Money in Your Fifties: Securing Future and Enjoying Today

Somewhere in your fifties, retirement stops being a line item in a distant projection and starts being something you can almost reach out and touch. For some people, that shift brings genuine relief: the plan is broadly intact, and what remains is mostly about holding the course. For a great many others, it brings something closer to quiet alarm, a sense that the runway has shortened considerably faster than the preparation did. If you are in either camp, or somewhere in between, this book was written for you. Your fifties occupy a genuinely unique position in a financial life. There is still real time to act, often more than people fear in their most anxious moments, and at the same time, there is no longer room for the kind of drift that a younger decade can absorb without much consequence. This is the decade of deliberate course correction: catching up where you've fallen behind, protecting what you've already built, and beginning, in earnest, to picture what the next chapter of your life will actually look like.