Retire Smarter with Kevin Kroskey, CFP® & Tyler Emrick, CFA® CFP®

It's that time of year again. The northern states are filled with grey skies and cold, wind, and snow. If you're thinking of heading south for the winter, here are four key considerations to making your snowbird experience a success.

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10 Best Retirement Cities Episode: https://retiresmarter.podbean.com/e/top-10-best-retirement-cities/

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Things in life and planning aren't necessarily cut and dry. You may take several paths to reach your destination. But which one may be best? Listen to Kevin discuss a retirement situation where several strategic paths existing and how he and his team came to the preferred path in creating an integrated, tax-smart distribution plan.

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It's common to see articles or to-do lists for year-end tax planning. But these often lack substance and fail to answer why a strategy may or may not make sense for you. Listen to Kevin describe a simplified framework to understand your tax situation and then how to thoughtfully consider what tax-smart strategies make sense for you.

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Randall Munroe's "What If" Book: https://www.amazon.com/What-Scientific-Hypothetical-Questions-International/dp/0544456866

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We want it all in life and for our retirement. We want the city where we live to have it too -- affordability, a plethora of activities, fantastic quality of life, and great healthcare. Learn the 10 best cities as ranked by Wallethub and what makes them great. Some may even surprise you. Tune in and start envisioning where you want to be in retirement and plan for how to get there.

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Wallethub Article: https://wallethub.com/edu/best-places-to-retire/6165/?fbclid=IwAR2ZvsUK1mW06MMlHootGpCS_2QJGllrLSgaa6NDKVlKdBoQNjBEIRiI31Y

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You made it to retirement and seem to have enough. Now how do you go about recreating your paycheck and distributing money from your savings and investments and to do so in a tax-smart way. How do you do it? Listen to Kevin describe the process True Wealth goes through to make sure these important distribution details are handled to help you stay on your retirement track and pay no more than your fair share in tax.

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While your asset allocation recipe is the most important portfolio decision, we still want good ingredients. Listen to Kevin explain the broad differences in active and passive (indexed) ingredients, the evidence behind each, and some exceptions to where an indexing approach may not work as well.

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Your asset allocation recipe is the most important portfolio decision, and there are a few different flavors of asset allocation. Listen to Kevin describe the differences and what the evidence shows works best.

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Now that you understand the basic building blocks of an investing process, listen to Kevin explain what key factors investing science has shown to drive stock and bond returns over time and which to favor to build a better portfolio. Kevin also explains a recent phenomenon in stock prices that is reminiscent of the late 1990s Tech Bubble as it relates to one of the key factors that drive stock returns.

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Do you have an investment process? Most people don't understand their advisor's process (if they have one). Yet, in investing, you cannot control your investment results, but you can control your process, which should lead to better results over time. Listen to Kevin give you a high level of a science-based investing process you can understand without having to get a graduate degree in Finance.

For related content, click here to listen to Episode 14 on Expected Investment Return Forecasts.

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True Wealth Design Website: http://www.truewealthdesign.com/

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Most financial people only focus on your assets. Listen to Kevin share four examples of clients where better incorporating a holistic view of their finances -- assets and liabilities included -- made a significant financial improvements in each of their lives.

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