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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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Personal finance links: slowing down

Abnormal Returns

Podcasts Peter Lazaroff on what constitutes 'evidence-based investing.' humbledollar.com) Tony Isola, "Withdrawal rates are more than numbers on a spreadsheet." awealthofcommonsense.com) The math on downsizing your house isn't working as well these days. open.spotify.com) Peter Dunn on understanding your relationship with money.

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10 Friday AM Reads

The Big Picture

Here’s your investing playbook. Wall Street Journal ) • From Math Camp to Handcuffs: FTX’s Downfall Was an Arc of Brotherhood and Betrayal : Gary Wang and Sam Bankman-Fried are offering dueling accounts of the FTX fiasco and of who’s ultimately to blame. Here’s your investing playbook. They have each other’s phone numbers.

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Making It Work Because You Have To

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Part of the equation is that he is convinced that tax rates have to go up to pay for out debt and so converting to a Roth now before tax rates do go up will result in people ending up with more after tax dollars versus just going the RMD route at what is now 73 on its way to 75. I have no goal, no number in the normal context.

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Weekly Market Insights – January 8, 2024

Cornerstone Financial Advisory

Investing involves risks, and investment decisions should be based on your own goals, time horizon, and tolerance for risk. The return and principal value of investments will fluctuate as market conditions change. When sold, investments may be worth more or less than their original cost. What is it?

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55 And No Savings Is Not Doomed

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

We've gone over the math before that starting as late as 55 can catch a lot of the way up if they can afford to save a very high percentage of their income. Smart Asset calculates $70,000 gross income working out to $57,187 after tax. Obviously you can discount those numbers if you expect lower returns going forward.

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Did A Liquid Alternative Just Blow up?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

My process here for the notional values was that the multiplier is 100 so a put struck at 4100 would hedge $410,000 worth of stock, so then I just multiplied the dollar amount by the number of puts. 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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