How to Retire

Lessons on retirement from thought leaders in retirement planningWhat are the secrets to a healthy, happy, and wealthy retirement?To answer that question, longtime Morningstar columnist and podcaster Christine Benz asked 20 retirement thought leaders to go deep on a single lesson that they believe contributes to success in retirement.These lessons range from nitty gritty financial matters to quality-of-life considerations that help pre-retirees and retirees maximize their “time on earth” allocations.On the financial side of the ledger, the book delves into knowing your retirement income style (Wade Pfau), understanding how your spending might change in retirement (David Blanchett), and organizing your portfolio to support in-retirement cash flows (William Bernstein).Other interviews probe softer but no less important considerations, such as how to spend in order to optimize happiness (Ramit Sethi), the value of burnishing relationships later in life (Laura Carstensen), and living life

In 100 pages, here is a single-sit read that explains easy-to-follow principles that can change the course of your life. The problem: The majority of Americans have less than $30,000 in retirement sav

Retirement can be a wonderful experience with happy people doing more of what they want in life. But how we live during retirement is dependent on what we do in the years and decades leading up to ret

If you’ve been struggling with indecision on how to retire early, you’ve come to the right place. If you’ve been wondering how you will ever afford a nice house and retire early, you’ve come to the ri

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Are you sick of working day after day for someone else, dreaming of what you'll do one day when you retire? Why wait until you're old to enjoy retirement? How would you like to retire in 12 months?Sto

The million-dollar question is this: do you have at least $1 million in liquid assets to support yourself during the 20+ years most of us can expect to live after we've stopped drawing a regular paych

Market turbulence has made opening monthly 401(k) statements shocking rather than reassuring. Michael “Waxie” Parness can help.The standard approach for managing your retirement accounts i

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If business is a hamster wheel, what kind of hamster do you want to be? The one who runs all day long, huffing and puffing to keep things turning? Or the sleek and happy rodent who works in the corne

A tongue-in-cheek guide to enjoying retirement while retaining the benefits of a satisfying business career shares a treasury of secrets, shortcuts, and strategies for affording small luxuries and exp

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The definitive guide for anyone dreaming of a move to paradise. Whether motivated by a desire for adventure, or the need to make the most of a diminished nest egg, more and more Americans are conside

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Stop risking everything to make your investment advisor richThe stock market crash of 2008 proved one thing: traditional retirement planning advice simply doesn't work. The risks are too enormous. Tru

Retirement does not have to mean the end of life-in fact it can mean a whole new beginning to the life you never had time to explore. In HOW TO RETIRE HAPPY, WILD, AND FREE, best-selling author Ernie