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Finance ✦ Penny’s Take

What to Do to Retire Successfully

Martin B. Goldstein · 2015
66/100
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The dual psychiatrist-and-financial-advisor perspective is genuinely unusual in retirement guides — most cover money or psychology, not both — and that combination is the book's clearest selling point. However, limited trade-press coverage and a small-press origin make it hard to assess how rigorously those ideas are developed, and some financial specifics may not translate across tax situations. Worth a look for near-retirees who feel underserved by the finance-only genre, but approach with measured expectations.

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