Financial Strategies for Today's Widow: Coping with the Economic Challenges of Losing a Spouse

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Financial Strategies for Today's Widow: Coping with the Economic Challenges of Losing a Spouse
David Latko
Manufacturer: Fireside
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Binding: Paperback

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A successful financial counselor with twenty-five years' experience empowers widows to manage their finances and attain lifelong security

In many cases, losing a husband also means losing a financial partner. Suddenly, a widow is faced with essential decisions that she must consider single-handedly.

With Financial Strategies for Today's Widow, David W. Latko, whose financial seminars have been attended by more than ten thousand people, answers every question a widow may have -- whether she is old, young, or in between -- and guides her out of any money problem. His advice is matter-of-fact, yet reassuring and uniquely tailored to every step of a widow's financial life including how to:

• Understand the choices that come with reorganizing one's finances
• Make sure there will always be enough
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User-friendly and replete with real-life stories of those who have benefited from the advice Latko offers here, Financial Strategies for Today's Widow takes readers through potential pitfalls and problems and lays out specific strategies for handling common economic hurdles.

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A financial strategy book I couldn't put down.......2003-07-08

Who would have thought that "Financial Strategies for Today's Widow" would be a book I'd enjoy reading? I'd picked up a copy for a friend, and - curious - began to page through it... Eminently readable, the book surprised me with its great stories, and excellent advice.

All true, the stories in the book are poignant, eye-opening and presented in such a way that I truly didn't feel as though I was reading a self-help book. And yet all the lessons were clear. I'd imagine that everyone could benefit from reading "Financial Strategies for Today's Widow," but that the women for whom the book is written will especially appreciate it. The key thing is - not only is it important for women to have this information available to them - it has to be readable. And this book is, quite literally, hard to put down. A quality rarely found in arid self-help books these days.

I'd originally intended to give this book to a friend who *is* a widow, but I kept reading - till I'd gone cover to cover. There's so much information in here that I'm keeping it for myself even though I don't fit the title's market. But I do promise to pick up a pristine copy for my friend.

At Last! Good Advice & Great Human Stories..........2003-07-03

The second hardest day of my life came less than a month ago, when one of the best friends I've ever had --or ever will-- died suddenly at age 34. But the hardest came two days later, when I arrived at his wake and attempted to offer condolences to his widow, a lovely woman whose eyes were now far too aged for a woman of her years.

"What do I do now?" she asked, though I know now she was probably not addressing me. "What can I do now?"

I had no answer to give her. At the time, I believed that perhaps no one did.

But that was before I discovered David Latko's new book, FINANCIAL STRATEGIES FOR TODAY'S WIDOW. It's a book that should be given to every woman, regardless of age or situation, who faces the lose of her spouse.

Latko provides an effective (and better: a workable) life-plan for the modern widow, layout out an easy-to-understand framework on which to build ongoing financial security. But almost as importantly, he does so through the true stories told by women who have experienced the same devastating loss that the intended reader is facing. Seldom have I been so moved by the words of any book-- but never have I been so touched by a book from the financial or self-help genres.

Of particular note was the chapter that told the story of the Mortons. Husband Bill comes to visit Latko shortly after being informed of his impending death. The way the Mortons work through the end-stage planning --both financial and that of personal leave-taking-- is something every married couple should experience.

This is no dry, dogmatic "how-to" advice book. Latko is obviously a skilled storyteller as well as a financial expert who knows his business. And just as obviously, he is a man who cares.

FINANCIAL STRATEGIES FOR TODAY'S WIDOW is the perfect book to give every widow, and every woman-- be it wife, mother or friend. I've just sent my copy to my deceased friend's widow, and I'm ordering another copy today.

--AT, San Francisco

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In light of the Malaysian experience during the Asian financial crisis, this book, now available in paperback, examines the role of international capital mobility in making countries susceptible to financial crises and the use of capital controls as a crisis management tool. Malaysia provides an interesting case study of this subject given its significant capital market liberalization prior to the onset of the crisis, and its fundamental shift in crisis management policy in September 1998.

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In Northern Tunisia the late Holocene alluvial record of Medjerda floodplain sediments indicates geomorphic changes due to fluctuations of past climate, superimposed by the effects of human activity. Geomorphic activity occurred several times, interrupting stable conditions. Enhanced fluvial dynamics occurred around 4.7, 3.0, 1.7, 1.0 and 0.7kacal BP. A peak of activity took place about 0.4kacal BP. Some periods of fluvial activity show event-like phenomena, in particular when an anthropogenic impact intensifies climatic aridification. This has been the case around 1.7, 1.0, 0.7 and 0.4ka cal BP with severe floods in the Medjerda valley. During Antiquity as well as around 1.3, 0.8 and 0.5ka cal BP immature alluvial soils have developed, the first one being the most distinct. Late Holocene Medjerda alluvial history shows that fluvial dynamics in Northern Tunisia were predominantly climate-driven. Anthropogenic impact only intensified or weakened these processes.

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Publication: APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula (Newsletter)
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