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

As the average age of the population continues to rise in industrialized nations, the fiscal impacts of aging demand ever-closer attention. Closing the Deficit examines one oft-discussed approach to the issue--encouraging people to work longer than they now do.

Workers would spend more years paying taxes and fewer years drawing pension and health benefits. But how much difference to spending and revenues would longer working lives make? What steps could be taken to make longer working lives attractive? And what would happen to older Americans not in a position to prolong their work...

I consider myself to be the luckiest guy in the world because I'm living the life I want to live. I'm 70 years old. I'm still involved in a career I love and I've been able to structure that career so I can stay in as long as I wish. It allows me to take time to stay healthy, travel, and follow-up on hobbies and things that I'm passionate about. This is the result of a four-step planning process that I began 15 years ago.

The New Retirement Paradigm

Know yourself.
Define your ideal work life.
Define your vision of your "play" life.
Arrange your financial infrastructure...

Charlie Emery has been an active, self-taught investor for over twenty years. He has invested in his 401K plan at work as well as regular and Roth IRAs. He has learned the hard way, by trial and error, what does and doesn't work. Building on that experience, You Can Do It Yourself Investor's Guide seeks help today's working investor, most of whom will not have a traditional pension plan to fall back on when they retire.

If you are familiar with or willing to learn to work with a spreadsheet program like Excel; you can chart your own investments effectively. By spending a few hours each...

Charlie Emery has been an active, self-taught investor for over twenty years. He has invested in his 401K plan at work as well as regular and Roth IRAs. He has learned the hard way, by trial and error, what does and doesn't work. Building on that experience, You Can Do It Yourself Investor's Guide seeks help today's working investor, most of whom will not have a traditional pension plan to fall back on when they retire.

If you are familiar with or willing to learn to work with a spreadsheet program like Excel; you can chart your own investments effectively. By spending a few hours each...

For millions of Americans, living in a nursing home or assisted living facility is not how they'd prefer to spend their retirement years. This is why more and more people are choosing to "age in place."

In this empowering and indispensable book, clinical psychologists and aging...

What kind of shape is your portfolio in?

The financial fallout of recent years was a game changer for anyone and everyone preparing to retire in the near future. In order to build and maintain a solid portfolio in today's roller-coaster investing climate, you have to be more alert, increasingly proactive, and better educated on the markets than ever before.

In Financial Fitness Forever, Paul Merriman gives you a framework guaranteed to return even the most struggling portfolio to prime health. One of the nation's most popular investment advisors, Merriman...

In Unconventional Success, investment legend David F. Swensen offers incontrovertible evidence that the for-profit mutual-fund industry consistently fails the average investor. From excessive management fees to the frequent "churning" of portfolios, the relentless pursuit of profits by mutual-fund management companies harms individual clients. Perhaps most destructive of...

As the generational bubble of the Baby Boomers begins to retire, it is increasingly evident that governments, corporations, and individuals have failed to adequately prepare for the obligations and needs of this giant cohort. Retirees are outliving actuarial life expectancies, pension liabilities are skyrocketing, pension plans are underfunded, and medical costs rise, the United States alone can expect unfunded liabilities to exceed $4 trillion.

Most books on the market today, be they about stocks, commodities, foreign exchange (Forex) or just investing in general - often lead the reader to believe that in a few short steps they too can make millions with little-to-no effort. Unfortunately this is rarely true but the true crime is the lack of goal setting within the pages of these other books. Growing The Money Tree is different - it does not aim to make the reader a millionaire, but rather shows them why they don't need to be a millionaire to...