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Your Daily IQ Retirement Brief 6/16/22

Bonds are supposed to be the "plain vanilla", rock solid part of a person’s portfolio. As a person enters retirement, bonds have tended to play a bigger role. John Bogle, founder of Vanguard, always gave the advice to put “your age in bonds.” In other words, if you're 60, sixty percent in bonds, forty percent in stocks.  What Mr. Bogle had in mind, however, was a solid,  high quality collection of bonds, and bonds only. Today, bond funds are risky because interest rates are rising. Worse yet, many bond funds are adding derivatives, junk bonds, and futures contracts to the mix,  in what are known as “un-constrained” or non-traditional bond mutual funds  The risk is HIGH, the rewards... not so much. And even worse, you may own one and not even know it!! We'll tell you what to look for …A fact filled show you don’t want to miss….MASTERING MONEY is on the air!!

Your Daily IQ Retirement Brief 6/15/22

It seems everyone wants to do a Roth conversion—until it’s actually time to write checks to the IRS!  Roth conversions sound appealing, but they don’t always make sense-- according to many CPAs-- especially the closer you get to age 70.   That said,  a Roth conversion can be a powerful tax planning technique. The idea behind most Roth conversions is to take money from a substantial IRA account, and convert it systematically to a Roth IRA, getting rid of taxes permanently on that money.   The Tax Cut and Jobs Act lowered taxes, creating a Roth conversion strategy known as "filling the middle brackets."  We'll review that strategy, as well as the perfectly legal "Back-Door-Roth" strategy. Then Medicare expert Shelley Grandidge joins us for the Q & A.  A fact-filled show for you today that you surely don't want to miss...... MASTERING MONEY is on the air!!!

Your Daily IQ Retirement Brief 6/14/22

Although market timing and momentum investing sound good, especially in the short run, investing in stocks that pay increasing dividends every year can be a proven, powerful, and DURABLE way to grow retirement wealth with less stress, less bother—AND--with the power of mathematics on your side. Only a salesman trying to sell you a hot-stock strategy could deny the documented, long term success of investing and RE-investing the dividends of companies which consistently increase their dividends every single year without fail, and are properly positioned within their industry and sectors. With a dividend strategy, you welcome declining markets, you don't fear them! Today, Steve has the exact details you don't want to miss on the art and science of dividend GROWTH investing MASTERING MONEY is on the air!

Today on Mastering Money...It’s a MOTLEY FOOL MONDAY!! The Motley Fool Money Show is one of the most popular stock market TALK SHOWS in America today, featuring timely insights from top analysts. "MOTLEY FOOL MONEY" is heard by millions of listeners coast to coast—including Saturdays right here on Money Radio at 5pm! First we'll update breaking financial news and get a read on all the indexes, THEN, we'll take you to an exclusive broadcast of the Motley Fool Money Show, with fresh ideas to help you become a more informed investor. Steve will cap it off with proven money-making and money-SAVING ideas that you DON'T want to miss! -- A jam-packed show --and we're READY TO ROLL ! ... MASTERING MONEY IS ON THE AIR!!!

Your Daily IQ Retirement Brief 6/13/22

Adults over the age of 50 manage an increasing share of the wealth in the United States. Risky investment decisions that are made as people age may have effects on both financial markets --AND individuals in later life. FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Association, performed an in-depth study recently to assess how many older Americans—those over 58 with far less time to recover from a market shock than younger investors-- were taking on TOO MUCH risk. And for those TAKING too much risk using standard measurements, they wanted to know WHY. Well today, we'll reveal what they came up with in this really interesting study-- and how it might apply to YOU. Then Medicare expert Shelley Grandidge joins us for the Q & A. ...A fact filled show you don't want to miss....MASTERING MONEY is on the air!!

Your Daily IQ Retirement Brief 6/10/22