How to deal with the stock market fall

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How to deal with the stock market fall

In every time period, low-cost funds beat high-cost funds, unbiased analyst Morningstar showed. The unbiased financial scorekeeper, Dalbar, has found that the average advisor-managed returns were 3.79% compared with the S&P 500 index of 11.06%. If inflation runs at 5%, your real returns are under ZERO. Few advisors can beat a low-cost stock index simply because of the costs. Warren Buffett bet $1 million that the Vanguard’s 500 Index fund would beat the returns of a stock picking guru and 5 hedge funds. He won. He also designated Vanguard low-cost index funds in his will for his heirs. Advisor managed funds underperformed indexes nearly 93% of the time. Over time, advisor fees, charges, trading and bad decisions will lower your total accumulations by 63% or more.

Buffett’s advice: https://www.amazon.com/Warren-Buffetts-Vanguard-Funds-Retirement/dp/1496148592

 

How to start investing with $250 or less

If you are paying off student loans and trying to get your career going, you don’t have a lot of money to invest. If you are lucky enough to start a 401k or 403b at work, you can have the money taken out of your check so you don’t even get to spend it first. Some employer plans allow you to invest in a tax-deferred or tax-FREE account. However, if your employer does not offer these perks, you can start investing with just $250. After opening an IRA or Roth IRA at Vanguard, you can use their commission-free brokerage account to buy an ETF share. These are stock market index funds packaged like a stock. So one share of the total stock market index fund (VTI) costs under $250 due to the current sale (market down). Another strategy is to use your tax refund (average $3,000) to buy the low-cost 500 Index Fund so you can automatically invest $200 a month from your checking account. After 35 years, your $1 million is tax-FREE.

https://www.amazon.com/Tax-Refund-Millionaires-Let-Uncle-Help/dp/149595644X

 

Hope you did NOT buy crypto recently

Investors are fleeing riskier assets from tech stocks to cryptocurrencies. If you are investing for your retirement, I hope you did not put your money into ‘Bits’ and lose HALF your money. Tech stocks are the market driver and will be with us for the future. However, it is hard to pick the future winners. What to do? ‘Buy them all,’ John Bogle used to say. A low-cost index will help you get through this period since there will always be corrections and you just have to wait, as Warren Buffett advises. You can put your investing on full-time automatic and not have to decide when to sell or reduce your stock or bond complement. You can use a Target Retirement Fund like the Vanguard Target Retirement 2065 Fund (VLXVX). You can tell the trustee of your Roth IRA account to debit a monthly amount from your bank account. As you grow your investments tax-FREE, your trustee will move more of your money into the bond index inside your Fund. By the time you retire, you will have earned more than an advisor-managed account with less risk and all your earnings will be available tax-FREE.

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

Supremes caution employers about high annuity costs

The court said federal courts should look at more than a 403(b) retirement plan’s flexibility and investment menu size when deciding whether the administrators have met the Employee Retirement Income Security Act standard for the duty of prudence. Plan administrators must be concerned with costs as fiduciaries. They can’t simply offer participants’ preferred options and wave off concerns about the other options. This institution’s employees accused the fiduciaries of acting in an imprudent manner by offering plans with high record-keeping costs; retail mutual fund and variable annuity share classes with high, retail-level fees; and, in the beginning, an investment option menu that was too long and could have led to poor participant investment choices. The employees cited the withdrawal penalties and restrictions built in to a fixed annuity on the menu were too high. Lower courts (siding with the administration) were criticized for overlooking ERISA’s core purpose, which is to protect plan participants from an administrator’s failure to perform its fiduciary duties. TIAA, the annuity provider, claimed the extra costs are justified. The Supremes said institutions must remove “all imprudent investments.” Employees have lower-cost options.

https://www.amazon.com/Best-Annuity-Strategy-Income-Growth/dp/1497532019

 

Do seniors really need life insurance?

