Can I Retire Yet?: How to Make the Biggest Financial Decision of the Rest of Your Life - Softcover

Kirkpatrick, Darrow

Softcover

ISBN 10: 098928302X ISBN 13: 9780989283021

Publisher: StructureByDesign, 2016

Synopsis

You've worked hard, lived carefully, and saved diligently. You've reached major milestones and accumulated more assets than you dreamed possible, and yet you hesitate. “Can I retire?” This book will help answer that question by showing you….

• The tools you need to live a secure and independent retirement, without worrying about money
• What you must know before leaving a career behind
• How much it will cost you to live in retirement, and how to manage your cash flow
• The current choices for retirement health care, including lesser-known but effective options
• The threat from inflation: two secrets that politicians and bankers will never admit
• A realistic assessment of the impact that income taxes will have on your retirement
• Social Security’s role in your retirement: when you should claim and how much it’s worth to you
• How to construct and manage an investment portfolio for income and growth in retirement
• About immediate annuities and why you need multiple sources of retirement income
• The key variables and unknowns in your retirement withdrawal equation
• Reviews of the best retirement calculators, and tips for how to use them accurately
• Beyond the simplistic 4% Rule to the latest research on safe withdrawal rates
• Realistic bracketing of your retirement savings needs, without over caution or overconfidence
• The history of economic cycles and the related asset classes for optimal retirement security
• A survey of strategies plus original research for how to orchestrate your retirement distributions
• A practical retirement fuel gauge alerting you to problems while you still have time to act
• Backup plans: the lifeboat strategies for ensuring you'll never be without essential income
• The 6 crucial questions to answer before you can retire
• The one, simple, powerful, non-financial reason that you can and should retire earlier than later

About this title

About the Author

Darrow Kirkpatrick is an author, software engineer, and investor who lived frugally, invested successfully, and retired at age 50. He writes regularly about saving, investing, and retiring on the popular blog Can I Retire Yet? His first book is Retiring Sooner.

Edition details

• Publisher: StructureByDesign
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 098928302X
• ISBN 13: 9780989283021
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 274