Your Complete Guide to a Successful and Secure Retirement

Larry Swedroe, Kevin Grogan

• Publisher: Harriman House
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9780857197337
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Financial Accounting
• Index: Business

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.These topics are explained with the help of specialists in each subject. And everything is based on the "science of investing" – evidenced with studies from peer-reviewed journals.Overall, this adds up to a complete retirement guide, packed with the latest and best knowledge. Don't enter your retirement without it.

This book is dedicated to the associates of the Buckingham Family of Financial Services and the advisors at the more than 130 independent, fiduciary, registered investment advisory firms with whom we at Buckingham have strategic alliances. Each and every one of them works diligently to educate their clients on how markets really work and helps them fulfill their life and financial goals by building long-term relationships and doing the right thing.

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Praise for Your Complete Guide to a Successful and Secure Retirement

“A comprehensive guide to the emotional and financial issues involved in achieving a fulfilling and stress-free retirement. The wise advice is accessibly presented with a sensitivity that can only come from years of advising individual clients how to make some of the most important decisions of their lives.”

— Burton G. Malkiel, author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street (now in its 12th edition)

“A highly sophisticated look at smart ways of managing money in retirement, creating a ‘homemade paycheck,’ and securing your standard of living.”

— Jane Bryant Quinn, author of How to Make Your Money Last

“What a great resource! Covers all the bases. In my opinion, it’s Larry’s magnum opus. Read it and reap.”

— Mel Lindauer, President of The John C. Bogle Center for Financial Literacy, and co-author of The Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing and The Bogleheads’ Guide to Retirement Planning

“Students tell me that they crowd my ‘financial strategies’ course, which features Swedroe and Balaban’s Investment Mistakes Even Smart People Make, because they like practical down-to-earth advice, illustrated with stories. This new book will serve as the capstone in the course. Now I can teach about the many dimensions of retirement: such as spending down your assets in retirement, training your kids to spend and invest right, reckoning with the possibility of losing your marbles, and how to prevent elder abuse. I will be teaching a broader course and even inducing a few students to contemplate a career as a financial advisor. I have already passed the book on to my wife and kids. What a gift!”

— Edward Tower, Professor of Economics at Duke University

“Larry and Kevin’s new book lives up to the promise of its title. It deals with subjects rarely covered in books authored by investment advisors (like insurance, annuities and reverse mortgages) and does so in a thorough and objective way. It’s a valuable planning guide for everyone concerned about a secure and dignified retirement.”

— Dan Solin, author of the Smartest series of investing books

“Larry does a deep dive into all the moving parts of a holistic financial plan for retirees. The result is an essential and invaluable resource for anyone in or contemplating retirement. The scope of the material is unparalleled, making this the most comprehensive guide to retirement planning I have ever seen. Meticulously researched, and clearly presented.”

— Frank Armstrong III, President/Founder, Investor Solutions

“Family and friends constantly share with me their concerns regarding planning for retirement, which is particularly challenging in today’s market environment. Finally, I can point them to a single resource for comprehensive and thoughtful advice. Larry and Kevin’s book is replete with insights and answers to the difficult questions that need to be considered to ensure a prosperous retirement. Relying upon decades of experience, they demystify the vast world of retirement by sharing their own science-based investment approach and collaborating with industry experts to provide a complete overview of complicated and commonly misunderstood topics such as Social Security, Medicare and Estate Planning. Their book is your guide to a successful and secure retirement.”

— Marat Molyboga, Chief Risk Officer, Director of Research, Efficient Capital Management

“Investing is hard enough when saving for retirement, but coordinating all of the components of a holistic plan IN retirement is even more complex… and risky in today’s era of high valuations and low yields. Fortunately, Swedroe and Grogan break down each key issue into a retirement framework that anyone can use to navigate this challenging environment!”

— Michael ...

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