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Ivy League Wealth Secrets: That the Master Planners don't want you to know!

Keith R. Soltis
Outskirts Press (2010)
ISBN 9781432746506
Reviewed by Melissa Koltes for RebeccasReads (4/10)


Do not expect this book to tell you how to buy a house with no money down, create turnkey websites that will generate thousands of dollars or any of the other late night infomercial schpeels that you see every day!  This book is about knowledge and how to use that knowledge to make sure that when you are finally ready to retire and leave the rat race, you will have a means to support yourself. 

We have all heard that we need to save, that we need to contribute to our 401k, and that we need to reduce our credit card debts.  But hearing it and doing it are not the same thing and unless someone can explain how we can pay Paul without robbing Peter, most people can’t do it. 

This is the explanation you need!  The author spends the time to not only explain how to go about saving, he also explains how you are losing money every single month.  By simply saving $20 a month, the long term gains are so significant that it actually shocked me.  Everything from how taxes impact you to how paying off a credit card can benefit you. 

I have always heard that you need to ensure you are diversifying but to the everyday person that means very little.  Sure there is a high level understanding of what that means and what it entails but no one wants to break it down to the nitty gritty…until now.  How you diversify (or should diversify) is spelled out in plain English with no jargon to get in the way.  The author not only tells you how it should be done but why and you learn that these ebbs and flows that the market does are normal and should be expected.

This is a book that everyone should read and I am going to make my teenage children read it as well.  It has information that I hope will open their eyes to their own financial independence!