It Pays to Talk: How to Have the Essential Conversations with Your Family about Money and Investing

by Charles Schwab and Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz

Book Overview

Does your family talk about money?

Do your kids understand your money values?

Do you and your mate agree on how you spend and invest your money?

Do you know if your parents are financially secure?

These are the questions that Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz and her father, Charles Schwab, ask at the beginning of this invaluable family financial primer. The authors acknowledge that these are difficult questions but stress that families...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0609610287
• ISBN13: 9780609610282
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Crown Business
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Book!

This book goes way beyond it's title... it is a great primer on financial planning and investing. In addition, it gives you a lot of ideas on how to open up the dialog with your family about money matters.

The silver is buried in the backyard.

The airline stock information is in your grandfather's wardrobe. The coin collection is behind the Meow Mix on the back porch shelf. Your older sister is going to stab you in the back. Your brother's neurosis may be an act. You're a good kid, but you won't pass "GO." Better make your own money.--Laurel825

A Helpful Book

I was always afraid of investing. This book is a great guide. It does a wonderful job of demystifying money issues that always have intimidated and scared me. A friend of mine recommended this book (her book club is reading it). I've read some of it out loud to my husband. We've talked about things we should have discussed years ago. It's an easy read, and a necessary one (at least for me). FIVE STARS ALL THE WAY!!