Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Personal Finance - Retirement Planning

At the outset of his second term, President Bush's proposal to partially privatize Social Security has touched off a debate of enormous proportion. Disentangling the rhetoric and hyperbole from fact is essential for anyone trying to evaluate the potential merits or pitfalls of the plan. Leonard and Mark Santow--a father-and-son team who integrate two different political viewpoints (fiscally conservative and socially liberal, respectively)--offer specific recommendations for improving Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid in socially responsible ways that relieve some of the stress on the...

To what extent do international organizations, global policy networks, and transnational policy entrepreneurs influence domestic policy makers? Have we entered a new phase of globalization that, unbeknownst to most citizens, shapes policies that used to be the sole domain of domestic politics? Privatizing Pensions reveals how international institutions--such as the World Bank, USAID, and other transnational policy actors--have played a seminal role in the development, diffusion, and implementation of new pension reforms that are transforming the postwar social contract in more than...

For more than fifty years, pensions have been the subject of academic enquiry and controversy. Debates have raged over, amongst other things, the need for pensions, the means by which they might be delivered, their implications for the public finances, their impact on an individual s employment motivations and their significance for national and global capital markets. These debates, and others, have spawned a vast and disparate literature.

Currently, the issue that most often exercises the minds of academics and policy makers is that of pension reform. It is widely recognized that...

Presenting an innovative contribution to the literature on the politics of pension reform, this volume provides a neo-institutionalist analysis of pension reform in Belgium, France, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

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Cash-Rich Retirement, as seen on the public television series Retirement Revolution, brings the investing strategies of the mega-rich to everyday people. It breaks with conventional advice that tells the public to invest mightily in stocks, flip holdings, and seek capital gains. Hogwash says private banker and investment advisor Jim Schlagheck. Forget speculative "gains" Invest instead for prudent income. Save. Build a "life-cycle" annuity package for lifetime retirement...

Two irrefutable facts: (1) Money alone will not guarantee retirement happiness, and (2) Although physicians share many elements of the retirement experience with others, some of their experiences, interests, viewpoints, and perceptions differ from those in other occupations. Based on these self-evident assumptions, Life After Medicine is different. First, we went to the experts. Not to the self-proclaimed retirement experts, but to 600 retired physicians (your retirement mentors) who responded to our online survey by sharing their experiences, impressions and advice on retirement. Second,...