Expert Advice on Ensuring a Comfortable Retirement!
Millions of Americans reach retirement each year. Many of them realize too late that their savings is inadequate to meet their long-term needs. Even with careful preparation, the path to reaching retirement goals is not always a straight line. Streetwise® Retirement Planning provides you with savvy, yet practical, information on retirement fundamentals.
Streetwise® Retirement Planning covers how to anticipate and plan for the inevitable surprises and contingencies that can deplete a savings nest-egg, such as layoffs, medical crises, divorce, and market downturns. All the necessary tools for assessing your retirement needs are provided. Streetwise® Retirement Planning helps you pull all the pieces together for a successful and rewarding retirement.
Evaluate Your Retirement Needs
·Lifestyle
·Post-retirement expenses
·Knowing your assets and liabilities
Work Around Your Retirement Gap
·Investing and budgeting fundamentals
·Strategies for making up retirement shortfalls
·Options for post-retirement income
·Managing multiple retirement investments
Choose Your Best Retirement Plan
·Annuities
·Pensions
·IRAs
·401(k)s
Know Your Options
·Preparing for the unexpected
·Plans for the self-employed
·Protecting your benefits
·New trends in Medicare and social security
About the Author
Lita Epstein is managing editor of Business to Business Magazine in Atlanta. She has developed online courses on topics such as investing for retirement and finance and investing for women, as well as serving as the content director for a financial services Web site, MostChoice.com. She also wrote TipWorld’s Mutual Fund Tip of the Day in addition to columns about mutual fund trends for numerous Web sites. Lita earned her MBA from Emory University.
