Publisher Description:
You've worked hard, lived carefully, and saved diligently. You've reached major milestones and accumulated more assets than you dreamed possible, and yet you hesitate. "Can I retire?" This book will help answer that question by showing you.... - The tools you need to live a secure and independent retirement, without worrying about money
- What you must know before leaving a career behind
- How much it will cost you to live in retirement, and how to manage your cash flow
- The current choices for retirement health care, including lesser-known but effective options
- The threat from inflation: two secrets that politicians and bankers will never admit
- A realistic assessment of the impact that income taxes will have on your retirement
- Social Security's role in your retirement: when you should claim and how much it's worth to you
- How to construct and manage an investment portfolio for income and growth in retirement
- About immediate annuities and why you need multiple sources of retirement income
- The key variables and unknowns in your retirement withdrawal equation
- Reviews of the best retirement calculators, and tips for how to use them accurately
- Beyond the simplistic 4% Rule to the latest research on safe withdrawal rates
- Realistic bracketing of your retirement savings needs, without over caution or overconfidence
- The history of economic cycles and the related asset classes for optimal retirement security
- A survey of strategies plus original research for how to orchestrate your retirement distributions
- A practical retirement fuel gauge alerting you to problems while you still have time to act
- Backup plans: the lifeboat strategies for ensuring you'll never be without essential income
- The 6 crucial questions to answer before you can retire
- The one, simple, powerful, non-financial reason that you can and should retire earlier than later
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