This guide can help everyone get the most out of what they've earned, lower their tax bills, and create a stream of income that will last for the rest of their lives. There are hundreds of books on saving for retirement and investing in retirement. This one is different. It's about the decisions people can, should, and must make when it comes time to take charge of the money they've saved.
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Don't Die Broke: How to Turn Your Retirement Savings into Lasting Income, by personal-finance writer and financial-education specialist Margaret A. Malaspina, offers a fresh take on one of today's hottest money matters by outlining ways to tap most effectively into the retirement nest egg that you're currently nurturing. While most such guides concentrate on actually amassing those future fiscal resources in the first place, Malaspina shows instead how to maximize what you're (hopefully) already building so you'll (hopefully) always have what you need. "Most people find themselves making decisions about retirement plan distributions with little guidance," she writes. "Few people understand the consequences of their choices--or, indeed, what choices they have." In clear, highly focused chapters, she offers solid suggestions for creating a lasting retirement income, lowering potential taxes, and building an estate worth passing along. --Howard Rothman
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Personal finance writer and financial education specialist Malaspina presents an excellent summary of the many options and decisions likely to be faced by the massive baby boomer population as they near retirement. She discusses such related topics as how to take money out of retirement plans, how to create a paycheck, how to manage assets as part of an estate or inherited from someone else's estate, how to provide for a spouse and transfer wealth to heirs, and how to seek guidance in selecting a financial advisor. This work's user-friendly approach to the complex decisions that have to be made about retirement savings set it apart from the crowd of other programs available. With narration by Susan O'Malley, this is highly recommended for all public libraries.ADale Farris, Groves, TX
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent Treatise On A Very Complicated Topic,
By Norman Posner (Chestnut Hill, Mass) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Don't Die Broke: How to Turn Your Retirement Savings into Lasting Income (Hardcover)
Margaret Malaspina has done an incredible service to the taxpaying world in her book. As a Certified Public Accountant, I can attest to fact that dealing with the Internal Revenue Service Code is an extremely difficult process. She has consistently dealt with this complicated and very confusing subject and de-mystified it in a way that heretofore has never been done. As more and more assets of American citizens are finding their way into retirement accounts, the timing of this book is perfect. What might appear to be some type of simple election or investment decision can backfire in terms of significant additional taxes. She attempts and succeeds in identifying these problems and proposing appropriate solutions. I have read it thoroughly and have recommended it to my clients and friends.
23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
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This book is a lifeline...highly recommend it,
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This review is from: Don't Die Broke: How to Turn Your Retirement Savings into Lasting Income (Hardcover)
Like so many of my friends, my husband's and my focus has been all about reaching some magic number that would say, ok,now it's safe to retire without going broke... We gave not a thought to how we'd manage the money afterwards. But then we began to hear rumors ... you must do this, you can't do that, and panic set in. Finally, after reading Ms. Malaspina's book, we understand what's really going on (better than we did after talking to our accountant!). I've given this book to friends and even a cousin who was 69-1/2 and didn't have a clue about the need to start drawing on certain retirement savings. This book should be required reading for anyone over 50. Thanks, Bloomberg Press!
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Expectations not meet; sub-title is deceiving; disappointed,
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This review is from: Don't Die Broke: How to Turn Your Retirement Savings into Lasting Income (Hardcover)
I was expecting a much more complete discussion on how to manage retirement funds especially guidelines for taking distributions from various types of retirement instruments. Only one chapter of the whole book really treated this issue. The primary pracital advice I got out of it is "use taxable assets before deferred assets". Most of the book (not devoted to filler pages) described the various kinds of retirement accounts. This was presented well and is informative. But given all the definitions and account alternatives, I did not get much in the way of useful advice on "How to turn your retirement savings into lasting income".
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