"A fast-shuffling page-turner." Nicholas Shakespeare Ex-SAS officer Tom Knight is now a 73-year-old private detective in a seaside town, with a bad leg, a taste for good weed and a morbid fear of growing old. He's also fallen in love with Fran, a sprightly 52-year-old carer at a retirement home. The bad news is that she's dumped him for lying about his age. So when she's framed for the murder of three old ladies at the home he resolves to win her back by proving her innocence. His quest takes him behind the town's veil of respectability... He even faces up to his fear of old age and dementia, by going undercover at the care home where the murders happened. But will it be enough to win back the lady of his dreams? Proving that you're just as young as you feel, the Tom Knight mysteries combine delicious comedy with a precision-engineered plot. What readers are saying: "A hilarious story!" "Great entertainment full of suspense and twists and turns." "He's a wonderful cook, smokes a joint every once in a while, and hopes to get 'the girl' by investigating a murder... there's no question about it, Tom Knight is hero material!" "Charles Hodges, please keep writing!" "A great book, captivating and witty at the same time!" "Filled with charm and wit." "I was delighted by the loveable, eccentric main character and the well-thought out plot." "This is the first book in the Tom Knight series and I'm already looking forward to reading more."

Die Alterssicherung von Frauen war und ist ein zentrales Thema vieler Reformdiskussionen. "Eigenstandige Alterssicherung oder abgeleitete Sicherung (Hinterbliebenenrente)" sowie "Berucksichtigung von Kindern in der Alterssicherung" gehoeren seit langem zu den Kernthemen. Sie spielen im Rahmen der aktuell geplanten Rentenreform, aber auch bei der zukunftigen Weiterentwicklung des Alterssicherungssystems eine wichtige Rolle. In diesem Band diskutieren Wissenschaftler und Praktiker die grundsatzlichen und aktuellen Fragen der Alterssicherung von Frauen. Zentrale Themen sind die AEnderungen in den Lebensverlaufen und Erwerbsbiographien, veranderte Familien- und Haushaltsstrukturen, sich andernde Bedingungen in der Arbeitswelt und speziell auch auf den Arbeitsmarkten und die sich wandelnden gesellschaftlichen und politischen Normvorstellungen.

Retirement planning is difficult enough without having to contend with misinformation. Unfortunately, much of the advice that is dispensed is either unsubstantiated or betrays a strong vested interest. In The Essential Retirement Guide, Frederick Vettese analyses the most fundamental questions of retirement planning and offers some startling insights. The book finds, for example that: * Saving 10 percent a year is not a bad rule of thumb if you could follow it, but there will be times when you cannot do so and it might not even be advisable to try. * Most people never spend more than 50 percent of their gross income on themselves before retirement; hence their retirement income target is usually much less than 70 percent. * Interest rates will almost certainly stay low for the next 20 years, which will affect how much you need to save. * Even in this low-interest environment, you can withdraw 5 percent or more of your retirement savings each year in retirement without running out of money. * Your spending in retirement will almost certainly decline at a certain age so you may not need to save quite as much as you think. * As people reach the later stages of retirement, they become less capable of managing their finances, even though they grow more confident of their ability to do so! Plan for this before it is too late. * Annuities have become very expensive, but they still make sense for a host of reasons. In addition, The Essential Retirement Guide shows how you can estimate your own lifespan and helps you to understand the financial implications of long-term care. Most importantly, it reveals how you can calculate your personal wealth target - the amount of money you will need by the time you retire to live comfortably. The author uses his actuarial expertise to substantiate his findings but does so in a jargon-free way.