How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide

How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide

Turn your retirement savings into a steady paycheck that will last for life with Jane Bryant Quinn€s €œ€˜how to€ book that covers every phase of retirement finance. Bottom line, anyone on the retirement track or in retirement should own this book€ (<i>Huffington Post</i>).<br><br>Today, people worry that they€re going to run out of money in their older age. That won€t happen if you use a few tricks for squeezing higher payments from your assets€"from your Social Security account (find the hidden values there), pension (monthly income or lump sum?), home equity (sell and invest the proceeds or take a reverse mortgage?), savings (should you buy a lifetime annuity?), and retirement accounts (how to invest and€"critically€"how much to withdraw from your savings each year?). The right moves will not only raise the amount you have to spend, they€ll stretch out your money over many more years. With this book, financial expert Jane Bryant Quinn, €œAmerica€s dean of personal finance€ (<i>Forbes</i>), explains how to turn your retirement funds into a paycheck that will last for life.<br> <br>She also shows how to look at your savings and investments in a new way. If you stick with super-safe choices the money might not last. You need safe money to help pay the bills in your early retirement years. But to ensure that you€ll still have spending money ten and twenty years from now, you have to invest for growth, today. Quinn shows you how. At a time when people are living longer, yet retiring with a smaller pot of savings than they€d hoped for, this book will become the essential guide€"€œa hugely valuable resource for readers, wherever they are on their personal financial timeline€ (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>, starred review).