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Whitfield M: The Retirement Guardrail

The Retirement Guardrail

Retirement isn't the end of the road. It's a great escape.

For many Australians, retirement is seen as something to cautiously manage. But what if it could be a bold new chapter created on your terms?

In Retirement: The Great Escape Plan, award-winning financial adviser Jenny Brown challenges outdated ideas of retirement and offers a practical, reassuring roadmap for creating a life that is rich in every sense of the word. Drawing on decades of experience and real stories from clients who have made their own great escape, Jenny explores the emotional, lifestyle and financial realities of leaving work and stepping boldly into what comes next.

In four easy-to-follow parts, Jenny helps you take stock of where you are now, define what freedom looks like to you, and turn long-held dreams into achievable plans. You'll learn how to calculate your personal 'financial freedom number', design a lifestyle aligned with your values, navigate the shift away from work, and make the most of your time, health and independence. This practical book is not about slowing down. It's about living well with clarity, confidence and purpose. 

Whether retirement is on the horizon, already underway, or a long way off, Retirement: The Great Escape Plan will help you approach this new phase of life with optimism and control.

Because thriving should be fun, and naps should be epic

Retirement, The Great Escape Plan

Confused about when to claim Social Security? Worried about Medicare enrolment, IRMAA surcharges, and taxes quietly draining your retirement? You're not alone, and one wrong move can cost you tens of thousands of dollars.Social Security and Medicare are two of the most important financial decisions of your life, yet almost no one ever explains how they actually work. This book makes sure that doesn't happen to you.The Social Security &amp; Medicare Success Code is a clear, plain-English guide that walks you through every decision, no jargon, no overwhelm, and no pressure. Whether you're single, married, divorced, or widowed, you'll finally understand your options and how to make them work in your favor.Inside, you'll learn how to:Choose the right time to claim - the real trade-offs between claiming at 62, full retirement age, and 70, and how to think it through for your own situation
Maximise benefits as a couple
Understand the "widow's penalty" 
Navigate Medicare with confidence - Parts A, B, C, and D explained simply, plus the enrollment mistakes that trigger permanent penalties
Avoid the IRMAA surcharge - how higher income can quietly raise your Medicare premiums, and how to see it coming
Sidestep the costly mistakes - a complete checklist of the expensive errors that quietly drain retirements

Your retirement is too important to leave to guesswork. Take control of your Social Security and Medicare - and retire with confidence.This book is an educational guide, not financial advice.

The Complete Guide to Maximizing Your Retirement Benefits, Claiming at the Right Time, Avoiding Costly Mistakes, and Keeping More of Your Money

The Social Security & Medicare Success Code

How most investing decisions differ from what the data say works—and how replacing myth with measurement can improve outcomes. The Accidental Venture Capitalist examines how early-stage investment decisions are actually made—and why so many of them diverge from what the evidence says should work. Written by an academic-turned-venture capitalist Scott Shane, the book sits at the intersection of rigorous research and lived investing experience. Its central premise is simple but uncomfortable: in venture capital, folklore and intuition dominate practice, even though decades of empirical research offer more reliable guidance on selection, pricing, portfolio construction, and incentives. The book follows the full arc of the venture process, from fund design and deal sourcing to valuation, syndication, follow-on investing, governance, and exits. Each chapter takes a familiar maxim—“bet on the jockey,” “do more diligence,” “double down on winners”—and tests it against large-sample academic evidence and real investment outcomes. Shane’s analysis is grounded in power-law economics, behavioral decision-making, and incentive alignment. And he is transparent about mistakes as well as successes, treating his own funds as a living laboratory rather than a victory lap. The book also offers practical tools—checklists, heuristics, simple models—that translate evidence into decisions investors can actually implement.

Why Evidence Beats Instinct in Early-Stage Investing

The Accidental Venture Capitalist

Your federal career comes with one of the most valuable benefits packages in America.

So why do so many federal employees reach retirement without fully taking advantage of what they've earned?

The Federal Benefit Gap is the space between having valuable federal benefits and understanding how to make them work together. It's where missed opportunities and seemingly small decisions can have lasting financial consequences.

Inside, you'll learn how to:Choose retirement timing with your pension and benefits in mind
Coordinate FERS, TSP, and Social Security effectively
Avoid costly FEHB, FEGLI, and survivor-benefit mistakes
Understand choices that shape your retirement income
Ask better questions before key retirement decisions



Whether you're three years from retirement or twenty-three, the earlier you understand your benefits, the more options you have.

Your service earned you this retirement. This book helps you make the most of it.

