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The 2024 Kenneth Black Jr. Leadership Award Winner Is Mike McGlothlin

NAIFA Advisor Today

Previously, he served terms on the FSP National Board of Directors from 2011 through 2016. He is the author of several books, including Free Throws for Financial Professionals: Winning Principles for Unlocking Business Success, Above the Clouds: Winning Strategies from 30,000 Feet, and The New Rules of Retirement Planning.

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From Unprofitable To $115M AUM: Reinventing A 2nd Generation Advisory Business By Finding The Right Niche

Nerd's Eye View

But as market trends changed (with the performance of this asset class falling behind large-cap stocks during the 2010s) and clients entered retirement (often consolidating their investment management with 1 advisor), Eliot Rose started losing clients, eventually becoming unprofitable in 2016, the year Jason became president of the firm.

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The “Art” of Market Timing

The Big Picture

When you get it wrong, it crushes your retirement plans. My own track record at making big calls is pretty damned good, but none of our clients wants me slinging around their retirement monies based on my gut instinct. The less it matters, the easier it is to be bold and outside of the mainstream.4

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Five Things to do During a Stock Market Correction

The Chicago Financial Planner

As Aaron Rodgers told the fans in Green Bay after the Packers bad start in 2016, relax. Making moves in reaction to a stock market correction (official or otherwise) is rarely a good idea. At the very least wait until the dust settles. They went on to win their division before losing in the NFC title game. Review your mutual fund holdings.

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The Super Bowl and Your Investments

The Chicago Financial Planner

Quoted in a Wall Street Journal article before the 2016 game, respected Wall Street analyst Robert Stoval said, “There is no intellectual backing for this sort of thing, except that it works.”. Related Posts: Five Things to do During a Stock Market Correction Is a $100,000 Per Year Retirement Doable? Photo credit: Flickr.

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Old School Alts, Represent!

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Then from about 2013 to 2016, gold struggled and so too did PRPFX. The ten year numbers are awful for PRPFX because gold went down for about 4 years from 2013-2016. Here's how it did back to 2016. During the GFC and a little beyond, gold did very well and PRPFX outperformed by a mile.

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History of the Individual Retirement Arrangement (IRA history)

Getting Your Financial Ducks In A Row

Two primary goals of the IRA were to provide a tax-advantaged retirement plan to employees of businesses that were unable to provide a pension plan; in addition, to provide a vehicle for preserving tax-deferred status of qualified plan assets at employment termination (rollovers).