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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:

â the nature of financial institutions, markets and economic policy that shape the opportunities and decisions individuals face
â the range of financial assets available to households, risk-return trade-off, basics of portfolio construction and impact of tax
â the importance of the efficient market hypothesis and modern portfolio theory in shaping investment strategies and the limitations of these approaches
â behavioural finance as a key t

Essential Personal Finance

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Published 6 May 2025
      ISBN-13 9781032799414
      978-1032799414
      ISBN-10 1032799412
      Also in:
      Business, Finance & Law Investment and securities

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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:

      â the nature of financial institutions, markets and economic policy that shape the opportunities and decisions individuals face
      â the range of financial assets available to households, risk-return trade-off, basics of portfolio construction and impact of tax
      â the importance of the efficient market hypothesis and modern portfolio theory in shaping investment strategies and the limitations of these approaches
      â behavioural finance as a key t

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