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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (June 22-23)

Nerd's Eye View

Also in industry news this week: A recent survey indicates that financial advisors continue to move towards ETFs and away from mutual funds when it comes to client portfolio recommendations, though a majority of advisors continue to see a role for active management in the investment management process A former employee has filed a lawsuit alleging (..)

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What To Do When The Bitcoin Math Doesn't Math

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

That number is from a Bankrate article I found on a Google search. First, is the math right based on my numbers? They are not intended to constitute legal, tax, securities or investment advice or a recommended course of action in any given situation. million Bitcoin are lost forever due to lost hardware or passwords.

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Did Barron's Just Undercut Every Article It Has Ever Published?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

In the case of real estate a 2.29% weighting and for "private equity" companies it's about 17 basis points (looked at XLF holdings and then did a little math), that's just not going to move the needle. They are not intended to constitute legal, tax, securities or investment advice or a recommended course of action in any given situation.

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I Need More Leverage

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

There was an article on LinkedIn (via Abnormal Returns) by Victor Haghani that dug into the math working against leveraged ETFs. They are not intended to constitute legal, tax, securities or investment advice or a recommended course of action in any given situation.

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Retirement Algebra, Solving For U

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

The Wall Street Journal had an article about the fear common to retirees about outliving their money. If that money is in an IRA, that is going to change your math considerably due to having to withdraw all of that inherited IRA within 10 years. We've looked at this quite a few times. What's the risk to Social Security income?

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Join The Bond Market Resistance!

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Jason Zweig wrote an article titled How Not to Invest in the Bond Market. The article devoted a good amount of space to bond market math, focusing on the pain of owning the iShares 20+ Year Treasury ETF (TLT) and bond funds in general. The title of course piqued my interest. This quote from Jason surprised me.

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Transcript: Jonathan Clements

The Big Picture

Jonathan Clements : Yeah, when I was at Forbes after this initial spell as a fact checker, I was given the mutual funds beat and the core article as the mutual funds reporter for Forbes Magazine. So we are talking about things in what I consider personal finance, home ownership, social security, tax management, estate planning and so on.

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