Fasten Your Financial Seatbelt: What Surviving an Airline Crash Taught Me About Retirement Planning - Tapa dura

The author takes what he learned in an airplane crash and applies it to how we behave under stress and mistakes people make with their money, combining it together in this unique look at how we can lose what we have when we forget to fasten our financial seatbelts.

Thomas C. Scott was a 23-year-old crew member on Lufthansa Flight 540 when it crashed on takeoff in Nairobi, Kenya on November 20, 1974. In the midst of the burning wreckage he kept his head and helped a dozen people barely escape with their lives from the first-ever fatal wreck of a Boeing 747. Today, Tom is a seasoned financial planner and Forbes guest columnist who has rescued hundreds of people from economic catastrophe. He is founder and CEO of Scott Wealth Management Group, Inc. in Orange County, California, where he has been a financial planning professional since 1983. His practice is affiliated with LPL Financial, one of the nation’s largest independent brokerage firms, where he is a member of LPL’s Chairman’s Council, an honor reserved for those advisers ranked in the most successful top two percent of nearly 12,000 financial advisors. He lives in Irvine, California, and is the father of two grown daughters.