The New Rules of Retirement: Strategies for a Secure Future - Hardcover

Create the retirement you desire with proven financial strategies The New Rules of Retirement throws away the rules of thumb, cliches, and obsolete ideas. It provides a proven, updated approach to retiring successfully in today's world. In this new second edition based on independent, objective research, retirement expert Robert C. Carlson uses proven, profitable techniques to coordinate all the factors that lead to financial security and independence. You'll learn how much you really need to save for retirement, how to invest that nest egg before and during retirement, and how to establish a wise and sustainable spending strategy. Carlson will explain how to overcome the threats to lifetime financial security, such as longer life expectancy, low investment returns, higher taxes, and more. Importantly, you'll learn how to plan for the wildcards of retirement planning: health care and long-term care expenses. This edition covers changes in key areas such as annuities, IRA management, estate planning, and income taxes. You'll learn how to merge these insights into your plan to enhance financial security and to provide for loved ones in the future. Retirement no longer means being put out to pasture. Today's retirees are traveling the world, attending classes, developing new skills, starting businesses, mastering neglected hobbies, and more well into their golden years. This guide helps ensure you have the financial independence to pursue the retirement you want through smart planning and effective financial strategies. * Know and overcome the threats to retiree financial security * Learn the right way to estimate retirement spending * Develop a sustainable spending strategy * Invest your nest egg to make it last * Plan for potential long-term health care * Leave a legacy for loved ones The retirement is now a new phase of life, not a winding down. It's a time to live your best life and do things you couldn't before. But all the financial aspects of retirement have changed. To maintain financial security and create the retirement you desire, you need to be on top of the changes. The New Rules of Retirement provides the latest, proven strategies that help put the shine in your golden years.

Praise for The New Rules of Retirement

"As a Wharton graduate, money manager, Chief Financial Officer, and Certified Financial Analyst, I didn't think I needed help in making investment choices and planning for my retirement. I was wrong. I have been a subscriber to Retirement Watch since 1997. I trust Bob Carlson completely and follow his investment, tax, and planning advice personally."
?SANDY KAGAN, CFA, Retired CFO, Tatum Partners

"A clear, practical, and wisely unconventional guide to the new world of retirement."
?HUMBERTO CRUZ, nationally syndicated financial columnist, Tribune Media Services

"Bob Carlson does a magnificent job preparing readers for the many challenging issues they will face over the next several decades. Retirees can no longer count on generous asset returns and employer-provided defined benefit plans. Bob provides readers with creative approaches for contending with these challenges to help ensure financially and emotionally secure 'freedom years.'"
?LAWRENCE E. KOCHARD, PhD, CFA, CEO and CIO at University of Virginia Investment Management Company

"Bob Carlson shows that three trends?demographics (baby boomers), increasing longevity, and fewer offspring?have changed forever the landscape facing America's retirees. Stereotypical retirement based on Social Security and employer pensions is out; making ends meet on your own is in. Better get yourself ready?and you can do so by reading this book."
?JAMES C. MILLER III, former U.S. Budget Director, Chairman of The CapAnalysis Group, LLC