During the summer of 2014, the Los Angeles Unified School District won a Plan Design award for its low-cost, broadly diversified offerings of the 457(b) plan. This table shows the investment choices and the total costs (table updated January 2017). To discover and learn more about this plan, watch this 10-minute video interview. Sandy …
Los Angeles Unified School District 457(b) Plan Design Award! Read More »
The Wall Street Jungle (1970) by Richard Ney I love books that expose Wall Street’s ways. My review is more historical in how Ney’s great book fits with another giant who also took on Wall Street’s gambling habits, Jack Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group and the creator of the indexing strategy. Richard Ney was …
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 …
Another great 403b/457b workshop is scheduled for Saturday, November 15 at United Teachers Los Angeles Headquarters. It’s another all day event with several presenters including Dan and I with light breakfast and FREE LUNCH! Dan and I will show and discuss what we did to plan for our retirement as teachers. We will also discuss …
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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 …
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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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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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 …
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! …
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 …