The Geometry of Wealth

Business Insider UK

Portnoy is a behavioral finance expert — he holds both a doctorate and a CFA degree. In "The Geometry of Wealth," he explores what it means to be truly wealthy, i.e. to fund a fulfilling life.

The Native Society

Brian Portnoy, PhD, CFA, is an expert at simplifying the complex world of money. In his two books, The Geometry of Wealth and The Investor's Paradox, he tackles the challenge of not only making ...

Traders.com

How does money figure into a happy life? In The Geometry of Wealth, behavioral finance expert Brian Portnoy delivers an answer based on the idea that wealth, truly defined, is funded contentment.

Nasdaq Reads

In a nutshell, how does money play a part in a happy life?

To answer this, we have to start with a critical distinction: Rich versus wealthy. Rich is the accumulation of more money and psychology ...

The Irrelevant Investor

The Geometry of wealth by my friend Brian Portnoy is “A stoic playbook for navigating money life.” This is the type of book you give to someone you truly care about. Brian is a deep thinker and a ...

Modest Money

In setting our main priorities for growing and staying wealthy, controlling risk comes first. This isn’t the sexy part of money. That comes later. This is the hard part because it involves a great ...

Value Walk

An important distinction when thinking about making good decisions is whether we actually have any choice to begin with—or whether we want any. At times in life, we have a great deal of discretion. ...

Wall Street News Network

If you are looking for a different spin on money, finance, and wealth, I recommend The Geometry of Wealth.

Stocks & Commodities

At the heart of this perspective, Portnoy discusses true wealth, informed by disciplines ranging from ancient history to modern neuroscience. He contends that tackling the big questions about a ...

Money Life Show

It's right up the all of this show and the kind of stuff we do... I really like the new book

Family Money Values

… He asserts that true wealth is not having more financial wherewithal, but in having enough to be content. This is a concept that many of us come to appreciate only after years of striving for ...

Retirement Savvy

The Geometry of Wealth covers a lot of ground and the most useful bit (to me) is Portnoy’s shorthand for the system of making sense of your money life, adaptive simplicity.

Bunker Riley

On the other hand, ‘The Geometry of Wealth’ is one of the very few books I’ve read, successfully bringing all of the pieces together to create a one-stop, all-encompassing guide to money. No ...

Advisor 2.0

Ultimately, the book recognises the tension between “more” and “enough” — between wanting the best and being satisfied with what we already have. They’re both deep-seated, evolutionary ...

Master Investor

"Overall, this is a truly enlightening, thought-provoking and refreshing book which teaches readers how to think about wealth in terms of what is important to them. Portnoy is a master of his craft, ...

The Chicago Tribune

Have you noticed that we live in a world that suggests to us that more is better, and equates wealth with possession? Have you wondered what that has to do with living a meaningful life? In the ...

Ms Career Girl

Brian Portnoy sums up what he calls “the four enduring sources of a joyful life.”

Connection – the need to belong.
Control – the need to direct one’s own destiny.
Competence – the ...

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Bookstr Talks

We're live with Brian Portnoy author of "Geometry of Wealth." He'll be discussing how happiness and fulfillment are a part of wealth and can shape a life of money and meaning.

Money Sense

It’s a thought-provoking book that challenges the reader to think and feel about the role wealth plays to one’s own meaning of life. Portnoy does this by sharing behavioral economics and biases ...

Informed Choice Radio

Brian Portnoy builds on the critical distinction of being rich and being wealthy... in this groundbreaking book, Portnoy takes readers on a journey to wealth.

Brian is an expert at simplifying ...

The Acquirer’s Multiple

True wealth is funded contentment. Anyone with the right mindset and the right plan can afford a meaningful life.

Reuters News

Most people start with figuring out the right place to invest – and that is important, but it is actually the end of the process. First, you have to understand your own behavior. For instance, most ...

Morning Star

It's the idea that what we're really trying to do the question that we're really trying to answer is, am I going to be OK, are my family and I are going to be OK. To get at that--that's really not a ...

Sound View

The Geometry of Wealth proposes a model of wealth as funded contentment. Portnoy takes you on a compelling journey of both spiritual and financial discovery as a means of understanding wealth within ...

The Inquirer

Questions for these sort of times should be long-term, said Brian Portnoy, director of investment education at Virtus Investment Partners and author of Geometry of Wealth.

He outlined them: "Do ...

Financial Autonomy

I am joined by author Brian Portnoy in this episode as we talk about his book on money and happiness called The Geometry of Wealth.

In this interview we cover:

What is “The Geometry of ...

Worth

So Brian Portnoy's new book, his second, is right up our alley. The head of education at Magnetar Capital , Portnoy thinks a lot about how to help investors make smart decisions that help them shape ...

Your Money, Your Wealth

Brian Portnoy, Ph.D., CFA® (author, The Geometry of Wealth) on the difference between being rich and wealthy, and how to achieve both. Plus, what about tax brackets? Joe and Big Al respond to a ...

Of Dollars and Data

I know you have heard it many times before. Net of fees, most professional stock pickers can’t beat the market. As Brian Portnoy stated in The Geometry of Wealth:
"Decades’ worth of data ...

Wealth Confident Podcast

One of the main reasons people seek out financial professionals is because money can be so complicated.

A great financial advisor is someone you can trust. A person who can listen and translate ...

CityWire Americas

Mark Twain once said that all you need are 'good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience.' Our top 30 ensure you have at least one of those checked off with their must-reads.

David Finley Blog

In The Geometry of Wealth, behavioural finance expert Brian Portnoy delivers an inspired answer-based idea that wealth, truly defined, is funded contentment. It is the ability to underwrite a ...

The Investopedia Express

Brian Portnoy, best-selling author and founder of Shaping Wealth, joins The Express to talk about how financial planning is evolving to become more holistic, and how we are rethinking our definitions ...

CNBC

In some ways, this is a math problem, said Brian Portnoy, an expert on the psychology of money and author of “The Geometry of Wealth.”

Conventional thinking holds, where can you get the highest ...

The Evidence-Based Investor

I will link to ‘The Geometry of Wealth’ in the podcast notes, but could you just give listeners a final little summary of what you think the book can do for them? So I can just relay what others ...