A fun and straightforward approach to learning personal finance and budgeting In The Personal Finance Cookbook, Certified Financial PlannerTM certificant and celebrated social media creator Nick Meyer delivers a fun and engaging toolkit for a variety of personal finance tasks, including budgeting, investing, and buying a house. In the book, you'll find a cookbook-style collection of “recipes” detailing the steps you need to take to complete various common and important money-related tasks. You'll learn how to avoid the “paralysis by analysis” that often traps people into doing very little about their personal finances before it's too late. You'll also discover how to take meaningful, concrete steps toward change and positive action. The book includes: Strategies for household budgeting and how to start investing your money The best ways to start saving for your first home and your first car The steps you should take before and while applying for your first credit card and strategies for building your credit rating An invaluable resource for young families, new professionals just beginning their career journeys, and people starting to get ready for retirement, The Personal Finance Cookbook is the perfect book for everyone hoping to get a strong grip of their money situation once and for all.

Cook Your Assets is a great starter guide for the finance novice. Designed as a cookbook, Cook Your Assets contains easy to follow recipes to gain financial independence. This book is designed to help: *Reduce stress about money and financial issues. *Achieve financial goals. *Improve your daily personal financial habits. *Increase your net worth. *Prevent life changing events (ie: marriage, children, divorce) from becoming a financial strain. With fuel, food, and housing prices continuing to rise, managing our financial lives is more demanding. Cook Your Assets addresses the basics of finance and will provide readers with a starting point. The Financial Chef will help readers make excellent recipes such as; Creamy Chipolte Credit Card Dip, Honey Glazed Home Insurance and Tiramisu Trusts.

Get control of your finances - and your future! Do you feel like you'll never pay off your student loans? Worried about your mounting credit card debt? Wondering when you'll ever make enough money to stop living paycheck to paycheck? You're not alone - millions of young Americans are finding it hard to save for the future and still pay today's bills on time. But with The Everything Personal Finance in Your 20s and 30s Book, 3rd Edition, you'll learn how to be financially independent by: Creating a workable budget Minimizing credit card and student loan debt Investing money wisely Building an emergency fund You'll also learn how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau can help you navigate the often-confusing world of financial service products. With this easy-to-use guide, you'll learn how to manage, save, and invest wisely - starting today!

Every day, more than 10,000 people turn forty in the United States, moving toward retirement without traditional pension plans backing them up. Lacking the safety net that protected their parents and grandparents, they’re forced to take the initiative for their own financial security. They need a source of information that doesn’t scare them away with insider jargon and intimidating complications. This book will help those who have felt uninformed, intimidated, or excluded from the process, and will simplify difficult topics like budgeting, investing, paying for college while saving for retirement, and helping kids with debt. People will find the essential tools and resources they need to set a course toward retirement and security at this critical stage in life.

Solve common and not-so-common financial problems using Python libraries such as NumPy, SciPy, and pandas Key FeaturesUse powerful Python libraries such as pandas, NumPy, and SciPy to analyze your financial dataExplore unique recipes for financial data analysis and processing with PythonEstimate popular financial models such as CAPM and GARCH using a problem-solution approachBook Description Python is one of the most popular programming languages used in the financial industry, with a huge set of accompanying libraries. In this book, you'll cover different ways of downloading financial data and preparing it for modeling. You'll calculate popular indicators used in technical analysis, such as Bollinger Bands, MACD, RSI, and backtest automatic trading strategies. Next, you'll cover time series analysis and models, such as exponential smoothing, ARIMA, and GARCH (including multivariate specifications), before exploring the popular CAPM and the Fama-French three-factor model. You'll then discover how to optimize asset allocation and use Monte Carlo simulations for tasks such as calculating the price of American options and estimating the Value at Risk (VaR). In later chapters, you'll work through an entire data science project in the financial domain. You'll also learn how to solve the credit card fraud and default problems using advanced classifiers such as random forest, XGBoost, LightGBM, and stacked models. You'll then be able to tune the hyperparameters of the models and handle class imbalance. Finally, you'll focus on learning how to use deep learning (PyTorch) for approaching financial tasks. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to effectively analyze financial data using a recipe-based approach. What you will learnDownload and preprocess financial data from different sourcesBacktest the performance of automatic trading strategies in a real-world settingEstimate financial econometrics models in Python and interpret their resultsUse Monte Carlo simulations for a variety of tasks such as derivatives valuation and risk assessmentImprove the performance of financial models with the latest Python librariesApply machine learning and deep learning techniques to solve different financial problemsUnderstand the different approaches used to model financial time series dataWho this book is for This book is for financial analysts, data analysts, and Python developers who want to learn how to implement a broad range of tasks in the finance domain. Data scientists looking to devise intelligent financial strategies to perform efficient financial analysis will also find this book useful. Working knowledge of the Python programming language is mandatory to grasp the concepts covered in the book effectively.

A fun and straightforward approach to learning personal finance and budgeting In The Personal Finance Cookbook, Certified Financial PlannerTM certificant and celebrated social media creator Nick Meyer delivers a fun and engaging toolkit for a variety of personal finance tasks, including budgeting, investing, and buying a house. In the book, you'll find a cookbook-style collection of “recipes” detailing the steps you need to take to complete various common and important money-related tasks. You'll learn how to avoid the “paralysis by analysis” that often traps people into doing very little about their personal finances before it's too late. You'll also discover how to take meaningful, concrete steps toward change and positive action. The book includes: Strategies for household budgeting and how to start investing your money The best ways to start saving for your first home and your first car The steps you should take before and while applying for your first credit card and strategies for building your credit rating An invaluable resource for young families, new professionals just beginning their career journeys, and people starting to get ready for retirement, The Personal Finance Cookbook is the perfect book for everyone hoping to get a strong grip of their money situation once and for all.

