title: The Wall Street Journal Lifetime Guide to Money: Strategies for Managing Your Finances
author: Staff of the Wall Street Journal
description: This massive guide from the Journal's "Money &amp; Investing" section offers, in distinct units for age groups 20-40, 40-50 and 60-plus, comprehensive advice on a full spectrum of investment choices and family money matters: home and auto buying, taxes, insurance, college costs, debt handling, unemployment survival, employee benefits and retirement funding (including today's often puzzling health-care environment), estate planning?all pretty much in present-day terms, which are of course bound to change. Unlike that of the Beardstown Ladies, who might research their company holdings down to the CEO's sensibly warm socks, the investment advice detailed here?"stick with stocks"?is largely technical, based on what the markets for stocks, bonds and other instruments may do and the pros and cons of transaction procedures, timing and broker relations. Readers zeroing in on their own age group will find?in a friendly if somewhat repetitive text?a diversified personal money program. Money Book Club main selection; BOMC and QPB selections. <br />Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Lisa Conway-Hughes
  
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  MONEY LESSONS
  
   _How to Manage Your Finances to Get the Life You Want_
  
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    1. Introduction
    2. 1 Get Budgeting!
    3. 2 Demolishing Debt
    4. 3 Cash Savings
    5. 4 Getting on the Ladder
    6. 5 What Comes Next?
    7. 6 Planning for the Unexpected
    8. 7 Money and Relationships: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
    9. 8 Passing It On
    10. 9 Once in a Lifetime
    11. What Now?
    12. Resources
    13. Acknowledgements
    14. Index
  
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  About the Author
  
  Lisa Conway-Hughes is a qualified Financial Advisor with fifteen years’
  experience and a Fellow of the Personal Finance Society. She also blogs and
  speaks publicly on financial issues. To date, she has appeared in the
  _Guardian_ , _Financial Times, Telegraph_ , _Independent, Glamour_ and
  _Citywire_ as well as on BBC News, discussing subjects such as The Budget _._
  She gives regular corporate talks and has recently started a podcast called