Dana Anspach | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

"It is a rare pleasure to read a book on personal finance with which I agree completely. Dana Anspach has produced one. I am usually turned off by the chapter on investing, which is typically false and misleading. Investing should always start from the safest strategy to achieve one's goals. Dana Anspach gets it right and expresses it in entertaining prose that anyone can understand and enjoy."
-Zvi Bodie, Professor of Economics, Boston University

People in their fifties start to wonder: When should I retire? Once I do, when should I take Social Security? Do I need to buy an annuity to make sure I have enough money to last my whole life? Should I move everything into Treasury Bills and other "safe" investments? In short, what do I need to do now to ensure a comfortable retirement in five or ten years?

<em>Control Your Retirement Destiny: Achieving Financial Security Before the Big Transition</em> provides practical, how-to knowledge on what you need to do to get your finances in order to prepare for a transition out of the workforce. While never easy, retirement investing in your 20s to your early 50s has been straightforward. But as you get closer to the big event-retirement-it takes a different kind of planning to align investments, retirement accounts, taxes, Social Security, and pension decisions, all for a single objective: providing reliable, life-long income. <em>Control Your Retirement Destiny</em> teaches you how each part works, how one decision affects another, and--most importantly--how to focus on the items you can control rather than on the items you can't. When you put it all together in a plan that works for you, you'll have more choices and a greater sense of security about the financial decisions you are making.

Transitioning out of work is scary. <em>Control Your Retir