What is life insurance for? What do you expect life insurance to do for you? Why is life insurance so expensive? These are the questions I get from retirees or pre-retirees. The answer is really very individual and specific. Life insurance benefits are there to protect others against unexpected loss. But retirees know they are going to die and can prepare for that possible loss to their families. Life insurance typically protects against UNEXPECTED loss—when we are young and raising children and supporting a family. By the time we retire, most of us are not supporting a family with a weekly wage. If we are buying life insurance in retirement it is very expensive. Senior Life is typically issued without any tests. Thus if you are in good health, you are paying for all those who are not in good health. And life insurance is NOT a good investment. These are the typical rates for adults: Male age 71 pays $26.77 for $5,000 death benefit. $321.24 a year for 15 years (your life expectancy) costs $4,818.60. If invested, your $321.24 a month is worth $10,866. So depending on your health, don’t waste money on ‘death’ insurance.

Double benefits: https://www.amazon.com/Your-Plan-Live-Age-100/dp/1548180793

 

Excessive fees—savers giving up 63% of potential nest egg

Saving for any goal—retirement, home, education—is difficult enough but the saving/investing industry depends on overcharging for all its services. The wealthy owners do it because they can: “Many financial institutions obscure the true price of their services by luring customers with enticing offers and then charging excessive junk fees.” Regulators of financial services are run by and paid for by the industry itself. There is little incentive to give honest service at a reasonable price. “Over a 50-year investing lifetime, that little 2 percent fee will erode 63 percent of what you would have had. As John Bogle, founder of Vanguard Group, puts it, ‘the tyranny of compounding costs’ is overwhelming.” Low-cost passive investing funds have become the norm. With a little shopping around, we could pay 0.04% instead of 2.00% a year for quality money management. Instead of having $ 740,961 for retirement after 35 years of investing $250 a month we could have $1,243,368. And using a special IRS account, it could all be tax-FREE. Contribute $105,000; spend $1.2 million.

Avoid the middle person: https://www.amazon.com/New-American-Retirement-System-ReserveTM/dp/1461030072

 

Excessive health care costs: “high-cost, ineffective care”

What’s wrong? Two patients can get the same procedure and pay wildly different prices, according to a new study. “The same patient with the same insurance plan could go to another hospital five miles away and again see a significant change in what they owe.” "Perverse incentives": Why the healthcare market is motivated to provide high-cost, ineffective care. Profits rise when higher dollar claims increased—patient health is not measured. More profit from $4,007 claim for an ICU room vs $3,481 for another plan’s claim. This $526 difference goes straight to the bottom line. The Hospital Price Transparency Rule was supposed to reduce price by competition with transparency. However, this has not happened. Most patents never see the price list for their procedure. Most people just do what the medical “gods” tell them to do. For example, my doctor prescribed Januvia for type 2 diabetes but it cost $500 ($149 plan) for 30 days. I did my research for a low-cost substitute and asked her to prescribe glipizide instead. It cost $56 retail ($12 with my plan). Januvia generated $5.9 billion in sales last year. The low-cost treatment was effective in lowering my A1C. I do better with low cost financial services.

High cost is ‘ineffective care’ of your wallet: https://www.amazon.com/Pay-less-Get-more-investment/dp/1500598321

 

 

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Like 1776, this period is a test of democracy—We rejected an "American fascist" once

 

 

The Path to Dictatorship: 2010-2030

 

 

Another terrorist goes to prison

 

Trump’s plan: Pentagon to seize voting machines

 

3 states: ‘brown shirts’ hunt voter ‘fraud’

 

Republicans in multiple states created forged election materials

 

 

UN-United States; 2 Americas

 

 

How Govt wastes our money:

Texas AG Paxton hiding his part in Jan 6 coup in DC: local DA enforces the law?

