--- product_id: 5341867 title: "Can I Retire?: How Much Money You Need to Retire and How to Manage Your Retirement Savings, Explained in 100 Pages or Less" price: "105.39 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/5341867-can-i-retire-how-much-money-you-need-to-retire store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # Quick 40-min read for busy pros 100 pages of clear retirement math Concise, jargon-free financial wisdom Can I Retire?: How Much Money You Need to Retire and How to Manage Your Retirement Savings, Explained in 100 Pages or Less **Price:** 105.39 DT **Availability:** βœ… In Stock ## Summary > πŸ“ˆ Retire smarter, not harder β€” your 100-page blueprint to financial freedom ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Can I Retire?: How Much Money You Need to Retire and How to Manage Your Retirement Savings, Explained in 100 Pages or Less - **How much does it cost?** 105.39 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/5341867-can-i-retire-how-much-money-you-need-to-retire) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Concise & Actionable:** Get retirement clarity in under an hourβ€”no fluff, all focus - β€’ **Insider Tips & Loopholes:** Discover lesser-known tax hacks and advisor pitfalls to keep more of your money - β€’ **Retirement Math Made Simple:** Master your nest egg needs without the jargon - β€’ **Tax-Savvy Withdrawal Strategies:** Optimize Roth vs. Traditional IRA moves like a pro - β€’ **Risk-Managed Annuities Explained:** Learn how to protect your income from outliving your savings ## Overview β€˜Can I Retire?’ distills essential retirement planning into a sharp, 100-page guide that demystifies how much money you need, tax-efficient withdrawal strategies, annuities, and portfolio allocation. Written in plain English, it’s designed for busy professionals seeking quick, actionable insights to confidently plan and manage their retirement savings. ## Description Find all of the following, explained in plain-English with no technical jargon: How to calculate how much you'll need saved before you can retire How to use annuities to minimize the risk of outliving your money How to choose which accounts (Roth vs. traditional IRA vs. taxable) to withdraw from each year When it makes sense to use a Roth IRA conversion to save on taxes How to choose an appropriate asset allocation for your retirement portfolio How to minimize taxes by proper use of an asset location strategy How to reliably pick winning mutual funds Review: Good short primer on retirement planning - I heard about Mike Piper and his books on The Bogleheads online forum. I decided to buy this book and check him out. The author boils down retirement planning to about 100 pages compared to the 370 pages in The Bogleheads Guide to Retirement Planning and Jim Otar's 525 pages in Unveiling the Retirement Myth. By the title, I assumed all 100 pages would focus on the decision on whether or not to retire. Instead, 30 pages focus on this key decision...and the balance of 70 pages focus on the steps to take after you decided to retire. This is ok, but not what I expected from the title. My reading time was about 50 minutes, but I took notes as I went to be able to write this book review. If you subtract the note taking time, my reading time was about 40 minutes. Piper mentions that state guarantee associations exist to back up an insurance company that fails. The soundness of an insurance company is critical if they are paying you a lifetime SPIA. It is extremely difficult to find data about past insurance company failures and whether investors lost money or not on their SPIA's. As we all remember in the Sub-Prime Crash of 2008, AIG basically went bankrupt and Uncle Sam had to bail them out. William Bernstein has correctly pointed out that buying SPIA's may be too risky because of the chance of insurance company failures and inability of state guaranty associations to fill the gap. Piper correctly raises the major issue of conflict-of-interest if you choose to use a financial planner. His example of conflict-of-interest is financial planners not recommending SPIA's because it reduces the amount of assets under the AUM (assets under management) financial model........and therefore reduces the annual income to the financial planner. This can be remedied by negotiating an annual retainer fee which does not depend on the vagaries of a fluctuating stock market or SPIA usage. In the spirit of full-disclosure, I am co-author of Chapter 18...Seeking the Help of Professionals..... in The Bogleheads Guide to Retirement Planning.......and I think our chapter elaborates and does a much better job of explaining the conflict-of-interest issue. One thing I was not aware of until a couple of months ago, is that if you retire between age 55 and age 59.5, you might be better off leaving your money in your 401K versus rolling it over to an IRA. Tax law allows you to withdraw from the 401K without the 10% penalty if you are in this situation. Piper does mention this fact. One thing Piper mentions that I was not aware of.......was that if you own company stock in your 401K plan...you can withdraw it and pay long term capital gains taxes versus