What kind of shape is your portfolio in? The financial fallout of recent years was a game-changer for anyone and everyone preparing to retire in the near future. In order to build and maintain a solid portfolio in today’s roller-coaster investing climate, you have to be more alert, increasingly proactive, and better educated on the markets than ever before. In Financial Fitness Forever, Paul Merriman gives you a framework guaranteed to return even the most struggling portfolio to prime health. One of the nation’s most popular investment advisors, Merriman has you focus on five critical questions: Should I use a financial advisor or go it alone? Should I try to beat the market or accept the returns of the market? How should I manage risk? How should I diversify my investments? How should I insulate my investments from my emotions? If you don’t have solid, well-developed answers—including the whys, the hows, and the whens—based on sound investing principles, you need to review your current strategy. Financial Fitness Forever leads you through the process step-by-step. Merriman provides detailed answers to each question, all of which combine to form a powerful strategy that will ensure the kind of retirement you’re hoping for. Merriman doesn’t claim to have that “magic bullet” answer to supercharging profits in unpredictable markets. Instead, he provides a commonsense strategy anyone can use to secure their finances now and in the future. The economy is racing forward at breakneck speed, and no one knows where it will end up. Apply the lessons of Financial Fitness Forever to design a portfolio that will thrive in the long run.
You’ve worked hard for the better part of four or five decades, and now you’ve decided it’s time to call it quits. Or your employer or industry regulations may have made that decision for you. What now? Although a life of ease may have been your dream, retirement brings with it a host of questions, problems, and responsibilities that never occurred to you and now may seem insurmountable. How to Survive Retirement will help you plan for most any eventuality during the golden years. The book is divided into four major areas: • Making The Break: The emotions of retirement. • Where Did The Money Go?—Financial considerations • I Don’t Feel So Great—Physical/medical aspects of retirement. • Hey, Look What I Did!—Filling leisure time. Doing nothing may become the hardest thing you’ve ever done. However, thanks to this survival guide, you’ll be able to enjoy the rest of your life.
Understanding how to invest wisely for your future can be daunting. Many people never get started for fear of making mistakes. Others make choices based on hearsay and hope, sold on hype or risk aversion. In "We're Talking Millions!" you will learn why and how to make a handful of smart choices that can turn modest regular savings into a secure future. You'll discover "12 Small Steps with Big Payoffs," each of which can add $1 million or more to your retirement nest egg if you start in your 20s or 30s. These steps are well known. Now for the first time, "We're Talking Millions!" combines them into a single action plan you can implement in less than one hour a year. That could be the most valuable time you'll ever spend. Get started now!Long-time financial educator/retired advisor Paul Merriman and co-author Richard Buck have boiled down decades of academic-based knowledge and experience to help Millennials and Gen Y'ers get started and stay on the right track of saving and investing for life using 401ks, IRAs and other simple investments like target date funds. "This is an exciting new fact based investment approach, coming from authors who have earned the trust and respect of a couple of generations of investors. I wish I had had this knowledge when I was in my 20s." - Larry Swedroe, Director of Research at Buckingham Family of Financial Services and author of "Your Complete Guide to a Successful and Secure Retirement" "There is beauty in simplicity and in this new book, We're Talking Millions! 12 Ways to Supercharge Your Retirement. Paul Merriman and Rich Buck have taken the complex world of investing and distilled it down to core principles that both novice and experienced investors alike will benefit from." - Tim Ranzetta, co-founder Next Gen Personal Finance (ngpf.org) "The combination of financial literacy and discipline is so rare these days that it should be considered a superpower. This book provides a shortcut to obtaining both!" - James M. Dahle, MD, Founder of The White Coat InvestorI have always said that investing is too easy to seem so complex. Paul Merriman and Rich Buck have managed to prove that point in this powerful and easily understood guide to building wealth. Their approach is so straightforward and simple that anyone can build a sensible, science-based portfolio almost immediately. Follow this advice and you could be "talking millions" in your pocket. -Don McDonald, co-host "Talking Real Money", author "Financial Fysics""Whether millennial or boomer, understanding these 12 concepts can have a big financial payoff... We're Talking Millions! Paul Merriman and Richard Buck team up again to educate and motivate." - David Baughier, curator of Fiology"Paul and Richard reduce the complexity of saving for retirement into strategies anyone can follow. Regardless if you are new to investing or have been investing for years, you'll find suggestions for boosting your wealth with minimal effort required." - Charles Rotblut, CFA, AAII Journal Editor and VP, American Association of Individual Investors"Merriman and Buck have done a great job of giving a playbook for financial success that anyone can read and understand!" - George Grombacher, Host of the Money Savage podcast"We're Talking Millions! could be a young person's Most Valuable Read (MVR) of their life, if they take action!" - Ed Fulbright, CPA, PFS, Host of Masteringyourmoney.com"Paul & Rich have done it again! For the last few decades they have shown investors how to create long-term portfolios for retirement, how to generate retirement income, and how to avoid costly mistakes. In their new book, We're Talking Millions! 12 Ways to Supercharge Your Retirement, they help people of all ages with huge money decisions. Written in plain English with critical charts, this book will help anyone who wants to create wealth in simple, low cost ways." - Tom Cock, co-host "Talking Real Money"
