Retirement Countdown
Take Action Now to Get the Life You Want (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books)
Protect your retirement, one step at a time—starting today!Don't outlive your assets! Know what you'll need, how to get it, and how to keep itPersonal coaching from one of the world's leading retirement planning expertsOvercome the #1 danger to your retirement: procrastination. Only Jerry Seinfeld can make money doing nothing!Understand retirement investment risks—and manage themAuthor provides interactive retirement planning tools at www.retirementcountdown.comConcerned about retirement income? You'd better be. Don't panic. Act! Retirement Countdown will help you every step of the way.In this action-oriented book, you'll discover where you stand, make a solid plan, and learn how to stick with it. You'll assess all your options, discovering practical strategies for controlling risk as you build savings. You'll learn how to tweak your plan to reflect changing times. And, once you've retired, you'll learn the best ways to protect and stretch your savings.Whatever your assets, whatever your investment knowledge, this book will coach you every step of the way on the road to the comfortable retirement you deserve.
Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Nonfiction, Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.
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Nonfiction · Fiction
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Balanced tone · Urgent pace
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- ISBN-13
- 978-0-1310-9671-4
- Language
- English
- Edition record
- OL9289626M
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A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.
Begin with its place in Nonfiction, then notice where the book resists that label.
Read for connection, not completion.
Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.
Three questions to carry with you
- Whose perspective organizes the story, and whose perspective remains outside it?
- Which sources or lived experiences carry the author’s central argument?
- How does the book change the way you understand its larger subject?
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