Preparing for Retirement Today: Dealing with the Financial and Physical Issues
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Are you ready for retirement?
Bruce Woodley will get you started on planning for a financially secure, happy and healthy retirement. By exploring how to handle our savings and investments in a practical and common sense manner, both when we are working and in retirement, he shows that it is possible to reach our retirement goals and provide a future which is both fulfilling and enjoyable.
Contents include:
*The Philosophy of Retirement: Are You Ready?
*Preparing A Retirement Financial Plan
*Investments: Property, Fixed Interest, Bonds, Shares and IPO’s, Managed Funds and Finance Companies
*Direct Investing in: the Sharemarket, Unit Trusts, Superannuation Schemes, Annuities, Share Options and Option Trading
*Investing In Property and Home Equity Loans
*Family Trusts And Wills
*Planning a Lifestyle and Organisations For Retirement
*The Perils of Retirement Homes and Villages
*Where to Live: Apartments, Town Houses, Retirement Homes, Rest Homes, Hospitals
*Activities, Hobbies, Computers and Other Interests
*Medical Care and the Family
*Glossaries of Financial, Legal and Trust Terms
*Appendix - Retirement Plan Outline
The book also outlines how relationships can be improved, by helping men and women to understand that they often have different approaches to financial planning and managing money. It also identifies how to provide for family legal matters.
Woodley shows how the new 60 is the old 40 and that we can take charge of our own future, rather than retiring from life. With a positive approach to living life to the full, we can look forward to living our dreams in our older years, with more life ahead of us. We can stay young at heart.
About The Author:
Bruce Woodley was born in Whanganui where his parents had a small farm at Maxwell, north of Whanganui. He was employed as Deputy Manager at the Mobil Oil (NZ) Ltd terminal at Mt. Maunganui and in central Auckland. He graduated with a Business Management Diploma from the Auckland University of Technology. From 1975 to 2000 he owned and operated a management consultancy company which administered and assisted business and trade associations.
He also acted as mentor to companies on the North Shore for a number of years under the Business in the Community scheme sponsored by the City.
Bruce’s previous book, Profile of Associations: – How do they create wealth? published in 2008, was widely accepted by universities, libraries and learning institutions throughout the country.
Bruce H. Woodley
Bruce Woodley was born in Whanganui where his parents had a small farm at Maxwell, north of Whanganui. He was employed as Deputy Manager at the Mobil Oil (NZ) Ltd terminal at Mt. Maunganui and in central Auckland. He graduated with a Business Management Diploma from the Auckland University of Technology. From 1975 to 2000 he owned and operated a management consultancy company which administered and assisted business and trade associations.He also acted as mentor to companies on the North Shore for a number of years under the Business in the Community scheme sponsored by the City.Bruce’s previous book, Profile of Associations: – How do they create wealth? published in 2008, was widely accepted by universities, libraries and learning institutions throughout the country.
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Preparing for Retirement Today - Bruce H. Woodley
Preparing For Retirement Today
Dealing with the Financial and Physical Issues
By Bruce H. Woodley
Copyright © 2014 Bruce H. Woodley
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Table of Contents
Title & Copyright
Preface
1 — The Philosophy of Retirement: Are You Ready?
The New 60 is the Old 40
Vive La Difference!
2 — Preparing A Retirement Financial Plan
Managing your spending
Family Obligations
3 — Investments: Property, Fixed Interest, Bonds, Shares and IPO’s
Investment Goals
Saving Goals
Risk Tolerance
Taxation
PIE’s – Portfolio Investment Entities (as at December 2013)
Debt – Get rid of it promptly
Rule of 72
Asset Classes
4 — Managed Funds and Finance Companies
Managed Funds
Finance Companies
5 — Direct Investing in: the Sharemarket, Unit Trusts, Superannuation Schemes, Annuities, Share Options and Option Trading
Shares
Unit Trusts
Types of Funds
Investment Trust Companies
Kiwi Saver and Private Superannuation Schemes
Annuities
Share Options
6 — Investing In Property and Home Equity Loans
Rental Properties
Listed and Syndicated Property Investments
Home Equity Loans
Home-reversion schemes
7 — Family Trusts And Wills
The benefits of wealth protection using a trust
Other trustee responsibilities
Proper Administration of Trusts
Who would sue a trust?
