Retire Early has yet to review a book that gets essentially
everything right on the subject of early retirement, but Gillette Edmunds', How
To Retire Early and Live Well comes very close. This is a very personal book by
a former tax attorney and journalist who retired in 1981 at age 29. He details
what he has learned about "living off his investments" and provides
some personal examples of how to ride out the ups and downs of the market. All
in all How To Retire Early and Live Well is an excellent book and offers some
very thought provoking ideas on the merits of diversification. It's one of the
few volumes that merit 5 Stars from Retire Early's reviewers.
In 1981, at the age of 29 the author of HOW TO RETIRE EARLY AND
LIVE WELL WITH LESS THAN A MILLION DOLLARS began living off his investments of
just several hundred thousand dollars. In the intervening years, Gillette
Edmunds has made more than $5 million in investment profits. Edmunds was not an
investment advisor or a commissioned mutual funds sales representative: he was a
financial journalist and an individual investor.