Giuliani's communications as a foreign agent considered for prosecution

Wealthy need not fear tax collector: IRS gave up on $1Trillion unpaid taxes: 0.6% audit

 

We have military people in uniform inside Ukraine: “training”: how Vietnam began

Each state competes to give our tax money to companies who ask for socialist gov bump

 

SCAMS/SPINS:

TX judge cancels gov worker vaxx mandate: GOP out to kill as many as possible 900K

VA parent threatens school with guns if require mask to protect all school kids/teachers

“March for Life” ends with March for Death: no choice for abortion; Vaxx gives Life

 

Few employers plan to drop vaccine mandate despite Supreme’s ruling against mandate

RFKjr wife disavows his claim that Covid mandate is worse than Holocaust victim’s death

 

Alex Jones refuses answer re Jan 6 failed coup: refuse on “ground it may incriminate me”

 

How autopilot cars go out of control and kill people: TV advert is not how AI works

Your cruise ship is about to be seized for fuel bill so captain avoids US: how to get home

We are easily mislead by selfish people: Tucker supports Putin’s position: has 4 kids here

 

Bogus cryptocurrency investments social media: send money for promised huge returns

German Nino caught stealing $5.8 million: fake transfers, fake returns, fake statements

Scammers love tax time: IRS sends letter not call; no offers for “pennies-on-the-dollar”

 

Students question our society banning books: preferred by dictators gov banning history  

 

CA town requires you have insurance when you own a gun: like car liability insurance

30 high-power gunshots coming from separate apartment complex kill loved one: 0 arrest

WI GOP to lower concealed-carry age to 18: all students can ‘pack’ at school: easier kill

 

Our future Senators have already been selected with cash from wealthy donors

GOP with help from DINO deny Biden’s Supreme replacement like RBG’s replacement?

Manchin now funded by GOP donors: “follow the money”: Dem in name only

 

Trump threatened GA to change voter count: illegal for president to change our votes

 

Jobs

Immigrant entrepreneurs and foreign genius workers are going where they are welcome

Google is training 100,000 Americans for vital jobs in data privacy and security.

GM retooling for EV in MI: 4,000 jobs build EV and the batteries

 

Who owns your account now?

Simple business pension plans: contribute up to $61,000 tax-deferred

Robo Advisor put out of business by UBS advisors: you pay more

These companies sell your data: you can make sure your credit history is correct

 

Mel Trump did not sell hat for $250,000: start “go fund me” account for new hat?

Average credit card debt: $5,525, down 14% in pandemic: where do you stand?

 

Miracles:

$15 hourly wage for 70,000 Fed employees: can you live on $510 net a week?

73-year-old woman lured her scammer to her home and had him arrested: one less threat

Second year in a row that Greece has experienced a freak snowstorm: new climate zones

 

Still claim your 2021 credit on tax return: Parents of children born in 2021, guardians

Kansas City Chiefs fans donate $178,000 to New York children's hospital after win

Regrow limbs with special chem mix Next “regenerative medicine."

 

Some student loans have been erased: get a letter after years of asking: Biden does it

 

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/

 

IAN

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Montclair, NJ   07042

973.746.2014

www.InsuranceAdvisorsNetwork.com

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This is how Jared avoids his fair share of taxes

This is how Jared avoids his fair share of taxes

Like papa, Jared uses other people’s money to buy commercial real estate. He pays himself well to create losses. He adds the phantom expense called depreciation (building use and aging). The losses mount up over the years and are added to this year’s loss. He earns $millions but never pays tax. We taxpayers actually give him a refund. Here’s an example from 2015. W-2 income: $198,000. Taxable interest: $536,000. Dividends: $1,000. Capital gains: $974,000. Deductions: Tax losses from real estate and other partnerships: $3.5 million. Tax losses carried forward from previous years: $4.8 million. Total adjusted gross income: Negative $6.6 million. Tax refund $4,000. A new Jared NJ property just so happens to be located on one of papa’s US Opportunity Zones for another tax subsidy in Jared’s future. We have to pay Jared’s share of taxes too.

Use your own legal tax shelter: https://www.amazon.com/Trump-Tax-Shelter-Avoid-taxes/dp/1985448300

Prepay your 2019 tuition to maximize your tax credits

If you paid less than $4,000 of tuition for your college student, you can pay for the first semester or quarter of next year's college tuition in December and use that tuition for this year's American Opportunity Credit. However, you want to do the exact opposite if you've already paid more than $4,000 for your college student who qualifies for the American Opportunity Credit. You get no additional benefit from the American Opportunity Credit (max $2,500) if you pay more than $4,000 in tuition each year. In this case, you'd want to wait until January to pay tuition. That way you might increase your American Opportunity Credit next year since you've already maxed out the allowed credit this year. Be sure to show a Form 1098-T from your college or university to your preparer. Credit is partly against tax and partly refund if you owe nothing. 

