What You Need to Do Now An 8-Point Action Plan to Secure Your Financial Independence

Ric Edelman, best-setting author of Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth, provides a back-to-basics plan for getting started on the road to financial, freedom. The time to act is now -- to preserve your financial well-being, secure your family's future, and ensure your peace of mind. Financial expert and best-selling author Ric Edelman's 8-point plan will help you to: Prepare for money emergencies by establishing a cash reserve, with tips on checking and savings accounts and safe places to stash that cash. Provide for your family with the right kind of health, life, disability, long-term care, auto, homeowners, and liability insurance. Preserve your assets with proper estate planning, from wills, titles, and trusts to probate, powers of attorney, and taxes. Secure your home with a 30-year mortgage and do so while you still have a job and can get the loan. Protect your income with the right questions to ask your employer about business continuity coverage, Phoenix plans, and other company-saving procedures. Defend your business with key man coverage, cross training, data backups, off-site storage, consultants, and other strategies. Help others in their time of need to make sure that no one is left behind. Plan your next investment moves by developing carefully designed, highly diversified long-term portfolios that will weather any storm.Edelman, Ric is the author of 'What You Need to Do Now An 8-Point Action Plan to Secure Your Financial Independence', published 2003 under ISBN 9780060094041 and ISBN 0060094044.