Saving for retirement without living like a pauper or winning the lottery

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MarksJarvis, Gail, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Retirement income--United States--Planning.

Retirement income.

401(k) plans.

Individual retirement accounts--United States.

Individual retirement accounts.

Saving and investment--United States.

Saving and investment.

Finance, Personal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Retirement planning made easy

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Financial Times Press 2007

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Award-winning personal finance columnist read by millions of people each week The Incredibly Simple, Step-by-Step Guide to Investing Money for Your Future! “A cover-to-cover must-read for everyone 16 to 60 who wants to live the American Dream. The earlier we choosetosave ® , the sooner we can stop saving, and the later we start saving the more we need to know in order to catch up. What you need to know; where you can find the answers; how you can take action. It is all here.” –Dallas Salisbury, CEO, Employee Benefit Research Institute and American Savings Education Council (www.choosetosave.org) “Bookstores are full of tomes advising people how to save for retirement, yet millions of people are still hopelessly confused about what they should do. Gail MarksJarvis breaks it down into simple steps that anyone can do to ensure a more comfortable retirement. Read this book and prosper!” –Liz Pulliam Weston, MSN Money Personal finance columnist and best-selling author of Your Credit Score “This book offers a sensible, sophisticated approach for tackling the daunting challenge of saving for retirement. The good news? You can retire–without living on canned food or buying lottery tickets–if you follow Gail’s realistic strategies for saving, investing, and ultimately spending money in retirement.” –Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press “You can wallpaper a warehouse with all of the awful investment advice offered up every year in newspapers, magazines, and books. One of the most difficult tasks is to separate the get-rich-quick hype from the truly worthwhile knowledge that will make you wealthy over time. I’m thrilled to say that Gail MarksJarvis has cut through the claptrap of investment cacophony and provided not only a solid plan for retirement saving, but a realistic, common-sense approach to personal finance in general. This is a triumph.” –John F. Wasik, Bloomberg News personal finance columnist and author, The Merchant of Power Drawn from responses to questions from over 20,000 readers of the author’s personal finance columns. Over the years, Chicago Tribune financial columnist Gail MarksJarvis has taken the time to listen and respond to thousands of her readers about the issues, questions, and concerns that are most important to them. Saving and investing for retirement has never been more important...and with this book, it’s never been clearer what you need to do and how to do it. Don’t wait another day! Discover… How much you’ll need and how to g...

Contents:

Start investing early, or start now

Know what you'll need

Savings on steroids : use a 401(k) and an IRA

An IRA

every American's treasure trove

IRA decisions : how to start, where to go

Why the stock market isn't a roulette wheel

What's a mutual fund?

Making sense of wacky mutual fund names

Know your mutual fund manager's job

The only way that works : asset allocation

Do this

How to pick mutual funds : bargain shop

Index funds : get what you pay for

Simple does it : no-brainer investing with target-date funds

Do you need a financial adviser?

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786611060527

9781281060525

1281060526

9780132413664

0132413663

OCLC:

1027202830