The Kitchen Table Money Plan: Building Personal Wealth and Security

W. Bruce Wrigley is a fixed-income and derivative products salesman in
the Treasury Department Union Bank of Switzerland (Canada).

This is another offering in the burgeoning financial self-help genre.
With bookstore shelves groaning under the weight of each year’s crop,
one looks for ways in which a new entry can distinguish itself. This
volume encountered some difficulty holding the reader’s interest.

This is not to say that the book does not contain some sound personal
financial advice—it does. There are good planning tips touching on
housing as an asset, retirement planning, and dealing with one’s fears
of the unknown when attempting to plan for personal financial security.
What makes this book difficult to get through is the tone of the advice
being proffered. The lecturing quality of the presentation could perhaps
have been offset with a more usable table of contents with more clearly
designated subheadings. The book has just one too many personal
anecdotes and an excessively folksy style that interferes with the
delivery of prudent advice.

Given the published competition there may be better alternatives than
this book for those looking for a single-volume financial planner.