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Legal Marriage: A LGBTQ Investor game-changer!

How has last year’s marriage equality law passed by the Supreme Court affected the hundreds of benefits here-to-fore only afforded to straight married couples? I have compiled four published articles that address some of these benefits. I have one in depth response to one of the articles whose author is an LGBTQ adviser who also wants to be your “friend” of the community, only because he is gay. The primary competency you need to look for when hiring your LGBTQ adviser is to make sure he or she is a genuine fiduciary.

Investing Basics, Final Part 4

Part 4: Putting It All Together In Part I we discussed what to ignore in the enormous and complex financial industry and what to focus on–stocks and bonds. The proverbial “needle” in the “needle in the haystack” is found easily. Knowledge of ignoring the financial world ‘s “haystack” is the trick to finding the needle. …

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Rebalancing Our Retirement Portfolio and Our 40-Year Relationship

  From Fighting Over Money Issues: To Working Together: We think we have something valuable to say about couple disagreements as we celebrate our 40th anniversary this year. We believe our experience with financial decisions will encourage and inspire all couples, whether lesbian, gay or straight, to see how we worked together despite some inherent money-related …

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Female investors outperformed males for 2014!

Both Sexes Could Learn from Each Other About the Investing Process Dan and I love reports that show the gradual and incremental commitment to wealth building produces higher returns than the get rich, competitive, short-term “success.” For now, this report, once again, shows that thinking long term is best displayed by female investors. Males trade …

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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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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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Chapter 10: Our Committee Recommends a new TPA, a Genuine Fiduciary.

ATTENTION Readers: This chapter is an early version of my new book just released, March, 2015. For an update of all the Chapters including this Chapter 10, go to the home page and scroll down. On the right are directions to get the full story in 11 Chapters and 17 appendices, resources, letters, books, podcasts …

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Psychology Today Magazine Published a Wonderful Personal Finance Article!

I was a psych major, and I was surprised that a financial related article was published in their popular magazine, Psychology Today. It was so good I wrote the following response. But first read their article: Click here. We live in Palm Springs and we see widows that are left with a bundle of money and …

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Why Market Timing is Bad for our Financial Health. It’s cunning, baffling, powerful and WRONG!

I have listened to Index Fund Adviser’s podcast for years and offer excellent financial information on their website too. I wanted to show you their latest video podcast. Wow! It’s great for beginning and seasoned investors. Consider this, if your grandfather invested $1000 for 70 years from 1942 and ending in 2011 with three different …

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“Genuine Financial Transparency Demonstrated” Part 1

Part 1 (of 10) Genuine Financial Transparency Demonstrated 2006-2011 Alexander the Great untied the Gordian Knot with his sword. Previous attempts to solve the impossible entanglement were unsuccessful by conventional thinking. Whoever unraveled the maze would become King of ancient Phrygia. Zeus was so pleased with Alexander’s shrewdness he granted royal status and a lifetime of …

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