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    How to Save and Invest for Retirement
    How to Save and Invest for Retirement
    How to Save and Invest for Retirement
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    How to Save and Invest for Retirement

    By Dale Maley

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    This short story explains the basic concepts of financial planning and provides a conceptual roadmap for planning your retirement. By using a conceptual roadmap approach, you can quickly grasp the general concepts of retirement planning in a very short amount of reading time.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDale Maley
    Release dateJan 2, 2011
    ISBN9781458155450
    How to Save and Invest for Retirement
    Author

    Dale Maley

    Dale C. Maley is the author of the 19999 book Index Mutual Funds: How to Simplify Your Financial Life and Beat the Pros.He is also a contributing author to Chapter 18 Seeking Help from Professionals in the 2009 book The Bogleheads Guide to Retirement Planning.He is a very successful private investor who has been a student of Financial Planning and Investing for over 30 years. He was trained as an engineer at the University of Illinois and has been a practicing engineer for 32 years. His accomplishments as an engineer include the granting of 16 U.S. Patents and authorship of over 500 professional technical papers. He is also a member of the International Society of Automotive Engineers and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.He also has earned an MBA (Masters Degree in Business Administration) degree from Illinois State University. His background in mathematics, engineering, and business provides him with the excellent basis for understanding and teaching investments and financial planning.He is also a very successful investor who has been investing in common stocks and mutual funds since 1980. He has also personally invested in both 401(K) and IRA plans, so he is familiar with participation and management of these types of investments. He has been investing in indexed common stock mutual funds since 1990.Dale became a Registered Financial Advisor in the State of Illinois in 2006 and is currently launching his business as a fee-only financial planner. He is President of Maley Financial Planning LLC.

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      How to Save and Invest for Retirement - Dale Maley

      How to Save and Invest for Retirement?

      by

      Dale C. Maley

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      How to Save and Invest for Retirement

      Copyright © 2010 by Dale C. Maley

      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

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      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      Chapter 1

      What Happens if I Don’t Save and Invest for Retirement?

      Chapter 2

      How Much Do I Need to Save?

      Chapter 3

      How Do I Save?

      Chapter 4

      How Do I Increase My Wealth?

      Chapter 5

      How Do I Invest in Stocks and Bonds?

      Chapter 6

      What Asset Allocation Should I Use?

      Chapter 7

      How Do I Measure My Progress?

      Chapter 8

      How Do I Know When I Have Reached My Goal?

      Chapter 9

      How Do I Generate My Income in Retirement?

      Chapter 10

      Asset Allocation in Retirement?

      Chapter 11

      Estate Planning

      Chapter 12

      Things to Avoid

      Chapter 13

      Behavioral Finance

      Chapter 14

      Getting Professional Help

      Chapter 15

      Conclusion

      Recommended Reading

      Web Sites

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      Warning-Disclaimer

      This book is designed to provide information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher and author are not engaged in rendering legal, accounting, insurance, or other professional services. If legal or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought.

      It is not the purpose of this manual to reprint all the information that is otherwise available to the author and/or publisher, but to complement, amplify, and supplement other texts. You are urged to read all the available material, learn as much as possible about investing and to tailor the information to your individual needs.

      Every effort has been made to make this book as complete and as accurate as possible. However, there may be mistakes both typographical and in content. Therefore, this text should be used only as a general guide and not as the ultimate of investing information. Furthermore, this book contains information on investing only up to the printing date.

      The purpose of this book is to educate and entertain. The author and the publisher shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person

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