How to Retire Happy: The 12 Most Important Decisions You Must Make Before You Retire

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"Want excellent insights on retirement planning from a professional who’s actually experienced retirement himself? You’ll get just that from Stan Hinden’s book, How to Retire Happy, now in its third edition. Stan was a Washington Post financial reporter for 20 years, and after he retired, he wrote the Post’s 'Retirement Journal' column for which he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. What I like about Stan’s book is that it combines good financial planning information with his story about his own retirement. He’s candid about the mistakes he made and how he’d do things differently with the benefit of hindsight."

—Steve Vernon, columnist, CBSMoneyWatch.com

“Everyone in the workforce today should read this book!”

—Horace B. Deets, former Executive Director, AARP

Award-winning Washington Post retirement columnist Stan Hinden’s bestselling How to

Retire Happy helps you decide if you can retire now, or whether you have to stay on the job

for a few more years.

This trusted guide has been fully updated to address the stomachchurning

issues created by financial market volatility and the economic recession.

Will you have enough money for health care? Do you need—and can you afford—a longterm

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The third edition of How

to Retire Happy provides answers to these questions—plus all-new information about:

A new menu of Medigap insurance policies
New strategies for maximizing Social Security income
Making your money last through a long retirement

Apply Hinden’s reliable, easy-to-understand advice and experience a happy, healthful

retirement for years and years to come.

Stan Hinden was a Washington Post financial reporter for 20 years.

From 1996 to 2003 he wrote the Post’s “Retirement Journal” column for

which he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Commentary in 1998.

Currently he writes the “Retirement Perspectives” column for AARP

Financial. He resides in the Washington DC area. Visit him

at StanHinden.com.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780071702478
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date: 12/4/2009
Edition description: Revised
Edition number: 3
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 334,234
Product dimensions: 9.00 (w) x 6.06 (h) x 0.65 (d)

Meet the Author

Stan Hinden was a Washington Post financial reporter for 20 years.

From 1996 to 2003 he wrote the Post’s “Retirement Journal” column for

which he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Commentary in 1998.

Currently he writes the “Retirement Perspectives” column for AARP

Financial. He resides in the Washington DC area. Visit him

at StanHinden.com.

Foreword John C. Bogle ix

Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xvii

Decision 1 Am I ready to retire? 1

Decision 2 Can I afford to retire? 17

Decision 3 When should I apply for Social Security? 35

Decision 4 How should I take my pension payments? 63

Decision 5 What should I do with the money in my company savings plan? 77

Decision 6 When do I have to take money out of my IRAs? 95

Decision 7 How should I invest during retirement? 109

Decision 8 What should I do about health insurance? 133

Decision 9 What should I do to prepare for serious illness? 155

Decision 10 Where do I want to live after I retire? 173

Decision 11 How should I arrange my estate to save on taxes and avoid probate? 187

Decision 12 How can I age successfully? 205

Index 225

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Anonymous

Posted January 11, 2011

Skip the sample

I downloaded the 39 page sample. The first 21 pages were titles, prologs, prefaces, acknowledgements etc. So I got to read less than 9 pages. If they're going to provide a sample they should skip all the the other stuff and let you see content.

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Anonymous

Posted July 8, 2006

Good Information for Starters

Basic information for those who haven't given much thought to retirement. The author's view is valuable because, as a current retiree, he has experienced the issues first hand and has put them in a book. But most of the advice is elementary for those who keep up on general financial topics. Finances, on the other hand, is the furthest thing from my wife'd mind, and I know she will gain more from the book then I did. Written simply and very easy to read.
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