Retire Secure!: Pay Taxes Later
The Key to Making Your Money Last

 "Think of Retire Secure! as a GPS for your money. You may know where you are and where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. Jim offers the best routes."—Larry King (from the Foreword), Larry King Live, CNN

"In Retire Secure!, CPA and estate planning attorney Jim Lange provides a road map for tax-efficient retirement and estate planning. This is an invaluable resource for investors and planners alike."—Charles R. Schwab, Chairman and founder, The Charles Schwab Corporation

For the millions of Americans fast approaching, or already in, retirement, the biggest question they now face is simply: "Do I have enough money to last for the rest of my life?" While no one can answer that question with absolute certainty, you can do two things to significantly improve your odds—develop an appropriate retirement portfolio and take action to reduce your taxes.

The Second Edition of Retire Secure! explains how you can use IRAs, retirement plans, Roth IRAs, Roth 401(k)s, and Roth IRA conversions as well as other tax-favored investments to let Uncle Sam help subsidize your and your family's lifestyle and increase the odds that you will have sufficient income for the rest of your and your spouse's life, and perhaps beyond.

Drawing on the experience garnered from his thirty years as a practicing CPA and twenty-five years as an estate attorney, James Lange provides critical advice for all stages of IRA and retirement plan saving and spending, covering the best strategies for accumulating wealth while you are working, and spending down or distributing IRAs and retirement plans when you are retired and planning for your family.

Lange explains how to maximize tax-deferred savings during the accumulation phase. He reveals the most tax-efficient ways to withdraw money from your accounts during retirement, and tells how to develop an estate plan that continues the tax-favored status of your IRA or retirement plan long after your death—so your heirs will enjoy tax benefits as well.

This revised edition of Retire Secure! contains all-new material covering several important laws passed over the last few years that offer new tax-advantaged opportunities. Lange offers advice on establishing a one-person 401(k) plan and information on the Roth IRA conversions available to everyone in 2010; details the new Roth 401(k) and 403(b) plans; and describes how your heirs can benefit from a stretch IRA and/or an inherited Roth IRA.

In addition, he reveals the most certain way to provide financial security for your children: using survivorship life insurance—a classic tax-favored, leveraged form of a gift that can be an excellent tool for creating and preserving wealth.

Virtually every chapter of Retire Secure! contains recommendations that have come from "running the numbers" and are proven to work. Read this book and make your retirement and estate planning the best it can be for your future and your family's security.

Start Reading: Retire Secure!: Pay Taxes Later - The Key to Making Your Money Last, 2nd Edition

Author: James Lange
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (February 9, 2009)
ISBN-10: 0470405317
ISBN-13: 978-0470405314

A comprehensive and easy-to-understand guide to maximizing the benefits of IRAs and retirement assets. Retire Secure, Second Edition offers unbeatable recommendations for addressing the #1 fear facing most readers: Running Out of Money.

Retire Secure, Second Edition also shows baby boomers nearing retirement how they can save tens of thousands to over one million dollars by paying taxes later.

This practical guide delivers straight forward accumulation and distribution strategies for IRAs, Roth IRAs, the new Roth 401(k) and other retirement plans. More specifically, Lange gives readers tips on how to prepare for expected tax changes in 2010, details on converting to Roth IRAs, New Roth 401(k) and Roth 403(b) rules, and when IRA and retirement plan owners should consider second to die life insurance.

Further, this book describes Lange's exceptional estate plan--a plan that has been featured in The Wall Street Journal and many other fine financial journals. This definitive guide enjoys glowing endorsements from Charles Schwab, Larry King, Ed Slott and 60 other financial authors and experts.

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Part One
THE ACCUMULATION YEARS
The Best Way to Save for Retirement

1 Fund Retirement Plans to the Maximum
Main Topics

• Why contributing the maximum to a retirement plan is so valuable
• The clear advantage of pretax IRA and retirement plan savings
• Why you must always contribute to plans with employer - matching
• The two principal categories of retirement plans
• Eight major types of retirement plans and their contribution limits
• Running the numbers for an employer - matching program
• Nonmatched contributions
• Tax - deferred accumulations versus after - tax accumulations
• Options for contributing to more than one plan
• Minimize your life insurance costs to maximize your retirement contributions
• Making contributions when you think you can ’ t afford it

Why Contributing the Maximum to a Retirement Plan Is So Valuable
A trusted client of mine recently referred to me as her “ guardian angel. ” At first I was totally taken aback — no one had ever called me a guardian angel before. She continued, “ Twenty years ago you advised me to put the maximum into my retirement plan. I didn ’ t know if it was a good idea or not, but I trusted you and did what you recommended. Now I have a million dollars in my retirement plan. What should I do now? ” ...

About the Author
James Lange is an attorney and CPA with thirty years' specialized experience in IRA and retirement plan distribution strategies and estate planning. His recommendations have appeared in the Wall Street Journal thirty times, and he has been cited in the New York Times, Newsweek, Bottom Line, Financial Planning, and the Tax Adviser.

Lange's Cascading Beneficiary Plan^TM, with the flexibility and control it offers the surviving spouse, has become a benchmark in estate planning. Nationally recognized as a Roth IRA and Roth IRA conversion expert, Lange is a frequent speaker who trains financial advisors all over the country. he is the founder of The Roth IRA Institute. Lange is also the author of the first edition of Retire Secure!, also published by Wiley.

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