The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security: Practical Strategies for Money, Work, and Living

The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security: Practical Strategies for Money, Work, and Living

by Mark Miller
The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security: Practical Strategies for Money, Work, and Living

The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security: Practical Strategies for Money, Work, and Living

by Mark Miller

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Overview

A timely guide to overcoming the retirement challenges we all face

The Great Recession has placed a wake-up call to America's baby boomers. Many have not saved enough for retirement and have not taken a hard look at how many post-work years they may need to finance.

Written in a straightforward and accessible style, The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security tackles the tough questions about retirement in the new post-crash economy. Page by page, it puts retirement in perspective by touching on important issues such as insuring against the risk of outliving your assets, recalibrating damaged retirement portfolios, managing the risk of health-care expenses in retirement, and career strategies for workers who are 50 years old and up.

  • Reveals how to boost lifetime income through better planning, and working just a few additional years
  • Offers advice on how to hire a financial advisor whose first loyalty is to you, not Wall Street
  • Discusses why you should rethink housing in the wake of the real estate crash
  • Offers detailed advice on career reinvention, the 50+ job market and midlife entrepreneurship

Engaging and informative, this practical guide provides the strategies needed for a truly fulfilling and secure retirement.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781576603628
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 06/15/2010
Series: Bloomberg , #48
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Mark Miller is an expert on aging, retirement, business, and economics. He writes the syndicated weekly column "Retire Smart," contributes to CBS Moneywatch.com and the Huffington Post, and publishes RetirementRevised.com, which was named the best retirement planning site on the web by Money magazine. Miller speaks regularly at conferences on aging and retirement. He can be reached at markmiller@hardtimesretirement.com.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

1 Rethinking Retirement in Hard Times 1

Money 13

2 The Great Wake-Up Call 15

3 Getting the Most from Social Security 19

4 The Old-Fashioned Pension on Life Support 31

5 Income Annuities: Another Way to Get a Guarantee 41

6 Resuscitating the 401(k) 49

7 Managing Your Health-Care Expense Burden 65

8 Taxes and Retirement 83

9 Coping with Post-Bubble Real Estate 91

10 How to Hire a Financial Adviser 105

Work 115

11 How Working Longer Helps 117

12 The Fifty-Plus Job Market: Good News, Bad News 125

13 Six Rules for Job Hunting 133

14 Fifty-Plus Enterpreneurs: Launching a Lifestyle Business 145

15 How to Hire a Career Coach 159

Living 167

16 Making a Difference: Encore Careers 169

17 Volunteering in Retirement: Getting Engaged 183

18 Learning and the Path to Brain Fitness 199

About the Author 211

Index 213

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