Kiplinger's is a great magazine for the middle of the road investor (middle class). Also there are many timely articles that can get you motivated and started on the path to financial stability. I find it both entertaining and informative with articles on taxes, paying for college and comparable city cost of living indexes. This is not the king of investment magazines but more of a "you can do it, it's not that hard, and this is how to get moving". Again, I don't think you go wrong with this one!

Kiplinger's will help opening your perspective on investment and market.
This magazine is for everybody who want to know and learn how to approach your pension investment.

I would love to review this magazine, but unfortunately I have yet to receive any issues. Instead I have been getting "Field & Stream", which I did not order. I wrote the so-called "Amazon Help Dept." over a week ago asking them to check this situation out. They promised a response withing 24 hours, but I have heard nothing back. Maybe this review will get some action. I hope so.

I didn't recieve that product so far so I am totally dissapointed. I didn't have any problems with purchases made trought Amazon.com and this one was a disaster.

This is a gift subscription. The first issue has not yet been delivered.
However, I subscribe to the magazine. It is an excellent source of articles about personal finance, which is why I gave a gift subscription.

This is a very helpful personal finance magazine...It is very precise
in its delivery with a wealth of content.

Kiplinger's focuses on mutual funds, but it is still the best overall personal finance magazine I have been able to find.

The mutual fund coverage is excellent. I don't always agree with their suggestions, but they provide food for thought.

The writing is easy to read without being overly dumbed down. It is an intelligent read that usually leaves me inspired to do further research on my own.

This magazine provides an excellent value to readers looking for concise, current and applicable information on personal finance. I recommend it for people at all stages in their financial life.

I subscribed to this magazine based upon multiple sources recommending it. I had been buying it on the newstand so I know it is a useful mag. Amazon, however, it not the place to order magazines. Once you order you cannot cancel the order. Amazon refers you to the publisher (and good luck finding a source for that contact that doesn't require snail mail).

As of middle of May still not magazine in the mail...so now I am not even sure the subscription was processed. If the direct from publisher deal costs a couple of dollars more it is will worth it to avoid the hassle of using Amazon as the middle man. I was shocked because the customer service I normally receive from Amazon is excellent.

I ordered this magazine on February 18th, about 40 days ago. Still no communication or magazine. How long can it take to get an address in the system??

The only financial / investment magazine that didn't want to tell me what to do with that "extra" 10K -25K I have laying around and have been wondering what to do with. Kiplinger's has never made me feel like I shouldn't be reading a financial magazine at all because my home cost less than a million dollars and my portfolio isn't in the high six-figures. That itself is priceless.

I love it and read it on the train on my way to work. I am a young professional female and I would encourage other females to take charge of their finances from reading magazines such as Kiplingers. It's also a very easy read.

This is probably the best money magazine out there. I tried SmartMoney but didn't like the format and the ratio of ads to articles and features was too high on the ads side.

Kiplinger's is much better and also their telephone customer support is very good. I highly recommend this magazine.

Magazine arrived over a month after ordered, and it is a 3 months old issue! The contents are good. Would have rated higher if not for this quirk.

This magazine is one of the better ones out there. There were many helpful tips in there and its good for the personal investor and small business person.

Kiplinger's has really helped me to save and invest through the years. Like most people, I'm not a Wall Street investment tycoon, just an average person, working for a not so big paycheck, but wanting to invest for my future. Articles explain taxes, mortgages, investments, retirement, etc. in an easy to understand way. This has been a great educational source for me over the years, helping me to invest in a comfortable manner for me and watch my investments grow to provide a financially better life.

Perhaps the most useful way to classify magazines offering investment advice is by the markets they serve. For Kiplinger, this is very much the Middle Class--lots of advice on mutual funds, "7 Stocks You Should Own Now," planning for retirement, etc. Unfortunately, the advice is very much middle-of-the-road and not terribly useful. The magazine loses credibility when the mutual funds it recommends change from month to month.

A more entertaining and useful publication, one aimed at the Upper Middle Class, is SmartMoney [2-year subscription], published by the editors of the Wall Street Journal. Not only are their investment suggestions better, but they talk about a lot of other things of interest to those with disposable income (e.g., wine). Even if you don't have a lot of disposable income, it's a lot more fun to read than Kiplinger's, and your conversations will become more interesting.

