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Dystopian Predictions (That Never Come True)

Inside Information

He published a number of white papers around the turn of the century that predicted a dystopian professional landscape composed of a small handful of giant RIAs and a few smaller firms scurrying under their feet, looking for table scraps. Mark Hurley seems to be addicted to predicting the future.

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Rethinking What Is Safe

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Meb Faber posted a short white paper titled What Is The Safest Investment Asset ? The white paper plays with the following mixes of GAA and T-bills. BTAL, ASFYX and STPZ are personal and client holdings. This will be fun. The table assumes 2.94% annualized inflation to yield the following real returns.

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What is the Difference Between a 401k and an IRA?

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

A 401(k) is a qualified retirement plan that is sponsored by an employer. It allows employees to deduct a portion of their salary and put it into an account that is invested for their retirement. This can be done through many channels but we have chosen to use TD Ameritrade /Schwab as the custodian for our clients’ IRA accounts.

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How To Grow Your Retirement Business In The 2020 Economic Crisis (Webinar)

Indigo Marketing Agency

How To Grow Your Retirement Plan Business In The 2020 Economic Crisis. We’ve partnered with the experts at The Retirement Learning Center to update advisors on how the retirement plan landscape has been altered by the 2020 economic crisis. Save your spot today! So I’ll let John take it away from here.

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Old Concept With New-ish Name

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

According to this white paper from ReSolve and Newfound, it does. Back to the white paper linked above from ReSolve and Newfound who built a return stack portfolio that is far more sophisticated than my examples. Does it do what it's supposed to?

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15 Financial Advisor Website Calculators

Midstream Marketing

As a financial advisor or other investment professional, you’re no doubt already well aware that the “math” side of the conversation is a large part of what your clients need help with every day. Retirement Planning. Retirement planning is a very precise process, and one that is unique to the individual.

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Indexed Annuities: The New Retirement Pensions?

Tucker Advisors

With many of the plans still in existence, employers have placed a freeze on funding them, which is often the beginning of the process to eliminate the plans altogether. In other words, the large majority of us can no longer rely on our employers to fund our retirement plans. We are on our own. Sources: 1.