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Rewirement: Rewiring The Way You Think About Retirement!
Common misconceptions, assumptions, and behavioral biases often prevent people from building robust and flexible retirement plans—and this is an enormous problem. If you don’t know your decisions are based on false assumptions, how can you avoid making serious mistakes?
Rewirement: Rewiring the Way You Think about Retirement! offers a solution. Under the expert guidance of Jamie P. Hopkins, Esq., CFP®, RICP®, you’ll learn to identify problems that might sabotage your savings while learning how to build and implement the retirement plan you need.
Considered one of the top forty financial services professionals under the age of forty by InvestmentNews, Hopkins provides an accessible and actionable ten-step process for building your retirement income plan. You’ll discover the basics of retirement planning, how to tap into home equity, and how best to use employer-sponsored plans. At the same time, you’ll learn how to prepare for long-term care while protecting yourself against market risks.
Essential reading for anyone who needs to make quality financial decisions, Rewirement lays out the process needed to develop a retirement income plan in easily understood steps. Do you need to rewire your retirement thinking? Would you know if you did?
Rewirement: Rewiring the Way You Think about Retirement! offers a solution. Under the expert guidance of Jamie P. Hopkins, Esq., CFP®, RICP®, you’ll learn to identify problems that might sabotage your savings while learning how to build and implement the retirement plan you need.
Considered one of the top forty financial services professionals under the age of forty by InvestmentNews, Hopkins provides an accessible and actionable ten-step process for building your retirement income plan. You’ll discover the basics of retirement planning, how to tap into home equity, and how best to use employer-sponsored plans. At the same time, you’ll learn how to prepare for long-term care while protecting yourself against market risks.
Essential reading for anyone who needs to make quality financial decisions, Rewirement lays out the process needed to develop a retirement income plan in easily understood steps. Do you need to rewire your retirement thinking? Would you know if you did?
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172 pages, Paperback
First published March 18, 2018
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About the author
Jamie P. Hopkins
8 books5 followersJAMIE P. HOPKINS, ESQ., MBA, LLM, CLU®, RICP® is an associate professor of taxation at The American College in the Retirement Income program, and he is the associate director of the New York Life Center for Retirement Income. He also holds the Larry R. Pike Chair in Insurance and Investments at The American College. As a professor at the College, he teaches courses in retirement, estate planning and life insurance. Through his role at The American College, he has educated thousands of financial service professionals and continues to move the needle for retirement income planning.
Professor Hopkins is considered one of the leading retirement planning experts in the United States and has been selected by InvestmentNews as one of the top 40 financial service professionals under the age of 40 in 2015. Professor Hopkins has also been published in numerous periodicals, including Villanova Law Review, Nebraska Law Review and Hastings Journal of Science and Technology Law, and has authored articles published by the American Bar Association and the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
Professor Hopkins received his B.A. in political science at Davidson College, where he was captain of the Division I Men’s Varsity Swim Team. He then attended Villanova School of Law, where he obtained his J.D. and graduated with honors. Later he received his MBA from Villanova University Business School. Professor Hopkins also holds his LLM from Temple University and two financial planning designations, the CLU® and RICP®.
Professor Hopkins is considered one of the leading retirement planning experts in the United States and has been selected by InvestmentNews as one of the top 40 financial service professionals under the age of 40 in 2015. Professor Hopkins has also been published in numerous periodicals, including Villanova Law Review, Nebraska Law Review and Hastings Journal of Science and Technology Law, and has authored articles published by the American Bar Association and the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
Professor Hopkins received his B.A. in political science at Davidson College, where he was captain of the Division I Men’s Varsity Swim Team. He then attended Villanova School of Law, where he obtained his J.D. and graduated with honors. Later he received his MBA from Villanova University Business School. Professor Hopkins also holds his LLM from Temple University and two financial planning designations, the CLU® and RICP®.
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October 31, 2019
Great advice (if you ignore the Annui)
There are a lot of good advise in this book and I feel like I've got the steps I need to make a plan.
I would have given it 4 or 5 stars except I disagree with his multiple recommendations to look at Annuities and Whole and Universal Life policies. I strongly believe that we should not make investments with insurance companies. They are complex products (as Professor Hopkins admits several times), with hidden fees and lower yields than you can get elsewhere.
If you can ignore those recommendations, there's plenty if great advice here, regardless of how close far you are from retirement.
There are a lot of good advise in this book and I feel like I've got the steps I need to make a plan.
I would have given it 4 or 5 stars except I disagree with his multiple recommendations to look at Annuities and Whole and Universal Life policies. I strongly believe that we should not make investments with insurance companies. They are complex products (as Professor Hopkins admits several times), with hidden fees and lower yields than you can get elsewhere.
If you can ignore those recommendations, there's plenty if great advice here, regardless of how close far you are from retirement.
July 8, 2018
Good overview of retirement issues
The author clearly introduces and explains the challenges of retirement. He introduces and explains various options retirees and pre-retirees should recognize and be prepared to deal with. He does a good job in increasing confidence that middle class Americans will have enough options to live comfortably in retirement. No one book can cover all the issues of retirement. I recommend this book as a good starting that offers advice that can be followed by all readers.
The author clearly introduces and explains the challenges of retirement. He introduces and explains various options retirees and pre-retirees should recognize and be prepared to deal with. He does a good job in increasing confidence that middle class Americans will have enough options to live comfortably in retirement. No one book can cover all the issues of retirement. I recommend this book as a good starting that offers advice that can be followed by all readers.
February 11, 2021
Good overview of retirement planning.
Provides an overview of the issues that need to be addressed in retirement planning. It does not go into great detail about any specific aspect however, so for answers to specific questions more research is needed than this book provides. Not a bad place to start, just be aware of will not answer all retirement questionw.
Provides an overview of the issues that need to be addressed in retirement planning. It does not go into great detail about any specific aspect however, so for answers to specific questions more research is needed than this book provides. Not a bad place to start, just be aware of will not answer all retirement questionw.
May 22, 2021
Probably a decent choice for people just getting started with retirement planning who don’t want to be overwhelmed with complexity and advanced topics. I didn’t get too much out of it and the author is extremely big on reverse mortgages which I found distracting. Chapter 4 was probably the best chapter.
January 15, 2026
A Helpful Addition to Your Retirement Information Library
Jamie Hopkins does a clear and concise job of presenting a lot of useful task items for retirement success. Mostly financial in nature, his advice is presented in a way that is easy to understand for anyone with an average American education.
Jamie Hopkins does a clear and concise job of presenting a lot of useful task items for retirement success. Mostly financial in nature, his advice is presented in a way that is easy to understand for anyone with an average American education.
December 11, 2018
Excellent Retirement Planning
Simple explanation of complex subjects. The author caused me to take a second look at reverse mortgages. Hans Scheil, Author, The Complete Cardinal Guide
Simple explanation of complex subjects. The author caused me to take a second look at reverse mortgages. Hans Scheil, Author, The Complete Cardinal Guide
April 8, 2021
money is numbers and numbers never end. if it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.
-Bob Marley
setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
-Tony Robbins
by failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
-Benjamin Franklin
-Bob Marley
setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
-Tony Robbins
by failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
-Benjamin Franklin
July 15, 2023
Excellent book on retirement financial planning and thinking differently and the power of planning. Love the term “rewirement” on all levels. Highly recommend.
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