Use all your tax credits: https://www.amazon.com/Tax-Credit-Class-your-credits-ZERO/dp/1539462382

Are you tempted to move your nest egg to gold?

Before you buy gold or its ETF, GLD, compare the fall it made in 2012, losing more than HALF its value over 10 years. Meanwhile over the same 10 years, the stock market index IVV, grew 129%. Use perspective to judge your investment accomplishments. Of course they all go up and down but did you and your broker KNOW to get out of gold on July 1 2012? I doubt it. Market timing is a sure way to lose money—you must be correct getting in and getting out. Over time your best bet (unless you have insider information like our Congress people do, is to hold, NOT to use a professional ‘gambler’. Compare broker /advisor-assisted accounts to a stock index (S&P 500): 3.79% vs 11.04%. Would you rather earn 11% over time? (most fund fees <0 .04="" o:p="">

Forget the ‘professional’ salespeople: https://www.amazon.com/You-Beat-Wall-Street-professionals/dp/1986031373

Is final expense ‘senior’ life insurance right for you?

‘Premium never goes up and coverage never goes down.’ ‘You can’t be turned down.’ ‘Don’t leave your family with expenses.’ ‘Only $13.40 a month.’ Let’s look at the caveats for these plans. Coverage is limited for first 2 years and $13.40 buys only a $2,000 benefit at age 60 if you are female. Average age at death is 81 female, 76 male. So $13.40 for 20 years is $3,216. A $2,000 benefit (costing $3,216 or more) will be worth $1,000 in 20 plus years (inflation). You can buy more but the cost goes up at each age when you buy it. If you want to cover funeral and medical expenses for sometime in the future, this is the worst way to do it. No medical means the rate is the highest possible. If you invested your premium in a saving account or CD, you might have $4,400 not $2,000. Bank POD accounts serve this purpose. Clearly this account is for someone who responds to emotional TV appeals. A cost-effective legacy would provide an IRA which pays the beneficiary immediately. This could include funds for the funeral AND help the grandchild. Besides, after you pass, your debts are not owed by your relations.

Pass on your legacy: https://www.amazon.com/Give-your-Grandchild-Lifetime/dp/1456433105

Need help starting to save? How’s 5%?

This credit union will pay you 5% on your money to get you started in a regular savings plan. This plan includes a checking and savings account plus certificate of deposit earning 5%. The requirements make it a perfect savings starter for a young person. This is the first step to using the IRS approved tax-FREE account—the Roth IRA. You earn great rate and you pay no taxes on the interest. WOW 5% without paying taxes on interest. Later when you feel comfortable, you can experience tax-FREE growth on a securities account at a low-cost mutual fund provider. Then you can earn 10-12% on your retirement investments and pay no tax now or later when you take the money out. You can take out contributions anytime tax FREE. However, if you keep investing automatically in this account, you could reach $1 million later—Compound interest and earnings without taxes EVER. Compounding is what keeps the rich, rich.

It is a miracle: https://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Compounding-Turn-$9-a-

day-into/dp/1470176513

Is this tax shelter right for you?

You can save/invest up to $500 a month and never pay tax on your earnings. This tax shelter is approved by the IRS! You don’t have to hide your money overseas. You don’t need a lawyer to set up the trust. You don’t need an advisor to manage your earnings. You don’t need an accountant to prepare your return for this shelter. You can set up this shelter on the phone or online in about 1 hour. You can have the trustee put the same monthly amount in automatically. You can have the unbiased trustee manage the securities at little cost. Tax-FREE earnings means you are not paying 10%, 12%, 22%, 24%, 32%, 35%, or 37% on your money after you accumulate $500,000 or a $1 million or TWO. (You can earn 10-12% a year over time.) There is no penalty if you need to take out the amount you put in so far. You may even be able to put your 401k in this shelter.

Buy before Congress changes terms: https://www.amazon.com/Trump-Tax-Shelter-Avoid-taxes/dp/1985448300

How can you avoid home buying mistakes?

