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Title: How to Retire Early and Live Well With Less Than a Million Dollars by Gillette Edmunds ISBN: 1-58062-201-1 Publisher: Adams Media Corporation Pub. Date: February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.39 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Retire Early Book of the Millennium
Comment: I thought this book was great and I would highly reccommend it. No book can answer every question and this one is, of course, no exception. Edmunds has actually walked the talk and survived ups and downs in the markets. I think that his advice about investing in multiple non-correlated asset classes is actually quite sophisticated in a Modern Portfolio Theory sort of way. It reminded me of a practical version of the approach advocated by Larry Swedroe in "The only Guide to a winning investment strategy you'll ever need." Although US stocks have been the place to be for a while, they may decline or stagnate and diversification into foreign and developing country stocks and US real estate could once again outperform. In his Amazon review Dr. Grimmel compares Edmund's book unfavorably to several other books on early retirment- all of which have severe limitations of their own. Terhorst used only fixed income assets (Cashing in On the American Dream) in his initial retirement plan. That was a good move at the time, but he did get back into the stock market- after the book was written (I read about this on his web site). "Your Money or Your Life" by Dominguez and Robin is a great book about redefining needs and reducing expenses but the investment advice is wacky (government bonds alone + inflation doesn't matter.) All in all I think that Edmunds has written the best book on this subject.
Rating: 5
Summary: Retire Early and Survive a Market Crash
Comment: This is a good investment book and extremely cheap. The real cover is also much nicer than the one shown here. It is quite realistic. It does not advocate living below the poverty line so your can save up enough to retire early off the meager returns from treasury bonds in a meager retirement. The main focus is investing well during retirement so you can afford to live well in retirement. This in not primarily a lifestyle book but an investing book. Humility in investing is mentioned many times but not living a humble lifestyle. It says many places that if we lose all our nest egg from bad investments during retirement, it does not matter how humble a lifestyle we have, we are going back to work. The concept that we are all sold our asset allocations rather than choosing them is also a big part of this book. Since stocks and bonds generally go up and down at the same time, only a salesperson could have convinced us that buying both is diversification. I have never seen any book or heard any stockbroker or mutual fund representative ever recommend real estate as part of a retirement portfolio. Yet I know people who have made a fortune in real estate and live comfortably off real estate in retirement. This is the first book I know of that thinks outside the box of conventional retirement investment planning. It advocates choosing between stocks, bonds, real estate, international stocks, and several other asset classes. Since I have concerns that the U.S. stock market can continue as it has in recent years, I am glad to know there are other places I can make money to get me to an early retirement. There is also a chapter on surviving a market crash with your nest egg and sanity intact. This is looking like a very timely book. Good book, great price.
Rating: 5
Summary: uniquely authoritative
Comment: Far and away the most useful of many books on reitirement I've read. Unlike 98% of the other books on retirement out there, the author has actually been retired for 2 decades, lived through market crashes and personal tragedies, and yet managed to be enormously successful. The stragegies presented here are proven, and will work for you whether you're bent on retiring rich or just want to live simply and well decades earlier than your peers.
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Title: Get a Life: You Don't Need a Million to Retire Well, Fourth Edition by Ralph E. Warner ISBN: 0873378377 Publisher: Nolo Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Retiring Early by Dee Lee, Jim Flewelling ISBN: 0028640128 Publisher: Alpha Books Pub. Date: 11 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: How To Retire Happy: Everything You Need to Know about the 12 Most Important Decisions You Must Make before You Retire by Stan Hinden ISBN: 0071360344 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 19 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: You CAN Retire Young: How to Retire in Your 40s or 50s Without Being Rich by Larry A. Ferstenou, Joe Nendza, Shannon Murdock ISBN: 1589820088 Publisher: American Book Publishing Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Retirement Bible by Lynn O'Shaughnessy ISBN: 0764552457 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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