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Overview
CAN YOU AFFORD TO RETIRE IN COMFORT?IF YOU'RE a two-income family with children about to enter college and parents requiring a financial helping hand, how do you save to build a dream house in the mountains outside Santa Fe?
IF YOU'RE working on the line in Detroit and contributing regularly to Social Security and a pension fund, will you really be able to take early retirement and sail around the world?
IF YOU'RE single, self-employed, and successful, do you know the smartest ways to manage a Keogh, mutual funds, and other investments today to insure that you'll be able to buy and run your Vermont Bed-and-Breakfast tomorrow?
Working from the acronym EMILY-Early Money Is Like Yeast (it makes dough grow)-FEATHERING YOUR NEST is the all-the-angles-covered planner for every reader who's decided to do better at investing for the future. Its thorough coverage and dozens of charts and graphs combine sophisticated money savvy with retirement's realities-financial, emotional, and physical-so that every reader can create a plan, nurture an abundant nest egg, and make retirement dreams come true.
Map Your Financial Future
· The six common mistakes in retirement planning, Chapter 1
· Find out your psychological investor profile, Chapter 2
· Straight talk on mutual funds, bonds, T-bills, zeros, and more, Chapter 2
· Eight ways to boost savings, Chapter 3
· IRAs, Keoghs, and 401(k)s: Which is right for you today? Chapter 3
· The truth about Social Security, Chapter 5
· Seven reasons to change a will, Chapter 6
LISA BERGER is a financial writer whose books include Cashing In: Getting the Most When You Sell Your Business and TheHealthy Company.
IDS FINANCIAL SERVICES, the nation's largest financial planning firm and a major provider of financial products, shared its technical expertise during the development of FEATHERING YOUR NEST.
The complete retirement/investment planner. Built around the one truism of retirement planning--the sooner the better--this comprehensive book provides accessible, realistic, and reassuring guidance for creating a nest egg. Simple exercises map out a plan and set a dollar figure of what's needed.