Smart Women Finish Rich

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Smart Women Finish Rich: 9 Steps to Achieving Financial Security and Funding Your Dreams by David Bach

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Like most finance books, this one became rapidly dated (savings accounts at 4%? Ahahahaha) but it's still good on general financial literacy. And I do endorse his project here of speaking specifically to women and women's financial concerns – make less, live longer, get screwed in the divorce. I just wish he hadn't accompanied that agenda with a lot of gender bullshit about how women and men are fundamentally different in how they invest and women have more patience, everybody, it just comes pre-installed as part of vaginas, obviously.

Still, I wish I'd read this eight years ago in my first real job, when I didn't understand tax-deferred accounts or insurance and just flailed vaguely around learning on the go. For contrast, today I bought shares of an index fund that tracks the MSCI real estate investment trust index, and I did it with confidence and as much knowledge as I wanted. This book didn't get me from there to here, but if I'd read it at the right time it would have saved a lot of effort.

Still would have been annoying, though.




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