Worry Free Retirement

It takes more than money to be able to "Do What You Want, When You Want, Where You Want." Brian Fricke (Certified Financial Planner) gives you simple and easy to understand terms with real-life examples. Yes, names and circumstances have been changed to protect client confidentiality. Full of practical proven and street tested strategies. Now, with WORRY FREE RETIREMENT, Fricke one of Americas Top Wealth Managers shares with you the same advice and strategies he gives to his clients. Written in simple and easy to understand plain English. He reveals stuff like: The single biggest Money Mistake couples make. Should you pay off your mortgage? My $10,000 challenge. Don't be an ATM to your kids or grandkids. Tax strategies you must know about. Your biggest risk if you retire before age 65. Do you really need life insurance at retirement? Silly, stupid mistakes I've seen people make and Much more!

The authors teach readers about the new rules of investing, which include investing with inflation-protected bonds, reaching retirement goals, and investing safely for college.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A fresh way to think about your money." David Chilton, author of The Wealthy Barber Stop budgeting. Start living. Managing your money can be frustrating and confusing. Life is expensive. Whether you make $30,000 or $130,000 a year, it can feel like you’re constantly broke. Can you afford that new car, that vacation, that night out? You think so, but it feels impossible to know. And rigid budgets that force you to spend your money in unrealistic ways (like $9.50 per week for pants) don’t make things any clearer. But what if there was a new way to manage your money? One that left you certain you had your bases covered—both for your monthly bills and your future retirement—and then let you enjoy your money by spending it. (Yes, really.) Enter Shannon Lee Simmons, a fresh voice in the world of personal finance, one who understands the new and very real pressures to survive modern life and keep up in the age of social media. Shannon doesn’t lecture, judge or patronize. The founder of the wildly popular New School of Finance, Shannon recognized that most of her thousands of financial planning clients felt broke, no matter what their income. And feeling broke can be as bad as actually being broke, because it leads to overspending and misery. So she came up with a new plan: Worry-Free Money. Worry-Free Money takes a fresh approach to finances, looking at the root cause of the pressure to spend and showing why traditional budgets don’t work. It is a deeply practical book that will help you break the cycle of guilt, understand why you overspend, banish unhappy spending from your life, learn to recognize your f*ck it moments and find hope—and fun—in getting your money under control.

Worry less. Plan more. Do you want a secure retirement, free from worry, stress, and confusion? The Bucket Plan® is a must-read book for anyone serious about creating a practical and sensible financial plan for his or her retirement years. The financialplanning process outlined in this book is based on a three-bucket philosophy of strategically positioning assets to plan for and mitigate the risks and dangers that can occur in retirement. Readers will learn: • The three biggest dangers for your financial future and how The Bucket Plan helps protect from them • A formula for calculating whether you will have an income deficit and, if so, how much money is needed to prevent it • A surefire way to avoid taking on too much investment risk on money you may need in the near future • Much, much more When readers strategically allocate their money using Jason Smith’s three-bucket philosophy, they can create a plan that mitigates risk and offers an opportunity for growth into the future, allowing them to feel more secure about retirement.

