Retirement Planning QuickStart Guide - (Hardcover)

About the Book

Retirement Planning QuickStart Guide cuts through the chatter to help orient you on your journey to retirement.

Book Synopsis

THE ULTIMATE BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR FINANCES AND PREPARING FOR RETIREMENT

INCLUDES LIFETIME ACCESS TO ONLINE INVESTMENT COURSE RESOURCES AND OTHER ESSENTIAL RETIREMENT PLANNING DIGITAL ASSETS

Planning for retirement is the biggest financial commitment of your life. Are you prepared?

The future is often filled with fear and uncertainty. Fortunately, your retirement doesn't have to be. Managing your finances, preparing to transition out of the workforce, and ensuring that your money is working as hard as possible to make your golden years sparkle can be overwhelming.

Best-selling author and finance industry veteran Ted D. Snow, CFP(R), MBA, knows how to prepare for retirement no matter what stage of planning his clients are in. Retirement Planning QuickStart Guide cuts through the chatter to help orient you on your journey to retirement. With financially sound money management strategies, practical tips, and a thorough look at with it takes to prepare for a retirement worth looking forward to

Using the guidance and insight provided in this book, anyone, at any stage of their career, can find the answers they're looking for to prepare for a comfortable, satisfying, and financially secure retirement. Whether retirement is right around the corner or still decades over the horizon, you deserve a retirement that's a fitting reward to a lifetime of hard work. This book is your essential companion.

Retirement Planning QuickStart Guide Covers:

• Everything you need to know to get a head start on retirement planning from financial planning to the fundamentals of saving for retirement
• Retirement planning investment strategies, tactics, and techniques that set this book apart from other retirement planning books
• Preparing for retirement at any age (no matter how close or far away retirement truly is)
• Exactly how to retire from work and into life

Retirement Planning QuickStart Guide Will Teach You:

• Where and When to Start - How to Understand Your Unique Retirement Needs and Start Preparing Now
• 401(k)s, Traditional IRAs, Roth IRAs, Health Savings Accounts, Mutual Funds, and Other Financial Instruments - Which Ones Are Right for You and How to Use Them to Best Effect
• Accelerating Your Retirement Timeline - What to Do If You Don't Think You Have Enough Time (or Want to Retire Early!)
• More Than Money - Going Beyond Financial Security for a Happy, Healthy, and Rewarding Life After Retirement
• Fending Off Fraud, Estate Planning, Minimizing Your Tax Burden, Health Planning, Finding a Purpose After Work, and More!

*LIFETIME ACCESS TO FREE SUBJECT MATTER DIGITAL ASSETS*

• Access to comprehensive online investing courses to ensure your financial preparedness for retirement
• A dynamic asset allocation tool to help you put your money to work for you
• Life planning guide, a budgeting calculator, anti-fraud resources and more!

*GIVING BACK*

QuickStart Guides proudly supports One Tree Planted as a reforestation partner.

Review Quotes

"Retirement Planning QuickStart Guide is a useful consumer text that forwards advice for creating personalized visions of retirement.

In Retirement Planning QuickStart Guide, certified financial planner Ted D. Snow introduces methods for evaluating one's options and creating a personalized road map to making retirement dreams come true.

To give ordinary people the knowledge they need to effect sound retirement planning, the book is divided into three parts. Its first explains different types of investment options and how to evaluate them as part of a portfolio. Included here is guidance on calculating future costs and additional age-related medical needs. Retirement planning has a lot of moving parts, Snow acknowledges, all while showing how those parts fit together or can be readjusted to meet specific goals. Here, advice on seeking early retirement pairs with advice on accelerating savings, and staying in a paid-off home, or continuing to work part time for a year, may put a dream retirement home in comfortable reach.

The book's second part explores finances in more detail. Age-related income streams, including Social Security, pensions, and annuities, are explained, along with options for factoring each into the plan. The idea of building a balanced portfolio is introduced. While the book recommends hiring a professional to help build and manage an investment portfolio, it also advises staying informed and involved, and keeping in touch about changes in goals and financial needs. The book's third section elaborates on an early theme, presenting retirement as a transition into a new life, with fresh opportunities and experiences. This final section sharpens incentives and clarifies retirement goals, while the book's final chapters on estate planning add a sense of accomplishment to the undertaking.

The text, though it is packed with information, generates excitement about retirement. Its sections are succinct, addressing their points in a direct manner. Their chapters begin with short lists of points that will be covered; they end with reviews of the same. The sections are visually separated by creative fonts, half-tone boxes, bulleted lists, and large graphics, like a pie chart that can be read in a glance, while the wide margins leave ample room for notes. Elsewhere, signposts for paragraphs that contain cautions, quotes, examples, and opinions make navigating the work easy. Downloadable aides, including an asset-allocation workbook, budget calculator, and guides for long-term expenses, are included.

Retirement Planning QuickStart Guide is a useful consumer guide for creating personalized visions of retirement."

- Foreword Clarion Reviews (Independent Book Reviewer)



"Ted does a great job at articulating exactly what people should know and consider as they ready themselves for retirement. And he makes it is easy to understand. This book is perfect for everyone looking to educate themselves on the delicate nuances of retirement planning."

- Keith Borgfeldt, Founder, Spartan Wealth Management, LLC