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Retirement Myths Exposed - Part 1
This month we want to tackle some of the myths out there surrounding retirement. We often hear new and potential clients make patently false statements about retirement planning, which greatly concerns us. Where are they getting this information? Who is misguiding them? As it turns out, misguiding beliefs about retirement planning and saving are everywhere. So, this month, we will address some of the comments we hear most often.
Retirement Myths Exposed - Part 2
This month we are tackling some of the most frequent retirement myths we encounter in our practice with new and prospective clients. This week we are going to look at the reality of retirement expenses.
Retirement Myths Exposed - Part 3
Welcome back, this week we continue our discussion on retirement myths with one we’re sure you’ve all heard. Social Security is a topic that has a huge role in retirement so we’d be remiss if we didn’t include the biggest myth out there about it.
Retirement Myths Exposed - Part 4
We’ve made it to the last week in this month’s series on retirement myths, and we have saved one of the hardest myths to stomach for last.
Politics, the Media, and the Markets - Part 1
With the first primaries of the next presidential election less than six months away and continually increasing tensions between parties in Washington, we felt it was time to dispel some myths, detangle the web woven between politics, the markets, and the media, and prepare you to enter election season without a care in the world.
Politics, the Media, and the Markets - Part 2
As promised, this week, we will discuss the non-sensical ideas investors devise to attempt to time the market during election seasons and the media “spewage” that supports them.
Let’s start with this little gem of a thought: “The stock market only goes up when the ____________ party wins.”
Politics, the Media, and the Markets - Part 3
This week, we will examine how the media affects the stock market during election cycles. This should add to the election, media, and market perspective we have built so far this month. Today, we want to walk you through eight ways the media can affect the stock market during election years in the hopes of unveiling more of the non-sensical nature of the relationship between these three entities.
Politics, the Media, and the Markets - Part 4
Well, we’ve made it to the last installment of this month's blogs on politics, the media, and the markets, and this week, we want to leave you with a simple message. OK, maybe two messages. The first is this: history shows us that no matter what happens in the world, the markets will eventually go up, and typically, the periods of increase outlast the periods of decrease. And secondly, moving to cash to wait out election volatility, or anything else for that matter, will cost you in the long term. Now, let’s dig into those two points a little deeper.