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!

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!

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....

Pensions and retirement saving plans have helped millions of households build financial security. But tens of millions of people have been left behind, without access to these wealth accumulation vehicles. For many others, the plans they have do not ensure financial security in retirement. The problems that underlie these failures can be addressed. This book proposes concrete, practical ways to make dependable retirement income accessible for all Americans—not just those with means. Individual accounts have eclipsed traditional pensions as the primary vehicle for retirement saving in the United States—a shift that underlies many sources of retirement insecurity. The 401(k) plan and similar accounts have increased financial security for many people but have done nothing for millions more. Many of those who do have such plans are burdened with the need to make numerous saving, investment, and withdrawal decisions that stress their financial acumen. Financial advice that is unbiased, unconflicted, and affordable is often difficult to find. Managing wealth in retirement—especially the need to convert retirement savings into steady income—poses significant challenges that current financial instruments and practices do not adequately address. Economic downturns like the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic increase financial insecurity and make addressing these issues more urgent. Written by noted experts in the field, Wealth After Work offers practical solutions that address these concerns. The proposals show how policymakers can help all Americans gain access to retirement savings accounts, obtain better information about their savings choices, and better manage their wealth in retirement. By proposing solutions that build on, rather than replace the existing system, the book provides a nuanced, practical guide to reform that would benefit all Americans.

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.

"It is a rare pleasure to read a book on personal finance with which I agree completely. Dana Anspach has produced one. I am usually turned off by the chapter on investing, which is typically false and misleading. Investing should always start from the safest strategy to achieve one's goals. Dana Anspach gets it right and expresses it in entertaining prose that anyone can understand and enjoy." —Zvi Bodie, Professor of Economics, Boston University People in their fifties start to wonder: When should I retire? Once I do, when should I take Social Security? Do I need to buy an annuity to make sure I have enough money to last my whole life? Should I move everything into Treasury Bills and other “safe” investments? In short, what do I need to do now to ensure a comfortable retirement in five or ten years? Control Your Retirement Destiny: Achieving Financial Security Before the Big Transition provides practical, how-to knowledge on what you need to do to get your finances in order to prepare for a transition out of the workforce. While never easy, retirement investing in your 20s to your early 50s has been straightforward. But as you get closer to the big event—retirement—it takes a different kind of planning to align investments, retirement accounts, taxes, Social Security, and pension decisions, all for a single objective: providing reliable, life-long income. Control Your Retirement Destiny teaches you how each part works, how one decision affects another, and--most importantly--how to focus on the items you can control rather than on the items you can’t. When you put it all together in a plan that works for you, you’ll have more choices and a greater sense of security about the financial decisions you are making. Transitioning out of work is scary. Control Your Retirement Destiny equips you with the knowledge you’ll need to make sure you’ve thought of everything. When your finances and your future intersect, you’ll be ready. This book: Covers all the major topics in retirement planning—investments, Social Security, annuities, taxes, healthcare, part-time work, and more. Illustrates which items you can control, and how to focus on them. Provides examples of how planning decisions can result in a more secure outcome when they are coordinated. Provides actionable knowledge about important money decisions faced by upcoming retirees. Control Your Retirement Destiny enables you to take charge of your financial future right now to ensure a happy, financially secure retirement. What you’ll learnYou will be able to: Apply an improved and coordinated process to make better financial decisions Focus on items within your control like tax management, risk management, and developing and sticking with a plan Determine how much investment risk you should take Decide if you need guaranteed income, and if so, how to buy it Choose investments that are best suited to meet your future income needs Avoid big retirement planning mistakes Find sources of reliable information Who this book is for Control Your Retirement Destiny: Achieving Financial Security Before the Big Transition is for men and women who are 50-plus, have money in 401(k)s and IRAs and other assets, and are beginning to think about when and how they might transition out of regular, full-time work. They are wondering when to start Social Security, how to choose investments that will provide security, how to account for medical costs and taxes in retirement, and most importantly, how to put all of these things together into a plan that ensures financial security. Readers will be in the top 50% of the population in terms of income and assets, age 50+, do-it-yourself investors, index investors, or investors who aren’t getting the answers they need from their current broker, advisor, or mutual fund company.