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How Many Bear Markets Have You Lived Through?

The Big Picture

Meaning, you do not get the 8-10% long-term gains without living through a significant number of market events, ranging from cyclical drawdowns to longer secular bear markets, and full-on crashes. By then, we began to have meaningful assets in our savings/retirement accounts and the bear markets had a bigger economic impact on those finances.

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10 Tuesday AM Reads

The Big Picture

Schroders ) • The Exact Age When You Make Your Best Financial Decisions There’s a magic number for when your expertise and cognitive powers align. If you’re depending on income to fund your retirement, 5% rates are a blessing. 2000-2003 Dotcom implosion 6. Savings rates have rocketed and UK savers can earn over 5% on deposits.

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Market Commentary: The Summer Rally Continues Amid Strong Job Gains

Carson Wealth

Even more impressive is the past four times this happened (1997, 2003, 2009, and 2020) all saw at least double-digit returns. We didn’t even see significant revisions to March and April payroll numbers, and the 3-month average now sits at 249,000. MAY”be we have a positive signal from the strong May. Did you see what I did there?

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Satyam Scam – The Story of India’s Biggest Corporate Fraud!

Trade Brains

The firm was worth $1billion in 2003. Mr Raju used his personal computer to create a number of bank statements in order to inflate the balance sheet with cash that simply did not exist. The foundation of the metro plans was laid in the year 2003. Satyam was now seen as the prime example of an Indian Success story.

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Don't get an "F" on FBAR

Brown Advisory

In 2014, an 87-year-old, retired specialty-glass importer faced more than $2 million in penalties for failing to disclose a $7 million Swiss account which dated back to the 1960s. military banking facilities; certain bank-to-bank settlements; accounts owned by certain retirement plans. In 2022, a professor with dual U.S.

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Eric Brotman on Building a Collaborative Culture, Targeting Business Development Channels, Sustaining Scale, and Learning to Grow by Letting Go

Steve Sanduski

Eric began his financial planning practice in Baltimore in 1994, and founded Brotman Financial Group in 2003, which later became BFG Financial Advisors. Eric is also the author of Don’t Retire… Graduate!: Building a Path to Financial Freedom and Retirement at Any Age. Writing books does not make you money.

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Avoiding Overly Sophisticated Portfolios

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Going from 2003, forward which strips out the internet bubble and recovery, PRPFX still lagged by 60 basis points annually and surprisingly, had a higher standard deviation. For the last ten years, 60/40 has blown away PRPFX and the standard deviation numbers for PRPFX in that time were only so so. This period is noteworthy.