Solving a Retirement Dilemma Spend Less or Run out of Money (Paperback)

Paperback. If you are near or in retirement, this book will solve a retirement dilemma that many retirees face, Spend Less or Run Out of Money. You will learn that underspending is not a very precise or rewarding method of making your money last. You will also be provided with a detailed blueprint for developing your own comprehensive retirement plan including an income, spending, and investing plan as well as the knowledge and confidence to Spend More of what you earned, live the Lifestyle You Deserve, and Make it Last Your Lifetime. If you decide you need the help of a Financial Planner or Financial Advisor, this book will provide valuable information on how to select, work with, and measure your advisor's performance. Why is this book different from so many books written on this subject? First and foremost, this book was written from a different perspective, that of a retired executive and engineer, trained and experienced in solving difficult problems. The author is not a Financial Planner or Investment Adviser, or someone selling his latest book on some flashy new technique that probably requires additional services. He is someone who's learned many valuable lessons in preparing for, and has been living in retirement for several years, someone who has done the research and knows how to simplify this complex subject. The author began thinking about retirement issues many years before retiring. Among the first questions were, What Retirement Lifestyle did he and his wife want to have and what did it look like? This led to the next question, How much money would be needed to support the lifestyle they wanted in retirement? As he quickly discovered, answering these questions was no easy task and it led him to seek the answer to another critical question; If you need or want to spend more than your retirement income, how much savings could be safely withdrawn each year so that you do not outlive your savings? The answers to these and many more questions are provided by this book. The book explains four different, but popular savings withdrawal systems used by many financial advisors and examines their potential impact on your retirement lifestyle. It will guide you in selecting a savings withdrawal system that you can be comfortable with and help prevent you from running out of money before you run out of Life. It includes the topics that the author has found to be important in building his retirement plan. As such, it will help you to: 1. Create your retirement plan.2. Fashion the retirement Lifestyle you want.3. Create a spending budget that supports your Retirement Lifestyle.4. Choose a savings withdrawal system you are comfortable with.5. Navigate the many risks you might face in retirement.6. Decide when you should take Social Security.7. Decide if an annuity is right for your situation.8. Examine the impact income taxes will have on your income.9. Decide what savings and investment accounts to withdraw from and in what order to minimize taxes and maximize investment returns.10. Decide where to invest for safety, diversification, growth and peace of mind. You cannot predict the future, but this book will help you make the decisions and calculations you need to make in order to determine if your planned lifestyle is achievable. If you purchase this book, you will have access to a free, powerful spreadsheet program that automates many worksheet inputs and calculations, and allows What-If analysis to see the effects of altering key variables. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…