Friday, March 25, 2022

Advisors are paid to worry not to be right

 Easiest way to make sure you have enough later

The most common regret most retirees have at the time of retirement is “I should have started earlier.” Time in the market, for your money to multiply, is FREE and is the easiest way to guarantee you will have enough in retirement. Social Security is indexed to inflation so your lifetime benefits increase to your maximum by age 70. You will have Social Security benefits but you may not have a paid pension and a private investment portfolio. Only 7% of retirees have all 3 sources of retirement income. So unless you act early in your career or working life, you will not have enough later unless you earn a lot of money late in your career. Example: $100 invested once a month by age 20 may grow to $2,600,000 by age 70. That amount would have the buying power of about $500,000 after inflation. We use the average return of 11% per year because over time that is the return of the overall stock market in a popular low-cost index fund. If you wait to age 35, your money grows to $500,000 by age 70 but is worth only about $230,000. Uncle Sam can help by using a special IRS retirement account that provides income FREE of taxes.

Use your TIME: https://www.amazon.com/Tax-FREE-Wealth-How-laws-free/dp/1475089236/

 

Tax-deferral or tax-Free?

Whether you have a 401k or 403b at work or self-managed IRA account, you have the choice of reducing your taxable income now or later. Which is better for you is a personal choice. Many younger investors want all of their lifetime investment gains to be FREE of tax because after investing $250 a month for 35 working years, they want to spend ALL $2,000,000 of their nest egg. They tell me that paying 22% of their current relatively low income is easier than paying higher rates on their retirement income later. They think rates must go up since current national spending has made the national debt almost impossible to pay off. Most wealthy folks pay less than most working people. With inflation, they believe they will need every penny of their $2 million just to live comfortably. Many employer plans offer the tax-FREE version of their matching retirement plans. If your employer does not offer this plan, you may be better off using the IRA version offered through your mutual fund provider. Most large complexes like Vanguard, Schwab and Fidelity offer low-cost funds within this tax-FREE IRA type.

Go tax-FREE: https://www.amazon.com/New-American-Retirement-System-ReserveTM/dp/1461030072

 

Advisors are paid to worry not to be right

Some think stocks haven’t hit bottom yet. Some think crypto is in trouble. Some think stocks have already hit bottom. Some think inflation will be a threat. Some think it will end soon. As usual, those who are paid the big bucks to know what is going to happen with your money don’t know. So what are you going to do? Will you continue to pay a lot of your investment dollars for advisor fees or give up your earnings for the year to your advisor’s haircut—right off the top of your account? For savvy investors the truth is that costs matter. If you earn 4% as some wise people predict, and you pay 1-2% of your whole account in your annual fee, you may have little to show by Jan 23. If on the other hand you are a buy and hold low-cost fund investor, you will have a respectable year. Over your investing lifetime, you may give away 63% of what you would have had if you use an advisor managed account. DALBAR the unbiased tracking firm showed that over time, managed funds earn just 3.79% compared with a low-cost index fund of 11%.

Use the low-cost leader: https://www.amazon.com/Vanguards-Top-Ten-mutual-funds/dp/150073909X

 

Has your advisor kept your account positive this year?

Most of the securities markets are negative. You pay your advisor big bucks to keep you out of the negative. Only the energy sector has provided a positive score so far—up 8%. Have they moved you out of the Growth sector so you avoided the negative 16% down turn in account value? So maybe Buffett and the other advisors who do not charge you for their advice are correct. Investors who have researched how long-term investments succeed have come to the conclusion that trading and chasing yield are dangerous. Analysis: over your lifetime, “that little 2 percent fee will erode 63 percent of what you would have had.” Paying someone to manage your money is a $ billion scam. Buffett says: “A very low-cost index is going to beat a majority of the amateur-managed money or professionally-managed money.” Fidelity study: accounts forgotten by investors during their lifetimes did the best. In fact, the average investor earns only 3.79% annually (vs market returns of 11.06%) according to DALBAR’s QAIB.

Avoid the scam: https://www.amazon.com/Warren-Buffett-Your-Investment-Advisor/dp/1518690963

 

Women investors are not handicapped by testosterone

Women are more patient. They don’t think they are ‘masters of the universe.’ They are not as overconfident as men. They don’t buy high and sell low when disappointed by their broker’s tip or the TV stock promoter’s hype. They are not driven to prove how “smart” they are at a party. They are not seduced by male salesmen. “In finance, if you’re certain of anything, you’re out of your mind,” according to neurologist, William J. Bernstein. In fact, stock market predicting is more like quantum’s uncertainty principle: no one can predict the position/velocity of a multivariant. Patience and time are more important to allow the Miracle of Compounding to work. 60-70% of the most successful self-made female billionaires in the world are Chinese.

Women are the best investors: https://www.amazon.com/Ensure-Your-Financial-Health-with-Wealth/dp/1466388293

 

Have you taught your child how to make tax-FREE money?

Make sure you teach your kids how to create wealth the easy way. My parents were not investors. At my first job, I had no clue which investment option to use for my 401k contribution and company match. The HR person told me to put it into the 'safe' stable value fund. That was the worst choice at my age I learned later when I got my securities licenses. If I had followed their advice I would have ended up with $150,000 instead of a Wealth Reserve of $877,233 about 33 years later. I have used this 'Wealth Reserve' as I call it to have funds to buy low-cost insurance, to buy two homes and 5 cars with higher down payments or cash, and now to receive $2,500 a month in retirement supplement. Now your child can build an account that provides tax-FREE retirement income too.

