The AARP Retirement Survival Guide: How to Make Smart Financial Decisions in Good Times and Bad
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- ISBN13: 9781402743412
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Product Description
Bank bailouts. Ponzi schemes. Plunging financial markets. Given today’s dire headlines, planning a secure retirement has become a more critical task than ever.
Now, for Americans seeking safety and stability in a time of wrenching economic change, comes investment educator Julie Jason with this no-nonsense guide, which won the award for Best Personal Finance Book at the International Book Awards and was chosen as the top business book by Booklist. It offers time-tested, rock-solid retirement advice for people of every income level: in addition to showing those on the verge of retirement how to create their own personal pension,” Jason deftly guides prospective retirees through the otherwise bewildering process of evaluating their needs, anticipating future expenses (and managing current ones), and converting present assets into future retirement income. To achieve this goal, she assemblesand shares with the readeran entire tool kit of self-assessments, tables, checklists, and essential questions.
The AARP Retirement Survival Guide: How to Make Smart Financial Decisions in Good Times and Bad
An extremely valuable and comprehensive decision making framework for pre-retiree and retirees. Beyond what you would normally see in books that cover investing for retirement, this book goes one step further and includes ways to evaluate financial advisors, what they say, and the investment products they sell. Julie’s “Don’t Be Fooled Rules in chapter 19 are particularly valuable in addition to her “Retirement Risk Assessment” on page 294. This book is an easy to understand and tremendously valuable resource. A must read!
Rating: 5 / 5
I highly recommend The AARP Retirement Survival Guide. I have been reading Julie Jason’s Sunday column in the Greenwich Time over the last ten years and I couldn’t wait to buy this book when it came out. It is clear, concise, and comprehensive. This book provides valuable information for everyone, from the novice to the experienced investor. A must read!
Rating: 5 / 5
This is impressive coverage of financial matters in retirement situations (or leading to retirement). Chapter 7 was informative about the categories of financial providers; i.e. who regulates or licenses them, standards of conduct and obligations to the investor, and underlying motivations (how are they paid!). Good charts. There was meaningful discussion about categories of annuities, benefits, complexities, fees & costs and other pitfalls. Julie Jason has healthy skepticism about financial products and how they are sold. (Those free lunches and seminars are never free!). Julie’s message and focus are clear: clients and their financial well-being come first. Costs matter in the compounding and wealth equations. As a retired CPA, I was familiar with many of the issues but there was much new information. I would highly recommend the book as a financial planning guide or as a reference for the financial library.
Rating: 5 / 5
For weeks, I have found one excuse after another not to think about the task of creating retirement income – I’m still trying to figure out how to save enough money for retirement after suffering double-digit losses in my own retirement account. But now that I’ve sat down with The AARP Retirement Survival Guide, part of which I helped the author edit, I’m finding one invaluable “to do” suggestion after another in its pages.
The book’s short chapters, and use of bullets and boxes to highlight information, break down the retirement income process step by step. There are self-assessments, tables, checklists, and questions to ask, oh my, but Julie Jason’s calm, reassuring tone leads you through it all. In my opinion, the book’s tone is one of its best features.
Julie is passionate about sharing what she knows with investors and can explain the facts in plain English, which is not a given with all financial advisers. Over and over again, Julie, who I got to know during the editing process, will assure you that, “There’s always something you can do to improve your financial situation.” Most of us can’t afford to walk in the door of Jackson, Grant Investment Advisers in Stamford, Conn., where Julie directs the investment management practice for well-to-do clients, but for a mere $14.95, you can tap into her expertise by buying a copy of this book.
You’ll hear from plenty of advisers when you’re ready to retire, but you’ll find out just how important it is to choose the right one. Until 2006, when the first Boomer turned 60, many advisers focused on accumulating wealth for clients, not creating retirement income. But don’t wait to educate yourself – arm yourself now with the information you need on creating retirement income by reading this book.
Rating: 5 / 5
More helpful than most retirement guides I’ve read in the last few months. Twenty-one chapters detailing topics such as cash flow, retirement income, social security, investments, the joys of compound interest, and the biggie – will your money last as long as you do?
Jason speaks in specifics – not the generalized useless information of too many retirement guides – and is very good about warning consumers about scams and dubious practices.
My one complaint is her tendency to talk about potential investments in terms of 8% returns. While I remember those days, they seem to be gone for the moment.
This is the one retirement guide that I’m glad we bought. Now, here’s hoping we live long and our money lasts forever….
Rating: 5 / 5