Money Moves in Your 40s: Retire Rich, Protect Your Family, and Win the Financial Second Half (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798195345235)

You're in your 40s. You can see the retirement finish line clearly enough to feel its proximity, and you're old enough to understand what's at stake. Somewhere in the back of your mind, a well-informed voice keeps telling you that every year you spend not getting more serious about this is a year you'll eventually wish you had back.
That voice is mathematically correct. This book starts there.

Money Moves in Your 40s is not a gentle introduction to budgeting or a general survey of personal finance. It is the specific math, the specific tools, and the specific decisions that produce a materially different retirement when acted on in your 40s rather than deferred to your 50s. No pep talks. No platitudes. No advice that belongs in a different decade.
Every chapter answers one question: is this decision uniquely urgent, uniquely consequential, or uniquely different right now? If the answer wasn't yes, it didn't make the book.

Here is what you will walk away knowing:

• The 90-minute financial audit that replaces vague retirement anxiety with three precise, actionable numbers - your net worth, your real savings rate, and your exact retirement gap
• Why a single tax decision in your 40s can outperform a meaningful raise - and exactly how to execute Roth conversions, the backdoor Roth IRA, and the HSA triple-tax strategy
• The catch-up contribution window that adds over $200,000 to your portfolio for using a checkbox - and how to plan for it before you reach it
• A complete framework for the sandwich generation: how to support children and aging parents without reducing your retirement contribution by a single dollar
• How to calculate your actual retirement number, stress-test it against lower returns and contribution gaps, and know exactly what your plan can absorb
• The Social Security claiming strategy that adds $150,000 or more in lifetime income for a married couple - and the one mistake that permanently eliminates it
• The six-month Medigap enrollment window that opens once at age 65 and never reopens - and why the planning for it belongs in your 40s, not your 60s
• The one-page written financial plan and annual 60-minute review habit that convert everything above into consistent, compounding action

Whether you are on track and want to stay there, modestly behind and ready to close the gap, or significantly behind and looking for the honest path forward - this book meets you where you stand and shows you exactly what the next move is.

Your 40s are the last decade where the math of compounding works powerfully enough to produce a genuinely different retirement. The window is open. The decisions are yours. The most consequential financial choices of your life are available right now.


Author: Marcus Garrison
ISBN-13: 9798195345235
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 05/03/2026
Pages: 268
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d