Time is on their side: https://www.amazon.com/Give-your-child-leg-up-manage/dp/1096505355

 

 

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Like 1776, this period is a test of democracyWe rejected an "American fascist" once

 

 

The Path to Dictatorship: 2010-2030

 

 

Supreme’s wife plots gov overthrow

 

Jan 6 terrorist avoids trial in Belarus

 

27 states restrict voting

 

Trumpist ‘news’: MxM

 

Dictator to buy ’24 election

 

US not USSR: Banned books removed

 

How Govt wastes our money:

Biden commit pilots/special forces if Putin uses chemical bombs in Ukraine?

GOP states removing books from our libraries before dictatorship 2024.

GOP creates voter intimidation with threat of voter fraud police: watch polls arrests

 

Crapo puts bill to end normal trade with Russia in the toilet: GOP wants more BS***

Wall Street takes higher gains: average 2021 bonus $257,500: few pay Fed taxes 

Wealthy buy citizenship in countries: lower taxes/hide assets: Kushner gets foreign $$$

 

Former NYC prosecutor proved Trump guilty of multiple felonies: boss afraid of T’s $

Two Trump lieutenants ignore Congress subpoenas and are still walking around: no jail?

 

SCAMS/SPINS:

978,000 dead: 61% of unvaxxed are Republican: GOP trimming voters for 2024

BA.2 now accounts for up to 70 percent of new infections in U.S. Masks, Shots, Tests

GOP: “freedom” from masks/shots/gun license but bans books, talk of race/sex, abortion

TX use electoral map that discriminates against Black and Hispanic voters: white power

 

2 in dispute shoot 28; kill 1: some are kids at car show: any gun changes 28 lives in 1 min

IN, OH ban gun control so citizens may shoot in public: police: no control is dangerous!

GA official: It’s the ‘wild, wild West’ Guns are everywhere, she said. Regs loosened.

 

IN Braun wants state to ban interracial marriages: Supremes have no say in racism?

 

Putin hackers: Zelensky telling Ukrainians to surrender: Putin the new Tzar of Russia

GOP Rubio wants US to try Daylight Time again: Nixon tried it and it did not work

GOP to attack Hunter Biden again: Time to start attacks on Fauci again too

GOP to attack Supreme candidate now: already confirmed her twice: political wedge?

 

Fake online sales: reading the clues to fakes

Pfizer recalled Accuretic due to the presence of a cancer-causing impurity.

Finally: recall GMC 740,000 small SUVs headlights on vehicles are too bright.

 

Recall millions of fruit gummies: “Airborne” ‘fly’ back to Reckitt

Zelle’s immediacy makes it favorite of fraudsters: not clear who is legally liable

 

Ambassador Advisors PA breached fiduciary duty: sold 12b-1 funds; cheaper available.

Jonathan Dax Cooke caught selling high cost annuity to Fed employees in TSP.

 

Fake listings short term rental sites like AirBnB

Fake images lead us astray

Fake ‘convenience’ home appliances: more stuff to repair: tech-savvy or lazy

 

Trump sues Dems over his 2016 Russian collusion: Putin lawyer met at Trump tower.

Trump condemns ‘woke’ AL GOP for advice: looking “past 2020 election” Confessed

Taliban reverses promise to let girls go to school: Custom makes girls “property”

Russian Orthodox Church hailed Putin for “high & responsible service to the people”

 

Jobs

Pilots to drive airplanes from the ground: no need to sit for hours in cramped seat

2022’s Most & Least Innovative States: Blue cf Red?

Companies with flexible work conditions: upstarts have more to offer

 

Who owns your account now?

How much is your Social Security? Check statement; Open a Social Security account.

Florida’s home insurers insolvency from fraud, litigation

YouTube has full seasons of your favorite shows for free: 1,500 movies free with ads.

 

Los Angeles and San Francisco as well as Northeast losing population to TX, ID, UT, AZ

Banks offering cash: open new credit card: some pay you to refer all friends who earn too

IRS has $1.5 billion for your 2018 tax refund; April deadline approaches

 

Miracles:

Ukrainian women stand strong against Tzar’s invaders who are losing war

Biden’s secret war- support efforts via hidden Polish border roads: Don’t tell Tucker

7,000 Americans sign up to fight Putin: Marines not allowed: must have experience

 

West US running out of water and electric: Lake Powell lowest level ever

It’s 70 degrees warmer than normal in eastern Antarctica: last warming fix took centuries

Drought extended across about 61% of the country: all over the West pictured 

 

We and animals are connected: all creation have feelings: impact on religions

 

Improve age-related macular degeneration with drug for drunks

Virtual private networks are used by Russians for info not state propaganda

Solar panel roof on parking garage: saves cars and saves coal-powered generators

Simple electrical circuit learns without computer power: adjustable resistors

 

When you think you can’t do more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyFxPZUiJMI

Trump wants The End WWIII with his co-dictator Putin: “we’re a greater nuclear power

 

We can apply for Medicare online: https://blog.ssa.gov/apply-for-medicare-online

We can apply for Social Security online: https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/retirement/

We can apply for health care online: https://www.healthcare.gov/

 

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