Save Your Retirement What to Do If You Haven't Saved Enough or If Your Investments Were Devastated by the Market Meltdown

Frank Armstrong, III, CLU, CFP^TM, AIFA, is the founder and principal of Investor Solutions, Inc., a fee-only registered investment advisor. He has more than 35 years’ experience in the securities and financial services industry. His bestselling book, The Informed Investor, was cited by BusinessWeek as one of the best investment books of the year, and his previous book, The Retirement Challenge: Will You Sink or Swim, received rave reviews.

Frank was named by Barron’s as one of the top 100 independent financial advisors in 2007 and again in 2008. He was a featured columnist on Morningstar.com for a number of years and is a frequent contributor to The CPA Journal and Physician’s Money Digest. He has appeared on “CNN Headline News,” “Your Money with Stewart Varney,” “PBS Morning Business Report,” CNBC, “Money Life with Chuck Jaffee,” and public radio stations around the country. Frank is widely quoted in the media, his articles appear in major financial magazines and Web sites, and he lectures nationwide on principles of investment management.

His first publication, Investment Strategies for the 21st Century, was one of the first books ever published and serialized on the Internet in multiple languages.

A Vietnam veteran and former Air Force pilot, Frank flew 250 combat missions in Southeast Asia. He currently lives in Coconut Grove, Florida, with his wife, Gabriele, and enjoys boating, deep sea fishing, scuba diving, windsurfing, reading, and travel.

A long-time contributor to The New York Times, Paul B. Brown is the author of more than a dozen business books, including Grow Rich Slowly: The Merrill Lynch Guide to Retirement Planning (written with Don Underwood), as well as the international bestseller Customers for Life (written with Carl Sewell).

A former writer and editor at BusinessWeek, Financial World, Forbes, and Inc., Paul hosted his own nationally syndicated, three-hour personal finance call-in show heard daily on the Business Radio Network for a number of years. He is “the financial expert” at ThirdAge.com and a contributing editor to both M.I.T.’s Sloan Management Review and The Conference Board Review. He lives in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and Anna Maria, Florida.

Part I: Let’s Take a Deep Breath and Get Our Bearings     1

Chapter 1: There’s Hope     3

Chapter 2: You Are Not Alone: Just About Everyone Is Unprepared to Retire the Way They Want     11

Chapter 3: Maybe You Don’t Want to Retire     23

Chapter 4: Before You Begin Your Rescue Efforts: Things to Do to Make Sure You Don’t Make the Situation Worse     29

Part II: Working with the Scenario That Is Right for You     63

Chapter 5: R(etirement) Minus 20 (or More)     71    

Chapter 6: R—15     79

Chapter 7: R—10     95

Chapter 8: R—5     107

Chapter 9: R=0     117

Chapter 10: R+     123

Part III:  (Dramatically) New Thinking     127

Chapter 11: Maybe You Want to Retire Later     129

Chapter 12: Don’t Touch Up the X-Rays     133

Chapter 13: Dealing with Risk     141

Chapter 14: Where Does Social Security Fit In?     151

Chapter 15: What to Do the Moment You Stop Reading     161

Chapter 16: Final Thoughts     167

Part IV:  Appendices     173

Appendix A: Where Does the Money Go?     175

Appendix B: Getting to What’s Next     183

Appendix C: Useful Links and Resources for Retirees     191

Appendix D: Suggested Asset Allocation Models     195

Index     199

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