HOW TO SAVE FOR RETIREMENT

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Saving for Retirement will relieve confusion and barriers to action for Americans who are increasingly worried about retirement.  The book removes everything from the readers’ path that typically trips people up and hits the sweet spot for everyone aged 18 to 60. Using new figures (including troubling new projections of healthcare and long-term care costs), Gail Mark Jarvis helps readers calculate exactly how much money they’ll need and how to get there. This book presents easy, proven investing strategies for anyone at any age that will transform pocket change into hundreds of thousands of dollars. Packed with readers’ personal stories, this book teaches powerful professional financial planning principles — but makes them simple enough for anyone to apply on their own.

Let me assure you; if you doubt your capability to invest wisely, you are not alone. In a Harris poll of people who were investing in stocks, bonds, and mutual funds, only 2 percent said they felt like they knew everything they needed to know to make their investment decisions. Eighty-two percent wished their financial advisers would do more to educate them so they could make better investments.

If you were investing in a 401(k) or IRA at the beginning of 2000, you are probably still wondering where half of your hard-earned money went then, what you did wrong, and how to fix it so that it never happens again. If you regained most of your money after that miserable period and then got slapped again by the 2008 financial crisis, you might be wondering whether investing is a losers’ game that you can’t possibly win. The bruising blows of two of the worst stock market crashes in history probably eroded what little confidence you had.

This book removes the confusion and helps you put your good intentions into action that works. Saving merely $20 to $50 a week now can rather easily set you up for a $1 million retirement if you start when you’re young, understand my simple lessons on the stock market and mutual funds, and use retirement accounts that give your money the best boost possible.

I don’t thrust theory and tips at you and send you away to struggle with this later. I tell you where to go to get the best investment deals and how to buy what you need to buy. I provide models that you can easily copy. In this book, you learn why you are doing what I’m telling you to do. That will give you the confidence to proceed through life even when the stock market seems scary. Anyone who has graduated from high school has the innate ability to grasp and do what I suggest.

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