Dan and I joined this local professional organization. The Desert Business Association (DBA) serves 300 members who are mostly LGBT locally-owned businesses. Our book designer, Mark, and a fiduciary financial adviser, Bob, told us about the DBA mixers hosted by different members at their place of business. This gives members and chance to talk about …
Hi LAUSD Colleagues! Dan and I certainly hope you were as satisfied after attending last week’s investment workshops as our contented 13-year-old Korean Jindo mix, Sammy. The evaluation results showed you were! Thanks for coming! This was our fourth workshop as presenters. We were happy to see colleagues that I have worked with years ago looking so good. …
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Stopping a $17 Billion Conflict of Interest A new U.S. Labor Department rule proposes that broker dealers, insurance agents, wealth managers and other financial planners put their clients’ interests ahead of their own. Doing the exact opposite for decades by putting their interests ahead of clients earns Wall Street and Insurance companies $17 Billion annually. …
CBS Money Watch Interviewed Dan and I about investing and teachers. The following articles are not just for teachers, but for ALL investors. CBS Money Watch financial reporter, Kathy Kristof, published her article here based on data from this website Openfolio. Here is another article, “Why Teachers Make Good Investors,” for more information about teachers and their remarkable investment acumen. But …
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Image courtesy of debspoons at FreeDigitalPhotos.net The educational leadership is beginning to look out for your best interests. In case you missed it, Click here for my earlier post about the Los Angeles Unified School District’s 457(b), 2nd largest school district receiving a “Plan Design” award. In this blog post, I am thrilled to …
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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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Tax-sheltered Annuity’s (TSA) Long, Sordid, and Lucrative Sales History with the Public PreK-12 Educational Culture Since 1961 in California, the Tax-sheltered Annuity (TSA) retirement plan has had runaway sales in the billions of dollars to a very specific clientele: public school PreKindergarten-12th grade educators. Public school employees are familiar with the “TSA” label, which has been …
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My name is Steve Schullo, retired LAUSD elementary teacher and former UTLA member. Dan Robertson, also a retired educator, and I created this blog to start a conversation about retirement planning using our district’s volunteer retirement savings plans. This topic is rarely talked about in educational circles. Far too many of our colleagues have no …
Section 403(b) Compliance Guide for Public Education Employers by Ellie Lowder Book Review and an Editorial by Steve Schullo As a retired teacher serving on my district’s 403(b)/457(b) Retirement Investment Advisory Committee, I read this book with great interest. While it’s a compliance guide written for district employers and their benefit administrators, every public education …
Hi LAUSD Colleagues, Exciting development! Because some of you began asking for the Roth 403b/457b, this item has caught the attention of our Retirement Investment Advisory Committee. We are in full support of implementing this wonderful benefit, but payroll tells us they don’t have the resources or the personnel to implement it. Now you need to …