Retirement Finance

Medicare For Dummies, 3rd Edition will help you navigate the complicated, often confusing maze of the Medicare system. In simple language, with clear step-by-step instructions, the book helps you determine how and when to enroll, avoid costly mistakes, and find a plan that is right for you and your family.

You have enough for retirement. Now, learn how to enjoy it. Every day, retirees face a surprising but consistent challenge—and it’s not what most people expect. It’s not about whether they’ve saved enough, or if they’ll run out of money. It’s about what happens next: how to actually enjoy the retirement they’ve worked so hard to create. Too often, retirement becomes a story of caution. People trim their budgets, cut back on spending, and protect their nest eggs at all costs. The result? A retirement lived too small, shadowed by unnecessary fear and missed opportunities.

Glenn Hopper uses a unique blend of financial leadership and technical expertise to help businesses of all sizes optimize and modernize. Not a software engineer? Neither is Glenn Hopper, but his story shows how any finance leader can embrace the tech innovations shaping our world to revolutionize finance operations.

Retiring doesn't mean you stop planning… But most people don’t know the crucial steps to retire confidently instead of fearfully. Financial advisor Tim Whisler draws from decades of experience to guide listeners through retirement unknowns—from savings strategies to the effects of healthcare, spousal death, and taxes. In clear, direct language, he addresses fears that keep soon-to-be retirees awake—running out of money, losing a spouse unprepared, and facing financial change. But his book doesn’t stop there.

In this transformative book, Don Hershberger and his team offer insight on designing a retirement that goes beyond saving enough money. Through his signature Designed by Inspiration® process, you will discover how to align your wealth with your life’s aspirations, leading to purpose and fulfillment in retirement. This three-part process starts by uncovering what truly matters to you, then guides you through designing a comprehensive plan that supports your inspirations, ultimately helping you live the retirement you’ve long envisioned.

Your retirement is calling: It’s time to seize the joy of your golden years, even if you fear it may be filled with boredom or solitude.

In the last few years, passive income has become a global phenomenon. You hear stories about bloggers making a fortune, people getting filthy rich on YouTube, and influencers retiring in their thirties. These stories paint a lovely picture of success and wealth. But wait a minute. If it’s that easy, why isn’t everyone doing it? The truth is passive income models, whether it’s an online business or stock trading, require just as much dedication as any other job.

In ETF Investing: How to Create a Winning Long-Term Portfolio, you'll learn about why ETF investing is a popular investment strategy by retirees and early retirement planners. ETF investing consists of building a portfolio of assets that remains flexible for you to liquidate at different moments in time. If you like the concept of indexing but do not like the inflexibility of index funds, ETF investing may be the best strategy for you to adopt.

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.

While the idea of not working can be simultaneously wonderful and overwhelming, you can figure out what you want the end of your career and your retirement to look like before you submit your resignation. This book won't help you figure out whether or not you can afford to retire, but it will help you figure out what you'd like to do and who you'd like to be.

TV analysts and money managers would have you believe your finances are enormously complicated, and if you don't follow their guidance, you'll end up in the poorhouse. They're wrong. When University of Chicago professor Harold Pollack interviewed Helaine Olen, an award-winning financial journalist and the author of the best-selling Pound Foolish, he made an off­hand suggestion: Everything you need to know about managing your money could fit on an index card.

With interest rates rising, your cash could now finally earn you some interest income. Well…it could…but it may not be doing so. You see, many financial institutions are not passing along higher interest to their customers.

Attorney and CPA Mark J. Kohler targets the leading tax and business issues among small business owners, across all stages of business, and delivers a practical guide to the fundamental tax and legal conflicts faced by new and established entrepreneurs. Coached by Kohler, business owners are armed to seek out the right professionals relevant to their concerns, confidently ask the right questions, and ultimately, save time, money, and in many cases, potential heartache.

Cindy Couyoumjian’s third book explores the silent retirement crisis that will impact millions of Americans. She uses the term silent to convey the idea that the majority of those who are about to retire, or are in retirement, share a common and unspoken fear—running out of money.

Americans today face retirement with a mix of hope and trepidation. Hope—that their health will hold out long enough to let them do what they want for decades. And trepidation—that they might not have enough wealth to fund it. But creating a viable, sustainable retirement plan is easier than you think. In It’s All About the Income, award-winning financial planner and bestselling author Michael Lynch lays out a simple, straightforward system for determining when you really have enough money to call it quits.

What are we going to do with those 20 or 30 years we didn’t expect? Due to unfounded fears of unhappiness and regret, many intelligent, otherwise rational people, even into their 40s and 50s, are so convinced that old age is a time of misery that they simply deny any other outcome and refuse to plan their own destiny. This optimistic and highly informative guide to smart aging will detail for listeners the steps they need to take to ensure that long life becomes synonymous with good life.

Are you done with the 9-5 stagnant routine job? Do you finally want to take the time you have always wanted and enjoy life? If you answered yes, then congratulations! You are now in the happiest and most relaxed phase of your life! The only goal after this is to make the most of it and give yourself everything you have been holding out on.

In this audiobook, Dominic Watson takes you on a very different retirement journey, one that is fun and leads to a dynamic and enthralling destination. He shows you how retirement can be done on your terms. Using incredible, real-life case studies, this audiobook will give you the insights on how to live the life you want. Redefining retirement the Rock Star Way isn’t about turning life's amplifier down, it's about well and truly ramping it up to 11 and beyond!

Are you approaching that golden age of retirement? If so, you’re likely starting to get a lot of things in the mail or in the office that is related to your retirement that includes jargon you may or may not be familiar with. Don’t let intimidating jargon keep you from planning and saving for retirement. Get familiar with some of the most common words you’ll encounter while financing your golden years. This practical glossary audiobook compiles a list of over 80 most common retirement terms you’re likely to encounter.

From Here to Financial Happiness is the day-by-day guide for anyone dreaming of a better life. Whether you're dealing with debt, uncertain about retirement, or simply want to get a grip on your finances, this book can put you on the road to happiness with a simple 11-week journey. Just five to 10 minutes a day to think about money, your habits, your goals, and your dreams. What steps can you take today to get your finances on track? What bad habits, bad investments, and misconceptions should you let go of?