business and investing

I have to strongly disagree with the above reviewer who found little substance to this book. I'm not sure what that reader was looking for but in my opinion, the 3 authors delivered everything they promised and more.

Over the past 5 years, I have read the vast majority of the books related to financial freedom, investing, and real estate transactions. The information extracted from these books has helped me personally exit the rat race and work/invest in areas that I am interested in. I wish this book was around when I started that journey because it would have helped me short circuit the process.

I believe this book will appeal to two, distinct sets of readers. First, people who are starting to get exposed to the concepts of financial freedom will find the first 4 chapters very helpful. For many people of this type, the concepts of their financial freedom number will be a major "aha" type moment. Once you grasp this concept, then every purchase, job, and investment is viewed in a different way. For others seeking financial freedom, getting exposed to simple, but powerful debt management techniques will literally change their life.

The second group of people that will get a lot from this book are those who want to simply grow their investments for the future. There is a number of definitive techniques that can be used to invest portions of your portfolio. In addition, a real estate technique is described that I can personally confirm works for generating 20-50% annual returns and is available to almost anyone in their local markets. Finally, Van Tharp introduces some powerful concepts of maximizing growth while minimizing risk. I use his concepts of R multiples daily and if you invest your hard earned money, you would be wise to understand these sections of the book.

In general, I found this to be an excellent book and would recommend to anybody who asked me. I would describe this book as a Kiyosaki book with meat. Since I am a fan of Kiyosaki's Cashflow Quadrant, that is a pretty strong recommendation.

Safe strategies is the best book every written relating to financial freedom. The authors do a fantastic job of taking the complex macro world of finance and simplifying it into very simple and easy to apply models. These simple models only require about 20 minutes a week of your time for you to know which strategies / markets to be getting into, or staying with or avoiding. And the bonus is that they also provide you with clear cut and simple guidelines on how to implement the appropriate strategy given the current financial climate.

The books' genius is in it's simplicity, everything is spelled out in plain english and the referred resources are fantastic tools for mentoring you towards your objectives. The authors have just done so much groundwork for you, in all the investing arenas, be that bonds, stocks, realestate, cash or commodities or mutual/hedge funds. And the real kicker is that it doesn't matter whether the Dow is going up or down, there is always something you can do to further your progress towards your financial freedom goals.

This book is the best book ever written in the financial genre, though I suspect that it won't be widely acknowledged for another decade or so. I believe that money flows towards integrity, freedom and responsibility. This books reeks of those three qualities.

I found my financial freedom four years ago (age 29) after spending my 20's learning what this book can teach you in a few weeks. This book can take your journey of learning from decades to months. Do your self a favour ... committ to safe strategies.

Amazing, I can't believe anyone would give it less than 5 stars.