Combined with the additional resources listed, this book offers the average investor an adequate background in how to formulate a meaningful investment plan.
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Save Your Retirement: What to Do If You Haven’t Saved Enough or If Your Investments Were Devastated by the Market Meltdown (9780137029006) by Frank Armstrong III and Paul B. Brown. Available in print and digital formats. Think the unthinkable! Why you simply might not want to retire (it’s not just about the money). Could it be that the financial shortfall you are experiencing–due to the financial meltdown, your inability to save enough, or some other factor–is actually a good thing? It could be if it forces you to think about the following sentence: “Maybe I don’t want to retire.” It’s not as strange a thought as it may first sound....
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Save Your Retirement: What to Do If You Haven’t Saved Enough or If Your Investments Were Devastated by the Market Meltdown (9780137029006) by Frank Armstrong III and Paul B. Brown. Available in print and digital formats. Evaluate the most powerful financial tool you have to protect your retirement security: working just a little longer. When people in their 40s or 50s get serious about retirement planning, they’re often shocked and dismayed. First, they haven’t saved enough. They realize the $50,000 they’ve saved by age 50–and that is unfortunately typical–won’t go far after they retire. Second, they realize they don’t have many years to make up for lost time. They invariably base their projections on retiring at age 65. But why?
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Save Your Retirement: What to Do If You Haven’t Saved Enough or If Your Investments Were Devastated by the Market Meltdown (9780137029006) by Frank Armstrong, III and Paul B. Brown. Available in print and digital formats. Start saving for retirement early: why it’s so crucial and how to make it less painful. It’s impossible to overemphasize the importance of starting early to save for retirement. Let’s say you and your spouse both resolve to fully fund IRAs: that’s $10,000 per year. If you contribute for 40 years with an average return of 8%, you’ll accumulate $2,590,565. Wait five years to start, and you end up with $1,723,168. The $50,000 you didn’t contribute costs you $867,397!
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Save Your Retirement: What to Do If You Haven’t Saved Enough or If Your Investments Were Devastated by the Market Meltdown (9780137029006) by Frank Armstrong III and Paul B. Brown. Available in print and digital formats. Imagine your retirement: how to figure out what you want to do with the next stage of your life. Some people have known from the minute they started work what their retirement would look like. They can detail the cottage they will buy on the Maine coast, and how they’ll spend their days. The rest of us can use a little help picturing the next phase in our lives. One way to start is by answering the following questions....
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Save Your Retirement: What to Do If You Haven’t Saved Enough or If Your Investments Were Devastated by the Market Meltdown (9780137029006) by Frank Armstrong III and Paul B. Brown. Available in print and digital formats. Think the unthinkable! Why you simply might not want to retire (it’s not just about the money). Could it be that the financial shortfall you are experiencing–due to the financial meltdown, your inability to save enough, or some other factor–is actually a good thing? It could be if it forces you to think about the following sentence: “Maybe I don’t want to retire.” It’s not as strange a thought as it may first sound....
Real Solutions for Saving Your Retirement... No Matter Where You Stand Right Now! Step-by-step plans you can use if you’re planning to retire in... 5 years | 10 years | 15 years | over 20 years | or tomorrow! “The market meltdown has all of us worrying about whether we will ever be able to retire. Worrying doesn’t help you. Planning does. Save Your Retirement by Frank Armstrong, III and Paul B. Brown can—and should—serve as your battle plan.” —John A. Byrne, Executive Editor, BusinessWeek “Convinced the sinking economy has dragged your retirement plans down with it? Save Your Retirement shows there’s still treasure inside that wreckage— and provides a map to help you find it.” —Josh Hyatt, Money Magazine “Whether you’re just beginning a career or you’re five years from retiring, the authors show you how to take a realistic look at your current financial status and your retirement goals. With a refreshingly positive approach, they give all of us, no matter our life stage, a blueprint for successful retirement.” —Professor Larry Meiller, Talk Show Host, Wisconsin Public Radio “Frank Armstrong, III and Paul B. Brown heal your retirement anxiety and show you exactly how to achieve financial security for the golden years. You’ll actually be excited to save!” —Farnoosh Torabi, Author of You’re So Money: Live Rich Even When You’re Not Terrified about retirement? Stop losing sleep, and take action! This book gives you specific, step-by-step plans you can use to save your retirement. Forget “one-size-fits-all” solutions that don’t fit your life. Here are personal plans focused on your unique situation—whether you’re 5, 10, 15, or 20-plus years away from retirement or are scheduled to retire now. (There’s even a detailed plan for people who’ve already retired and want to make sure their money lasts!) No matter what the market meltdown did to your portfolio or how little you’ve saved, you can save your retirement—if you start now. Get this book, and get started! All the help you need to save your retirement: Where to move your savings How to recalculate what you’ll really need to retire How to assess when you can now afford to retire How to change your approach to investing How to use the federal tax system to save more What to expect from Social Security now
In 48 quick, practical lessons, Armstrong shows how to assess what you have and what you'll need to build a simple, reliable retirement plan. Better yet, the book's easy online calculators do all the math for you. Investing for retirement has never been so sensible and simple!"--Back cover.
