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on November 8, 2014
Save your money and use Google. It's free and in the couple hours it takes to skim this book you can find the same info for free.

You can look inside this book... choose the Table of Contents and google each topic. Read what a reputable source (Kiplinger, AARP, Fidelity, etc.) has to say about it. To me, it looks like that's what the author did.

The entire book is superficial and weak. The section on Annuities is a prime example. I know very little about them but I already knew everything the author told me. Other the material is borderline irrelevant. The first section is about calculating how much you'll need for retirement. A similar worksheet is available free at any of a dozen financial web sites (try your bank's) and she focuses on calculating the 'gap' between what you need and what you've saved. Then she gives tips about how to close the gap. here's my two cents...

If you're 5 years away from retirement and have any sort of 'large' gap between need and saved you seriously need to rethink how close you are to retirement. There's no way you're going to save 10s of thousands of dollars (or hundreds of thousands!) in 5 years by not dining out so much or cutting back on your cable TV bill.
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on February 27, 2017
Item came on time and in good shape. Better then expected for a used book. There is some good advice but mostly for the higher income individuals. Take notes and or outline some of the pages. Good reference book. Some info is a little outdated.
Thank you.
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on December 14, 2016
I had such high hopes that I would receive some helpful insight into retirement, but that has not happened with this book, and unfortunately I gave it to a loved one as a gift before reading it myself. Now I've had to send that person an apology. I seldom give poor reviews, but this book is already outdated, it spends much too much time on Medicare, which changes with the shift in wind patterns, and so this book is already wrong on so many fronts that readers cannot take it to heart. There is too much time spent on annuities, which in my opinion is worthless unless someone doesn't have even the least amount of self-control. Some of what is written is simple common sense that anyone would know with absolutely no financial training whatsoever. I've never given a one-star, but I found nothing in this book that has helped me except to explain the differences between financial planners and why to avoid those who sell annuities.
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on November 22, 2016
Common sense stuff under one cover which makes it worthy of the price. Well over 200 pages. Probably could have been condensed down to about half that, but well written and is a good reference. However, don't buy just this book. Read everything you can find. It'll probably convince you to hire a professional.
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on May 20, 2017
Good book for some common and some not so common advice for the 5 years before you retire. An easy to read book.
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on March 14, 2017
A good reminder for those getting there... Was useful for me for ex. to up my 401K allocations to lower the current tax bracket for one. Maybe with more emphasis with life's real episodes and post-retirement actuarial statistics to look back in retrospect proactively than those general you van find elsewhere such as reverse mortgage etc, .
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on April 4, 2015
Nice book - I read for myself and sent a copy to my brother. Nice outline of what you need to do and when you need to be doing it!
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on May 6, 2016
GREAT BOOK !!!
Too bad I did not come across this book 3 years ago, would have giving me more time to work on my retirement plans
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on March 4, 2016
Excellent book for folks wanting to understand terminology and why their advisor is telling them what to do. Read it and listen!
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on August 31, 2015
This book covers a lot of topics that you might not think about when your are looking at retirement. Retiring is more that just how much money you have been able to save. Using the information and tables in this book could allow you to tailor or your retirement for the amount you have saved
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