Business : Personal Finance

For the fastest-growing segment of our population, here is a comprehensive guide to starting and running a home-based business in midlife and retirement. A baby boomer turns fifty every seven seconds, creating what will soon be the largest and most influential senior generation in history. These dynamic seniors have both a desire and a need to continue their working lives past the age when their parents retired. Boomers have been the primary buyers of more than one million self-employment guides by Paul and Sarah Edwards-and they now have the perfect handbook to take them into the second half of life. The Best Home Businesses for People 50+ features seventy comprehensive profiles that show how to select, start, run, and build a home-based business suited to the needs, talents, and ideals of the over-fifty generation. Each business listing-for careers ranging in diversity from Makeup Artist to Tax Preparer to Information Broker-addresses the concerns of boomers and seniors, including:. - Businesses that people 50+ can continue working in for 10-15 years. - Businesses that supplement your retirement income. - Businesses adaptable to a wide variety of locations. - Businesses with flexible hours to allow for family, travel, and other priorities. - Businesses suited to a broad range of health and wellness needs. Profiles of successful business owners and a treasury of online and easy-to-access resources round out The Best Home Businesses for People 50+ to create an indispensable resource for this new generation of career-oriented seniors. more...

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How do I know if I am financially secure?. What does it take to make friends outside of work?. What is my role in taking care of my health?. I am not really sure what I want as I move beyond work. How can I find out?. Will I be lonely?. Is this really the beginning of the end?. Can I do this?. Beyond Work. Most baby boomers will do retirement well, but many may struggle. For some accomplished people, putting a successful career behind them to enter retirement can be a daunting prospect to face. Others worry, sometimes unnecessarily, about financial and health concerns. And for some, the huge blank canvas of a looming life of leisure is more anxiety-provoking than it is exciting. Whatever you think about retirement, it is not always easy and you are not foolish for worrying about it. In fact, retirement is a new phase of life—the new adulthood—with its own challenges and rewards. Beyond Work shows you how you can make the transition successfully, face this new challenge head-on, and thrive in retirement. Beyond Work : Goes beyond the financial dimension that tells you if you can retire to consider the three additional challenges that speak to how to retire.; Explains the key to a successful retirement: the four domains that provide structure during your new adulthood—financial, physical, social, and personal.; Features successful retirement stories from people who are thriving beyond work, as well as advice from experts and practical tools for making your own transition.; Helps you to discover what it means to live life on your terms, and what those terms can be.; Offers a framework for understanding the choices facing you in retirement, for actively making and renewing decisions about what’s best for you, and for making each decision a wise one.; Shows you how to leave traditional work behind and find new meaning and success in the life you plan beyond it. Retirement is a big deal, but it is far from the withdrawal from the world that many of more...

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Big Money, Little Effort shows you how a straightforward, manageable and stress-free investment system, if properly applied and monitored, can protect you from the volatility of the world's stock markets while ensuring consistent returns on your original investment Big Money, Little Effort is the essential guide if you want to make positive returns from the stock market. more...

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Insights for today's hot stocks, and winning strategies for tomorrow's, from Wall Street's #1 Tech Analyst. This is not your grandpa's Wall Street. Stocks are more volatile now than ever. Even with all their potential for meteoric success, high tech investments are synonymous with high risk. This entertaining primer, by one of the leading tech analysts on Wall Street, offers a practical step-by-step guide for identifying tomorrow's hot stocks today. more...

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Deals with problems in the stock market and questions the time-honored mantra that stocks, in the long run will always go up. This book views that the average investor should completely avoid stocks and equity mutual funds. It provides alternative strategies that offer protection of one's money with potential for growth. more...

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