higher ordinary income tax rates. I have not heard of this loophole before. Of course, I would recommend being fully diversified and not investing much in your own company stock.......just ask Enron employees what can happen. Piper correctly points out that if you a financial advisor who uses the 1% AUM model (he charges you 1% of assets under management each year) your 4% safe withdrawal rate really becomes 3% because of the 1% AUM fee. Many advisors charge a fraction of 1% AUM, which means your SWR is higher than 3%. Piper repeats the basic financial guide to put dividend paying investments into retirement accounts (bonds, bond funds, TIPS, and REIT's) and stocks in taxable accounts. He also points out your available options if your investment income is not high enough to support you in retirement: Work longer, work part-time in retirement, reduce retirement living expenses, reduce current expenses and save more, annuitize using SPIA's which generate more than 4% (but leave nothing for your heirs), or try to get higher returns from your retirement portfolio. Given the low savings rate and portfolio size of most Baby Boomers, I suspect many of them will tap their equity in their home and use it for retirement living expenses via reverse mortgages. Piper does not mention reverse mortgages as an option. All-in-all, a good little book with practical advice. In our U.S. culture of short attention spans (e.g. 8 sec TV commercials).....maybe more people can learn the very basics of retirement planning versus having to read full length books. Review: Valuable Reading With One Exception - Overall this is a very good book with useful information for anyone who is looking for information about when and whether to retire. My only complaint or negative feeling about the book is with respect to chapter 3 titled "What if 4% Isn't Enough?" and the subject is increasing returns on your investments. In one of the sentences he writes, "even the pros can't seem to get the job done consistently" with respect to professional financial people being able to match or beat the market. Individual investors can do so much better by spending time learning and staying focused on a goal to increase their wealth by investing. I was finally convinced this is true after two professional money managers, one employed by Fidelity and one employed by America's Retirement Store, told me that they did not have time to invest in the types of securities that could bring true wealth to their clients. I translated this to mean that what they do is put their clients on auto-pilot and most people accept measly returns because those in the financial world have convinced them that this is true. My recommendation to individual investors who really want to learn and succeed is visit The Motley Fool website to learn about stock investing and option investing. There will be a learning curve, but after that you can spend a reasonable amount of time managing your financial portfolio. If you make up your mind to succeed with individual investing, you will be successful. ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #2,898,596 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #118 in Retirement Planning (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 507 Reviews | ## Images ![Can I Retire?: How Much Money You Need to Retire and How to Manage Your Retirement Savings, Explained in 100 Pages or Less - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61UQ3PAuHXL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good short primer on retirement planning *by A***. on January 26, 2011* I heard about Mike Piper and his books on The Bogleheads online forum. I decided to buy this book and check him out. The author boils down retirement planning to about 100 pages compared to the 370 pages in The Bogleheads Guide to Retirement Planning and Jim Otar's 525 pages in Unveiling the Retirement Myth. By the title, I assumed all 100 pages would focus on the decision on whether or not to retire. Instead, 30 pages focus on this key decision...and the balance of 70 pages focus on the steps to take after you decided to retire. This is ok, but not what I expected from the title. My reading time was about 50 minutes, but I took notes as I went to be able to write this book review. If you subtract the note taking time, my reading time was about 40 minutes. Piper mentions that state guarantee associations exist to back up an insurance company that fails. The soundness of an insurance company is critical if they are paying you a lifetime SPIA. It is extremely difficult to find data about past insurance company failures and whether investors lost money or not on their SPIA's. As we all remember in the Sub-Prime Crash of 2008, AIG basically went bankrupt and Uncle Sam had to bail them out. William Bernstein has correctly pointed out that buying SPIA's may be too risky because of the chance of insurance company failures and inability of state guaranty associations to fill the gap. Piper correctly raises the major issue of conflict-of-interest if you choose to use a financial planner. His example of conflict-of-interest is financial planners not recommending SPIA's because it reduces the amount of assets