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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Chapter 10: Our Committee Recommends a new TPA, a Genuine Fiduciary. Read More »
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 …
Psychology Today Magazine Published a Wonderful Personal Finance Article! Read More »
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 …
PART 5 (out of 10) Most Expensive Funds The remaining eight funds were too expensive, in my opinion. All five Lifecylce T. Row Price funds, Turner Mid-Cap Growth, Janus Mid-Cap Value and Davis NY Venture A cost over 1.0% total cost. At 1.35% Turner Mid-Cap Growth, the highest cost fund, would grow in somebody else’s …
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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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“ETF Funds For Late Starters” Excerpts: “One of the more unnerving facts about retirement investing is the illusion of knowledge. As we get older and more wise to the world, the tendency is to believe that we understand how things work.” I agree! Excerpt: “Late starters to investing can avoid this trap by using index …