The Handbook of Personal Wealth Management: How to Ensure Maximum Investment Returns with Security

The Handbook of Personal Wealth Management, now fully updated for this seventh edition, offers authoritative, jargon-free advice on how to structure personal and business-related finances. Now more than ever, it is vital that investment returns are safeguarded and maximized - but as the world economy enters increasingly turbulent waters, how can this be achieved?

This handbook covers the key aspects of personal wealth management in a clear and comprehensive way, including:

- investment strategies for 2011 onwards
- key principles in asset management
- taxation issues
- alternative investment vehicles
- real estate, forestry and the environment
- philanthropic concerns

This book provides professionals who have accrued sufficient capital for serious investment with insightful and practical tips on how best to manage their personal affairs.

The text also contains valuable analysis of some of the less conventional investment options on the market, all offering diversity of choice for the serious investor. These include investments in farmland, forestry, art and antiques, diamonds and racehorse ownership. For those with an interest in philanthropy, there is a chapter from the Charities Aid Foundation on how the wealthy can help charities during the economic downturn.

For those with the capital to be a serious investor, The Handbook of Personal Wealth Management helps identify important new investment options.