The Franklin Fi: A Personal Finance Adventure for Next Generation Investors

By: Shane Dillon

Narrated by: Jake Mahler

The Franklin Fi is a riotous novel about four high schoolers learning to invest in the stock market. The friends learn the hard way as they get their first jobs and begin to save for their futures. The Franklin Fi is the first installment of the series and sets the stage for the friends as they venture onto Wall Street.

Author Shane Dillon wrote The Franklin Fi series while bicycling across Europe, laying the groundwork in Spain and reaching the conclusion near the Black Sea in Romania. Shane Dillon has a degree in finance from the University of Missouri, an MBA from Sonoma State University, and 20 years of stock market experience. He hopes this story of financial freedom will inspire the next generation of bike-riding, yoga-loving world travelers.

Why is personal finance not taught to young adults in high school and universities? The Franklin Fi is here for high schoolers, college students, and other beginning investors looking for a few pointers to go along with their laughs.

The basis of The Franklin Fi is to provide young adults with their first personal finance lesson. Shane Dillon’s aim is to demystify personal finance and provide a crash course toward achieving financial freedom.

This book teaches the basics of the stock market and depicts four distinct investment styles in the personalities of the main characters.

Join Franklin Fi and his band misfits as they learn about:

• A beginner’s investment strategy
• Stocks, index funds, mutual funds, bonds, and penny stocks
• The pros and cons of a four-year university, community college, and a trade school
• Opening an investment account
• Value investing vs. growth investing
• How teens can get their first jobs
• The power of compounding interest
• Tracking a savings rate

The book makes for a great gift for high school and college students, along with other beginning investors.

©2019 Shane Dillon Gidcumb (P)2019 Shane Dillon Gidcumb

Easy to follow

I loved how this book took something as daunting as the stock market and broke it down into small understandable chunks while weaving in a story about high school kids.

The only thing that held me back from five stars was the filler copy and paste. If I was reading it myself I would have skipped over the financials. However, Jake was steady in his reading and just as enthusiastic the first time as the last, even if he had just finished reading it in the previous breath.