Personal Finance & Investing

Take Stock In Your Financial Future!



Conservative investing strategies written by Harvard Business School graduate Deaver Brown. In video and text, Brown will walk you through the best way to create new wealth while preserving what you have.

The Personal Finance & Investing Survival Kit pares down the enormous amount of information available and provides you with the essentials so that you can manage your personal finances effectively.  In the Survival Kit spirit of “less is more,” it eliminates all schemes and recommends a straightforward earning and investment program with which average people can succeed. The fancy stuff is left behind because it is just too much extra baggage.  The Kit is outfitted with helpful tools such as organizational check-lists, resource icons, internet sites to get stuff done, and a complete action-oriented resource section.




Deaver Brown
Brown co-founded the Umbroller stroller company, American Power (APCC), and Simply Media. He published The Entrepreneurs Guide with Macmillan in hardcover and Ballantine in mass market paperback.  He published a business series of CD-ROM’s with Macmillan and another series with Simply Media. Brown graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Business School. He has published numerous articles in trade journals and business magazines.




Chapter 1:  Getting Started

• 11-Step Survival Plan
• How Do I Fit In?
• Life Cycle: Standard Categories
• Self-Diagnostic Test
• Your Attitude Towards Money
• Your Personal Financial Situation
• Your Financial Goals
• Two-Year Good Habit Plan

Chapter 2:  Saving

• Your Career
• Your House
• Retirements and Deferred Savings Accounts
• Trusts:  Taking Care of Your Family
• Growth Stocks or Mutual Funds

Chapter 3:  Danger

• Divorce
• Unexpected Events
• Investments to Avoid

Chapter 4:  Planning

• Trends that Matter
• Professional Advisors

• Strategic investing advice in one hour of how-to video.
• The straightforward and printable ‘Investing Survival Kit’ that will teach you how to create new wealth while preserving what you have.
• Advice from Harvard Business School graduate Deaver Brown on how to take stock in your financial future.
• 60 minutes of video clips

• Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP
• 16 MB Available RAM
• 15 MB Available hard drive space
• CD-ROM Drive
• Monitor set-up: 800x600, 16 bit