Finance ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Complete Family Wealth : Wealth as Well-Being (2nd Edition) (Bloomberg)
Susan E. Massenzio, Keith Whitaker & James E. Hughes, Jr. · 2022
🎙 Narrated by Jamie Renell
79/100
👍 Worth It
This one's aimed squarely at families managing real generational wealth, arguing money alone doesn't sustain a family — relationships, governance, and philanthropy do just as much. It's dense and academic in places and mostly useful if you're the audience it's written for, but it's a respected, well-built framework from established names in wealth advising. Jamie Renell's narration is professional and steady, well-suited to material that rewards careful listening.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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🎙 Narration: good Professional, academic-nonfiction delivery from Jamie Renell for Ascent Audio.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety85
Substance / usefulness84
Craft & writing76
Originality78
Evidence & accuracy84
Hype vs delivers10
Age-fit76
Human-eye read70
Penny’s verdict79
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