Saving for Retirement without Living Like a Pauper or Winning the Lottery: Retirement Planning, Made Easy (Kindle Edition)

by Gail MarksJarvis (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

“Leading financial columnist MarksJarvis presents the everyman’s guide to saving for retirement. The idea of navigating the world of 401Ks and Roth IRAs leaves many people scared, cold, or both. This book will help reduce the confusion, anxiety and avoidance that many people associate with saving for retirement. Informed by thousands of calls and emails from readers over the years, MarksJarvis understands exactly what people want and need to know about managing their personal finances. Here, she provides guidance and answers common questions in an organized and reader-friendly style. Readers will learn how to calculate what they’ll need for their nest egg, how to open an IRA, make sense of mutual funds and when to consult a financial advisor. Sensible–but not stuffy–this book will convince young people to start saving now, and will help ensure that panicked middle-aged readers will not be spending their golden years in the poor house." --Kirkus Reports

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This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version.

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. 

 

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 708 KB
• Print Length: 272 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Up to 5 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
• Publisher: FT Press; 1 edition (February 27, 2007)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000RH0DTO
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #105,473 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply a must read for financial wisdom, April 13, 2007

By	M. Taylor - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Saving for Retirement without Living Like a Pauper or Winning the Lottery (Paperback)

Being in retirement already, I found this book still very enlightening and very easy to read. A chatty, warm style lets the reader feel as if a knowlegeable friend is giving advice without making the reader feel as if he/she missed out and can never catch up. A non daunting approach to investing makes the MarksJarvis book interesting, worthwhile, informative with good links to investment calculations.

Grandparents would serve their grandchildren well to forgo taking the kids on fancy trips and put the money into the kid's IRA account at a young age.

I sent a copy to my daughter because there is something here for every age group.

Marie Taylor

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome. Why Didn't I Have This Infromation In High School???, April 9, 2007

By	Saving in Las Vegas "Saving in Las Vegas" (Las Vegas, Nevada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Saving for Retirement without Living Like a Pauper or Winning the Lottery (Paperback)

First, thanks to Gail for writing such a wonderful book. I learned more in one week reading "Saving for Retirement" than I have my entire investing life.

After reading the book I have reworked our 401K accounts and have contacted Gail to get her professional opinion on what I had done:

Currently my spouse and myself have saved $190,000 towards retirement.

I am 38 and my spouse is 36 and we both work for for the same company.
Our total income is $113,000
We had been contributing 6% each pay check and after reading your book I changed to 12%.

Gail emailed back the very next day and is going to look over my changes that I made to my 401K.

This book should be manditory reading for anyone who is enrolled in a 401K or about to start an IRA. I also would love to see it used in schools, if I would have had this information in school I would be in AWESOME shape for retirment. As it is I am in much better shape than I thought and the book helped me to realize a lot of mistakes we were making (fees, loads, etc.).

Do yourself a favor and read this book at least a few times you will thank yourself when you are retired and enjoying life instead of wondering why you have no retirement. IT IS NEVER TO LATE TO FIX YOUR MISTAKES.. Start today...

THANKS GAIL.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent plain english guide, July 16, 2007

By	information seeker (san diego CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Saving for Retirement without Living Like a Pauper or Winning the Lottery (Paperback)

After purchasing several retirement books, this book stands out for the no nonsense approach to retirement. The books also provides web links with up to date tools and calculators that make it even more practical. One especially great feature of this book is that regardless of your age, income, or current retirement knowledge, it provides a way for all to get in the game and get on track to retire. I highly recommend this book.