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Saturday links: years of effort

Abnormal Returns

theatlantic.com) Retirement communities are going solar. theatlantic.com) Who oversees the use of AI in medicine? (semafor.com) Costs are rising for offshore wind power projects. ft.com) Solar China is building a lot of solar, but also a lot of new coal plants. nytimes.com) How to stop wasting cheap (solar) energy.

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50th Anniversary Of The CFP Marks: The Journey, Current State Of CFP Board, And Growing The Financial Planning Profession

Nerd's Eye View

In the mid-20th century, the first phone call for a person who needed guidance on saving or planning for retirement was likely to be to a stockbroker or a mutual fund or insurance salesperson.

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Retirement Reading Roundup

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Barron's has a bunch of articles on retirement in this week's issues. First is some harsh medicine that " Older Workers Are Fooling Themselves When It Comes to Work,Money, and Caregiving." The article contends that people have talked themselves into "wanting" to work longer because of how low retirement balances are.

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At The Money: Behavior Beats Intelligence

The Big Picture

I think one analogy here would be think about health and medicine. But if you are saying I’m going to retire in 20 years, even though that’s a long term time horizon, basically what you’re saying is I need the market to be in my favor in the year 2044. I’m going to retire in March of 2020.

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Motel 6 or Four Seasons? Preparing, Not Panicking, for Retirement

Investing Caffeine

These are all interesting and important questions, but preparation for retirement is much more important than panicking over issues you have no control over. For many investors, however, the more important questions to ask and answer relate to your retirement strategy. Risk Tolerance: What is your asset allocation?

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Age Wave’s Ken Dychtwald on Radical Curiosity and How Boomers are Reshaping Retirement

Steve Sanduski

So it’s no surprise that they’re rewriting the rules on retirement too by working longer, transitioning through multiple careers, and placing as much importance on purpose as they do on leisure. How aging boomers are creating new retirement role models that could shape how future generations view work and aging.

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#FA Success Ep 375: Running 20+ Client Meetings Per Week By Systematizing The Meeting Prep And Follow-Up Process, With Rob Schultz

Nerd's Eye View

We also talk about Rob's journey from getting an undergrad in Kinesiology and starting med school to moving into accounting and then ultimately becoming a financial planner through the program at UCLA (because financial planning was the perfect blend of helping people the way he wanted to in medicine, and working with numbers the way he did in accounting), (..)

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