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Retire on Less Than You Think, Revised Edition: The New York Times Guide to Planning Your Financial Future
Fred Brock
Times Books, 2007
Retirement 101
This is a great beginners book for people looking to begin there plans for retirement. It is very basic advice with the biggest angle it uses is if you own a large house in a metropolitin area then sell that house and by a small one in a place with a lower cost of ...
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Start Late, Finish Rich: A No-Fail Plan for Achieving Financial Freedom at Any Age (Finish Rich Book Series)
David Bach
Broadway, 2006
A program to help you get from where you are to a decent retirement
David Bach is one of the more successful personal finance gurus who pumps out shelves of books, sells seats at seminars, and so on. He is a brand as much as he is an author. This book focuses on the financial requirements of those who realize they need to get ready ...
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While America Aged: How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, ...
Roger Lowenstein
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
Terrific Book!
This is a fantastic read! The book discusses the plight our society faces when the bill comes due on pensions and health benefits for many corporations, city and state governments. It prompted me to look at the state of Nevada pension plan for teachers. The plan is ...
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Spend 'Til the End: The Revolutionary Guide to Raising Your Living Standard--Today and When You Retire
Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Scott Burns
Simon & Schuster, 2008
Income Smoothing 101
A little background on myself before I start the review: I have read over 200 books on investing, so I count myself lucky if I learn 1 new thing for each new book I read. I have read quite a few columns by Scott Burns and generally agree with him on his ideas. I ...
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Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
Leo Tolstoy
Penguin Classics, 2004
Human emotions and relationships -- a literary masterpiece!
It took me several months to read all 817 pages of this amazing novel which was published in segments between 1873 and 1877 in a Russian periodical. Every time I picked it up it transported me to a time and a place and a way of life that is long since gone. That it ...
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Your Complete Retirement Planning Road Map: A Comprehensive Action Plan for Securing IRAs, 401(k)s, and Other ...
Ed Slott
Ballantine Books, 2007
A Good Investment
Being retired or on the way to retirement, this is a good source of information.
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The Smartest 401k Book You'll Ever Read: Maximize Your Retirement Savings...the Smart Way!
Daniel R. Solin
Perigee Trade, 2008
Great Book
"The Smartest 401(k) Book You'll Ever Read", is a top notch book on investing. The author believes that investing should be simple, and he presents the basics of investing in a simple manner that is easily understood.
Solin warns readers that Wall Street and the ...
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Parlay Your IRA into a Family Fortune: 3 EASY STEPS for creating a lifetime supply of tax-deferred, even ...
Ed Slott
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2005
Parlay your IRA into a family fortune
This book shows you basically two options. Give most of your tax deferred assets to the government after you and your wife's death, or set it up so your kids and/or grandchildren get it. It is amazing how many financial and legal types that I have shown this too that ...
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The Retirement Savings Time Bomb . . . and How to Defuse It: A Five-Step Action Plan for Protecting Your ...
Ed Slott
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007
Do you want your IRA to go to the IRS or your family?
Its hard to believe that you can spend your entire working life providing for your family and saving money to support yourself in retirement only to lose most of your retirement assets to the IRS when you die. Ed Slott's recent book provides strategies and ideas on ...
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Stop the 401(k) Rip-off!: Eliminate Costly Hidden Fees to Improve Your Life
David B. Loeper
Bridgeway Books, 2007
Every American should read
My name is Matthew Hutcheson. I'm an independent pension fiduciary, and have studied retirement plan economics for over fifteen years. Every American worker with a 401(k) (or a 403(b)/457 for that matter) should put this book on the top of their reading list. The ...
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What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement: Planning Now for the Life You Want (What Color Is Your ...
Richard Nelson Bolles, John E. Nelson
Ten Speed Press, 2007
Great read with great guidance and great referrals
This book is simply the best broad treatment of issues for the prospective retiree or already retired person that I am aware of. It covers all the bases and is presented in an easy-to-read style. It is meant to appeal to readers from a broad background and thus has ...
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Retirement Places Rated: What You Need to Know to Plan the Retirement You Deserve (Places Rated series)
David Savageau
Frommers, 2007
Best in its Class
You know exactly what's promised when you read the title of this book, and it delivers exactly that, and better than any other book on this topic that I have seen. This is a great companion book to read together with those that address finances and other aspects of ...
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Buckets of Money: How to Retire in Comfort and Safety
Raymond J. Lucia
Wiley, 2004
Just makes sense!
Ray's advice makes sense in today's economy and takes the "don't put your eggs all in one basket" concept one step further.
As retirees, we're living longer than ever, and our money has to last. The old advice of putting your retirement into CD's doesn't work ...
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Retirement Income Redesigned: Master Plans for Distribution: An Adviser's Guide for Funding Boomers' Best ...
Bloomberg Press, 2006
Money Well Spent
I have read over two dozen books on investing and retirement planning and this is among my favorites. First, there are few books which talk to the subject of distribution (as opposed to accumulation) strategies. Second, the authors have chosen to allow other experts ...
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Grown-up's Guide to Running Away From Home: Making a New Life Abroad
Rosanne Knorr
Ten Speed Press, 2008
Relocation for a career change? Start here...
As a career consultant, I find myself responding to questions about the ultimate getaway: finding a new job (and maybe a new life) overseas. It sounds so romantic...till you get into the nitty-gritty of paperwork, taxes and health care.
This guide gets 5 stars ...
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