Packed with the best strategies to manage wealth in retirement, this book helps readers live the life they have always envisioned - without risk of running out of money. It shows readers how to become informed, wise investors - avoiding common pitfalls, challenging the status quo, and refusing to take advice blindly.

Let's face it, retirement is hard. You're not alone if you feel like you don't know what to do with your money and how to make it last. In fact, here is the average 401(k) balance of Americans in their 50's and 60's: Average 401(k) balance of ages 45-54: $161,079 (average); $56,722 (median) Average 401(k) balance of ages 55-64: $232,379 (average); $84,714 (median) Average 401(k) balance of ages 65 and older: $255,151 (average); $82,297 (median) Don't let that be you. What The Wealth: Identify Your Core Values, Reignite Your Dreams, and Combat the 5 Big Retirement Risks(R) is a comprehensive guide that will help you get on track to financial confidence. It doesn't matter where you are in life or in your retirement planning, this book will give you the tools and resources you need to succeed. We often fail at having the ideal retirement, but it is because our perspectives are in the wrong place. Our focus is on goals. Goals are the never ending chase of abundance. You can have all the money in the world, but if your focus is on goals, you will never feel like it is enough. The problem with this perspective is that once you achieve one goal, you move on to the next and the cycle never ends. This is what causes many people end up feeling unfulfilled and stressed in retirement. This book guides you to focus on your core values and dreams. It is only when we are clear about our values and and dreams that we can create a retirement plan that is fulfilling and purposeful. Retirement also has many risks. In this book I outline the 5 Big Retirement Risks(R) taxes, inflation, withdrawal strategy, longevity, and behavior. I also provide solutions to combat each of these risks so that you can be confident in your retirement. What The Wealth: Identify Your Core Values, Reignite Your Dreams, and Combat the 5 Big Retirement Risks(R) is available now on Amazon.com. Start your journey to financial confidence today!

Learn how retirement really works before it's too late... "This book is the best I've seen on how to navigate the retirement savings question." (Forbes) Most so-called "experts" plug your numbers into a retirement formula to tell you how much money you need to retire. Unfortunately, the conventional approach is fundamentally flawed. If you fail to learn how retirement savings truly works, then you'll either underspend and be miserable or overspend and run out of money. How Much Money Do I Need to Retire takes you beyond the scientific facade of modern retirement planning. Author and former hedge fund manager Todd R. Tresidder has helped thousands of people find financial freedom through his website and podcast. Now you too can use his advice to take the guesswork out of your retirement planning. In this book, you'll learn: Why the best way to describe most retirement estimates is garbage-in/garbage-out The five critical assumptions that can destroy your financial security How to reduce the amount you need to retire by as much as $600,000 Three strategies to maximize spending today while protecting for the future How to calculate the amount of money you really need to retire on the first try without software, online calculators, or being a math genius Read this book to know more about your retirement planning than your financial adviser. Tresidder's book contains refreshingly straightforward, easy-to-understand, and concise advice on how to retire wealthy. This missing link of personal finance books will make you sleep easier. No retirement is secure without it. Buy the book today so you can retire with confidence!