I received my first issue of Kiplinger's and I have to say very informative. Lots of good advice and very descriptive. Very resourceful, a magazine to keep on the book shelf for future reference.

Has some relivant topics. I'm always interested in hearing about IRA's and 401k's. Good reading for the novice.

A good magazine if you are new to the game of investing or new to the game of budgeting or new to the game of saving or new to the game of self employment or new to the game of MONEY!
How does Rich Dad Poor Dad say:
You shouldn't work for money...money should work for you! Yes this is true

I have been a reader of Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine for over 3 years now, and can attest to the usefulness of this magazine in educating me on every nuance of personal finance. It directs you to other information online...saves a ton of time. Good features include the rundown of the best credit cards, bank accounts on a monthly basis, and mutual funds on an annual cycle. It is less glossy than Smart Money or Money, but much more educating, I reckon. I read Money at the local library. Try it for yourself. You have my recommendation.

kiplingers is a great magazine for those of us who are interested in watching our money grow but aren't investment savy.

I have been reading this magazine fo rover 4 years and have enjoyed the articles and have benefited from the advise. Although as I have read and educated myself even further I have started to grow more financiallt "mature" than what the magazine has to offer. I have since canceled my subscription. This is a great magazine for individuals and families looking to better understand the finance World in a consumer perspective. The article are very well written for the masses and if you send an e-mail to the staff they will get back to you very quickly.
If you read the advise you will be on the right path for your finances.

I have found Kiplinger's to be the most informative (and accurate) magazine of the personal finance publications. It provides very helpful information on mutual funds, taxes, savings, credit cards, real estate, etc. Although I still have a subscription to Smartmoney magazine, I feel that the Kiplinger's provides more useful information. It was this magazine that informed me that I will be able to roll over my traditional IRA into a Roth IRA in 2010, which will help me to retire earlier. It is a far superior magazine to Money magazine. I have gotten some great investing ideas from Kiplinger's (the Top 25 mutual fund article). Their automobile review each year is also excellent. I will be a subscriber to Kiplinger's for a very long time.

i will admit my 1st purchase of a kipplinger magazine was @ a thrift store. at the time, it was interesting n a casual way, but hardly riviting. now that i'm closer to retirement, & a subscriber, albeit a late one, i would say that a subscription is 1 of the best financial bargains i kno of and 1 of the most painless ways of increasing ur financial IQ. the articles r timely, well written, 4 the most part, & concise. i would reccommend at least a 1 yr subscription (a decent trial period) 4 any1 wishing to learn mor about the world of hi finance & investing (which shld b every1).

Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine is the only financial magazine that we subscribe to, as it meets our needs perfectly. We recently purchased this magazine to give as gifts to our two sons, who are just now beginning to consider the best way to save for their retirement. We know that by reading Kiplinger's they will learn a lot about the stock market, retirement plans, mutual funds, and much much more. We highly recommend Kipplinger's Personal Finance Magazine to everyone.

Kiplinger's Personal Finance is a worthy challenge to Money Magazine for a monthly dose of economic and investing trends, helpful financial tips, and - in KPF's case - a kind of populist advocacy for the little guy investor.

I came to KPF by way of the well-read hand-me-downs of one of Kiplinger Letters (for which, see elsewhere on [...]) that were pressed into my hands by my mother-in-law 25 years ago. She probably thought that without I'd lead her daughter into the financial wilderness, where we would thirst and die in good romantic fashion.

I eventually migrated up the Kiplinger food chain to the glossier KPF and have never left.

Much of the information provided by KPF (mutual fund and ETF results and the like) are widely available. The same could be said of the investing advice (look for no-loads with low fees, diversify, don't bail under pressure).

Where KPF excels is in the short articles and tips, which have often prodded me to take money- and/or sanity-saving moves. Two fine recent examples: the articles in the September 2006 issue entitled 'Buy a 2006 car on sale?' and '5 things to ask about silk ties'. Both of these articles provided solid input into two buying decisions I'm likely to make in the new year. What's more, the conclusions reached by these two authors are probably *not* the ones you'd anticipate.

In terms of macro-economic instincts, the Kiplinger Washington Editors run bullish, though not quite so much as Money's more cosmopolitan-posed writers. KPF won't lure you into buying quite as many fancy gentleman's toys either, a fact that is well observed by their authors, who tend to be mutual fund companies rather than designer suit or German auto makers.

