cover image Wealth, How to Get It, How to Keep It: The H.D. Vest System for Achieving Financial Security

Wealth, How to Get It, How to Keep It: The H.D. Vest System for Achieving Financial Security

Herb D. Vest. AMACOM/American Management Association, $24.95 (156pp) ISBN 978-0-8144-0212-2

Vest and Niedermeier are executives in H. D. Vest Financial Services--as they frequently remind the reader: ``You might also urge him your accountant to call the 800 number so that she sic may join the growing H. D. Vest network of representatives nationwide.'' Still, this well-paced text rates high marks for explaining effectively the maze of investment options. The authors' recommended source for individual account analysis is a novel one: the U.S. Income Tax Form 1040. With its summary of income, investment, property, liability, tax-bracket and other basic information, the 1040 provides ``a snapshot of your financial status,'' note the authors. And a cash-flow idea presented here is sensible, if self-evident: arrange to withdraw systematically from your mutual fund an amount smaller than the fund's current dividend and leave the rest to compound. $50,000 ad/promo; author tour. (Jan.)