Warren Buffett offered some retirement advice a year ago, little noticed at the time, which is more relevant now than then. This podcast (7:24) recalls the Oracle of Omaha’s post-annual-letter CNBC interview, where Buffett advised people take appropriate due diligence on just what liabilities they’re “walking into.”
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The “The Baby Boomer Investing Show,” produced by Ron Surz and Kathy Tarochione, offers a perspective void of Wall Street sloganeering, combined with a rare financial sophistication. This podcast (8:34) considers why the lifecycle matters so much, explaining why near and new retirees shouldn’t risk what they cannot afford to lose. 
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MassMutual’s Bob Carroll offers a front-row view of his firm’s response to the coronavirus crisis, with regard to retirement savers and advisors managing workplace plans. In the interview (20:32), Carroll shares a touching story of how the crisis brought competing advisors together to help their community.
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Investors need to step up and do the hard work of saving their own capital for retirement. This podcast (6:06) suggests that the calendar, that is to say the passage of time, is a less reliable guide to success than human effort and accomplishment.
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The Financial Times reports that Calpers is seeking to juice returns through the use of leverage. This podcast (6:30) suggests a pension fund shouldn’t borrow heavily to goose up returns, especially as big institutions do not win all their bets. The conservative approach adopted by the Yale Endowment does far more to deliver returns and ensure the payment of pension benefits.
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A slogan in retirement investing holds that investors who reach a certain level of success are free to reduce risk. This podcast (7:09) suggests that this idea merits quantitative definition and practical implementation, to ensure that future retirees do not face the same sense of impoverishment as the Class of 2020, who have seen their portfolios plunge at the time their retirement has required portfolio withdrawals.
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The advantage of financial advice is the outsider’s perspective, which is the reason so many professional fields of counseling, coaching and training continue to expand. This podcast (6:02) argues that just as a prisoner cannot free himself, so too it is the outsider that can provide the discipline or the method to get the person to make progress in the area of life he or she is challenged by.
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Harbor Crest Wealth Advisors’ Mike Hennessy discusses Roth conversions, gifting strategies and qualified HAS funding distribution, planning strategies of particular value in 2020. This podcast (9:02) suggests there are creative planning strategies advisors can employ to help clients during these uniquely challenging times.
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A public service announcement meant to educate the public on the dangers of texting and driving reminds us that that all forms of distractedness, including financial, are dangerous.

This podcast (6:56) suggests that financial advisors have a public-service role to play when the fact that financial calamity happens to 50 percent of retirees doesn’t impact the behavior of the distracted masses fumbling their finances.
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Harbor Crest Wealth Advisors’ Mike Hennessy provides a big-picture view of the mortgage market’s interaction with Fed funds and the 10-year Treasury. This podcast (6:22) explains the host of factors influencing mortgage rates, including the surprising reason his own refi effort fell apart.
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