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Sudden Money: Managing a Financial Windfall

ISBN: 978-0-471-38086-3

April 2000

336 pages

Description

TURN SUDDEN MONEYTM INTO LASTING WEALTH

Maximize your wealth and minimize your stress and confusion with this unique, indispensable guide to handling a sudden financial windfall. Written by nationally recognized financial planner Susan Bradley, Sudden Money provides a complete program for successfully managing newfound wealth. Discover ways to:

  • Stay calm and not make decisions based on your emotions
  • Seek experienced, professional advice
  • Avoid pressure from others
  • Create and execute the best financial plan for you

Most important,Sudden Money provides you with easy-to-implement, proven ways to ensure that your financial gains are more than fleeting good fortune.

"A 'must read' for financial advisors and for clients who have received financial windfalls. Susan Bradley has detailed—in an easy-to-apply way—a new financial planning discipline that is sure to become a vital part of discussions about the burgeoning wealth in this country."
—Ronni Burns, Wall Street consultant

"This book is essential for anyone who receives a financial windfall. It's an easy read and packed with useful advice."
—Don Phillips, CEO, Morningstar

"Reading this book is like having a trusted friend explain what to expect, what to do, and what not to do at a happy time that can also be overwhelming and stressful. This book has been extraordinarily helpful to me."
—Marci Shimoff, coauthor, Chicken Soup for the Soul

"Women in particular are often ill prepared to manage a financial windfall. Without careful planning, it could turn into a pitfall. Susan Bradley's book is a sensible guide on how to handle instant wealth."
—Jennifer Openshaw, CEO, WFN.com, Financial Network for Women

About the Author

SUSAN BRADLEY has been a Certified Financial Planner for nearly twenty years. She is the founder of The Sudden Money Center, a research and education company in West Palm Beach, Florida. She speaks, gives seminars and multi-day workshops, and trains financial advisors in the Sudden Money Process. She also designs Sudden Money programs for families, financial service companies, law firms, and corporations.

MARY MARTIN, PhD, is a writer living in Palm Beach, Florida. She received her doctorate in applied linguistics from New York University and has been writing and developing curricula for over a decade.