Successful Retirement

What are the secrets to a healthy, happy, and wealthy retirement? To answer that question, longtime Morningstar columnist and podcaster Christine Benz asked 20 retirement thought leaders to go deep on a single lesson that they believe contributes to success in retirement. These lessons range from nitty gritty financial matters to quality-of-life considerations that help pre-retirees and retirees maximize their “time on earth” allocations.

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.

Retirement doesn’t have to be reserved only for the old or the rich. More and more people have been able to retire early through creative ways, such as extreme frugality and investing 90 percent of their income. Quite a number still have been able to retire in their 20s, 30s, and 40s because of real estate. There are many different ways to invest in real estate, but one strategy in particular is popular because it’s easy for first-time investors to get into and assures reliable income that grows through the years.

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.

Dieses Buch ist ein praktischer Leitfaden, der konkrete Ratschläge und bewährte Strategien bietet, um den Ruhestand in vollen Zügen zu genießen. Egal, ob Sie bereits im Ruhestand sind, sich darauf vorbereiten oder der Ruhestand noch in weiter Ferne liegt, die Tipps und Ideen in diesem Buch werden Ihnen helfen, einen erfüllten und befriedigenden Ruhestand zu planen und zu erleben. Bereiten Sie sich darauf vor, diese neue Phase Ihres Lebens mit Zuversicht und Begeisterung zu umarmen!

As the government and corporations shift responsibility for retirement savings to workers, employees at all economic levels must now save and invest for themselves. Filled with in-depth insight, expert advice, and illustrative charts and graphs, Double Your Retirement Income can show you how to take an active part in your retirement destiny and make more out of what you already have.

There are a lot of misconceptions around annuities. Most of them revolve around the sale of variable annuities from brokers, where there is a lot of overpromising done, in my humble opinion. For example, a variable annuity is a security and therefore is an investment that inherently carries risk and comes with high fees. For variable annuities, three to six percent in fees could come out of the overall account value annually versus just a zero to one percent annual fee with a fixed indexed annuity.