The Art of Finance - Volume 2 (Softcover)

Home decor meets financial education — elevated.

The Art of Finance returns with Volume 2, a coffee table book series intentionally designed to live in your space as a work of art while fundamentally changing how you think about money. Every page was created with intention. Every concept made accessible without sacrificing rigor.

Finance is a branch of science — and like biology guides our health, The Art of Finance argues that finance should guide our quality of life. Volume 2 deepens that thesis with expanded content, new frameworks, and a more complete picture of how wealth is built, protected, and passed on.

Wealth is not a number. It is the byproduct of doing what you were designed to do.

What's new in Volume 2:

- The Art of Finance framework explained.

-The Leonardo da Vinci story — tracing a painting commissioned in 1500 to a $450 million Christie's sale in 2017, and what that journey reveals about value, patience, and creation. 

-Expanded coverage of fixed income — government bonds, corporate bonds, municipal bonds, U.S. Treasury securities, and how to evaluate them.

-A full introduction to derivatives including options, calls, and puts explained accessibly for the first time in this series.

-How to Calculate returns.

-Risk, Beta, Risk Premium, & The Capital Asset Pricing Model explained.

-Advanced valuation methodologies including discounted cash flow analysis, comparable company analysis, and book value, applied to Meta Platforms.

-Comprehensive wealth management content typically reserved for institutional and high net worth clients — tax strategy including tax drag, tax alpha, and tax loss harvesting; estate, trust, and generational planning; entrepreneurial services; and lifestyle coordination. 

-New font, printer, and cover!

Size: 10 in. x 7 in.

288 pages | 130 more pages than Volume 1

Glossy paperback

The Art of Finance - Volume 2 | Written and Designed by Malcolm Nelson (Malc Peso)