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Save Your Retirement: What to Do If You Haven’t Saved Enough or If Your Investments Were Devastated by the Market Meltdown (9780137029006) by Frank Armstrong, III and Paul B. Brown. Available in print and digital formats. A clear-eyed view of the future of Social Security and what it means to you... Will Social Security be around to augment your retirement? Yes, but with qualifications. It’s certainly in real trouble, but it’s here to stay. The question is: “In what form?” Our best guess is that if you are 10 or fewer years away from when you’ll stop working, your benefits will probably be unaffected. If you’re more than 10 years away, though...
Combined with the additional resources listed, this book offers the average investor an adequate background in how to formulate a meaningful investment plan.
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Save Your Retirement: What to Do If You Haven’t Saved Enough or If Your Investments Were Devastated by the Market Meltdown (9780137029006) by Frank Armstrong III and Paul B. Brown. Available in print and digital formats. You can’t afford to eliminate retirement risk completely: here’s how to control and manage it. Given how difficult it might seem to balance risk, you can be forgiven for thinking that the 2008 market meltdown justifies playing it ultra-safe and keeping your money in something like CDs. But you can’t if you want to stay ahead of inflation and have any real (after inflation) return....
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Save Your Retirement: What to Do If You Haven’t Saved Enough or If Your Investments Were Devastated by the Market Meltdown (9780137029006) by Frank Armstrong, III and Paul B. Brown. Available in print and digital formats. Start saving for retirement early: why it’s so crucial and how to make it less painful. It’s impossible to overemphasize the importance of starting early to save for retirement. Let’s say you and your spouse both resolve to fully fund IRAs: that’s $10,000 per year. If you contribute for 40 years with an average return of 8%, you’ll accumulate $2,590,565. Wait five years to start, and you end up with $1,723,168. The $50,000 you didn’t contribute costs you $867,397!
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Save Your Retirement: What to Do If You Haven’t Saved Enough or If Your Investments Were Devastated by the Market Meltdown (9780137029006) by Frank Armstrong III and Paul B. Brown. Available in print and digital formats. Evaluate the most powerful financial tool you have to protect your retirement security: working just a little longer. When people in their 40s or 50s get serious about retirement planning, they’re often shocked and dismayed. First, they haven’t saved enough. They realize the $50,000 they’ve saved by age 50–and that is unfortunately typical–won’t go far after they retire. Second, they realize they don’t have many years to make up for lost time. They invariably base their projections on retiring at age 65. But why?
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Save Your Retirement: What to Do If You Haven’t Saved Enough or If Your Investments Were Devastated by the Market Meltdown (9780137029006) by Frank Armstrong III and Paul B. Brown. Available in print and digital formats. You can’t afford to eliminate retirement risk completely: here’s how to control and manage it. Given how difficult it might seem to balance risk, you can be forgiven for thinking that the 2008 market meltdown justifies playing it ultra-safe and keeping your money in something like CDs. But you can’t if you want to stay ahead of inflation and have any real (after inflation) return....
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Save Your Retirement: What to Do If You Haven’t Saved Enough or If Your Investments Were Devastated by the Market Meltdown (9780137029006) by Frank Armstrong, III and Paul B. Brown. Available in print and digital formats. How much money will you really need to retire? It’s expensive to retire. But just how much will it take, and how will you pay for it? To see, first check out the Social Security Benefit Calculator for a very close approximation of the benefits you and your family are entitled to under many different scenarios. Next, if you’re fortunate enough to have a defined benefit retirement plan at work, ask your employer for an estimate of your benefits.
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