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As boomers reach midlife faster than a new Beatles CD can climb the charts, many are wondering if they'll have sufficient resources to comfortably make it through their golden years. Investment guru Charles Schwab's You're Fifty--Now What? addresses these concerns with a step-by-step road map to help the middle-aged assess where they're at, determine where they want to go, and pick the proper mix of investments to get there. "While getting older isn't a bad thing," Schwab writes, "being unprepared for it is. And by not understanding the financial part of your future, you sabotage yourself and limit your choices." Not surprisingly--given the author's background as founder of the discount brokerage that bears his name--the book contends that you have to remain an active investor for the rest of your life in order to make it financially over the long haul. To do so, it advocates using as aggressive an approach as you can comfortably handle, centered on a combination of broad-based index funds and actively managed mutual funds or individual stocks.
With plenty of easy-to-use worksheets, Schwab helps you take stock of everything you've accumulated, determine how much it costs you to live now, and estimate what it will take to maintain that lifestyle into the future. The latter is determined by calculating everything from projected housing and tax obligations to food and entertainment expenses, while life-expectancy tables, inflation adjustment factors, and investment return rates allow you to see where you stand versus where you need to be. Schwab then addresses reaching these goals through a proper investment mix. (Sidebars explaining the basics guide even novices through these critical steps.) Additional chapters detail ways to develop a regular long-term cash flow, and suggest how to monitor its progress while making adjustments when necessary. There is also information on financial advisors, insurance, estate plans, and charitable giving, adding up to a wealth of specifics presented in a manner that virtually everyone should be able to understand and follow. --Howard Rothman
Book Description
Charles Schwab is one of America’s most trusted and respected names in financial services. In the bestselling
You’re Fifty—Now What? Schwab offers you his advice and support on how to retire with the money you’ll need to have the kind of life you want. You’ll learn:
* The best investment strategies
* How to estimate how much you’ll need
* How to choose investments for the second half of your life
* The ins and outs of insurance and how to be adequately insured
* The fine art of estate planning
* The tools of charitable giving
* And much more
Customer Reviews:
Every retiree should read.......2007-02-16
I agree with the other reviewers that this book is an outstanding essay for those who want to learn how to select stocks for a value portfolio. Where we differ is that for the typical investor he does not have the resources to build a properly diversified portfolio- either financial or mental resources. Value stocks do provide returns in excess of broad market returns but in order to have adequate diversification you must assemble several hundred issues well beyond the resources of the average investor. Further one must have the time and skill to evaluate several thousand issues.
I can offer a solution to this problem. I want to recommend for you a book titled How to Make Money in the Stock Market-Buy 2,500 different stocks for $1000 - Pay no Commission This book is a must for those wanting to find out about indexing (passive investing) and why it is the superior method for the small investor (and big one too). This book is an outstanding guide to personal investing. It will be useful to all investors from novices to highly the highly experienced. This book prepares the reader to approach investing from the standpoint of the underlying science. It is the antithesis of a 'get rich quick scheme'.
All aspects of Modern Portfolio Theory and passive (index) investing are explained in a through and easily understood manner. The aspect I like most is that as well as a solid theoretical foundation the book is very practical and shows the reader how to create (and more importantly) and manage over time a successful portfolio. This is a great book- for the beginning investor, it's a great place to start and for the experienced investor there are many valuable suggestions.
It's a shame to think of how much money investors have lost "investing" in the stock market over the years. I wish I had read this little book years ago. The chapter on automatic investing recommends a number of portfolios that follow modern portfolio theory and adjust risk as you age without any effort on the part of the reader at all. Had this book been written years ago and had I followed its directions I would be rich today of that I am certain. Nevertheless I will pursue one of the portfolios recommended and stick to my chosen asset plan.
Piscaqua Research in a study covering the period 1987-96 found that only 10 out of 145 major pension funds, or just seven percent, out performed a portfolio consisting of a simple 605/405 mix of the S&P 500 index and the Lehman Bond index respectively.
Os it logical I ask for you to believe that you can predict which actively managed funds will out perform, or are you overconfident of your skills? If you are trying to find the great fund managers who will out perform in the future ask yourself: what am I going to do differently in terms of identifying the future winning fund managers, than did the pension plans and their advisors? And if you are not going to something different what logic is there in playing a game at which others with superior resources have consistently failed?
If you a really serious in finding an investment technique that will provide you with reasonable return with less risk I suggest the following little book.
