Money: A User's Guide

"It’s very applied and up to date. It’s targeted to young people, millennials and gen Z. It has a colourful, vibrant cover and none of the cobwebby feel that finance books sometimes have. Instead, it has all the things for the modern world, like online banking. It shows you how—when you’re sold this, that and the other—to look underneath the cover at what is actually happening. It gives you the journey from student loans all the way through to pensions and investments. What this book does really well is to open the doors to all of those areas: it doesn’t go deep into it, but it does definitely open the doors. It shows people that you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to be an investor. This book is spot on with the technicalities and I want to get it for all my students. I deliver a London Institute of Banking & Finance course, and this book complements it well. It’s relevant and is driven by the real world. I would recommend it to anyone from 16 upwards. 16 year olds tend to start banking, so the section on banking is ideal. In the journey of life from 16 to 24 this book is pretty important, because if they start looking at mortgages then it is also a really good starting point, it gives a kind of roadmap. This book is big on life hacks and the benefits of technology as well. A few decades ago investing was much more expensive, but that has really changed in the last twenty years or so."