How to Retire

I’ve been a financial planning practitioner for over 40 years and How to Retire is a home run for investors. It is a unique and exciting book chockfull of important concepts and advice from an amazing list of the “best of the best” brains in the financial planning world. The intellectual capital Christine captured in the book is amazing and every investor will be wellrewarded by owning and reading How to Retire.

* Harold Evensky, founder, Evensky & Katz/Foldes Wealth Management *The financial services industry paints a picture of retirement as walks on the beach and a life of leisure, where the only key to success is accumulating enough dollars to make it happen. In reality, though, retirement is an entirely new phase of life… one that we’re often thrust into, with no context on how different it will actually be. In Christine Benz’s How to Retire, prospective retirees gain valuable perspective on why the day-to-day experience of life in retirement can be more challenging than anticipated, and how they need to prepare—both financially, and beyond their finances—to ensure they actually find fulfillment in their decades to come! * Michael Kitces, MSFS, MTAX, CFP, chief financial planning nerd, Kitces.com *Imagine if you could sit down with the nation’s leading experts in every aspect of retirement, tax, and estate planning. Now you can! Christine Benz, a skilled interviewer, has asked all the questions you would have asked, plus the bigger questions you might not have even thought about. The “My takeaways” at the end of each chapter are invaluable. * Ed Slott, CPA, and retirement expert, author, and founder of , founder of Ed Slott’s Elite IRA Advisor GroupSM *In a series of easily accessible interviews, Christine Benz asks the retirement questions that we are all pondering—and then lays out with clarity and specificity the steps to help answer them. * Jill Schlesinger, CFP, CBS news business analyst, author of The Great Money Reset *No one is more qualified to guide you through meaningful conversations about how to retire than Christine Benz, and this book is full of them. Treat it like a cheat code for some of the most important financial decisions you will ever make! * Carl Richards, creator of Behavior Gap *