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Plan Your Prosperity The Only Retirement Guide You'll Ever Need, Starting Now--Whether You're 22, 52 Or 82

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ISBN-10: 1118431065

ISBN-13: 9781118431061

Edition: 2013

Authors: Kenneth L. Fisher

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Sensible retirement advice from Ken FisherMany retirees or soon-to retirees have heard a plethora of advice. Take 100 (or 120) and subtract your age to get your equity allocation, put the rest in bonds or cash. Buy only bonds. Buy only high dividend stocks. Or some combination. Buy equity-indexed annuities (NO!) or some "guaranteed" income product. All examples of potentially harmful myths many folks believe to be smart, strategic moves.What investors really need before thinking about what to buy and where to buy it is a plan. Yet, most "financial planning" is really about getting you in the door, making a recommendation, then selling something. In The 15-Minute Retirement Plan, Ken Fisher…    
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Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/30/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.21" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

Ken Fisher was born November 29, 1950 in San Francisco, California. Fisher is best known for his prestigious Portfolio Strategy column in Forbes magazine, where his twenty-five-year tenure of high-profile calls makes him the fourth longest-running columnist in Forbes 90-plus-year history. Ken is the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Fisher Investments, an independent global money management firm. He is on Investment Advisor magazine's prestigious IA-25 list of the industry's most influential people; is the award-winning author of numerous scholarly articles; and has published books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Only Three Questions That Count and The Ten Roads to Riches - both…    

Acknowledgments
What? Me? Retire?
The Imagined Dichotomy
Two Goals ... and Some Non-Goals
Definitions and a Pencil
Start Immediately. Now. Right Away.
Plan Your Prosperity
My Goals Are ... What?
Why Is This So Hard?
Your Investing Goals, Simply
Potential Pitfall: Capital Preservation and Growth
Inflation's Insidious Impact
Three Percent, Compounded
The Secret Code-Asset Allocation or Benchmark?
Benchmark-A Road Map and Measuring Stick
Picking a Benchmark
The Big Decision-Asset Allocation
Potential Pitfall: Age Doesn't Equal Asset Allocation
Benchmark Versus Asset Allocation-What's the Difference?
Time Horizon-Longer Than You Think
Potential Pitfall: Ignoring Opportunity Cost
Time Horizon-What Is It?
Time Horizon and Benchmark
What's in a Return?
Growth Defined
The Past as a Guide?
Gordon Moore and Endless Innovation
Potential Pitfall: Unrealistic Expectations
Getting That Cash Flow
Potential Pitfall-The All High-Dividend Portfolio
How Much Do You Need?
Monte Carlo-Not Just a Casino
Let's Get Bootstrapping
Can I Get There?
How Much Do You Have?
A Savings Plan
Putting It All Together
To Benchmark or Not to Benchmark
State Your Goals
Know Where You Are
Picking an Appropriate Benchmark
Finding Professional Help
Avoid Being a Fraud Victim
And You're Off!
All Hail the Mighty Dow
Cash Flow Versus Expenses
Expense Categories
Personal Balance Sheet
Notes
About the Authors
Index