Plan Your Prosperity - 2nd Edition by Kenneth L Fisher & Lara W Hoffmans (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

An essential roadmap to financial security and independence in retirement

In the newly revised second edition of Plan Your Prosperity: The Only Retirement Guide You'll Ever Need, Starting Now--Whether You're 22, 52 or 82, renowned investment adviser Ken Fisher delivers a practical and insightful new discussion of why all your investing should be done with an eye toward retirement.

You'll learn how to think about investing for retirement and learn to understand key concepts like time horizons, return expectations, and cash flow needs. You'll discover how to select an appropriate retirement benchmark and how to determine how much you need to save each year to achieve your retirement goal.

The book also includes:

• A comprehensive, workable strategy to develop your own retirement investing plan or work with a professional to do that while avoiding common pitfalls
• Techniques for avoiding harmful myths about retirement saving and investing, like complex and expensive annuities and other products
• Hands-on strategies for figuring out how much income you need to ensure the maintenance of your lifestyle in retirement

Perfect for working people at any stage of their career who are interested in working toward financial security and independence, Plan Your Prosperity is a must-read roadmap to successful investing and saving.

From the Back Cover

An essential blueprint for investors seeking financial security and independence

The second edition of Plan Your Prosperity: The Only Retirement Guide You'll Ever Need, Starting Now--Whether You're 22, 52 or 82, by bestselling author and veteran adviser Ken Fisher, shares the crucial elements in crafting a retirement investing approach for your entire lifetime.

You'll learn how to think about your time horizon, expected returns, cash flows, and other key metrics to help you build a plan that targets your desired lifestyle in retirement. You'll also discover techniques to help you start building a retirement plan that increases the likelihood you live the retirement you want. And, it offers succinct advice in navigating the disorienting myths and pitfalls many fall prey to along their investing journey.

Plan Your Prosperity shows you how to answer common and critical questions about how to approach investing in your own life: What are your investment goals? What mix of stocks, bonds and other securities should you use? How can you estimate whether your savings are sufficient? How much money will you need when you retire?

Fisher walks you through a step-by-step method designed to solve these--and other--dilemmas. Plan Your Prosperity is a must-read for retirement investors at every stage of life.

About the Author

KEN FISHER is Founder, Executive Chairman, and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Fisher Investments, a $290-plus billion (as of September 30, 2024) money management firm serving high-net-worth investors and institutions globally. He wrote Forbes' prestigious "Portfolio Strategy" column monthly for over 32 years, making him the magazine's longest continuously running columnist. He now writes monthly, native-language columns for over 25 major outlets worldwide, including The New York Post, the UK's Daily Telegraph and Canada's Globe and Mail. He is the author of 11 books on investing and personal finance and is a New York Times bestselling author.