This week, Ford Stokes tells you everything you need to know about The SECURE Act of 2019 and the implications it can have on your retirement. He also talks about different ways of investing in the market and how they can affect your income stream during retirement.

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Segment 1: Ford updates listeners on the current market trends

Announcer: (01:03)Welcome to The Active Wealth Show with your host and Chief Financial Advisor, Ford Stokes. Ford is the Founder and CEO of Active Wealth Management. He’s a fiduciary who will help protect and grow your money. Ford will teach you how to invest and retire successfully so that your hard earned assets are protected. Investment advisory services offered through Brookstone Capital Management, LLC, BCM, a registered investment advisor. BCM and Active Wealth Management are independent of each other. Insurance products and services are not offered from BCM, but are offered and sold through individually licensed and appointed agents. Investments involve risk and, unless otherwise stated, are not guaranteed. Past performance cannot be used as an indicator to determine future results. Now, here’s your host, Ford Stokes.

Ford Stokes: (01:39)And welcome to the show, Activators. My name is Ford Stokes. I’m the Chief Financial Advisor and we’re here on The Active Wealth Show talking about how to generate a successful retirement and also reach all of your investment goals, whether that’s properly planning for college for your kids or grandkids or getting prepared for retirement so we can enjoy the time when we stop working. And we’re going to talk a little bit of market update today. We’ve got some great trivia. I’ve got Christian Dooley in the house with us today and Christian’s got us all set up, so I’m really glad that he’s with us and we’re going to talk about everything you need to know about the SECURE Act of 2019 and if you haven’t heard a lot about the SECURE Act of 2019, like where has it been all year? It’s cause it got passed like, basically in the last week of the year, but it does affect your retirement and we’re going to talk through all of that today. And so we’ve got kind of a busy show today, Christian.

Christian Dooley: (02:40)We sure do.

Ford Stokes: (02:42)He’s ready to go. You’re ready, aren’t you? You got stuff.

Christian Dooley: (02:45)I’m always ready.

Ford Stokes: (02:45)That’s good. You got stuff cooked up for us. All right. So let’s jump straight into some market update stuff and we’re going to do a little bit more of a macro, kind of a Q1 outlook. Again, you know, past performance is not an indicator of future results, but I do want to give you some information and some statistical information on what’s happened in past history, cause I get a lot of que