The financial industry has recently adopted Python at a tremendous rate, with some of the largest investment banks and hedge funds using it to build core trading and risk management systems. Updated for Python 3, the second edition of this hands-on book helps you get started with the language, guiding developers and quantitative analysts through Python libraries and tools for building financial applications and interactive financial analytics. Using practical examples throughout the book, author Yves Hilpisch also shows you how to develop a full-fledged framework for Monte Carlo simulation-based derivatives and risk analytics, based on a large, realistic case study. Much of the book uses interactive IPython Notebooks.

If you struggle with money, are trying to save for retirement or if you have dreams of financial independence, this book is for you.For most of us, just covering the bills each month is a challenge. As consumers, we have racked up more debt than ever before.If you have read other personal finance books, you have likely learned about automatically saving 10% of your income, setting a budget and investing your money in blue chip stocks and bonds.Which is great if you have some money to invest. Or if you can actually keep to a budget.Cashflow Cookbook offers a new approach. 60 easy "recipes" that anyone can use to reduce their spending and free up some cashflow. With minimal sacrifice. All as easy as, well, following a recipe.Each recipe includes the calculations of the savings value of the recipe when invested for ten years. Sample math is provided to show typical savings for a "hearty serving" (a family with home, cottage etc) as well as for a "light serving" (a single person in an apartment). You can easily calculate the savings for your situation and then get that money working for you - paying of debts and building savings - with some left over for fun.They provide fresh ideas to free up cashflow in every aspect of your life including: * Housing* Transportation* Food & Drink* Household* Lifestyle* FinancialEach recipe take between 10 minutes and a couple of hours to implement and can save between $25 and $900 a month. Each. Investing those savings at 7% can provide more than $700,000 over 10 years for a single person and over $2,000,000 for a family.Yes, really.Cashflow Cookbook is an ideal resource for: * Those who want to attain financial independence* Job hunters who need to stretch out a severance package* Teachers to help students learn about financial literacy* Couples who spend too much time fighting about money* Retirees who are trying to maximize their spending power* The newly divorced, struggling to cope with starting over* Families who are trying to reduce money worries* Entrepreneurs who need to keep expenses lean* Graduates paying loans as they enter the working worldTake the first step to financial independence and download Cashflow Cookbook - Canadian Edition.Watch for the U.S. Edition coming soon.

YOU ARE A SMART WOMAN, BUT DO YOU STILL: —Feel you’re too busy to invest your money? —Rely on someone else to deal? —Get bored by financial talk? —Think that investing is something only men do? —Worry you’re not smart enough? THINK AGAIN. Women have made strides in so many areas and yet we still have a blind spot when it comes to managing our money. Why? A myriad of factors cause women to earn less than men over a lifetime, making it all the more imperative that we make the money we do have work for us as much as possible. And here’s a reality check: as many as nine out of ten of us will have to manage our finances and those of our family at some point in our lives. And a lot of us think that means keeping our money “safe” in savings accounts, and not investing it. But not doing so has an opportunity cost that will lead to opportunities lost—the ability to pay for a college education, own a home, change careers to pursue a dream, or retire. Alice Finn wants to change how you think about your money, no matter how much or little you have. In Smart Women Love Money, Finn paves the way forward by showing you that the power of investing is the last frontier of feminism. Drawing on more than twenty years of experience as a successful wealth management adviser, Finn shares five simple and proven strategies for a woman at any stage of her life, whether starting a career, home raising children, or heading up a major corporation. Finn’s Five Life-changing Rules of Investing will secure your financial future: 1. Invest in Stocks for the Long Run: Get the magic of compounding working for you, starting now. 2. Allocate your Assets: Strategize your investing to get the most of your returns. 3. Implement with Index Funds: Take advantage of “passive” investing with simple, low-cost, and diverse funds. 4. Rebalance Regularly: Sell high and buy low without much effort, to keep you on track toward your goals. 5. Keep Your Fees Low: Uncover hidden fees so you don’t lose half of your wealth to Wall Street. Finn will also provide the tools you need to achieve long-term success no matter what the markets are doing or what the headlines say. So even in the face of uncertainty— such as the possible dumping of the fiduciary rule (requiring financial advisers to act in their client’s best interests) by the Trump administration—Smart Women Love Money will help you protect yourself and all of your assets for your future. Whether you have $10, $10,000, or more, it’s time to get smart about your money.

A fully revised edition of one of the most influential books ever written on personal finance with more than a million copies sold “The best book on money. Period.” –Grant Sabatier, founder of “Millennial Money,” on CNBC Make It "This is a wonderful book. It can really change your life." -Oprah For more than twenty-five years, Your Money or Your Life has been considered the go-to book for taking back your life by changing your relationship with money. Hundreds of thousands of people have followed this nine-step program, learning to live more deliberately and meaningfully with Vicki Robin’s guidance. This fully revised and updated edition with a foreword by "the Frugal Guru" (New Yorker) Mr. Money Mustache is the ultimate makeover of this bestselling classic, ensuring that its time-tested wisdom applies to people of all ages and covers modern topics like investing in index funds, managing revenue streams like side hustles and freelancing, tracking your finances online, and having difficult conversations about money. Whether you’re just beginning your financial life or heading towards retirement, this book will show you how to: • Get out of debt and develop savings • Save money through mindfulness and good habits, rather than strict budgeting • Declutter your life and live well for less • Invest your savings and begin creating wealth • Save the planet while saving money • …and so much more! "The seminal guide to the new morality of personal money management." -Los Angeles Times