Friday, May 13, 2022

Commoditization of the financial advice industry

 

Tax-refund Millionaire-- https://www.irs.gov/refunds

Most people spend their tax refund—your refund could be a retirement nest egg.

Michele had trouble saving. She seemed to always be waiting for her next paycheck. She never had enough to save for a rainy day like her Mom did. She used to make about $55,000 as a shop manager but with federal, social security, Medicare and state taxes, unemployment, disability, and health insurance, she was not able to put anything away for retirement. Years ago, her local tax preparer suggested she use her tax refund (average $3,000) to create a retirement fund. Usually Michele would use her refund to pay bills or buy something special. The tax preparer said that if she agreed to start an IRA with $3,000 of her refund, she would be able to increase her refund—Uncle Sam would help her save. The amount she invested would reduce her income and make her refund larger. The $3,000 could grow over time, if she left it in stock mutual funds in her IRA account. Over time, it has grown large enough that she will have enough for retirement.

I will help you start one in 1 hour: https://www.amazon.com/Tax-Refund-Millionaires-Let-Uncle-Help/dp/149595644X

 

Right now your $3,000 tax refund is worth DOUBLE

If we invest our tax refund in a stock fund—the shares are down 14% so far this year—the shares will easily double in value when the stock market recovers by next year. The alternative is to put $3,000 in a savings account earning .8% so you have $3,054 in a couple of years. $6,000 vs $3,054 in a couple of years. Stock prices are down—a sale. You are able to double your money in less time. Where can you do that? Not in a hedge fund. Warren Buffett proved that. Using a tax-FREE investment account, you may never have to pay tax on that portfolio increase. You can use the only legal tax shelter for working people. If you keep adding your tax refund to your tax-FREE account, you may have $250,000 in 20 years—and you will be able to spend it all—an extra 20-25% since there are NO income taxes on this special §408A account.

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

 

Is this annuity right for you?

This annuity provides you with a guaranteed income for life. And the amount adjusts for inflation so that in 20 years it pays you an amount that has kept pace with the rising cost of living. Most annuity payouts are fixed, so that the amount you receive buys only about HALF of what it used to buy. This annuity grows over the course of time instead of requiring a huge chunk of your nest egg when you stop working. In fact this annuity can begin when you really need it—after you have accomplished all the things on your “bucket list” and you have spent most of your nest egg. This annuity can never fail to pay your monthly income because it is not dependent on the financial soundness of an insurance company. The monthly amount comes directly from the United States Treasury to your checking account. And the Treasury has never missed a payment even when the rest of the government has stopped paying its bills. Talk about peace of mind. And you can receive over a $1 million during your lifetime. Take this annuity.

Maximize benefits: https://www.amazon.com/Maximize-Social-Security-Benefits-Retirement/dp/1495439224

 

Commoditization of the financial advice industry

Advisors can no longer afford to help families with less than $1 million of investible assets. Advisors cannot be sustained without the need to trade a lot of securities or sell a product like an annuity to keep the “fat cats” wealthy and their offices plush. Most large advisory firms have had to put clients into robo advisor mode. Wealthfront and Edge are examples. You are sent to the service center model, where the financial advisor does not play a critical role. Portfolios are standardized so you get one of 5-10 models. However, tax management or estate planning need more than an algorithm. So you are better off finding an expert on a fixed-fee basis at the time you need special services. For instance, many readers hired a planner (CFP) for a set fee to provide a comprehensive year by year estimate of income and expenses for 30 years. A tax accountant (CPA) can provide expert advice on handling tax matters. For complicated estate plans, you can secure a competent estate planner to guarantee your legacy. Remember, your IRA and regular mutual fund have beneficiary provisions which pass your money outside your will.

https://www.amazon.com/Lies-Financial-Advisors-Told-alternatives/dp/1478281545

 

