Getting Started in a Financially Secure Retirement

Hebeler's writing style is easy to read. I have read over 200 books on investing/financial planning, and I would put this book into the top 10....with regards to general financial planning information. Hebeler covers all the basics including saving, investing in index funds, and Social Security. I particularly liked his list of Lessons Learned: 1. Look hard for low costs and taxes. 2. Don't invest in anything that eats, floats, drills, or is appraised with a magnifying glass or scale. 3. Avoid partnerships and tax gimmicks 4. Be wary of someone who wants to manage your money 5. You have heard of someone who has a foolproof method 6. Don't buy individual stocks and don't time the market As a general intro to investing, you really can't go wrong with this book. To compliment this book.....I would suggest a couple good books on index fund investing and asset allocation. The Richest Man in Babylon Bogle on Mutual Funds: New Perspectives for the Intelligent Investor The Millionaire Next Door The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing, Ninth Edition The Coffeehouse Investor: How to Build Wealth, Ignore Wall Street, and Get On With Your Life The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

Planning on retiring someday or already retired, the information in this book will help you use your money in the most intelligent way possible. Of all the "retirement books" available, you will find information and planning tools in this book that are not found elsewhere. Since we are all concerned about having enough money in retirement, it makes sense to do the best we can to save, invest and spend money for our maximum benefit. The information in this unique book gives us the tools to do that.

This Financial non-fiction reads like a novel. An easy read that is extremely informative and useful for planning and executing your retirement. Readers will benefit by the many thousands of man hours or research and analysis that have gone into providing this resource. The many different types of investment are reviewed and the real world effects on growth by inflation, taxes and fees are illustrated. The book also provides much relevant information about all the relevant topics surrounding retirement planning, such as IRAs, tax strategies, Social Security, pensions etc. Chapter 2 titled "Be Aware of the Environment" is very eye opening and relevant in today's world. This book is very easy to use as a resource and provides many clear Appendixes designed to allow the reader to make some simple calculations to either check the present status of planning or to run simulations based on changes or differences in assumptions. Entertaining as well as informative.

As a visual learner, I thought the book contained very useful, informative charts, tables, graphs and easy to digest chunks of info in well labeled boxes. Sitting at a lunch table at work, we all talk about our futures, and this book is a great base for our thinking and planning-- even as our lives evolve and the thinking and planning changes. This book is divided into logical chunks so information is easy to find for a non-accountant mind like mine :) Thank you for making this resource available. Linda Underhill

Mr. Hebeler has dedicated his retirement years to helping others. He is also enjoying those years. He has found that happy medium and he wants to share his sucess with others so they too may enjoy the later years. He is someone who has walked the walk and talked the talk. He has made it so that we can understand how to make our money work for us. He has enabled us to take charge of our money and not rely on someone else. Which in this day and age, it is so important to be aware ourselves, where and what our money is doing for us. Thank you Mr. Hebeler for sharing what works for you with us.