Retirement Money

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.

What if financial success wasn’t the finish line—but the starting point for something greater? In Beyond Wealth, seasoned advisor Rick Hadrava pulls back the curtain on what it truly takes to live a life of freedom, purpose, and lasting impact. With over 30 years of experience guiding high-achieving individuals through the complexities of wealth, Rick delivers a refreshingly personal and actionable blueprint for designing a life that goes far beyond numbers on a balance sheet. This isn’t a book about chasing market returns or maximizing portfolio performance. It’s a book about clarity.

Retirement can be a hugely painful and emotional transition. You’ve spent your entire life earning money, and now you must turn off the tap and live off only what you have accumulated. Will it be enough? Will you be able to live the life of your dreams, or are you at risk of running out of money? Can you afford to accomplish your bucket list? On the other hand, can you really afford not to? (After all, you don’t want to be the richest person in the graveyard!)

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.

Brian Vosberg is President of Vosberg Wealth Management, a retirement and tax planning firm. He is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and has Master's degrees in both Financial Planning and Taxation. For over twenty years, Brian has been focused on guiding pre-retirees and retirees to reach their retirement goals. In Foundations of Retirement, Brian draws upon his story of resilience while sharing his professional experience as a dedicated advocate for successful retirement planning. The book bridges the gap between emotional and practical approaches to financial planning.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gone are the days of traditional retirement planning. The idea that you can simply save a certain amount and retire with confidence is flawed, dangerous even, as it does not account for today’s volatile financial markets, increasing life expectancy, interest rates, and every individual’s unique retirement lifestyle needs. John D. VanWeelden challenges the conventional wisdom, revolutionizes the way we approach retirement, and cuts through the myths, hype, and propaganda to reveal the truth about retirement income planning and investing.

What if you could escape the 9-to-5, achieve financial freedom, and explore the world—on your terms? How to Retire Early and Travel the World is your no-fluff guide to financial independence, early retirement, and a life of global adventure. Whether you’re dreaming of quiet mornings in Bali, café-hopping in Lisbon, or hiking Patagonia, this book helps you get there—faster than you think. Most people believe retirement comes after 65 and requires millions. This book flips that belief.

How to make enough passive income from your properties to retire in 10 years, even if you have zero investments today. Do you want to shorten your years working a nine-to-five job and increase the years you’ll spend doing what you love, while you can still do it? Traditional wisdom advises us to keep toiling, scrimping, and saving until we finally reach the retirement age of 60, after which we can live off what we’ve saved and hope we die before it runs out.

Do you want to be rich and wealthy? Or do you want to retire rich and enjoy your life? Or do you simply want to achieve financial freedom? Retirement financial planning is the right audiobook for you, as we reveal the golden secrets to wealth building and remaining rich for life. Discover the insights that allow even normal people to retire rich and to achieve financial freedom. We will guide you step by step with the tips, strategies, concepts, and how-to of building wealth that has been proven to work time and time again!

With the inundation of financial information at click of a button, we've found that data overload, and cookie-cutter solutions to financial planning, often leads people to paralysis. That's where we step in. We’ve helped hundreds of clients get TO and THROUGH retirement using the concepts we present in The Retirement Income Toolkit. What is it? It’s a different, holistic approach in contrast to the traditional financial planning that focused mostly on investments and tax-deferred retirement accounts.

Retirement Planning is a comprehensive guide that empowers you with the strategies to build a robust retirement plan, ensuring financial tranquility, regardless of your current savings.

Everyone knows that saving for your retirement is important. Yet only half of all eligible Americans contribute to a retirement plan. That’s because all plans - including the 401(k), 403(b), 457, and even the IRA - are complicated, confusing, and costly. New York Times best-selling author and acclaimed financial advisor Ric Edelman has counseled thousands of savers and retirees and has accumulated his advice in this audiobook.

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.

This is your one-stop, definitive resource as you prepare for a secure and comfortable retirement. Investment and personal finance experts Larry Swedroe and Kevin Grogan present uniquely comprehensive coverage of every important aspect you need to think about as you approach retirement, including: Social Security, Medicare, investment planning strategy, portfolio maintenance, preparing your heirs, retirement issues faced by women, the threat of elder financial abuse, going beyond financials to think about your happiness, and much more.