Best Robo-Advisor: Ultimate Automatic Wealth Management

Morningstar, the securities analyst found that COST is the best predictor of financial success over time. Fidelity found that their client accounts that were most successful were those put on automatic—left alone—forgotten. Warren Buffett: “The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.” Buffett claims that his holding period is forever. He advocates compounding (allow earnings on earnings to grow exponentially): "My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest." Robo-advisors work because money does NOT trade, rebalance, market time, buy high-sell low or sector rotate. It compounds. Yes, it is counter intuitive and it violates every 'rule' of Wall Street. Leaving your money alone to grow by compounding the earnings is easy – but HARD. Human beings do not control their emotions -- fear and greed win out every time. In fact, the average investor earns only 3.79% annually (vs market returns of 11.06%) according to DALBAR’s QAIB for 10, 20, 30 years. Use the Ultimate Automatic Wealth Management firm for success.

https://www.amazon.com/Best-Robo-Advisor-Ultimate-Automatic-Management/dp/1537111957

 

We will need to pay extra taxes on our inheritance

The new federal regulations would require many people who inherit money through traditional individual retirement accounts (IRAs) as well as 401(k)s, 403(b)s and eligible 457(b)s to withdraw funds from the accounts every year over a 10-year period, The Wall Street Journal reports. Non-spouse heirs are required to take minimum taxable withdrawals every year for 10 years from their inheritance in situations where the original account owner died on or after April 1 of the year of his or her 72nd birthday. These withdrawals, technically known as required minimum distributions (RMDs), must empty the account within the 10-year period. Heirs would pay a penalty of 50% on any RMD amounts that they failed to withdraw according to the schedule defined by the new IRS rules. This change, from “at the end of 10 years” to every year makes the tax-FREE Roth IRA more attractive to those making a legacy.

Consider a conversion to Roth: https://www.amazon.com/What-your-RMD-much-spend/dp/1718946716

 

Another way we pay taxes for the wealthy

Our Representatives continue to provide rich people with another way to avoid paying taxes. This one is fairly simple to eliminate but it continues to blow up the amount we all have to pay in the national debt. This three-decades-old loophole that cuts private equity billionaires’ tax rate almost in half is called carried interest. It is really the profits taken from investors by investment managerial firms. Investment managers pay a lower tax rate “than teachers and firefighters” because money manager are taxed at the lower capital gains rate not the income rate we all pay. Private equity and investment firms spent about $3.6 million on DC lobbyists; over the next four years they spent a combined $75 million. Small amount compared with the $180 Billion they take over 10 years. Obama tried to revoke this special deal but he never “leaned” on senators to include carried interest in a tax reform push. Senators get election money from money managers and lobbyists so they continue to run up our tax bill by not paying their fair share.

Stop paying their tax: https://www.amazon.com/Trump-Tax-Shelter-Avoid-taxes/dp/1985448300

 

Best graduation gift you can give

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. We have used this 'Wealth Reserve' as I call it to have funds to use low-cost high-deductible insurance, to buy two homes and 5 cars with higher down payments or cash, and now to receive $2,500 a monthly in retirement supplement.

Start their ‘Wealth Reserve’: https://www.amazon.com/Give-your-child-leg-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

 

Jan 21 2010 Corpor­a­tions’ election-spending unlim­ited

 

Nov 2020 Wealthy discredit election process

 

Nov 21 2020 Trump’s Plans for a Coup: criminal

 

Jan 6 2021 Direct assault failed: guns & bombs ready

 

Trumpist’s Supremes end personal rights

 

Nov 8 2022 Trump’s “national revolution

 

 

Trump: drop missiles on Mexico drug makers

 

Trump: “shoot the protesters

 

 

How Govt wastes our money:

GOP plan to ban IUD etc: charge murder for end pregnancy by any means

GOP Supremes: no right to private decision like abortion, gender, marriage in Constitution

TX low-income Latinas face major obstacles when it comes to ending unwanted pregnancies

 

Alito relies on 1671 understanding of marriage to think women rights NOT Constitutional.

