Coronavirus blues – sorting out your money

For many years, we at 50 Plus books have encouraged pre-retirees to plan for their future retired life. We even produced a DIY guide to planning.  https://retirementbooks.com.au/shop/reference/retirement-work-book/ One of the first elements of retirement planning is of course to sort out your finances. In these […]

How much money will I need in retirement?

This is the perennial question and the one that keeps lots of financial advisers in a job and many over 50s up late at night. Our visions, or fears about retirement are often driven by this question. One answer is that everyone is different and […]

Your money or your life

Peter was a retired State Government employee who, with his wife, had a comfortable, but not substantial pension from his super fund, plus a couple of hundred dollars per month from the aged pension. While they certainly weren’t wealthy, Peter was worried that their funds […]

Retirement is about more than money

If we haven’t learned by our 60s that life is about living and not about how much money we have, then retirement may not be much fun. When you think about it, it’s only logical retirement planning should focus on how we are going to […]

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30 Day Money Back Guarantee We are so confident that our books will help you to enjoy a happier, healthier future that we are prepared to offer a 30 day money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. You have nothing to lose and everything to […]

How You And Your Money Can Survive

Over the last year we have had a regular stream of economists, business leaders, academics and senior bureaucrats all telling us how it’s imperative that the government gets the budget under control and we live within our means. Unless an irresponsible Senate continues to block […]

Post Retirement – How Much Money Will I Need?

Australians are now living longer, which means many are enjoying a longer period of retirement.  This is exciting, but can also be financially worrying – without any certainty around how long you will live for, and therefore how much money you will spend, how do […]