Retirement Finance

Encore tells the stories of encore career pioneers who are not content, or affluent enough, to spend their next 30 years on a golf course. These men and women are moving beyond midlife careers yet refusing to phase out or fade away. As they search for a calling in the second half of life and focus on what matters most, these individuals stand to transform the nature of work in America.

Are you approaching retirement with excitement and uncertainty? Wondering how to stay engaged and make the most of your newfound freedom? Concerned that finances might hold you back? You’re not alone. Retirement is a major life transition, but it can be the most fulfilling phase yet. With the right approach, you can create a life filled with meaning, adventure, and connection—without overspending. The Affordable Retirement Bucket List is your guide to discovering purpose, exploring new passions, and embracing exciting experiences while staying within your budget.

Laying out the nine common hazards that trip up otherwise well-prepared retirees to encourage you to think through your decisions and set a course aligned with your values and your ultimate goals, Retirement Fail helps you identify potential pitfalls and teaches how to safeguard your hard-earned retirement assets. Contrary to what most people think, it is not poor portfolio performance that usually busts your retirement accounts. Rather, it's the emotional decisions you make that can cause major problems.

Discover joy and purpose in retirement, even if you’ve felt unsure about your next steps! Are you ready to transform your golden years into a vibrant adventure filled with purpose, health, and meaning? Whether you're seeking activities to invigorate your mind and body, ways to connect with others, or opportunities for personal growth, this guide is your starting point. The "Fun Things To Do In Retirement Kick Start Guide" offers: 50+ activities to keep you physically and socially active every day. Expert tips to expand your social circle and build lasting friendships.

Turn retirement into an exciting new chapter of life—one in which health, wealth, and friendships abound. It’s never too late to start planning! As retirement approaches, you may start to feel a little anxious, and wonder if you’ve planned well enough for life beyond work. What you do today could have a big impact on your enjoyment of life—not just from a financial perspective but also a social and personal one. This book is here to address all your major concerns—from how to make your money grow, to how to fill your days with new goals, interests, and friendship groups.

Mitch Melan, a financial advisor with over two decades of experience, wrote Financial Freedom 101 to help teach people how living a healthy financial life doesn’t have to be complicated. With the resources in this audiobook, you’ll not only be able to better manage your finances and prepare for retirement, but you’ll also be able to teach what you know to your friends, family, and colleagues to help keep them on the track to a great financial future.

Plenty of other retirement books focus just on the numbers and the math of retirement. But what if retirement could be much more than that? What if it could be a time to rediscover your passions, deepen relationships, and make every day fulfilling—without the constant worry about finances? This book challenges the traditional approach. Instead of focusing solely on money, Retirement Planning That Delivers is about building a life filled with purpose, joy, and resilience. It’s 80% focused on lifestyle and 20% on funding your dream.

Have you ever wondered why some retirees are active, physically fit, at the top of their game mentally - and always ready to take on the next adventure without worry about how much it will cost - while others scrimp on all of their purchases and lose sleep every time the stock market hiccups? The reason has to do with the habits they’ve established. Your habits can drive you towards (or further away from) your goals. Even the seemingly “little” things can get you going in the right direction.

This volume explores how financial literacy can enhance peoples' ability to make informed economic choices. It proposes that financial literacy determines how well people make and execute saving, investing, borrowing, and planning decisions. It examines causality using controlled settings to disentangle whether financial literacy causes saving or vice versa, and demonstrates that financial education programs do indeed enhance financial decision-making and asset accumulation.

In an era when people live longer and want (or need) to work past the traditional retirement age, the Vita Needle Company of Needham, Massachusetts, provides inspiration and important lessons about the value of older workers. Vita Needle is a family-owned factory that was founded in 1932 and makes needles, stainless steel tubing and pipes, and custom fabricated parts. As part of its unusual business model, the company seeks out older workers; the median age of the employees is seventy-four.

This book Will Walk You Through the Emotional and Behavioral Changes to Expect to ensure a Happy, Fulfilling, and Financially Stable Retirement! It's pretty crazy how different people's reactions to retirement can be. For some, they absolutely dread the concept of retiring, of giving up their position, of never working again. You can't blame them, though. Imagine working your whole life to finally get the position you've dreamed of, only to retire and not know what to do. It can feel very unsatisfying.

If your future depends on stock market returns that only slightly beat rising costs, you’re not planning for retirement—you’re planning to run out of money slowly. But there’s another way. Engineer Your Retirement Plan with Bitcoin empowers forward-thinking professionals to rethink the future of retirement. Inside, you’ll discover how to combine proven methods with modern tools—including an introductory approach to sound digital assets like Bitcoin—to help your savings grow faster, last longer, and keep pace with economic change.

Retirement can be a jungle of decision-making. Acclaimed personal finance author Noel Whittaker will help guide you. What sort of assets to invest in? How long will your money last? Is downsizing right for you? How much should you spend now, and how much would you like to leave to your kids? This book will be your guide for the rest of your life. In the simple style for which Noel is renowned, the book covers all the above topics and many more. It will become your indispensable guide on what we hope will be a happy, healthy, and prosperous retirement.

Best-selling author Jerry Minchey serves up 24 bite-sized chapters of sage advice and easy-to-implement, proven techniques showing you how to retire on a dime and a dream and live the best years of your life.

Book 4 of Money: Learning the Basics consists of understanding retirement. In this short guide, I discuss the basics about saving for your retirement, whether you're 18 years old and just starting out or 55 years old and getting ready to retire. It is never too early or too late to start thinking about it.

This book speaks to those over 50 who are looking to rededicate their lives to something other than work. It's difficult to know where to turn after a long career, so this book offers four helpful concepts. First off, you've probably had miraculous experiences in your life that are not fully appreciated for their significance. Revisiting them with a fresh perspective as described in "Wonderlust" could renew your sense of uniqueness and meaning and provide a strong foundation to pivot in exciting new directions.

When you retire, you have more control over your time and finally you have enough free time to do what you want. While taking control of your time may not require much upfront planning, taking control of your retirement finances requires it. You need revenue you can count on year after year for a long time. This booklet provides advice on the topics listed below to help you manage your pensions.

The Smart Retirement Plan is a practical, strategy-driven guide for anyone who wants to approach retirement with clarity, control, and financial confidence. In today’s fast-changing world, retirement planning is no longer optional—it’s essential. This book provides a step-by-step roadmap for building a retirement that’s stable, flexible, and aligned with your personal goals and values.

American baby boomers are aging, and 15 million of them never had children. Who will take care of them? Unprecedented in US history, this demographic will create challenges for these individuals, as well as for society. This book is a passionate exploration of the path ahead for "Solo Agers". Author Sara Zeff Geber takes listeners on a journey, starting with the choice for childlessness and then suggests ways in which Solo Agers can mitigate the absence of adult children by relationship-building and rigorous planning for their future.

Even before the pandemic, a large share of households by Americans over age fifty faced the threat that their living standards would decline sharply in retirement. In the wake of COVID-19, these numbers will surely worsen. In Retirement Reboot: Commonsense Financial Strategies for Getting Back on Track, finance writer and regular New York Times retirement contributor Mark Miller offers practical strategies for Americans to improve their retirement prospects.