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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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Rethinking What Is Safe

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Meb Faber posted a short white paper titled What Is The Safest Investment Asset ? He devised what he calls the Global Asset Allocation (GAA) which takes in equities, fixed income, commodities, REITs and a couple of others, built out as follows. The white paper plays with the following mixes of GAA and T-bills.

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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. These types of retirement accounts can be tax-deferred or have tax-free growth characteristics. IRAs do not allow this.

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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’ve partnered with the experts at The Retirement Learning Center to update advisors on how the retirement plan landscape has been altered by the 2020 economic crisis. Save your spot today! So I’ll let John take it away from here.

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Indexed Annuities: The New Retirement Pensions?

Tucker Advisors

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. In other words, the large majority of us can no longer rely on our employers to fund our retirement plans. We are on our own. Sources: 1.

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Investment Perspectives - The Great Debate

Brown Advisory

Generally, index fund fees are low because management costs are minimal (investment judgment is not required to track an index) and administrative expenses are typically spread over a large asset base. are there better or worse moments in time to enact an indexing strategy) and choice of asset class (i.e.,

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Investment Perspectives - The Great Debate

Brown Advisory

Generally, index fund fees are low because management costs are minimal (investment judgment is not required to track an index) and administrative expenses are typically spread over a large asset base. are there better or worse moments in time to enact an indexing strategy) and choice of asset class (i.e., Less Efficient Asset Classes.