Synopsis
What are the secrets to a healthy, happy, and wealthy retirement?
To answer that question, longtime Morningstar columnist and podcaster Christine Benz asked 20 retirement thought leaders to go deep on a single lesson that they believe contributes to success in retirement.
These lessons range from nitty gritty financial matters to quality-of-life considerations that help pre-retirees and retirees maximize their "time on...
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17 September 2024
9781804090695Reviews
I’ve been a financial planning practitioner for over 40 years and How to Retire is a home run for investors. It is a unique and exciting book chockfull of important concepts and advice from an amazing list of the "best of the best" brains in the financial planning world. The intellectual capital Christine captured in the book is amazing and every investor will be well
Harold Evensky, founder, Evensky & Katz/Foldes Wealth Management
rewarded by owning and reading How to Retire.
The financial services industry paints a picture of retirement as walks on the beach and a life of leisure, where the only key to success is accumulating enough dollars to make it happen. In reality, though, retirement is an entirely new phase of life... one that we’re often thrust into, with no context on how different it will actually be. In Christine Benz’s How to Retire, prospective retirees gain valuable perspective on why the day-to-day experience of life in retirement can be more challenging than anticipated, and how they need to prepare—both financially, and beyond their finances—to ensure they actually find fulfillment in their decades to come!Michael Kitces, MSFS, MTAX, CFP, chief financial planning nerd, Kitces.com
Imagine if you could sit down with the nation’s leading experts in every aspect of retirement, tax, and estate planning. Now you can! Christine Benz, a skilled interviewer, has asked all the questions you would have asked, plus the bigger questions you might not have even thought about. The "My takeaways" at the end of each chapter are invaluable.Ed Slott, CPA, and retirement expert, author, and founder of www.irahelp.com, founder of Ed Slott’s Elite IRA Advisor GroupSM
In a series of easily accessible interviews, Christine Benz asks the retirement questions that we are all pondering—and then lays out with clarity and specificity the steps to help answer them.Jill Schlesinger, CFP, CBS news business analyst, author of The Great Money Reset
