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50th Anniversary Of The CFP Marks: The Journey, Current State Of CFP Board, And Growing The Financial Planning Profession

Nerd's Eye View

In the mid-20th century, the first phone call for a person who needed guidance on saving or planning for retirement was likely to be to a stockbroker or a mutual fund or insurance salesperson. So, in the late 1960s, a movement began to organize and promote best practices that would establish financial planning as a true profession.

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How HSAs Can Help With Your Retirement Planning

Fortune Financial

Thinking about the amount of savings needed for a financially secure retirement can be overwhelming when you think about the unknowns. Unknown global markets and volatility could erode retirement accounts. It could cost more than the projected amount if all retirement funds are in a pre-tax account.

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Retirement Reading Roundup

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Barron's has a bunch of articles on retirement in this week's issues. First is some harsh medicine that " Older Workers Are Fooling Themselves When It Comes to Work,Money, and Caregiving." The article contends that people have talked themselves into "wanting" to work longer because of how low retirement balances are.

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Motel 6 or Four Seasons? Preparing, Not Panicking, for Retirement

Investing Caffeine

These are all interesting and important questions, but preparation for retirement is much more important than panicking over issues you have no control over. For many investors, however, the more important questions to ask and answer relate to your retirement strategy. Diversification: How diversified are your investments? .

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Age Wave’s Ken Dychtwald on Radical Curiosity and How Boomers are Reshaping Retirement

Steve Sanduski

So it’s no surprise that they’re rewriting the rules on retirement too by working longer, transitioning through multiple careers, and placing as much importance on purpose as they do on leisure. How aging boomers are creating new retirement role models that could shape how future generations view work and aging.

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#FA Success Ep 375: Running 20+ Client Meetings Per Week By Systematizing The Meeting Prep And Follow-Up Process, With Rob Schultz

Nerd's Eye View

We also talk about Rob's journey from getting an undergrad in Kinesiology and starting med school to moving into accounting and then ultimately becoming a financial planner through the program at UCLA (because financial planning was the perfect blend of helping people the way he wanted to in medicine, and working with numbers the way he did in accounting), (..)

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Sound Strategies for Crafting Your Retirement Investment Portfolio

Fortune Financial

In our planning with clients, we like to employ a “pay yourself first” approach, especially as it relates to retirement planning. This cycle can repeat itself over multiple years, resulting in minimal or no retirement savings. Planning for retirement is a multi-step process with continuous updates and monitoring.