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GMO’s New Asset Management Platform

Advisor Perspectives

When I heard that the investment management firm GMO had created a retirement planning tool to mitigate “sequence of returns” risk I looked forward to learning about it. After setting aside a stumbling block or two in its white papers, I found it to be the best platform for financial advisors I have ever seen.

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Indexed Annuities: The New Retirement Pensions?

Tucker Advisors

Indexed Annuities: The New Retirement Pensions? Defined-benefit plans. 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. For one, it can be a better instrument for growing retirement savings.

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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. The short answer is that they are tax-advantageous vehicles that can help you get to your retirement goals. ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

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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’ll review: – How has the retirement landscape been affected by COVID-19? – How can advisors grow their retirement business in the current crisis? I’m super excited to welcome the team at Retirement Learning Center.

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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. This white paper is an echo of Hurley’s original forecasts. Which means?

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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. This will be fun. The table assumes 2.94% annualized inflation to yield the following real returns.

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15 Financial Advisor Website Calculators

Midstream Marketing

This is true, but keep in mind that there are also MANY sales funnels out there – and many other forms of deliverables like white papers and books, too. Income annuities are a great way to provide people with the confidence they need to know that they will have a guaranteed amount of income during their retirement years.