Just click on the title to find the book. How to Make Money in the Stock Market-Buy 2,500 Different Stocks-Pay no Commission
uninformative.......2004-11-09
This book is uninformative and in this book Charles pretends to have opened his brokerage firm for retail investors but it isn't because the CHARLES SCHWAB BROKERAGE IS TOO EXPENSIVE IT REQUIRES $10,000 TO OPEN a Brokerage ACCOUNT for an indiviual investor[also called retail investor]Harrisdirect,Firstade,and Optionsxpress don't require anything to open a brokerage account for individual investor.
Welcome Resource!.......2002-02-06
Schwab's book provides solid and practical information for those of us who no longer can be called young no matter what the definition is. Unfortunately, helpful financial books that target Baby Boomers and older folks are in shamefully short supply! For readers who want another indepth look at the financial issues that face older investors, I'd suggest another excellent book-the Retirement Bible. Like Schwab's book, the Retirement Bible provides advise on recommended portfolio withdrawal levels and devotes an entire chapter to discussing in what order money should be withdrawn during retirement. Unlike Schwab, Lynn O'Shaughnessy, the author of the Retirement Bible, suggests that Roth IRA money should ideally be touched last. I definitely agree with her opinion and many financial experts do too. What I also like about the book is that she demystifies a lot of estate planning issues, which books written by attorneys hopelessly fail at. You can't go wrong getting either of these books.
For Baby Boomers: Should be titled You're 60, Now What?.......2001-11-21
This is a book that everyone should have in their personal development library. Is it a great read or does it have cutting-edge insights? Probably, no. But wisdom is wisdom and doing what's right with your money is more a matter of principle than fancy strategy. If your strategy is too far removed from this book, then you're probably taking on far more risk than you should. I think that a lot more should have been written about wills and trusts for estate planning. That's an area that would have only taken another 10 pages, but would have completed the works and is something that everyone over 50 with bucks needs to know well.
This book is a must read and a real eye opener........2001-10-02
I am in my mid fifties. I have a MA in economics on top of an engineering degree. I was never very interested in investing as an economics student when it was merely a academic subject. I focused on other parts of my study of Economics. Now that I am older and trying to determine if I am indeed able to retire now I am finding the subject of investments much more fascinating and "Your' Fifty...." Extremely informative and helpful in showing me how retire in some comfort and with some confidence that I can sustain that comfort in the face of taxation and inflation throughout the "second half".
I have read several other retirement investment books since this one and found that this one was the best of the lot. I highly recommend it to anyone who planning retirement savings plans or anyone wondering about retirement right now.
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5 Books: 1) You're Fifty--Now What? Investing for the Second Half of Your Life / 2) A Commonsense Guide to Your 401(k) (Bloomberg Personal Bookshelf Hardcover) / 3) I'm Retiring, Now What?! / 4) Your Top Investing Moves for Retirement / 5) Investing for Retirement, (Unboxed Set of Personal Finance Books), in either Hard or Softcover, (See Seller Condition Comments), Shipped in one package to
save on shipping costs.
Book Description
This practical workbook provides current and future helping professionals with step-by-step guidelines for examining and resolving professional ethical dilemmas. It's the authors' belief that most serious ethical problems can be avoided by practitioners who have a strong sense of ethical self-awareness and an ability to stay out of "ethical traps" that result from their own experiences and preconceptions. Forty-nine "ethical dilemmas" are included for classroom discussion and resolution, along with the authors' suggestions for resolving them based on a process of analysis unique to this book.
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Great pactical overview of professional ethics!.......2003-02-14
I have found this bookto be a great teaching tool for ourses and workshops. also a good basic reference guide for all helping professionals.
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Management Working Papers Chapters 14-23
Manufacturer: Thomson South-Western
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Binding: Paperback
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A wealth of information.......2000-06-20
If you're looking for different organizations in your area, look no further than the Encyclopedia of Associations. I was on a mission to find listings of non-profits in the Chicago area and I couldn't find anyone with a comprehensive list until I found this book at Amazon.com. The book is broken down by state and then by city so it is very easy to find what you are looking for. And as an additional bonus, the local chapter of national organizations like the American Heart Assoc. and American Lung Assoc. were also listed. A definite must have!
