Secure Your Future Retirement By Investing In The Present

July 22, 2008 - PRLog -- (ALISO VIEJO, CA)—In an industry where most financial planners overly commit to the stock market, James Burns, author of The 3 Secret Pillars of Wealth: How to Crack Your Wealth Code Using the Tools of the Self-made Billionaires, has another method in mind.

Mr. Burns’ extended financial and military experience has made him wary of advising clients to deploy all of their assets to achieve an objective in one direction. Instead, he suggests a three-pronged approach to help assure a profitable and secure retirement.  

“With real estate and the stock market so unpredictable and volatile, investors need a new tactical approach,” says Mr. Burns. “They need a balance of a combination of forces.”

The three prongs of the proposed approach—which Burns refers to as “pillars”—are leverage, arbitrage and cash flow:

• Leverage, the first pillar, means borrowing money against an investment or asset that you either own now or will purchase (such as a home, artwork, etc.).
• Arbitrage, the second pillar, refers to finding investments, such as real estate or stock, that will offer greater returns along with the money you borrowed through leveraging. The classic example is when the bank takes your money and lends it for eighteen percent and gives you five percent for its use.
• Cash flow, the third pillar, is the steady income generated from the investment that you secured through the leverage and arbitrage pillars—such as rent from tenants in an apartment complex that you bought.

“My tactic is certainly timely as we are heading into the biggest reduction of pension plans and the highest costs for Medicaid and Medicare over the last decade,” says Mr. Burns. “People need to understand unconventional wealth strategies and why the old ideas don’t work any longer.”

The 3 Secret Pillars of Wealth is most beneficial to those between the ages of thirty and fifty-five who are concerned about being on the right track for retirement, comfort and security.

“I’m not into this ‘get rich quick’ stuff,” says Mr. Burns. “I’m very positive about the future but I take a cautious approach when it comes to planning. The old way of relying on your company and the government to provide for you in retirement has vanished.”

An attorney and a former member of the United States Marine Corps Force Recon, James Burns has two degrees in law and one in taxation and international tax. He has over seventeen years of combined financial, real estate and legal experience.  

For more information, contact the author directly at Jambur64@cox.net.

White Diamond Press and author James Burns chose Arbor Books, Inc. (www.ArborBooks.com) to design and promote The 3 Secret Pillars of Wealth: How to Crack Your Wealth Code Using the Tools of the Self-made Billionaires. Arbor Books is an internationally renowned, full-service book design, ghostwriting and marketing firm.  

(The 3 Secret Pillars of Wealth: How to Crack Your Wealth Code Using the Tools of the Self-made Billionaires by James Burns; ISBN: 0-9801620-0-9; $19.95; 128 pages; 5½” x 8½”; softcover; WHITE DIAMOND PRESS)