Can I Retire Yet? - by Darrow Kirkpatrick (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

• 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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