What's Your Net Worth?: The WFN.Com Guide to Financial Independence - Hardcover

Openshaw, Jennifer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0738204439 ISBN 13: 9780738204437

Publisher: Perseus Books, 2001

Synopsis

From the founder of the Women's Financial Network (WFN), the only book that will help women use the Internet to better manage their money. Women are using the Internet more than ever-and more than men-to shop, chat, and, of course, to manage their finances. As founder and CEO of the pioneering Women's Financial Network (WFN), Jennifer Openshaw has made it her mission to provide women with all of the advice and access they need to achieve financial security.Much more than a catalog of sites, What's Your 'Net Worth is chock-full of tools to help women seize the opportunities that are available on the Internet, from IPOs and investment clubs to business financing, mortgages, retirement planning, on-line banking, and much more. It is packed with female-friendly advice and practical tips on money management that will guide women toward financial prosperity.

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Review

In What's Your Net Worth?, Jennifer Openshaw, founder of Women's Financial Network and a frequent financial commentator on US TV, describes a complete 12-step "wealth-building" programme that combines sound advice with Web-site recommendations. Online investing may get the lion's share of attention, but Openshaw says the Net really is the perfect vehicle for managing all personal finance information--especially for women, whose unique fiscal requirements often are ignored by traditional guides to money management. It boils down to mixing time-honoured (albeit gender-specific) techniques with today's technology to develop a three-part game plan Openshaw calls "Earn it, Save it, and Grow it!" Towards the second goal, for example, she describes various ways that expenses might be trimmed to increase savings "not only by using online budgeting tools to get a handle on your spending but also by devising an online strategy to spend less on the things you still need to buy." Other individual actions, all based on a variety of suggestions building toward the overall goal of financial stability and geared specifically toward women, focus on eliminating debt and building credit, protecting assets, minimising taxes, increasing earnings, and giving back through charitable contributions. --Howard Rothman

Edition details

• Publisher: Perseus Books
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0738204439
• ISBN 13: 9780738204437
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352