The No-Regrets Guide to Retirement
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Don't let retirement just happen to you. Make it the retirement you want and deserve.
Will you have enough money to enjoy your retirement? The No-Regrets Guide to Retirement is your definitive guide to making your later years, your best years. Qualified financial planner Patricia Howard explains why retirement is a good news story in Australia and offers no-nonsense, upbeat advice to help get you to, and comfortably through, your retirement.
Learn how to:
- develop an optimistic view of retirement
- take control of your finances, regardless of how much money you have
- learn how to live on invested income rather than earned income
- understand and avoid the most common pitfalls.
If you are planning, entering or already in retirement, you must read this book. The No-Regrets Guide to Retirement will help you make sound investment decisions, freeing you to enjoy your retirement to the full.
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PATRICIA HOWARD is an author, finance journalist and financial planner. She has written for The Australian, The Australian Financial Review and The Age. Patricia started her own financial planning practice fifteen years ago, which specialises in providing retirement advice, and she holds her own Australian Financial Services Licence.
Content
Preface vii
Introduction ix
1 Retirement: a good news story 1
2 Plan for a truly great retirement 21
3 Make good investment choices 43
4 Give up the (financial) smokes! 63
5 Live like a millionaire 83
6 Thrive in retirement 101
7 Families: love 'em and leave 'em 117
8 Sexually transmitted poverty 135
9 Build your escape hatch 153
A final word 169
Index 171