Source: Jeff Sommer - The N.Y. Times ( Paid Registration )

“If I Can” is a snappy 7,000-word guide that doubles as a financial-education curriculum, complete with additional reading assignments and a lesson plan. He hopes to help people put away enough money and to invest it wisely enough so that their futures will be secure. It’s by William J. Bernstein, an investment adviser and author on financial subjects, who is making it available free as an e-book, no strings attached, on his website. (It’s also available on Amazon.com for 99 cents, though Mr. Bernstein is giving it away free there, too, on certain days, including May 4 and 5, as posted on his site.) This pamphlet could be extremely helpful, especially for the group that Mr. Bernstein is specifically targeting: younger people who aren’t yet in the work force or have just started their careers.

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