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LAR's FEATURED BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH

The Only Guide You'll Ever Need to the

RIGHT FINANCIAL PLAN

Managing Your Wealth, Risk, and Investments
LARRY E. SWEDROE
Kevin Grogan and Tiya Lim

Asset allocation? Investment planning? Risk management? What role does each play in your financial security? All these elements are critical, but how do they work together to create your overall financial plan?

From Larry Swedroe—the author of the bestselling series of "The Only Guide" investment books—with Kevin Grogan and Tiya Lim comes a step-by-step handbook that shows you how to develop a winning personal investment strategy and reveals what it takes to make that strategy part of your overall financial plan. The Only Guide You'll Ever Need for the Right Financial Plan focuses on the "art" of investing and gives you the information you need to create a strategy that is tailor-made for your particular situation.

Designed for savvy investors and professional advisors, this book offers the vital information needed for developing and implementing an overall strategic financial plan. In this essential resource, Swedroe outlines the basics in asset allocation and other investment planning concepts and helps you:

Design an investment policy statement and an individual asset allocation plan

Locate assets in the most tax-efficient manner

Maintain your portfolio's risk profile in the most cost-effective and tax-efficient manner

Integrate risk management and estate planning issues into the plan

And much more

The Only Guide You'll Ever Need for the Right Financial Plan offers a handy tool to help you make more informed and prudent decisions that will go a long way to ensure a secure financial future.

"Larry Swedroe's work comes as close to being the definitive investment book of our time as any that I can imagine. His greatest gift is his ability to communicate with profound simplicity, bringing clarity to the daunting challenge facing investors who are intent on reaching their financial goals."
—BILL SCHULTHEIS, author of The Coffehouse Investor

"If you're looking to sharpen your financial thinking, let Larry Swedroe be your guide. With insights from The Only Guide You'll Ever Need for the Right Financial Plan, you should be able to raise your financial game—and maybe boost your family's wealth.”
—JONATHAN CLEMENTS, author of The Little Book of Main Street Money

"Just as every successful builder needs a blueprint, so too does every successful investor need a personally tailored investment policy. How much stocks, how much bonds? Foreign versus domestic? When and how to begin Social Security or withdrawing from your IRA? Larry Swedroe plots your financial life from cradle to grave (and even beyond). Don't invest without it!"
—WILLIAM BERNSTEIN, author of The Four Pillars of Investing

"This is a most excellent book! Either as a great educational read or an indispensible reference, The Only Guide You'll Ever Need for the Right Financial Plan will pay you back many times over the cover price."
—HAROLD EVENSKY, President, Evensky & Katz Wealth Management