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A Straightforward Guide to getting the best out of Your Retirement is a companion volume to Planning Retirement Finances. This book concentrates specifically on housing, health and leisure opportunities following retirement.

It is very important to ensure that, once retired, the correct housing, whether a house or higher care accommodation is available. It is equally important to ensure that health care is catered for and the costs are recognized. Leisure opportunities are also covered along with travel generally and the range of benefits open to the retired person.

The Author: Patrick Grant is a financial journalist
He has written this book as a companion volume
to Planning Retirement Finances.

Published - Nov 2011

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PLANNING FOR RETIREMENT - MANAGING RETIREMENT FINANCES

A Straightforward Guide to Planning for Retirement, Managing Retirement Finances demonstrates clearly how those of retirement age and beyond can maximize their income and so enjoy their retirement. Whilst it has always been important to plan for retirement, it is now more crucial than ever, in the middle of a recession, to ensure that people understand the opportunities available to them. This book demonstrates clearly the growth areas and also the areas to avoid.

The Author: Patrick Grant is a financial Journalist. He also advises individuals and Corporate entities on investing assets for growth. This is his second book on financial planning.

Published - Nov 2011.

Please download Java(tm). MAINTAINING YOUR FINANCIAL HEALTH - LIVING WITH DEFLATION AND RECESSION - PROTECTING YOUR ASSETS

This book is ideal for all of those who need advice and guidance in the current economic climate concerning savings and investments and asset protection generally. This book is clear and concise and very much intended for the layman. It points out steps that can be taken to protect savings and capital values and is sensitively written by an expert in the field. The book is comprehensive covering all the main areas of investments in detail.

The book is a concise and practical guide and covers the following areas in detail:

· Living with deflation - are banks safe?
· Protecting pensions
· Mortgages
· Using the tax system
· Equity release
· Insurance

Publication: July 2009

The Author: Anthony vice is is a former chair of N M Rothschilds and the Bowater Group. He is the author of numerous books on financial planning.

Please download Java(tm). THE ONLY COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO ALL ASPECTS OF RETIREMENT FINANCE - FROM 45 TO RETIREMENT

A Straightforward Guide to Financial Planning for the Future-From 45 to Retirement, is a thorough guide to all aspects of the complex area of retirement finance. The 45+ men and women are now starting to think about pensions and how to succeed financially in a retirement that could last upwards of 25 years. They are also thinking about providing for elderly relatives.

This book will show how to strike a balance between savings and investments, how to make sure that sufficient cash is available and also how tax efficient investments deliver profitably at the right time.

The following areas are covered:
* Where to invest
* What income you will need during and after retirement
* What have you got in place now?
* What can be built up?
* Insurance
* Your estate
* Lifestyle options

Publication: October 2010

The Author: Henry Anthony Vice is a former journalist, (1953-1970) - he has held a number of directorships for major UK companies and was a director of NM Rothschild (1972-91) He is the author of a number of books on financial planning.

Please download Java(tm). A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO ALL ASPECTS OF PERSONAL PENSIONS AND THE PENSIONS INDUSTRY

This latest publication in the Straightforward Guides Series, Personal Pensions and the Pensions Industry, is a very comprehensive introduction to the changing world of personal pensions and also to the pensions industry as a whole.

To many people who are now confused by pensions and pension providers this book will prove invaluable and will help to provide clarity and focus.

The book deals with the following areas:

· An overview of pensions generally
· Formulating a retirement plan
· Future changes to pensions
· Pensions through a job
· Options where there is no occupational pensions scheme
· Increasing your retirement pension
· Reaching retirement
· How to make complaints

The author: Patrick Grant is a financial journalist and professional investor. He brings his many years of experience to bear in this comprehensive introduction to pensions and the pensions industry.

Revised Edition - May 2011

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A Straightforward Guide to Individual and Family Finance, Third Edition, is a thorough guide to all aspects of the complex area of individual and family finance.

The book is ideal for anyone who wishes to obtain important practical advice concerning this area. The following areas are covered in depth:

* Stocks and bonds
* Alternative investments
* Gilts
* Income tax
* Life assurance
* Mortgages
* Pensions and annuities
* Savings generally

The Author: Adrian Fellows is a Finance Broker working in a consultative capacity advising the public and the corporate sector in all aspects of finance. He brings his many years of experience to the book.

Third Edition - Oct 2010

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This latest book in the Straightforward Guides Series is the perfect book for all those who need advice and guidance concerning the complicated area of inheritance tax. This book is clear and concise and is intended for the layman. It points out steps that can be taken to reduce the inheritance tax bill. The book is sensitively written by an expert in the field and is comprehensive covering all the main areas associated with inheritance tax

The book covers the following areas in detail:

· How inheritance tax works
· Calculating inheritance tax
· Valuation of assets
· Inheritance tax reliefs
· Trusts
· Reducing liabilities

The Author: David Marsh is a specialist advisor in the areas of inheritance tax and capital gains tax. He has written this book in the hope that it will benefit readers and promote a greater understanding of this complex area of taxation.

Revised Edition - July 2009

Available as an e-book