{"product_id":"9781032799414","title":"Essential Personal Finance : A Practical Guide for Students by Jason Butler","description":"Young people face unprecedented financial challenges: rising student debt, stiff competition for jobs, barriers to home ownership, dwindling state benefits and prospects of a longer working life. Essential Personal Finance is a guide to all the key areas of personal finance: budgeting, managing debt, savings and investments, insurance, securing a home and laying the foundations for retirement.   It provides an introduction to some of the essential foundations of a modern undergraduate finance qualification, including:the nature of financial institutions, markets and economic policy that shape the opportunities and decisions individuals facethe range of financial assets available to households, risk-return trade-off, basics of portfolio construction and impact of taxthe importance of the efficient market hypothesis and modern portfolio theory in shaping investment strategies and the limitations of these approachesbehavioural finance as a key to understanding factors influencing individual and market perceptions and actionsusing financial data to inform investment selection and create financial management tools that can aid decision-makingThe second edition has been fully updated and includes: more information on the cost of living crisis; Fintech, climate change, sustainable finance and cryptocurrencies; financial skills and calculations; tax, trust planning and wills; pensions; regulation and fraud; and additional case studies.   Written by authors who contribute experience as financial advisers, practitioners and academics, Essential Personal Finance is a compelling combination of a textbook aimed at students on personal finance and financial services courses, and a practical guide for young people in building their own financial strength and capability.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56296092107125,"sku":"9781032799414","price":48.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781032799414.jpg?v=1762770206","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781032799414","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}