The Imperfect Storm: Successfully Navigating the Seas of Retirement

“Reading The Imperfect Storm will encourage you to chart your unique course for financial independence, a meaningful retirement journey, and a personal legacy even as it warms your heart.”
– Tom Guzzardo, spirit-led Top Leaders Business Coach, speaker, and author of Building Organizations of True Excellence

Whether you have a savings and/or retirement plan in place or not, the financial seas not only can get rough, they’re guaranteed to get rough since we average a recession every six to seven years. Is your financial ship prepared to weather the imperfect storms of retirement, when every 1 to 2 percent misstep you make related to an investment, tax, or allocation may represent many thousands of dollars of financial pain? This book was written to help you safely navigate through the little storms as well as the big doozies, using gripping stories featuring the author’s father—a swordfisherman who captained the Andrea Gail until just months before it sank in the Perfect Storm.

Derek Reed, CFP®, CLU®, CAP® is a partner at Beauport Financial Services in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He has provided investment and insurance solutions since 1997 and has specialized in financial planning, investment counseling, and insurance consultation. In addition to being a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) and a Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU®), Derek has earned the CAP® designation as a Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy. He is a member of the Essex County Estate Planning Council, the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors Boston Chapter, and a qualifying member of the MDRT organization as a Top of the Table member.