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Los Angeles Teachers & Employees Rate their Recent 403b/457b Investment Workshop. They Loved It!

Retirement Planning Savings Plans All Day Investment Workshop Results LAUSD/UTLA 403b/457b Investing Workshop Saturday, November 15, 2014 Here were the workshops presented: Rick Rodgers Keynote and Lunch time talk Art Wexler 457b Presentation Teacher Crystal Mendez’s Story, how she saved $160,000 by age 33. Retired Teachers Steve Schullo/Dan Robertson (Financial Journey with 403b/457b plans). What …

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Veterans Day Deals!

Tuesday, November 11th is Veterans Day Please Remember the Veteran in Your Life. Discounts and Freebies   Reported by Heather Sweeney There are literally hundreds of discounts available all over the country. • 2014 Veterans Day Restaurant Offerings • 2014 Veterans Day Travel & Recreation Discounts • 2014 Veterans Day Retailer Offerings • 2014 Veterans …

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Retired teacher worries about running out of money & other tidbits

A former teacher worries about running out of money in retirement. Don’t we all? Look for this article in the Business Section of the LA Times this Sunday, September 28: Click here. Other tidbits in the investment world Some California Teachers wonder about Pension2 changes: If you are investing in Pension2, you have gotten a …

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Money Roundup: Portfolio Evaluation, CA couple saved 1.5M under 40 w/ 2 kids! & other tid bits.

Portfolio Evaluation Anybody? Listen to my friend Ron DeLegge of the Index Investing Show evaluate a listener’s portfolio. Ron just did his weekly Portfolio Report Card on a $95,0000 retirement portfolio for Charles – a farmer, in Sweetwater, OK.  If you want your portfolio evaluated, send your request to Ron and he will do it …

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Which retirement plan records the most customer complaints?

Question: Why would anybody use a retirement plan that generates the most customer complaints according to a federal watch dog, FINRA? Answer: Complaints or not, my profession, prek-12 teachers, sign up with tax shelter annuities by the tens of thousands because the they don’t know of the high costs, that annuities are inappropriate retirement plans …

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Our Portfolio Mid-Year 2014 Evaluation and Performance

Hi, We have not provided an update to our portfolio since we published our book 1.5 years ago. In the last two years, our portfolio has performed so well, we finished remodeling our house with new AC and a master bath and our portfolio has remained the same! Our purpose now is to show how …

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John Bogle Says….

The future of the financial system will be smaller, leaner, low-cost, and less complex (thank goodness!).  Currently, the vast majority of retirement plans (403b, 401k, 457b*) are big, fat, high-cost and way too complex. Retirement planning should be about as difficult to discover and learn as our first day on the job. For teachers it …

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New Proposed 403b/457b Book for Educators

Hi READERS, Notice to readers. These chapters are an early version of my new book without the 17 appendices, glossary, financial pod casts and other information in the 2nd half of the book. For the finished and completed published book, go to the home page and obtain the free pdf. DO NOT GO TO AMAZON! …

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Free ebook, Calculators and another reference to connect with fee-only financial advisers

Stock Market Reaching New Highs! Isn’t the stock market going crazy! Our portfolio has made up about a 30% of the cost of purchasing our new Tesla electric car since we bought it two months ago. That’s how wealth building works with investments that grow with the economy (annuities don’t). If the market continues to …

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Introduction to a new proposed Book

Subtitle: Educators Challenged Tax-sheltered Annuities and WIN! Notice to readers. These chapters are an early version of this book without the 17 appendices, glossary, financial pod casts and other information in the 2nd half of the book. For the finished and completed published book, go to the home page and obtain the free pdf, click …

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