Slash Your Retirement Risk

When it comes to retirement investing, too much emphasis today is on investment returns, which often come at the expense of income dependability and peace of mind. Slash Your Retirement Risk redefines how to invest for retirement to maximize your reliable income and stabilize your financial future. Rather than the typical approach to portfolio management—focusing on returns and ignoring dramatic market downswings that can decimate portfolios—author Chris Cook shows investors how to create income reliability without sacrificing reasonable growth. Instead of chasing uncertain returns, Slash Your Retirement Risk's strategy will help ensure your retirement portfolio will capitalize on opportunities for growth while weathering the inevitable economic ups and downs. You will achieve reliable returns and suffer fewer sleepless nights worrying about whether your money will last as long as you do. Slash Your Retirement Risk is your step-by-step guide to create a retirement portfolio that will provide true financial peace of mind, one that features: The broad diversification essential in today's globally interconnected marketplace. A built-in ability to capitalize on market upswings to generate growth. Automatic protections against inevitable market downswings. An investing strategy that minimizes fees and costs to maximize portfolio gains.

This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Save Your Retirement: What to Do If You Haven’t Saved Enough or If Your Investments Were Devastated by the Market Meltdown (9780137029006) by Frank Armstrong III and Paul B. Brown. Available in print and digital formats. You can’t afford to eliminate retirement risk completely: here’s how to control and manage it. Given how difficult it might seem to balance risk, you can be forgiven for thinking that the 2008 market meltdown justifies playing it ultra-safe and keeping your money in something like CDs. But you can’t if you want to stay ahead of inflation and have any real (after inflation) return....

Packed with the best strategies to manage wealth in retirement, this book helps readers live the life they have always envisioned - without risk of running out of money. It shows readers how to become informed, wise investors - avoiding common pitfalls, challenging the status quo, and refusing to take advice blindly.

Amazon #1 Bestseller and Hot New Release September 2017 Are you tired of saving for retirement? Do you find yourself cutting expenditure to the bone - and still coming up short? Have you been let down by the conventional wisdom of investing in mutual funds and the stock market?Don't be disappointed - you're not alone. The traditional approach to retirement investing is dead. Scrimping month to month and putting your hard earned money into the coffers of investment giants, only to scrape meager returns, or lose it all - this just won't cut it in today's low-return, high-instability world. You want limited risk and great upside. You want to see results now, rather than in 30 or 40 years. You want to solve the retirement riddle. Congratulations. Purchasing this book is the first step towards freeing yourself. Part I of this book will show you how the system of investing for retirement has degraded into a cash cow for a few privileged individuals and firms. That the theories that sustain it are old, outdated, and simply do not work anymore - if they ever did.Part II shows you a new approach to investing based on an approach that is tangible, that incentivizes you to save and invest, and that gives you results in less than 1000 days. All this, with returns mutual funds can only dream of. This is the remarkable power of a cash engine. In this book, you will learn: * About the three defensive layers of our current retirement system* That the conventional approach is obsolete* About the importance of the understanding the investment process for retirement planning* About the importance of striving for highest possible returns with a minimum of financial risk* About the power of cash engines through case studies (Travis Jamison, John Cavendish, Miles Beckler).* About the value of bootstrapping in the investing process* About practical decision-making through powerful case studies* And much more!It's time stop feeding a system that keeps on taking, without delivering. It's time to take action! Would You Like To Know More? Become an expert on retirement and retirement investing-Get your copy now and click on the buy button!

"David Almond cares about your financial security in retirement. If you want the advice of an experienced professional, this book is a gold mine!" -Marilee Driscoll, Author "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Long-term Care Planning," founder www.LTCmonth.com "For those that want to know how to protect themselves and their families from the new retirement risk, this book is a must read." -Lisa N. Bertalan, Estate Planning and Elder Law Attorney "This book is an excellent resource for anyone who desires to understand the importance of financial planning for retirement." -Phil Janney, Estate Planning and Elder Law Attorney "If you want to be in a position to make smart choices, this book is a "must read" for Boomers and their parents." -Roberta Jacobsen, President, Front Porch Communities and Services The 7 Steps to a Worry-Free Retirement is the first personal financial book that takes a holistic approach to retirement planning. Over the years David Almond has applied the principles in this book with great success. The 7 Steps is important advice and inspiration from a respected senior advocate and financial pioneer. As Almond shows, these days financial security in retirement calls for far more than just getting a return on your money---it's understanding what you need to know in order to protect yourself from what some are calling "the perfect retirement storm".

This Element is an excerpt from Are You a Stock or a Bond?: Create Your Own Pension Plan for a Secure Financial Future (9780137127375) by Moshe A. Milevsky, Ph. D. Available in print and digital formats. Learn how to systematically control the risks associated with your retirement-and avoid the massive blunders that millions of Americans are still making. One of the most egregious behavioral ""sins"" Professors Richard Thaler and Shlomo Benartzi have identified is the tendency of too many Americans to allocate too much of their 401(k) plan-and even their own investments-to company stock. Eve.