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During the early nineteenth-century, two million acres of New York's farmland were controlled by a handful of great families. Along the Hudson Valley and across the Catskills lay the great estates of the Van Rensselaers, the Livingstons, and a dozen lesser landlords. Some two hundred and sixty thousand men, women, and children-a twelfth of the population of New York, the nation's most populous state-worked this land as tenants. Beginning in 1839, these tenants created a movement dedicated to destroying the estates and distributing the land to those who farmed it. The "anti-rent" movement quickly became one of the most powerful and influential movements of the antebellum era. The anti-renters raised issues that lay at the heart of America's republican experiment: the distribution of land, the nature of democracy, and the meaning of freedom. In doing so, they left an indelible mark on politics and public ideals in both New York and the nation. They influenced and bitterly divided both major political parties, and helped create the Republican party. Moreover, they shaped the ideas, policies, and careers of such national leaders as Martin Van Buren, Silas Wright, Horace Greeley, and William Seward. Deftly interweaving an engaging narrative history with broad-ranging social and political analysis, Land and Freedom brings to life the voices of antebellum northern farmers as they debated the critical social and political issues of their day. It grounds those debates in a detailed analysis of social and political change on New York's estates, and demonstrates the impact of farmers' ideas and initiatives on the broader social and political order. In doing so, it offers new insights into the social and political thought of northeastern farmers, the extent and limits of popular political power under the Jacksonian political order, and the social origins of free-labor ideology and the Republican party.
Customer Reviews:
Fine blend of social and political history.......2004-02-23
This book deals with one of the most imposing and intrinsically important chapters in the social history of the antebellum North - the protracted struggle against tenancy by residents of the great manors of New York State's Hudson River Valley. This struggle remained one of the most visible and absorbing dramas of the early nineteenth century, commanding extensive attention from newspapers and politicians alike. The episode derived its significance from its obvious connection to one of the salient social and political issues of that predominantly rural world - the connection between land-holding and citizenship. Before it concluded, the anti-rent struggle became linked to a stunningly broad array of other reform efforts. In the course of relating this story, Huston tells us new things about the evolution of the concept of "free labor," the interaction between elite and popular values and between urban and rural life, voters and politicians, and among social conditions, ideology, and mass action.
Not content with all this, Huston goes significantly further, tracing in detail (but with great economy of language) the complex ways in which that struggle influenced and was influenced by the evolution of party politics from the 1830s down through the 1850s. This study refuses to treat party politics either as tangential to the social concerns and actions of voters or as a mere reflection of them. Instead, the author shows us both how Whigs, Democrats, and eventually Republicans felt compelled to respond to the anti-renter challenge in different ways (in accordance with their own very different agendas) and how the particular nature of those responses then influenced the ideology and practice of the anti-renter struggle itself. The result is a fine case study in the way that partisan ideologies can be shaped by developments within society at large and how politics can, in turn, help alter the course of social movements.
The book's introduction situates it effectively both in the history of its time and in the modern historiography of the early and antebellum American republic. It also lays out the author's specific argument with admirable clarity. The first few chapters then carefully, even meticulously, portray the changing nature of economy, society, and political culture in the Hudson Valley from the eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries, dealing successfully along the way with pattern of property ownership, crop cultivation, market fluctuations, and gendered patterns of family work and rights. I was especially happy with the author's treatment of the knotty subject of small producers' attitude toward market production, a subject about which historians, sociologists, and economists have wrangled for many years.
Perhaps more impressive is the book's depiction of the evolving relationship between landlord and tenant. Huston's treatment of the nature and meaning of deference in this connection is extraordinarily subtle. The manuscript avoids a tendency common among social historians to deduce from the existence of relative social peace in a given period the existence of general contentment and even multilateral ideological consensus. Huston shows us something quite different: the presence of contrasting values and assumptions that are masked in good times by social conventions and yield social explosion only when a changing context turn such latent differences into sharp and unavoidable conflicts of practical interest.
The middle of the book gives us an equally deft, nuanced, and subtle mapping of the stages of growth and development through which tenant resistance to landlord exactions passed after about 1820, from incremental shifts in individual behavior to the initiation and differentiation of forms of mass action. Tenant outlooks are studied and evaluated with great sensitivity but without a hint of romanticism. They appear here as neither anti-capitalist stalwarts nor as Rockefellers-in-embryo. Instead, Prof. Huston presents them (accurately, in my view) as members of a "Janus-faced" group of small producers rooted in the market economy and necessarily accepting of its general contours but simultaneously driven by their particular situations and values to resist specific dictates of the marketplace. This understanding also helps Huston account for both the tenants' ability to connect to many other protest movements of the day while remaining deaf and blind to the claims of others -- thus "excluding" women, the propertyless, Indians, and African Americans from the circle to whom their sympathies extend.