Two fundamentally different philosophies for retirement income planning, which I call probability-based and safety-first, diverge on the critical issue of where a retirement plan is best served: in the risk/reward trade-offs of a diversified and aggressive investment portfolio that relies primarily on the stock market, or in the contractual protections of insurance products that integrate the power of risk pooling and actuarial science alongside investments. The probability-based approach is generally better understood by the public. It advocates using an aggressive investment portfolio with a large allocation to stocks to meet retirement goals. My earlier book How Much Can I Spend in Retirement? A Guide to Investment-Based Retirement Strategies provides an extensive investigation of probability-based approaches. But this investments-only attitude is not the optimal way to build a retirement income plan. There are pitfalls in retirement that we are less familiar with during the accumulation years. The nature of risk changes. Longevity risk is the possibility of living longer than planned, which could mean not having resources to maintain the retiree's standard of living. And once retirement distributions begin, market downturns in the early years can disproportionately harm retirement sustainability. This is sequence-of-returns risk, and it acts to amplify the impacts of market volatility in retirement. Traditional wealth management is not equipped to handle these new risks in a fulfilling way. More assets are required to cover spending goals over a possibly costly retirement triggered by a long life and poor market returns. And yet, there is no assurance that assets will be sufficient. For retirees who are worried about outliving their wealth, probability-based strategies can become excessively conservative and stressful. This book focuses on the other option: safety-first retirement planning. Safety-first advocates support a more bifurcated approach to building retirement income plans that integrates insurance with investments, providing lifetime income protections to cover spending. With risk pooling through insurance, retirees effectively pay an insurance premium that will provide a benefit to support spending in otherwise costly retirements that could deplete an unprotected investment portfolio. Insurance companies can pool sequence and longevity risks across a large base of retirees, much like a traditional defined-benefit company pension plan or Social Security, allowing for retirement spending that is more closely aligned with averages. When bonds are replaced with insurance-based risk pooling assets, retirees can improve the odds of meeting their spending goals while also supporting more legacy at the end of life, especially in the event of a longer-than-average retirement. We walk through this thought process and logic in steps, investigating three basic ways to fund a retirement spending goal: with bonds, with a diversified investment portfolio, and with risk pooling through annuities and life insurance. We consider the potential role for different types of annuities including simple income annuities, variable annuities, and fixed index annuities. I explain how different annuities work and how readers can evaluate them. We also examine the potential for whole life insurance to contribute to a retirement income plan. When we properly consider the range of risks introduced after retirement, I conclude that the integrated strategies preferred by safety-first advocates support more efficient retirement outcomes. Safety-first retirement planning helps to meet financial goals with less worry. This book explains how to evaluate different insurance options and implement these solutions into an integrated retirement plan.

For years, the Financial World has preached the gospel of "gloom and doom" and everyone buys into it. Their message is simple: if you don't have a million dollars saved for retirement, forget it! Well forget their notion of retirement because there's an exciting new way of thinking and it's called The WorryFree Retirement. Unlike the constant message of magic financial bullets and get rich quick schemes, Tony Walker's WorryFree Retirement takes an honest approach to working hard, having fun, and dealing with change. Tony's message is unique and refreshing given the fact that millions of hard working Americans are looking for a new approach to enjoying the "other half" of life. Tony Walker's WorryFree Retirement will give you a practical and simple method of dealing with what's worrying you most, and how to begin doing something about it. You'll gain a new and more positive perspective on retirement, and the rest of your life.

The numerical and emotional aspects of planning for retirement This hands-on resource demystifies financial planning by giving the Enough number: an exact figure specific to personal goals, which can be a target number to aim for in retirement. It shows what changes will help to achieve the number, and offers an understanding of hidden motivations when it comes to spending money. It also provides an overview of the multitudes of investments available and provides conservative guidelines that will help make money, save taxes, and sleep at night. Offers a clear understanding of the different attitudes toward money and includes strategies to achieve goals Includes the tools needed to save for later and enjoy rewards today Contains a method for tracking money to help get your finances where you want them to be Covers the details of what it takes to work effectively with a financial advisor Written by Diane McCurdy, a noted financial planner, speaker, author, and founder of McCurdy Financial Planning This hands-on guide walks you through a proven program that is designed to keep you on the right track to financial success.

Eric T. Scoggins, CLU, ChFC, CFP(r) is the founderand president of E.T.S Financial Services, Inc.Since 1991, Eric has been passionate about helpingpeople gain financial peace of mind when it comesto their investments and retirement incomeplanning. His vision is centered on empoweringboth pre- and post-retirees to feel more confidentand optimistic about their financial future.By helping individuals create customized investment and retirement incomeplans, E.T.S. Financial can help clients gain the confidence they need to retirestrong and achieve long-term financial security.Eric resides in Hoschton, GA with his lovely wife Melissa and their two beautifulchildren, Ashlynn and Makenzie. He and his family consider themselves blessedto call Corner-Stone in Jefferson, GA their church home.