Recommended Reading
The following books are recommended by Seneschal Advisors LLC.
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Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
Peter L. Bernstein
Synopsis: Human existence is based upon risk. This text charts the adventures of a group of thinkers who embarked on a voyage of intellectual discovery, transforming primeval superstition into the powerful tools of risk control employed today.
Encore: Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life
Marc Freedman
The movement of millions of sixty-somethings into a new phase in their working lives constitutes one of the most significant social trends in this country in nearly half a century. Encore describes the competing visions for work that are already lining up to capture the hearts and minds, and the time, of waves of baby boomers who are not content, or affluent enough, to spend their next twenty or thirty years on the golf course. Baby boomers are searching for a calling in the second half of life; they are moving beyond midlife yet refusing to phase out or fade away.
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Charles Mackay
Synopsis: Classic survey of crowd psychology takes an illuminating, entertaining look at three historic swindles: "The Mississippi Scheme," "The South-Sea Bubble," and "Tulipomania." Fired by greed and fed by naïveté, these stratagems gone awry offer essential reading for investors as well as students of history, psychology, and human nature.
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Synopsis: This is a book about luck. More specifically, it is a book about how we perceive luck, twist it around and regard it as intention or purpose. It may have its roots firmly in the financial arena, but it also incorporates and explains the effects and repercussions of randomness in many varied fields.
Freakonomics: Un economista politicamente incorrecto explora el lado oculta de lo que nos afecta
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Synopsis: From cheating and crime to sports and child-rearing, a rogue economist and his co-writer offer a view of how the world really works. Winner of the American Economic Association's 2003 John Bates Clark Medal.
Winning the Loser's Game
Charles Ellis
Book description: Investment Policy presents a fresh approach to professional investment management that involves active client participation. This revised and updated consumer's guide to investment policy will enable you and your clients to understand: The basic nature of institutional investing; How to formulate specific policies to reach long-term investment goals and objectives; How to manage investment managers to achieve these goals.
The Best Way to Save for College: A Complete Guide to 529 Plans, 2005 (Best Way to Save for College)
Joseph F. Hurley, CPA
Publisher Comments: With over 85,000 copies sold, The Best Way to Save for College has become the one book college-bound families and professional planners must have.
The Good Life: Truths That Last in Times of Need
Peter Gomes
Publisher Comments: After more than thirty years as minister at Harvard University, Peter J. Gomes has given his share of advice to the best and the brightest as they set sail into the world. Yet he has found that even these highly privileged students often run aground on the harsh realities of a life based in values that lead to ruin. The Good Life is his distillation of years of observation and insight into what is wrong and how we can all set our minds and hearts on higher things.
The New Yorker Book of Money Cartoons
Robert Mankoff
Book Description: If money makes the world go 'round, also wreak havoc with our personal worlds, spinning them up and down, topsy turvy, even out of orbit? Money can make us feel happy, sad, elated, stressed, crazed, and a whole host of other emotions. Now, thanks to the brilliant cartoonists of The New Yorker, money can also make us giggle, chuckle, chortle, snicker, and laugh out loud. And, we can better understand why money does all of the above.
This delightful collection about money in our everyday lives features 110 classic cartoons from the cartoonists of The New Yorker -- artists like Charles Addams, George Booth, Roz Chast, Peter Arno, and Gahan Wilson. The wit within its pages will tickle (and often inform) everyone in all walks of life. Christopher Buckley adds to the merriment with an introductory essay in his own inimitable and hilarious style.
Wealth in Families
Charles W. Collier
Wealth in Families takes a fresh look at family issues and philanthropic opportunities that affect almost everyone. "The real wealth of your family is not financial," says author Charles W. Collier, senior philanthropic adviser at Harvard University. Building on this basic premise, he emphasizes that there are in fact four dimensions of family wealth (human, intellectual, social, and financial), and he describes what families need to know and do to enhance the individual life journeys of each family member. "Ultimately," he continues, "financial planning should focus on questions of 'why' before even considering the techniques of 'how' to get the job done."
This short, highly readable volume, published by Harvard University, includes interviews with alumni and experts on family wealth. Collier helps readers answer the "why" questions, offering both a practical guide and a philosophical look at the meaning and purpose of family wealth.
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