The last few chapters of the book bring the story to resolution, presenting an outcome in which the tenants' central aim (the overturning of the landlords' property titles) is unfulfilled even as most tenants did progress toward the sought-after status of independent yeomen by other means. The landlord class, meanwhile, gradually ceased to exist as a distinct social formation. These chapters also round out the author's argument about the relationship between the anti-rent movement and antebellum politics. Especially noteworthy here is the treatment of the interaction between the liberal wing of the Whig party (led in New York and nationally by William H. Seward) and the anti-rent movement. This is a subject of transcendent importance, not least because this was the political current that pioneered the shift from a semi-Hamiltonian form of capitalist politics that long dominated (and hobbled) the Whig party to the much more democratic form finally embodied in the Republican party by 1860. The author plausibly suggests that the Seward-ites' evolution was influenced by their protracted encounter with the anti-renters.
This book is based on extensive primary research, particularly in manuscript collections, manuscript and published census data, and newspaper files (which historians of this period recognize to be one of the most important sources for the investigation of subjects such as this one). The manuscript itself is exceedingly well organized, tightly written, and clear and effective in its argumentation. Throughout, the author has successfully avoided the twin dangers that confront the writer of a first book - either to exaggerate the import of one's subject and oversell the larger meaning of one's thesis, or to seek refuge from criticism precisely by muting the thesis and leaving the subject's place in history and historiography under-attended.
all right it's about Selkirk.......2003-03-20
sElkiRk NeW York is the sure-fire
way of reasoning beyond the rural New York Robitussin-induced
hangovers which preside indefatigably
in South Fallsburg New York the place-setting
for an underrated little boy named Alouicious
aced all the Latin exams then moved on to French and
never learned what it was
to live
by golly this is a great book!
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Talking Music: Conversations with New Zealand Musicians
Sarah Shieff
Manufacturer: Auckland University Press
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ASIN: 1869402286 |
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Based on extensive interviews, this is a book of biographical essays about 15 leading contemporary New Zealand musicians who are working within the classical tradition. Photographer Robert Cross illustrates them with striking photographs, and a CD with examples of each musician's work accompanies the book. Each musician's development and training is explored, along with the highlights and challenges of their careers, presenting a uniquely personal picture of New Zealand's culture today. Includes CD-ROM
Customer Reviews:
Sounds of the Pacific.......2004-10-15
These engaging, informative profiles combine to build a history of New Zealand music for the highbrow crowd. The 14 subjects are all forthcoming and opinionated in their interviews, and the breadth is wide. Frank Gurr talks of the excitement of building a symphony orchestra from scratch after the Second World War (the weekly pay cheque was a generous £10), composer Dorothea Franchi of early discouragement playing the harp (an influence was Harpo Marx). Edwin Carr - the proudly conservative and accessible orchestral composer - is acerbic of "narrow nationalism" and recent cultural cross-pollination in music ("You don't plunder the temples," he quotes a friend), while Jack Body shrugs off accusations of exoticism. "One of the functions of art is to be outrageous, provocative, politically incorrect ... one has to learn not to become an embittered, grumpy old man. There's a few of those around. I hope that I can grow old joyful and unrepentant." Peter Scholes passionately parries criticism of the Enzso project from both classical and rock critics as "conservative and limiting"; he also describes his despair at sitting on arts council panels with such limited funds to share as "like walking into a nuclear bomb zone with a suitcase full of medicine".
It's invigorating to read such articulate opinions about music - especially for those jaded by musician interviews which are so often more about marketing - and no matter what your discipline, there is plenty here to inspire any musician.
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Mosaics of a Life: The True Story of Endurance
Tibor Gerstl
Manufacturer: Sterlinghouse Publisher
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Mosaic of Life takes us into the hellish crucible of the Nazi scourge in Eastern Europe. It offers a clear view of the human conditions when we venture outside the sphere of normal relations. Living in a world where civilization and respect have ceased to exist, a righteous Christian camp commandment rekindles some spark of his own humanity. This leads to an unlikely miracle: the author's survival and the survival of hundreds of others.
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