No 1 rule: get mortgage first so you can pounce. Write down your absolute needs. This will NOT be your only house. Be practical—walk around neighborhood at night and day—looking for noise and pollution. Never buy a home with a shared driveway. Consider the nearby activity—your street used as detour from main road when school in session? Do research: Look at the neighborhood tax records—are taxes jumping in recent years? Consider estate sales—study internet listings for private sales—for real bargains. Make sure you have $5,000 on hand for immediate repairs or new inside painting—costs less BEFORE you move in. Buy lawsuit insurance too.

Make a plan: https://www.amazon.com/Homeowners-Insurance-Beware-Coverage-Policy/dp/1480100870

Is the IRS saver’s credit right for you?

Yes, you can receive a credit for saving worth up to $4,000. The amount of the credit is 50%, 20% or 10% of your retirement plan or IRA or ABLE account contributions depending on your adjusted gross income. The maximum credit amount is $2,000 ($4,000 if married filing jointly). The Saver’s Credit can be taken for your contributions to a traditional or Roth IRA; your 401(k), SIMPLE IRA, SARSEP, 403(b), 501(c)(18) or governmental 457(b) plan; and your voluntary after-tax employee contributions to your qualified retirement and 403(b) plans. Let Uncle Sam help you get rich.

Use your tax refund to fill your account: https://www.amazon.com/Tax-Refund-Millionaires-Let-Uncle-Help/dp/149595644X

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Make America, “The Don”, Great Again

Senile Psychosis

Truth isn’t truth, his lawyer

Two Americas: A Banana Republic? Do we really want an infant king? Daddy Putin!

McGahn is ‘lodestar’: Told Trump ‘NO’ - saved Mueller!

J F Kennedy was 43 when he beat Nixon

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How Govt wastes our money: Congress spends $1.3 Trillion we don’t have! 

Farm bill gives owners’ cousins who don’t even work on farm $125,000 paycheck too.

Congress takes money from children to pay for their perks: Congress gets farm subsidies.

Here are the people who REALLY decide how our tax dollars are spent.

SCAMS/SPINS:

3 people agree with Trump’s global warming analysis: Putin, Saudis, Kuwait dictators.

Trump to enslave Army into building his ‘wall’—unconstitutional? Berlin Wall failed too

10 terrorists were NOT caught at border: Trump’s trumped up hysteria for the base.

Steven Pagartanis, NY caught stealing $9 million over 18 years in Ponzi on seniors.

Veteran Charities collecting for sponsors not veterans. Taxpayers pay twice.

The ‘Leader’ violates every legal protection under the law: Obstruction and Tampering.

Mob ‘fixer’ gets 3 yrs. The Don denies telling fixer to hide own crimes. Just like Nixon!

Can Don the Mob Boss escape his ‘dirty deeds’? Don still not knows he broke the law!

The Mob Boss can never go to jail: Trump has Kava as Supreme so no indictment.

‘No man is above the law’ … well up till now. Dictators nullify courts first, then votes.

Supremes protect Don’s ‘Orders’? – GOP: Sure, pres can change Constitution anytime.

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Jobs:

Tesla may put car workers back to work: GM Ford abandoned cars and their workers.

Trump chief of staff: you must be able to act like slave, lie and misdirect convincingly

Extra cash from jobs you can do any extra time.

Separating children from parents seems to be part of the job: NYPD, ICE

Facebook calculating where you will be in the future: prevent crime? Catch criminals?

Who owns your account now?

What are your rights when you buy a DNA test?

Fewer children have health care with Fed cuts. Congress people take more coverage.

Merced P&C taken over by CA after fire claims wiped out insurer of many wildfires.

Let a real estate company buy your house: forget the hassles … for a price.

Keep your receipts: IRS goes after the ‘little people’ since ‘short 1/3 staff’ for wealthy.

Did your ObamaCare plan lower its price this year: check out what you have TODAY.

Miracle:

One woman, 97, helped save our right to vote in NC like she did in 1942: Say Preamble!

IAN

41 Watchung Plaza, B242

Montclair, NJ   07042

973.746.2014

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