The Stewardship of Wealth: Successful Private Wealth Management for Investors and Their Advisors, + Website

About the Companion Website

If you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the Internet, and you can find a lot of people there who don't like you.

—Tina Fey, Golden Globes Acceptance Speech, 2009

Aside from correcting an overly developed sense of self-regard, the Internet offers other benefits to writers. Consider the chronic problem of “nice-to-have” material—material that might be very important to a few readers, but that is probably of little interest to most readers. Writers naturally want that material to remain in the book, while publishers—worried about trying to sell a book that weighs 10 pounds—want it out.

But then along came the Internet and all was sweetness and light again. “Need-to-have” material stays in the book, while the “nice-to-have” material gets posted on a website associated with the book and maintained by the publisher.

If you are among the smaller group of readers who want to see that material, you need only go to www.wiley.com/go/stewardshipofwealth and type in the password curtis2012. Specifically, you will find this material on the website:

• An additional chapter on conflicts of interest and the destruction of wealth.
• Guidelines for use with managers of municipal bonds, corporate bonds, cash, and small cap stocks (as an example of any active equity manager).
• A sample investment policy statement for a family, investment committee operating manual, and spending policy statement for a family.
• Examples of thoughtful letters ...