Live It Up Without Outliving Your 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

Live It Up without Outliving Your Money! "Paul Merriman's new book is a rich and meaty guide to achieving real retirement security. It's full of wise, easy-to-follow advice that will stand the test of time." --Knight Kiplinger, Editor in Chief, Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine and The Kiplinger Letter "Read, Live It Up! Not only does Paul Merriman know the secret to making your money work as hard as you do, he loves helping people achieve their goals and dreams." -Paul B. Farrell, author of The Millionaire Code, The Winning Portfolio and The Lazy Person's Guide to Investing An educational and motivational guide to retiring without running out of money No one understands this better than Paul Merriman. For four decades, Merriman has helped and watched people manage their money--both before and during retirement. Now, in Live It Up without Outliving Your Money!, Merriman distills what he has learned into a sound, time-tested approach to creating a portfolio that will fulfill your unique retirement needs. Based on Merriman's popular retirement workshops, Live It Up without Outliving Your Money! offers ten straightforward steps to creating and maintaining the perfect retirement portfolio. From determining how much you will need to live on after retirement to recognizing and controlling the expenses of investing, the easy-to-understand strategies outlined within these pages can help you regain confidence in your retirement plan. Stay current! visit www.wiley.com/go/paulmerriman

Live It Up without Outliving Your Money! "Paul Merriman's new book is a rich and meaty guide to achieving real retirement security. It's full of wise, easy-to-follow advice that will stand the test of time." --Knight Kiplinger, Editor in Chief, Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine and The Kiplinger Letter "Read, Live It Up! Not only does Paul Merriman know the secret to making your money work as hard as you do, he loves helping people achieve their goals and dreams." -Paul B. Farrell, author of The Millionaire Code, The Winning Portfolio and The Lazy Person's Guide to Investing An educational and motivational guide to retiring without running out of money No one understands this better than Paul Merriman. For four decades, Merriman has helped and watched people manage their money--both before and during retirement. Now, in Live It Up without Outliving Your Money!, Merriman distills what he has learned into a sound, time-tested approach to creating a portfolio that will fulfill your unique retirement needs. Based on Merriman's popular retirement workshops, Live It Up without Outliving Your Money! offers ten straightforward steps to creating and maintaining the perfect retirement portfolio. From determining how much you will need to live on after retirement to recognizing and controlling the expenses of investing, the easy-to-understand strategies outlined within these pages can help you regain confidence in your retirement plan. Stay current! visit www.wiley.com/go/paulmerriman

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.

101 Investment Decisions Guaranteed To Change Your Financial Future is the workbook for savvy investors at all stages of life!Learn how every investment decision you make has the potential to add $1,000, $10,000, $100,000 or more to your wealth. Together, this can mean millions of extra dollars for you and your family over the years. In his information rich, pull-no-punches style, Paul Merriman explains the decisions to be made and the impact of each on your financial future, so you can easily prioritize and make the best financial choices to meet your goals. It's your future... choose wisely.

AARP Digital Editions offer you practical tips, proven solutions, and expert guidance. A comprehensive and easy-to-understand guide to maximizing the benefits of IRAs and retirement assets. Retire Secure, Second Edition offers unbeatable recommendations for addressing the #1 fear facing most readers: Running Out of Money. Retire Secure, Second Edition also shows baby boomers nearing retirement how they can save tens of thousands to over one million dollars by paying taxes later. This practical guide delivers straight forward accumulation and distribution strategies for IRAs, Roth IRAs, the new Roth 401(k) and other retirement plans. More specifically, Lange gives readers tips on how to prepare for expected tax changes in 2010, details on converting to Roth IRAs, New Roth 401(k) and Roth 403(b) rules, and when IRA and retirement plan owners should consider second to die life insurance. Further, this book describes Lange's exceptional estate plan--a plan that has been featured in The Wall Street Journal and many other fine financial journals. This definitive guide enjoys glowing endorsements from Charles Schwab, Larry King, Ed Slott and 60 other financial authors and experts.

Fully updated and revised survival guide – including up-to-date changes due to life with Covid-19 – for Baby Boomer generation entering retirement! Baby Boomer Survival Guide, Second Edition: Live, Prosper, and Thrive in Your Retirement is the premier roadmap to retirement for anyone focused on financial security. This is a comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide that covers all the significant financial, healthcare, and lifestyle-related considerations today's Baby Boomer generation needs to know. This essential happiness handbook to financial & health security includes key topics: How to Live a Long, Happy, Healthy Life Expanding Your Interests, Hobbies, Social Network, Community Involvement & Quality Time with Family Where to Live & Where to Travel What to Do With Your Extra Years Strategies for Not Outliving Your Savings Financial Planning and Investing: Rules for Success Taking Advantage of the Trump Tax Cuts Homeownership vs. “Real Estate” & Renting vs. Buying WORKING in Retirement Social Security Optimization Strategies Having a Medicare Game Plan Key Questions and Answers to Long-Term Care Why You Should Think About Inheritance Wills, Trusts & Taking Care of Your Family A little planning and foresight can go a long way toward making sure your hopes and ideals for retirement don’t collide with harsh economic, financial, and health-related realities. Baby Boomer Survival Guide will give you the wherewithal to make your retirement the rich-est, most fulfilling chapter in the book of your life — for yourself and your loved ones.

You cannot serve both God and money (Matthew 6:24), but unfortunately, many people serve money without ever consciously choosing to do so. By not learning how to manage your money, you become a servant to your finances. Even though you desire to boldly serve God, you end up serving money by default simply because of your financial situation in life. Money Mastery is here to help! Its loaded with spiritual principles and practical tools that will empower you to master your money. M.B.A. Billy Epperhart shares: Why God wants you wealthy The Triple X Factor of $$$ mastery with practical steps, charts, and checklists Seven steps to financial freedom Using wealth to partner with God to help others and impact nations