Gifting and gift duty
Protection from Creditors
Protection from Taxation and Rest Home Dues
Taxation
Professional Trustees and Guidance
Updating a Will
8 — Planning a Lifestyle and Organisations For Retirement
Work and Employment
Activities and hobbies
Personal or Family Planning
Travel
Timeshare
Organisations Which Can Help Older People
9 — The Perils of Retirement Homes and Villages
Retirement Villages
Contract complexity
Types of ownership
Fees and charges
10 — Where to Live: Apartments, Town Houses, Retirement Homes, Rest Homes, Hospitals
Average House Prices
Where to Live?
Assistance for Residential Care
Home Support, Rest Homes and Private Hospitals
11 — Activities, Hobbies, Computers and Other Interests
Activities and hobbies
Computers
Saving on Power and Gas Charges
Getting Financial Advisory Help Online
Achieving Your Financial Goals
Online Shopping
Savings for Pet Owners
12 — Medical Care and the Family
Health insurance
Additional Medical and Financial Assistance
Medical Alarms
Dentists Affordability
Funerals: Burial, Cremation or Donation
13 — A Reflection On Retirement
Australia — Our Observations
Staying Healthy and Positive
In Summary
Glossary of Terms
Financial Terms
Legal and Trust Terms
Appendix — Retirement Plan Outline
About The Author
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Preface
This book is designed to improve the future of all those who aim for a better lifestyle financially when they retire and for those who wish to live a long and fruitful life. As the population ages and with improvements to medical services, which we have better access to than in the past, we are living longer and have a larger proportion of people in the 50 plus age group. It is essential that we plan the future for a longer period in retirement if it is to be our golden years.
We also aim to redefine the term retirement. No one should have to retire. Instead we should be able to explore a different future and consider how to live actively by staying in control, right until the end, by rearranging our lifestyle to suit this change in circumstances and future requirements.
We also aim to show how relationships can be improved by helping men and women to understand how they often have different approaches to financial planning and managing money. By negotiating and communicating effectively, couples will be able to set combined long-term financial and economic goals which will help to ensure a long and harmonious future as they age together.
It will also identify how to handle money, consider a retirement plan or statement, provide for family legal matters, (which are nearly always an issue for the elderly or those preparing for their old age), and how to set up a financial plan for their future.
We will also cover related issues such as health care for the elderly, home computers and hobbies, sporting activities, holidays and life expectancy. By exploring how to handle our savings and investments in a practical and common sense manner, both when we are working and in retirement, we will show that it is possible to reach our retirement goals and provide a future which is both fulfilling and enjoyable, without becoming a burden on our family or the State.
We intend to show how the new 60 is the old 40 and that we can take charge of our own future, rather than retiring from life. With a positive approach to living life to the full, we can look forward to living our dreams in our older years, with more life ahead of us. We can stay young at heart.
1 — The Philosophy of Retirement: Are You Ready?
The New 60 is the Old 40
As we age we start preparing for retirement – and that is fine. But retirement is not a natural process and for some people retiring is a living nightmare. So the first question to ask is, Have I got good health?
The second question should be, Can I afford to retire?
The third and most important is, Why should I retire?
Unlike most food products, we do not have a use by date stamped on our body so there is no need to retire at 65 or at any other age for that matter. If we are happy doing what we have done why should we stop now? The old saying of use it or lose it
is very relevant to the retired and the less we do now, the less we will want to do in the future. The saying applies to everything we do in life.
So the key to a long and happy life is to do what you enjoy doing and then keep on doing it for as long as physically and mentally possible. We will also show later that all humans are living longer, both male and female, though females do have the edge as they tend to live a bit longer for various reasons. So just because the start age for the pension and most superannuation schemes is 65 at the moment why stop working?
We will also show later that if the job is stressing us out, there is no reason