"In my years focused on fiscal responsibility and retirement security, I've seen how many of the biggest retirement mistakes relate to taxes, and federal employees are rarely warned about them. This book fills that gap. It's clear and candid about how to coordinate your pension, TSP, and Social Security so you keep more of what you've earned. Federal employees should read it before they retire."
-Hon. David M. Walker
Former U.S. Comptroller General and Public Trustee for Social Security and Medicare

How Federal Employees Can Turn Great Benefits Into a Great Retirement

The Federal Benefit Gap

If you own appreciated company stock inside a 401(k), one overlooked tax rule could make a dramatic difference in what you keep. The NUA Advantage answers a question many employees never realize they should ask: should you roll that stock into an IRA, or move it in a way that may let part of the gain be taxed at lower long-term capital gains rates instead of ordinary income rates? This book is for workers, retirees, and planners who want to avoid an expensive default decision.
Inside, you'll learn how net unrealized appreciation really works in plain English: what counts as company stock, which life events open the door to the strategy, and why the timing of a lump-sum distribution matters so much. You'll also discover how to compare NUA against a standard IRA rollover, how cost basis drives the outcome, and why a strategy that can save tens of thousands in taxes can also backfire if handled carelessly or applied in the wrong situation.
What makes this book different is its practical, reader-friendly approach. Instead of burying you in jargon, it walks you through relatable examples, real-world case studies, and clear decision frameworks you can actually use. The result is a smart, accessible guide to making a high-stakes tax choice with more confidence and less guesswork.

Using Net Unrealized Appreciation to Pay Lower Taxes on Your 401(k) Company Stock

The NUA Advantage

Psychosocial Risk and Leadership Accountability

Work Without Harm

Tired of watching your money slip away to Uncle Sam? Everyone despises taxes for a reason: they drain your income and limit your financial freedom. Discover the solution in I Hate Taxes and keep more cash in your pocket. You should pay your fair share in taxes-but not a penny more. It's time to end excessive tax payments and say hello to financial freedom. Within this book, you'll learn:Proven tax-saving strategies that put money back in your hands.
How to legally navigate the tax code to your advantage.
The tax-planning secrets financial planners won't share.
The power of paying your fair share while maximizing your savings.
How to make your life savings work for you, not the government. 


This book empowers you to take control and save thousands of dollars over your lifetime. End Uncle Sam's grip on your wallet, and welcome in a brighter future. The power to keep your money is in your hands-are you ready to make it happen?

Lower Your Taxes, Own Your Retirement

I Hate Taxes

Winner of the Axiom Business Book Awards 2025 Discover why true wealth extends far beyond your bank balance - and how to achieve it. We find ourselves at a crossroads. We all know that true wealth is about far more than money. Wealth is friends, family, health, a vocation, command of your time, leisure, and whatever else is important to you. And yet, we are all guilty of acting as if money alone is wealth and an end in itself. How do we navigate this crossroads to find the right balance between monetary wealth and true, soulful wealth? Enter Daniel Crosby - behavioural finance expert and author of the smash hits The Laws of Wealth and The Behavioral Investor. In The Soul of Wealth, Daniel presents 50 short essays exploring what wealth really is and provides practical suggestions for changing your thinking and actions in small, powerful ways. You'll learn: - How your spending reveals your values - That money can buy happiness if spent well - What makes a good financial plan - Why willpower is overrated - How to master delayed gratification for the ultimate wealth hack - Why anything worth doing carries some risk - And much, much more! Accessible and inspirational, The Soul of Wealth is the ultimate compendium of the world's best behavioural and personal finance knowledge. It will challenge your thinking, rekindle forgotten truths, and empower you to embrace a new relationship with your money. Now part of the Harriman House Essentials Collection, a series showcasing the very best of business and finance books.

Harriman House Essentials

The Soul of Wealth

Building retirement plans so solid even Klingons want in.Retirement isn't the end of your mission-it's the beginning of your greatest adventure.You've spent decades navigating the grind. Now it's time to chart a new course, one filled with purpose, play, and paychecks that never quit.In Retirement: Beyond the Final Frontier, best-selling author and nationally recognized retirement strategist Kelly Shaw teams up with financial powerhouse JaLynn Manser to deliver a powerful, easy-to-understand roadmap to lasting income, maximum freedom, and a whole lot more fun in retirement.You'll discover:The real secret to lifetime income (without gambling your future on the stock market)
Why traditional advice like "draw 4%" is basically space junk
How to create Playchecks and Paychecks for Life
The "Retirement Launch Protocol"-a step-by-step game plan to start living boldly now


Whether you're nearing retirement or already there, this book will equip you with the tools, mindset, and mission control needed to retire boldly, live richly, and leave a legacy.So suit up, Captain. The next phase of your journey begins now.

