What's Your Future Worth?: Using Present Value to Make Better Decisions
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (947 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1626563012 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Lara Heller said Better Decision Making is in your Future. What’s Your Future Worth articulates a process of decision-making that is thoughtful, deliberate and accesible. Neuwirth distills a few decades of experience as an actuary, where he honed his skills and developed his vision on how to better make decisions based on their near- and long-term impact. The book lays out a clear five-step process for considering a wide range of decisions – small to l. "The book is too simplistic, and i find it" according to Amazon Customer. The book is too simplistic, and i find it does not provide an actionable concept to assess your present value. Its more conceptual and abstract.. "Great practical guide on decision making" according to Todd W. Jones. A great quick read for anyone without formal mathematical training. Certainly the section on financial decision making is of huge value to anyone close to retirement.
If only bankers had had this book in the early 2000s, we might have been spared the Great Recession!”—James Kenney, FSA, EA, President and CEO, Kenney Consulting LLC“Makes Present Value compelling, interesting, and accessible; it's a concept for us all to embrace in making important life or financial decisions for the short term, long term, and even the very distant future as our legacies.”—Jennifer S. Reading What's Your Future Worth? is a great way to prepare.”—Steve Vernon, FSA, author of Money for Life“Provides a great deal of important insight into the intractability of the future, the idios
Your old refrigerator doesn't work as well as it used to—should you buy a new one right away or muddle through for a while? You're offered a great discount on a service you don't need at the moment but eventually will—buy the service now or wait? With just a little math and some common sense, you can compare future costs and benefits with present costs and benefits and make “apples to apples” comparisons. Using examples that anyone can relate to, Neuwirth walks you through the process. While financial professional Peter Neuwirth can't help you actually predict the future, he can offer a simple, sys
Peter Neuwirth has over thirty years of actuarial experience. . In his personal life, Peter has used Present Value to decide if he should take a time-share company up on its offer of a cheap vacation rental in Kauai, what kind of running shoes to buy, and whether to get married, among other quandaries. He is a fellow of