Completely expanded and updated, Live it Up Without Outliving Your Money! Second Edition is the financial roadmap that people are looking for. Based on the author's experience in the financial services sector since the mid-1960s, including more than 30 years as an investment advisor and money manager, this plain-talking book gives readers simple strategies to add between $1,000 and $10,000 to their monthly income in retirement, and without taking any of the dumb risks of the past. This reliable resource motivates readers to take the first steps to change their financial situation; presents multiple strategies for withdrawing money during retirement; and exposes the marketing tricks perpetrated by financial institutions. This book also includes added focus on newer issues such as ETFs, REITs, estate planning, IRA withdrawals, and updated allocation strategies. Live it Up Without Outliving Your Money! : • Allows readers to tailor a financial plan for retirement that takes into account the amount of risk they’re willing to tolerate • Provides multiple strategies for withdrawing money once in retirement while also building an estate for children and other survivors • Exposes the marketing tricks and emotional ploys perpetrated by financial institutions and the personal finance media that keep investors from making the best decisions – and provide real-world examples of these deceptions • Motivates readers to take the first steps to change their financial situation, which is the most difficult part of the strategy • Includes a dozen worksheets to help readers grapple with retirement planning
Do you want to build a budget that actually works for you? Are you ready to transform your relationship with money? This New York Times bestseller has already helped millions of people just like you learn how to develop everyday money-saving habits with the help of America's favorite personal finance expert, Dave Ramsey. By now, you've already heard all of the nutty get-rich-quick schemes and the fiscal diet fads that leave you with a lot of quirky ideas but not a penny in your pocket. If you're tired of the lies and sick of the false promises, Dave is here to provide practical, long-term help. The Total Money Makeover is the simplest, most straightforward game plan for completely changing your finances. And, best of all, these principles are based on results, not pie-in-the-sky fantasies. This is the financial reset you've been looking for. The Total Money Makeover: Classic Edition will give you the tools and the encouragement you need to: Design a sure-fire plan for paying off all debt--from your cars to your home and everything in between using the debt snowball method Break bad habits and make lasting changes when it comes to your relationship with money Recognize the 10 most dangerous money myths Secure a healthy nest egg for emergencies and set yourself up for retirement Become financially healthy for life Live like no one else, so later you can LIVE (and GIVE) like no one else! This edition of The Total Money Makeover includes new, expanded "Dave Rants" that tackle marriage conflict, college debt, and so much more. The Total Money Makeover: Classic Edition also includes brand new back-of-the-book resources to help you make The Total Money Makeover your new reality.
Everyone can do a better job of managing their money. The 90 Day Money Challenge is designed to take you on a step-by-step journey from your current financial situation to a much better place. This book is packed with practical ideas that you can begin using immediately. Getting started is not easy, but this proven process works every single time!Get past the three most dangerous mental obstacles that hold you back from getting the best use of your money. Then, implement the four simple habits of the wealthy and begin turning your financial dreams into reality!
Financial transformation in just one hour a week! You can revolutionize your finances in only sixty minutes! Looking for long-term economic stability and not common quick-fix schemes? Discover the secrets that Ellie Kay used to deliver her family from $40,000 in consumer debt. Now a nationally recognized financial expert and best-selling author, Ellie shares her one-hour-a-week program that has made it possible to take care of her family and do it all debt-free! With entertaining anecdotes, easy-to-follow charts, and practical advice, The 60-Minute Money Workout is both fun and feasible. You’ll be able to: br” Get out of debt and save for your kids’ collegebr” Have meaningful and debt-free vacationsbr” Pay cash for your carsbr” Make a difference in the world by giving generouslybr” Find financial peace with your spouse
Fiology is a free online resource for anyone looking to understand their finances, take action, and become Financially Independent. In addition to the mechanics of saving and investing, the course addresses the issues of happiness, mindset, decision-making, dreaming big, and philosophy, enhancing your Financial Independence journey. The Fiology Workbook: Your Guide to Financial Independence will lead you through the online courses with worksheets, journaling, and helpful trackers so that you can measure your progress and establish your most effective habits.
