Beschreibung:

Retirementology is not a typical retirement planning book, nor is it a book on psychology; it is a little bit of both. Part of what has created a retirement crisis in America is the tendency to treat retirement as a separate and static event, relegate it to a zone, or even compartmentalize it. In this regard, many seem to act as if retirement ­planning were divorced from other monetary behavior. Quite the contrary, retirement should be viewed as a process—one that begins as soon as you engage in earning, saving, spending, borrowing, or investing. Indeed, all these things are inextricably bound. For example, a pre-retirement couple may have a choice between buying a new $55,000 automobile or buying a $35,000 pre-owned automobile and putting the remaining $20,000 in a vehicle of a different sort—a retirement account. Such decisions may have a profound impact on their lifestyles in retirement. In this regard, you can’t actually build a solid approach to retirement without also tackling your approach to all the other fiscal decisions in your life. That is why behavioral finance plays such a key role in retirement planning. If we truly want to plan correctly for retirement, we need to address the mistakes we have made, and may still be making, with regard to how we think about money, how we feel about money, and how we behave with money.