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Market Commentary: Bull Keeps Going, 15 Years Since Global Financial Crisis

Carson Wealth

Retirement funds had been demolished and there was very little hope. Near bear markets in 2011 and 2018, a 100-year pandemic bear market in 2020 and then another bear market in 2022 made it anything but an easy 15 years. Yet, longer-term investors have once again been rewarded for sticking to their investment plans.

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2017 Year-End Planning Letter

Brown Advisory

In 2018, the annual exclusion is set to rise to $15,000 per individual and the estate tax exemption to $5.6 Parents and grandparents of teenagers can help to fund retirement accounts for long-term growth and education. Continue annual gifting plans through annual exclusions, tuitions or medical expenses. million per couple).

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Does being a fiduciary financial advisor REALLY matter – or is it “meh?”

Sara Grillo

Helping parents send their kids to college, care for an aging parent and retire with financial independence are literally what gets him up every day. She was awarded a JD in September 2018 and passed the California Bar Exam in February 2019. Scott has been serving families for 29 years in the financial services space. Lee holds a Ph.D.

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Advice-only financial planners are stealing the show!

Sara Grillo

He was working at an RIA firm and kept getting these calls from people that went something like this: “I have interviewed 10 fee-only financial advisors, and nobody wants to provide financial planning to me without an expectation to manage my money. I don’t know when to retire or claim Social Security. Do I have enough to retire?

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Transcript: Mike Green, Simplify Asset Management

The Big Picture

If you recall, back in 2018, vol Mageddon, he was on the right side of that trade, made hundreds of millions of dollars for his firm in identifying a structural problem that was about to blow up. But before I leave the teal macro, I gotta ask you about the famous Vage trade in 2018. Tell us a little bit about that trade.

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Should the CFP Board police financial advisor “bad apples”? The debate continues! (Part Two)

Sara Grillo

The idea centered on the concepts of simplicity, keeping total investment costs and taxes extremely low and developing a custom investment plan for each client using low-cost asset class and index funds. Grillo: Alright, so JR Do you wanna go over your slides, if I just share them… 0:48:59.3 About John “JR” Robinson.

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Should you cancel your CFP designation?

Sara Grillo

He says that in the CFP Board’s standard of conduct it states unambiguously that all CFP designation holders must voluntarily disclose all prior misconduct, any disclosures that may be on their FINRA or SEC IAPD records – and, as revealed in the 2018 Wall Street Journal expose , nobody did it (Zweig, Fuller). 2018, July 24).

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