under the AUM (assets under management) financial model........and therefore reduces the annual income to the financial planner. This can be remedied by negotiating an annual retainer fee which does not depend on the vagaries of a fluctuating stock market or SPIA usage. In the spirit of full-disclosure, I am co-author of Chapter 18...Seeking the Help of Professionals..... in The Bogleheads Guide to Retirement Planning.......and I think our chapter elaborates and does a much better job of explaining the conflict-of-interest issue. One thing I was not aware of until a couple of months ago, is that if you retire between age 55 and age 59.5, you might be better off leaving your money in your 401K versus rolling it over to an IRA. Tax law allows you to withdraw from the 401K without the 10% penalty if you are in this situation. Piper does mention this fact. One thing Piper mentions that I was not aware of.......was that if you own company stock in your 401K plan...you can withdraw it and pay long term capital gains taxes versus higher ordinary income tax rates. I have not heard of this loophole before. Of course, I would recommend being fully diversified and not investing much in your own company stock.......just ask Enron employees what can happen. Piper correctly points out that if you a financial advisor who uses the 1% AUM model (he charges you 1% of assets under management each year) your 4% safe withdrawal rate really becomes 3% because of the 1% AUM fee. Many advisors charge a fraction of 1% AUM, which means your SWR is higher than 3%. Piper repeats the basic financial guide to put dividend paying investments into retirement accounts (bonds, bond funds, TIPS, and REIT's) and stocks in taxable accounts. He also points out your available options if your investment income is not high enough to support you in retirement: Work longer, work part-time in retirement, reduce retirement living expenses, reduce current expenses and save more, annuitize using SPIA's which generate more than 4% (but leave nothing for your heirs), or try to get higher returns from your retirement portfolio. Given the low savings rate and portfolio size of most Baby Boomers, I suspect many of them will tap their equity in their home and use it for retirement living expenses via reverse mortgages. Piper does not mention reverse mortgages as an option. All-in-all, a good little book with practical advice. In our U.S. culture of short attention spans (e.g. 8 sec TV commercials).....maybe more people can learn the very basics of retirement planning versus having to read full length books. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Valuable Reading With One Exception *by R***R on March 23, 2016* Overall this is a very good book with useful information for anyone who is looking for information about when and whether to retire. My only complaint or negative feeling about the book is with respect to chapter 3 titled "What if 4% Isn't Enough?" and the subject is increasing returns on your investments. In one of the sentences he writes, "even the pros can't seem to get the job done consistently" with respect to professional financial people being able to match or beat the market. Individual investors can do so much better by spending time learning and staying focused on a goal to increase their wealth by investing. I was finally convinced this is true after two professional money managers, one employed by Fidelity and one employed by America's Retirement Store, told me that they did not have time to invest in the types of securities that could bring true wealth to their clients. I translated this to mean that what they do is put their clients on auto-pilot and most people accept measly returns because those in the financial world have convinced them that this is true. My recommendation to individual investors who really want to learn and succeed is visit The Motley Fool website to learn about stock investing and option investing. There will be a learning curve, but after that you can spend a reasonable amount of time managing your financial portfolio. If you make up your mind to succeed with individual investing, you will be successful. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good little read *by B***N on April 26, 2012* This is a great read for someone new to the retirement game. I'm in my mid-20s and have decided to get a head start on retirement planning, and this book's chock full of good information. My honest opinion: not nearly enough young people take the time to really learn about this asset of theirs: many just blindly throw money in to an retirement account at their place of business - or worse - some people don't start thinking about until it's two late, and most of these people are forced to work until the day they die. This book taught me a lot of basic things I needed to know, and it inspired me to manage my money today and put as much money in to my retirement account as I can. My full contribution, employer's match included, is now 20%. And I may raise that number in the future if I find a surplus in my budgeting. Understand, "100 pages or less" won't tell you absolutely everything. 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