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lightreads ([personal profile] lightreads) wrote2014-01-14 09:23 pm

Women and Money by Suze Orman

Women and Money: Owning the Power to Control Your DestinyWomen and Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny by Suze Orman

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


Meh. This did have the virtue of getting me to seriously think about living trusts and beneficiaries and medical powers of attorney, but otherwise, I thought this was rigid and prescriptive. Not everyone wants to put their money entirely in stocks, 90% domestic with 10% foreign. That's terrible advice for many people. Yet that's all she offered. It was all like that – here's the one or maybe two ways you should do something, with no sensitivity to the different risk tolerances and other values different women bring to money.



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