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Editorial Reviews
Book Description
"Vanguard has produced a reader friendly guide for retirees seeking to preserve and enhance their nest eggs. It's packed with sensible advice on all the pertinent subjects. This is a great book!"-Robert G. Hagstrom, Jr., Author, The Warren Buffet Way. For the 30 million (and ever-growing) Americans who are retired or nearing retirement, making the right investment decisions can mean the difference between ''living well" and merely "getting by". This book shows you how to: get the most from your savings, retirement plan, and Social Security; Select the right mix of investments; Increase your investment income without taking undue risks.
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The Vanguard Guide to Investing During Retirement. "Vanguard is to be commended for reminding readers of the need to avoid the curse of "living on a fixed income."-Thomas G. Donlan, Editorial Page Editor, Barron's Author, Don't Count on It!. "This book is a highly valuable tool for those individuals seeking to take control of their investments to help ensure a prosperous life."-Robert J. Hagstrom, Jr. Portfolio Manager, Focus Trust, Author, The Warren Buffet Way. Retirement is lasting longer and costing more than ever. Too many Americans confidently enter retirement, only to find out that there were gaping holes in the financial safety net on which they relied. It isn't enough to invest well in preparation for retirement. You must learn how to invest during retirement, to provide enough income to see you through the years after your paychekcs stop coming in. Designed for those near or already in retirement, The Vanguard Guide to Investing During Retirement, Second Edition provides helpful charts, tables, and worksheets to make retirement investing and financial planning clear and easy to understand. Tax laws regarding capital gains and retirement accounts have changed, so The Vanguard Guide to Investing During Retirement has been completely updated to show you how to: get the most from your savings, your employer retirement plan, and Social Security; select the right mix of investments for your retirement porfolio; increase your investment income without taking undue risks; prepare for contingencies such as divorce, incapacity, or a spouse's death. The Vanguard Group, headquartered in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, traces its roots to the founding of its first mutual fund, the Vanguard/Wellington Fund, in 1928. Today, with net assets of some $300 billion, Vanguard ranks as the world's largest pure no-load (commission-free) mutual fund organization, serving more than 7 million individual and institutional shareholders in more than 90 Vanguard portfolios. Vanguard provides retirement services for more than 3 million accounts, including the company-sponsored retirement plan portfolios of over 1 million active participants at numerous institutions, among them many of the nation's Fortune 500 companies and leading colleges and universities.