Vanessa Summers

History of Financial Advice Collection. Vanessa Summers, an ex-model and tennis player turned stock broker and financial adviser, continues the long tradition of writing financial advice specifically aimed at the single woman. The book narrates its fairly conventional financial and investment advice through the language of the hike, teaching its readers how to pack different kinds of “adventure backpacks: one for emergencies, another for retirement and a third for dreams” and guiding them through a series of “hikes” that will allow them to reach the “financial summit.” The book counsels its readers to begin investing young—using the comparison with purchasing a latte that frequently appears in writing aimed at twenty- or thirty-year-olds—but privileges bonds, mutual funds and employee pension packages over direct individual stock-picking.… (altro)