You're Fifty--Now What : Investing For the Second Half of Your Life

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Summary: Save your time and your money
Review: well, I was very disappointed with this book. Full of "fill in the blanks and do your own math" it really had no BIG ideas to glean. And I suppose I should not have been surprised that the underlying secret to retirement planning from Mr Schwab (who happens to be a guy who owns a stock brokerage business) is to be 90% invested in stocks FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!!! Because you may live a very looooong time and you sure wouldn't want to OUTLIVE YOUR MONEY! The fill in the blanks forms were simplistic and the whole approach was nothing more nor less than you would learn when you meet with any run of the mill stock broker for the first time. A bunch a estimates and blanks to fill in and no ideas beyond staying fully invested. Crap. I truly expected and hoped for better... well, now I've got one to sell. And no, I did not fill in the blanks already.