Don't get me wrong, I read other financial rags and might not be as enthusiastic about KPF if it were my only source. But KPF's monthly arrival is still always welcomed, as it has been for years. It remains firmly entrenched in my top tier.

Received the first issue 3 weeks after placing the subscribtion order with amazon, so that was faster than promised.
Kiplinger's has a wealth of information and I look forward to receiving it every month. As I am exclusively holding mutual funds and no individual stocks, some of the information in the magazine is of no interest to me. For that reason I prefer Money magazine. But reading both magazines on a monthly basis for $1 per issue keeps me more disciplined and focused on saving money and that's worth every penny of it.

I have read several financial magazine: Money, Forbes, Business Week, Fortune, Smart Money, and Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine. I must say that of all these magazines, Kiplinger and Smart Money are the two most useful magazines in terms of personal finance. Of this two, Kiplinger is the better one. I find that most finance magazine provide very narrow opinions on investment and finance planning. The writers of Kiplinger, however, provide very diversified opinions on investment and finance planning. This may not sound like a good idea for novice, but it is certainly a welcome feature and the most feature, in my opinion, for a sophisticate reader.

Outstanding comparitive review of new vehicles for 2006. Combined with Consumers report evaluations, no reason to go into dealership with many questions. December 2005 issue a "must have for serious lookers" contemplating purchase.

I have subscribed to "Kiplinger's" for a number of years now, and will continue to do so into the foreseeable future. The magazine is inexpensive, timely, and authoritative, and conveys complex financial concepts in easily comprehensible terms. The magazine is very in favor of long term, high quality stock market investing, and on a monthly basis covers something relevant to current investment issues in the stock market. It also covers important information on taxes, retirement, paying for tuition, mortgages, and making good car buying (or leasing) decisions.

The magazine is a great source of news as it is related to your financial life in ways that are sometimes obvious, and sometimes less so. For instance they have articles on annuities, which you would expect, but also on drug costs, which you might not. They also have extremely useful mutual fund performance charts in every issue, which I find to be among the best features in the magazine. With the passage of different tax laws, "Kiplinger's" writes on the practical implications of the Federal tax code changes as well as regularly looking at state tax issues.

There are many personal financial magazines covering many different areas available today. If you want only one that will give you the overall most valuable information per page, "Kiplinger's" would be tough to beat.

We used to subscribe to Kiplingers Personal Finance. We no longer do, because we couldn't help but notice a definite bias toward stock/bond purchasing over any other type of investing. This advice continued in the face of lower interest rates, the overpriced bull, then bear, market, and record low mortgage rates. Articles urging us to keep putting money into the market continued to appear regardless of market conditions. A quick look at the regular advertisers provides an explanation. In five years of subcribing, some of these same regular advertisers (whose results in the market were below par) never appeared in the "Poor or Worst" performers columns. For an overall, balanced view of things for the average investor, one of the personal finance magazines such as Money or Smart Money might be more helpful.

My retirement plan sends me a magazine, which is so boring that I don't even bother to open it anymore; Kiplinger's isn't at all like that. The best part of Kiplinger's is that it describes how real people with average salaries, kids, and debts can invest for the future. There are also some great articles for parents about how to teach their kids to manage their money. Everything seems practical, but I've yet to try any of it. The magazine is broken into four sections: `Ahead' short articles about finance news and current event, `investing' about investing mostly stocks, `your money' about ways to invest your money though not as technical as the investing section and more diverse, and `spending' which is basically general interest about new fun technologies and other ways to spend all the money saved or made through investing.

Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine fits right in the middle between the lowest-common denominator approach of Money magazine and the head-in-the-clouds attitude at Worth magazine. Kiplinger's has a nicely balanced style and tone; it never preaches, and I almost always find a tip, suggestion, or tax-saving idea that pays for my year's subscription in every single issue. If that's the measure of the value of a personal finance magazine, then Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine deserves a five-star rating. Good stuff, and a good value!

I've read other personal finance magazines before and found them to be either too basic to be worth my time, or too focused on some obscure area. I'm not a financial professional, but I like to constantly increase my knowledge of personal finance. Kiplinger's has been great for that. I skip 80% of the articles in this magazine, but that still leaves one or two in every issue that teach me about an area I didn't know about -- where to buy bonds online the most cheaply, how to find good financial advice, why options are priced the way they are. One good article pays for the entire annual subscription. Each issue has a wide range of articles appealing to lots of levels of experience.