The must-have guide to achieving great wealth

Making Millions For Dummies lays out in simple, easy-to-understand steps the best ways to achieve wealth. Through a proven methodology of saving, building a successful business, smart investing, and carefully managing assets, this up-front, reliable guide shows readers how to achieve millionaire or multimillionaire status. It provides the lowdown on making wise financial decisions, with guidance on managing investments and inheritances, minimizing taxes, making money grow, and, most important, how to avoid common and costly financial mistakes. Millionaire wannabes will see how to maintain financial security throughout their life with this easy-to-follow road map to financial independence. For individuals who yearn to make millions but don’t want to be restricted to owning or running a business, the book features other options, such as inventing and patenting the next big thing, consulting, selling high-value collectibles, and flipping or owning real estate.

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An easy-to-understand how-to guide to the single most important thing you can do in investing – choosing and mixing your assets successfully.

You don’t need to be an expert analyst, a star stock-picker, or a rocket scientist to have better investment results than most other investors. You just need to allocate your assets in the right way, and have the conviction to stick with that allocation.

The big secret behind asset allocation – the secret that most sophisticated investors know and use to their benefit – is that it’s really not all that hard to do.

Asset Allocation For Dummies serves as a comprehensive guide to maximizing returns and minimizing risk – while managing taxes, fees and other costs – in putting together a portfolio to reflect your unique financial goals.

Jerry A. Miccolis (Basking Ridge, NJ), CFA, CFP, FCAS, MAAA is a widely quoted expert commentator who has been interviewed in The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, and appeared on CBS Radio and ABC-TV. He is a senior financial advisor and co-owner of Brinton Eaton Wealth Advisors (www.brintoneaton.com), a fee-only investment management, tax advisory and financial planning firm in Madison, N.J. Dorianne R. Perrucci (Scotch Plains, NJ) is a freelance writer who has been published in The New York Times, Newsweek, and TheStreet.com, and has collaborated on several financial books, including I.O.U.S.A, One Nation, Under Stress, In Debt (Wiley, 2008).

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Get smart about spending and saving — and ride out a recession!

Looking for practical ways to make every dollar count? This savvy guide gives you expert tips for tightening your belt and saving cash in every area of your life — from your house and car to dining and entertaining to banking and managing debt. You get realistic solutions for making smarter choices and living well in this time of economic turmoil — without extraordinary sacrifice!

• Bump up your take-home pay– spiff up your resume, find a good job fast, explore telecommuting, or start a home-based business
• Get your personal finances in tip-top shape — create a budget, pay down debt, save on insurance, and protect your retirement funds
• Develop recession-proof habits — use coupons and rebates, extend the life of your wardrobe, utilize community resources, travel on a budget, and save on utilities and fuel expenses
• Decorate on a dime and entertain on a shoestring — plan parties, celebrate the holidays, and give gifts without losing your shirt
• Bounce back from bad financial situations — improve bad credit scores, and negotiate with creditors or the IRS

Open the book and find:

• 125 tips for making changes in your life that allow you to continue to live well
• Ways to stand out on paper and in an interview when looking for a job
• Tips on managing debt — from working with credit counselors and consolidating your debts to boosting your income
• Smart solutions for weathering financial emergencies, from bankruptcy to foreclosure

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Do-it-yourself money management is a defining trend of our modern world and the DK Essential Finance series provides the perfect personal reference to help take advantage of the situation. Useful questionnaires, charts and graphs assist you through important financial decisions and help gain the confidence needed to build real financial security.

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Jim Cramer is the champion of the middle-class investor. Every night on Mad Money, he provides valuable information about stocks, steering investors away from danger zones and leading them to the investments that can turn a lackluster portfolio into a powerhouse of profit. In his new book, he shows investors how to take the advice on his TV program and put it into action.

Cramer walks investors through the key decisions they have to make: understanding their tolerance for risk and defining their goals, doing the essential homework on a stock, and knowing how to buy and sell stocks the right way — the Cramer way. This is a true nuts-and-bolts guide to investing, from Cramer’s detailed discussion of the sort of homework investors must do to his own guidelines for knowing when and how to sell stocks.

Mad Money is a hugely entertaining television program, but it also offers valuable information that can be the basis for a winning portfolio. Cramer shows how to turn the “Lightning Round” into a terrific tool for investing; it’s stock-market strength training. He reveals how he can assess a stock in only seconds — a valuable skill that every investor can acquire and put to good use. He explains what to look for in his CEO and CFO interviews, and how to use those conversations to make successful investment decisions. He reviews some of his best calls made on Mad Money, as well as some of his worst ones, to extract ten lessons from each that can profit every investor. And for the Mad Money junkies who just can’t get enough, Cramer goes behind the scenes to explain everything from the reason behind his deliberate mispronunciations to his notorious chair abuse to the zany props and buttons that keep things humming.

From the first “Booyah” to the last roar of the bull, Mad Money is every investor’s favorite television program, and Jim Cramer’s Mad Money is the book that can turn a TV program into a top-notch stock portfolio.

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