A practical guide to your life and your money - now, leading up to your retirement, and after you are retired.

The book teaches you how to avoid the big mistakes people make (before and after retirement).

Topics covered include:

Investments that you can trust (that actually work)

The great fallacy that 80% of investors don’t know

The big mistakes investors make & how to avoid them

How to avoid “burn out” while still working

Kiwisaver for people age 55 to 64

Mortgages, debt and savings

How not to have a mortgage (or a much smaller one)

Life insurance premiums (dead money) or saving instead ?

Why you need to learn about investments early in life – and how

Leisure & travel 

Low cost leisure activites you can afford (in NZ)

How to choose a campervan or caravan

How to choose a simpler & cheaper caravan

Free things to do in NZ (101 of them)

Health -  diets that work,  reducing arthritis 

Health – what the food industry don’t want you to know

Retirement cashflow  tips

Houses  &  Property

Housing options for the over 65′s

Things to consider before moving house (if you are retired)

How to “eat your house”

Retirement villages

Rest homes & rest home fees

Your wills

Family trusts  – yes or no ?

Lending or giving money to your your children ?

Things your chidren should consider before buying their first home

How your children can “cheat the banks” and not pay $400,000 in mortgage interest

Published July 2011