The De Gruyter Handbook of Personal Finance provides a robust review of the core topics comprising personal finance, including the primary models, approaches, and methodologies being used to study particular topics that comprise the field of personal finance today.
The contributors include many of the world's leading personal finance researchers, financial service professionals, thought leaders, and leading contemporary figures conducting research in this area whose work has shaped--and continues to affect--the way that personal finance is conceptualized and practiced.
The first section of the handbook provides a broad introduction to the discipline of personal finance. The following two sections are organized around the core elements of personal finance research and practice: saving, investing, asset management, and financial security. The fourth section introduces future research, practice, and policy directions. The handbook concludes with a discussion on an educational and research agenda for the future.
This handbook will be a core reference work for researchers, financial service practitioners, educators, and policymakers and an excellent supplementary source of readings for those teaching undergraduate and graduate-level courses in personal finance, financial planning, consumer studies, and household finance.
About the Author: John E. Grable, CFP(R), teaches and conducts research in the Certified Financial Planner(TM) Board of Standards Inc. undergraduate and graduate programs at the University of Georgia where he holds an Athletic Association Endowed Professorship. Before entering the academic profession, he worked as a pension/benefits administrator and later as an investment advisor in an asset management firm. Dr. Grable served as the founding editor for Journal of Personal Finance and cofounding editor of Journal of Financial Therapy and Financial Planning Review. He is best known for his work in the areas of financial risk-tolerance assessment, behavioral financial planning, and psychophysiological economics. He has been the recipient of several research and publication awards and grants, and is active in promoting the link between research and financial planning practice where he has published more than 150 refereed papers and co-authored several financial planning textbooks, handbooks, and manuals.
Swarn Chatterjee is the Bluerock Professor of Planning at the University of Georgia. He has served as the graduate coordinator and interim department chair for the Department of Financial Planning, Housing and Consumer Economics at the University of Georgia. He currently serves as associate editor for the Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning and Financial Services Review. He also serves on the editorial review board of the Journal of Financial Planning. He has published more than 100 scholarly articles on topics spanning financial planning, household finance, financial decision making, behavioral finance, and financial econometrics. He has previously served as the president of the Academy of Financial Services. For the past decade, Professor Chatterjee has taught classes on Wealth Management, Behavioral Economics, and Personal Finance.