Trump gave troubled lab $628 million contract to make the COVID-19 vaccines: later destroyed

Rand Paul dissents helping Ukraine with aid: $40 Billion “doom US economy” but tax breaks OK

 

SCAMS/SPINS:

GOP good old days: no aviane, so rhythm, no abortion, so coat hanger, no gays so closet

A Trump world vs a DeSantis world: radical southern strategy overwhelms staid Joe.

DeSantis redistricting map that would have eliminated a Black district in FL

 

FL rejected 41% of books: 24 of them scored high on official reviewers but reject too

Guns Now Kill More Children and Young Adults Than Car Crashes: Books don’t kill!

 

Putting Putin’s partisan on trial for war crimes: 21 yr old murdered unarmed 62 yr old

Putin scores “victory’ kills 60 women/children hiding in school: killing Ukraine ‘nazis’

GOP souring on Ukraine support: 57 House vote no on aid for survivors

 

Greene said can’t remember Jan 6 coup and so did judge: more crazy Greene GOP stunts

Trump fails to provide subpoena documents because he “lost his phones” Judge tricked!

 

 

Medicare Advantage declines 18% claims experts say OK: insurers hate paying claims

Jeffrey N. Crossland CA caught stealing $3.5 millions church loan scam 4 years prison

Trumps caught taking $ millions: promote fake vitamin/health products

 

Supremes base abortion ban on 1736 Englishman’s hate of women as witch, property

GOP encouraged to ban contraception as well as other personal choice rights.

 

Never use TurboTax: caught misleading us about costs; pay fine no jail

Banks caught ATM surcharges not reimbursed: claim refunds

Forever Living caught promises HUGE earnings but distributors earn absolutely nothing

 

RAM Payment/Account Management Systems caught overcharging debt relief clients 

SugarHouse Sportsbook caught fraud: “get up to a $250 match bonus on first deposit.”

TD Bank caught misleading “$300 Gift” TD can take back the $300 it “gave” us.

Recall 130,000 Tesla overheating cause the touchscreen to malfunction: burns your chips

 

Hackers are going after our data files with insurers: check your mobile password.

100 pairs of “extra destroyed” sneakers available to buy for $1,850: what you thinking?

work-at-home schemes provide income for criminals not us

 

Easy to mislead each other: fun for some costly for others: we’re conspiracy lovers

DeSantis holiday: mandate for students: learn “atrocities” by communist regimes no slave owners

GOP to block student access to online library databases: books, articles they don’t like

 

Jobs

Wage levels fell: inflation elevated at 8.3%: 6% wage rise less 8% price rise: we lost 2%

 

 

Who owns your account now?

Phoenix: fastest growing home prices: risen 216% since 2000!  Institutional investors 

Low-cost internet access for most Americans: some computer deals

NSM Insurance Group to Carlyle Group Inc

 

Allstate expects to raise premiums more: costlier litigation and used-car prices

Investors glad they did NOT put Bitcoin in their 401k as Fidelity recommended

 

Miracles:

Water shortage level likely trigger larger water cuts for Arizona, Nevada and California 

Women among Ukraine’s foreign fighters: Putin didn’t bargain for these heroes

Warming: giant groundwater system under the ice sheet in Antarctica: raise ocean levels?

 

Congress hearings on UFOs next week: 144 events, 1 explained: watch C-span

Scientist says move NYC before it is too late; too expensive: who is this guy?

Floating Solar Power Farm on lake with battery replaces Putin oil

 

Plane passenger lands plane after pilot incapacitated: DIY flying using picture of controls

States that offer free college courses to residents: Harvard’s free online courses

Your investments in the stock market have doubled over the last 5 years: 200-400 IVV

 

 

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Everything in the universe from galaxy to stones is made of subatomic ‘vibrations’

Light is both a particle and a wave depending on how we look at the light.

A subatomic ‘particle’ is the smallest possible vibration (quantum) of a quantum field.

Mass–energy equivalence: E=mc^2.  At the smallest level; Everything is moving!

Inside protons, neutrons, it is the fields of the virtual particles that creates its mass.

“Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can’t even measure them.” Space expanding.

 

 

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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