Beyond the Final Frontier

Retirement

Kluge Strategien für Kauf, Investment und Vermögensaufbau ohne Vorwissen

Deine Immobilie. Dein Vermögen

Confused about when to file for Social Security? You're not alone - and one wrong move can lock in a smaller check for the rest of your life.

Somewhere between your mid-fifties and late sixties, the question starts nagging at you: claim now, or wait? Take the guaranteed check today, or hold out for a bigger one later? For married couples, the decision gets even more tangled - spousal benefits, survivor benefits, and two claiming ages to coordinate instead of one.

Your Social Security Roadmap cuts through the noise with a clear, step-by-step framework for understanding how the system actually works - so you can make a confident, informed decision instead of guessing.

Rather than printing dollar figures that go stale the moment tax tables update, this book teaches you the stable mechanics behind every claiming decision: how your benefit is calculated, how early claiming permanently reduces it, how delayed retirement credits permanently increase it, and how spousal, divorced-spouse, and survivor benefits fit together. You'll finish with a framework you can apply to your own numbers, pulled straight from your free my Social Security account.

What's inside:

- How Social Security really works, from your earnings record to your Primary Insurance Amount
- The mechanics behind claiming early, at full retirement age, or all the way to 70
- Spousal, divorced-spouse, and survivor benefit rules married couples often overlook
- How working while collecting benefits affects your check (and when it doesn't)
- How Social Security benefits are taxed, and how to plan around it
- A clear overview of how Medicare enrollment lines up with your Social Security timeline
- The most common, costly claiming mistakes - and how to avoid them
- Illustrative scenarios showing how these strategies apply in practice
- A complete checklist, action plan, and twenty questions worth asking an advisor

Perfect for:

Americans in their 50s and 60s planning their retirement timeline, spouses trying to coordinate two claiming decisions instead of one, and anyone who's opened a Social Security statement and felt more confused than informed.

This book focuses on the durable rules behind Social Security, not year-specific dollar amounts that change annually - so it stays useful no matter when you read it. Every chapter points you to ssa.gov and medicare.gov for the current numbers.

Note: this book is educational and is not personalized financial, tax, or legal advice. Confirm your strategy with the Social Security Administration, Medicare, or a licensed advisor.

YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY ROADMAP

Contrarian Retirement Guide

What if the greatest risk in retirement isn't running out of money-but running out of healthy years before you truly live?
Most retirement books focus on one question:
"Will I have enough?"
Contrarian Retirement asks the more important question:
"Enough for what?"
You can build an impressive portfolio, follow every traditional retirement rule, and still arrive completely unprepared for the life waiting on the other side of work.
Because money can fund a retirement-but it cannot design one.
Retirement Is Not the Finish Line
In Contrarian Retirement, Ryan Scott challenges the conventional belief that retirement is a finish line reached after decades of sacrifice.
Instead, he offers a practical framework for creating a meaningful second half built around:Experiences
Relationships
Health
Purpose
Freedom
Identity
Community
Time


This isn't another book about protecting every dollar until the day you die.
It's about using your resources intentionally while you are still healthy enough to enjoy them.
Inside, You'll Discover How to:Stop postponing your best years for an uncertain "someday"
Turn savings into permission, experiences, and lasting memories
Prepare emotionally and socially for life after work
Strengthen the relationships retirement will expose
Rehearse your future before making irreversible decisions
Protect your healthspan-not merely your lifespan
Build purpose without creating another exhausting career
Design a retirement flexible enough to change as your life changes


Through 22 concise chapters, 10 dimensions of retirement readiness, and practical life experiments, Ryan shows you how to build ordinary days worth living-not merely a portfolio worth preserving.
What Makes This Book Different?
Traditional retirement planning treats wealth as the final score.
Contrarian Retirement treats wealth as a tool.
This is not a technical investment manual. It is life advice-not individualized financial advice-for people who may be financially prepared but still need to answer the biggest question:
What exactly am I retiring toward?
You don't need to escape your life before retirement.
You need to design a life you won't want to escape from afterward.
LIVE RICH. DON'T DIE RICH.

Live Rich Don't Die Rich

Contrarian Retirement How to Design a Life You Do Not Need to Escape From Live Rich Don't Die Rich

The Retirement Guardrail

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