Planning

Football and Financial Planning

Touchdown! We’re taking a short break from Sean’s love of baseball to talk football analogies and how it relates to retirement.

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Are You an Emotional Investor?

Keeping emotions separate from your financial decisions should be everyone’s goal but is it easier said than done? Let’s take a look at the most common forces driving those decisions and how it can impact your retirement plan.

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Taking Out the Trash From Your Portfolio

When was the last time you looked through your financial portfolio and got rid of the things you no longer need? As you move closer to retirement, your strategies will change and adjustments need to follow. So let’s look at four areas that you might considering trashing from your portfolio.

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Do You Know What Fees and Commissions You’re Paying?

Have you ever wondered why some advisors get paid in fees while others take commissions from your investments? Today we’ll explain the difference, what you should consider, and why your portfolio expenses are probably higher than you realize.

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What You Need to Know About the SECURE Act

Americans will be getting the most significant retirement legislation in more than a decade after Congress passed the SECURE Act near the end of 2019. Let’s talk about the biggest changes you need to be aware of, how this can benefit you, and where there might be some concerns.

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5 Ways We Sabotage Our Own Retirement

With all of the things in the financial world that you can’t control, why would you sabotage your own retirement by messing up the things you can control? Let’s discuss some ways that people sabotage their own financial health.

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Why a Portfolio is Not a Plan

How effective is a portfolio that isn’t working in conjunction with a plan? If you’re just looking at the numbers in your accounts but not considering how that’s complimenting the other pieces to your plan, it’s not much more than speculation. This week we discuss why having a collection of financial products isn’t the same as having a plan.

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Why the Final Decade of Work is So Important for Planning

The retirement planning process lasts many, many years but your final decade of work is the time where you need to hammer out all of the details and get everything in order. We’ve put together a checklist of items that need your full attention during that last years of working so that you can enjoy retirement to the fullest.

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Financial Lessons We Can Learn From Flying

Think about the last time you took a flight? You got from point a to point b as you planned, but did you stop to think about what it took to get you there? That’s the same with financial planning and reaching our final retirement destination. There are many lessons we can take away from flying and we’ll share those on this episode.

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