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.
