed with useful information, interwoven with Bonner's stories about his own family's wealth philosophy and practices. A comprehensive guide that shows how families can successfully preserve their estates by ignoring most of what people think they know about 'the rich' and, instead, training and motivating all family members to work together toward a very uncommon goal. This book is a must-read for all individual investorsA?even those who do not plan to leave money to their childrenA?because it challenges many of the most ubiquitous principles and rules of investing. You might expect a book on family wealth to be extremely conservative in its outlook. Instead, the Bonners announce what is practically a revolutionary manifesto. They explain: Why family money should NOT be invested in 'safe, conservative' investmentsWhy charitable giving is usually a waste of money, or worseWhy it is NOT a good idea to let children go their own wayWhy you can't trust wealth 'professionals' and why you should never entrust your money to money managersWhy giving your children as much education as possible is NOT a good ideaWhy Warren Buffett and the rest of the rich people asking for higher tax rates are wrong to take 'the pledge'Why Wall Street is a graveyard for capital, why most celebrity CEOs are a threat to the businesses they run, why modern capitalism is a failure, a