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Retirement Planning

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Hopefully, everyone will have the opportunity to retire after a fulfilling career. However, a comfortable retirement requires building a solid financial foundation to support that retirement. Starting with an estimate of the income required to support your ideal retirement and its duration, a plan to accumulate the required wealth and its distribution is necessary. This chapter discusses basic retirement financial principles.

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Mattia, L.H., Wolford, R.W. (2023). Retirement Planning. In: Olympia, R.P., Werley, E.B., Lubin, J.S., Yoon-Flannery, K. (eds) An Emergency Physician’s Path. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47873-4_101

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