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Saving for Retirement (Without Living Like a Pauper or Winning the Lottery) Updated and Revised
- By Gail MarksJarvis
- Published Aug 7, 2012 by FT Press.
- Copyright 2013
- Dimensions: 6" x 9"
- Pages: 288
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-296303-5
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-296303-9
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Gail MarksJarvis is an award-winning columnist for the Chicago Tribune, TV commentator, and popular speaker. Her columns reach millions of readers in leading newspapers throughout the country. Northwestern University's journalism school has named her the "Best Financial Columnist." MarksJarvis has been a regular commentator for PBS's Nightly Business Report and delivers advice regularly on WGN-TV and radio, and CLTV in Chicago. She is a frequent commentator for National Public Radio, and has appeared on CNBC, PBS NewsHour, Talk of the Nation, the Early Show and NBC, CBS and ABC affiliates throughout the country.
Saving for Retirement will relieve confusion and barriers to action for Americans who are increasingly worried about retirement. The book removes everything from the readers’ path that typically trips people up and hits the sweet spot for everyone aged 18 to 60. Using new figures (including troubling new projections of healthcare and long-term care costs), Gail MarkJarvis helps readers calculate exactly how much money they’ll need and how to get there. She presents easy, proven investing strategies for anyone at any age that will transform pocket change into hundreds of thousands of dollars. Packed with her readers’ personal stories, this book teaches powerful professional financial planning principles — but makes them simple enough for anyone to apply on their own.
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70 of 90 people found the following review helpful
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I approached this book hoping it would actually deliver on its promise in the title. As with most such books, especially written by those connected to Wall Street, it was an amazing disappointment.While the advice given is supposedly geared toward the common person, most of it is geared toward the wealthy. One example used talks about a couple who need to save $35,000 a year. Now, who do you know who has that kind of money to save or invest? I know very few people who even take home that much, and the median individual wage in this country is only around $26,000 a year (which means that half the individual wage earners are at this level or below). Median household income is only about $45,000, and that is before taxes. All the usual remarks about skipping that latte every day or cutting down on eating out a time or two each week to build your retirement fortune ring with their usual class-based hollowness. The bottom line is that the author wants you... Read more
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Great Primer for Financial Savings,
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This review is from: Saving for Retirement (Without Living Like a Pauper or Winning the Lottery) Updated and Revised (Kindle Edition)
I found this book so helpful. I am one of the many baby boomers who has not fully taken care of savings for retirement mostly because I did not have the basic knowledge to feel comfortable. Now, I feel I can make sound decisions that will help me through my retirement years.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Good basic book for the average person, By
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What I mean by "average person" in the title of this review is the main part, rather than the extremes, of the bell curve when it comes to income and financial knowledge. They are concerned about money, about retirement, and want to plan but are laymen when it comes to the subject. I feel that this book provides good, solid advice for those who fall into that category.There's nothing really new in this book - you can get pretty much the same advice from a whole bunch of books on the topic out there - but, this one is relatively short, easy to read, and summarizes the subject well. When you stop to think about how to have enough money to retire, it is scary. Social security hardly provides anything, and most people don't have any sort of guaranteed pension plan. Like the book says, you HAVE to start planning early, and you have to invest your money in vehicles that will grow over time. One reviewer really slammed the book because the author suggests investing in... Read more |
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Saving for Retirement: Start Investing Early or Start Now
Table of Contents
Introduction xxi
Chapter 1: Start Investing Early or Start Now 1
Chapter 2: Know What You’ll Need 9
Chapter 3: Savings on Steroids: Use a 401(k) and an IRA 41
Chapter 4: An IRA: Every American’s Treasure Trove 61
Chapter 5: IRA Decisions: How to Start and Where to Go 67
Chapter 6: Why the Stock Market Isn’t a Roulette Wheel 91
Chapter 7: What’s a Mutual Fund? 111
Chapter 8: Making Sense of Wacky Mutual Fund Names 123
Chapter 9: Know Your Mutual Fund Manager’s Job 137
Chapter 10: The Only Way That Works: Asset Allocation 165
Chapter 11: Do This 177
Chapter 12: How to Pick Mutual Funds: Bargain Shop 201
Chapter 13: Index Funds: Get What You Pay For 209
Chapter 14: Simple Does It: No-Brainer Investing with Target-Date Funds 231
Chapter 15: Do You Need a Financial Adviser? 243
Index 253
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