Let's face it, retirement is hard. You're not alone if you feel like you don't know what to do with your money and how to make it last. In fact, here is the average 401(k) balance of Americans in their 50's and 60's:Average 401(k) balance of ages 45-54: $161,079 (average); $56,722 (median)Average 401(k) balance of ages 55-64: $232,379 (average); $84,714 (median)Average 401(k) balance of ages 65 and older: $255,151 (average); $82,297 (median)Don't let that be you. What The Wealth: Identify Your Core Values, Reignite Your Dreams, and Combat the 5 Big Retirement Risks® is a comprehensive guide that will help you get on track to financial confidence. It doesn't matter where you are in life or in your retirement planning, this book will give you the tools and resources you need to succeed.We often fail at having the ideal retirement, but it is because our perspectives are in the wrong place. Our focus is on goals. Goals are the never ending chase of abundance. You can have all the money in the world, but if your focus is on goals, you will never feel like it is enough. The problem with this perspective is that once you achieve one goal, you move on to the next and the cycle never ends. This is what causes many people end up feeling unfulfilled and stressed in retirement.This book guides you to focus on your core values and dreams. It is only when we are clear about our values and and dreams that we can create a retirement plan that is fulfilling and purposeful.Retirement also has many risks. In this book I outline the 5 Big Retirement Risks®: taxes, inflation, withdrawal strategy, longevity, and behavior. I also provide solutions to combat each of these risks so that you can be confident in your retirement.What The Wealth: Identify Your Core Values, Reignite Your Dreams, and Combat the 5 Big Retirement Risks® is available now on Amazon.com.Start your journey to financial confidence today!

Key Demographics in Retirement Risk Management argues that the weakening of public and employer-sponsored social safety nets in several countries will permanently increase pre-retirees’ risk-anxiety and create pressure towards readjustment of their expectations about the quality of their lives in retirement. The result will be to raise the priority of achieving effective comprehensive retirement related risk management. This achievement requires an emphasis upon the cascading of linked risks, and careful attention to the optimization of scarce resources used to manage those linked risks. Professional financial and retirement planning advisors comprise a key source of help. This book develops new knowledge concerning the factors that help to explain three important aspects of access to these professional advisors. The results of this analysis are used to illustrate the process of identifying distinctive population segments, key demographics, on the basis of multiple population attributes treated simultaneously. The illustration is further extended with an identification of distinctive population segments relative to performance on a composite indicator of the conduct of multiple retirement risk management activities. The book also discusses implications of the pattern of gender differences in preparedness to address retirement’s challenges, highlighting subgroups of women in which inadequate preparedness is pronounced.

This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Save Your Retirement: What to Do If You Haven’t Saved Enough or If Your Investments Were Devastated by the Market Meltdown (9780137029006) by Frank Armstrong III and Paul B. Brown. Available in print and digital formats. You can’t afford to eliminate retirement risk completely: here’s how to control and manage it. Given how difficult it might seem to balance risk, you can be forgiven for thinking that the 2008 market meltdown justifies playing it ultra-safe and keeping your money in something like CDs. But you can’t if you want to stay ahead of inflation and have any real (after inflation) return....

Traditional retirement plans are doing more harm than good. While so many retirees are dying broke, little has been done to fix the issue--especially since retirees now face more financial risks than ever before. Getting Safely Through Retirement: A New Paradigm in Retirement Planning invites readers to step outside the box of traditional retirement planning so they can have the golden years they have worked hard towards.

Financial science, both quantitative and behavioral, can be used to improve the retirement planning effort. Despite a vast amount of literature on the topic, Secure Retirement recognizes the need to validate this knowledge and develop a comprehensive framework for investors.

When it comes to retirement investing, too much emphasis today is on investment returns, which often come at the expense of income dependability and peace of mind. Slash Your Retirement Risk redefines how to invest for retirement to maximize your reliable income and stabilize your financial future. Rather than the typical approach to portfolio management—focusing on returns and ignoring dramatic market downswings that can decimate portfolios—author Chris Cook shows investors how to create income reliability without sacrificing reasonable growth. Instead of chasing uncertain returns, Slash Your Retirement Risk's strategy will help ensure your retirement portfolio will capitalize on opportunities for growth while weathering the inevitable economic ups and downs. You will achieve reliable returns and suffer fewer sleepless nights worrying about whether your money will last as long as you do. Slash Your Retirement Risk is your step-by-step guide to create a retirement portfolio that will provide true financial peace of mind, one that features: The broad diversification essential in today's globally interconnected marketplace. A built-in ability to capitalize on market upswings to generate growth. Automatic protections against inevitable market downswings. An investing strategy that minimizes fees and costs to maximize portfolio gains.