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Your Daily IQ Retirement Brief 1/13/22

The stock market continues to rise but the earnings of better companies continues to rise also, meaning you can still find good value stocks if you know where to look. That said, the stock market can be a source of GREAT wealth-building, but holds the risk that prices can fall hard, meaning you simply can’t keep ALL YOUR EGGS in that basket. In retirement, we all need a combination of income, growth, and liquidity. Because the stock and real estate markets are at all time high's, and interest rates near all time low's, many people are playing it safe right now and re-allocating their investments to better suit market conditions and their personal time horizon. Today, we'll get into the specific steps for properly re-allocating your money to make sure that you keep building retirement wealth the SMART way.  MASTERING MONEY is on the air!!!

Most investors, especially in or nearing retirement, seek to reduce risk while growing capital prudently in the stock market. Gains are nice, but large drawdowns are sickening, especially in retirement when you don't have an income stream from a full-time job and time is no longer on your side.    When time IS on your side, and because most bear markets tend to last only six months to two years at the most, you are able to rebuild the value of your account simply by staying put, and not rushing for the exit. FACT:  The only people who lost in 2008 and 2009 were those who sold at the bottom. The market has some room to run according to experts, but we all want to keep a good share of money OUT of harm's way. But are bonds the answer for the safe money side of your plan? Today, we'll examine why Warren Buffett says that bonds are a terrible investment. Then health insurance and Medicare Specialist Shelley Grandidge joins us.  You don't want to miss today's show...MASTERING MONEY  is on the air!!

Your Daily IQ Retirement Brief 1/12/22

Your Daily IQ Retirement Brief 1/11/22

Your job as an investor—or the job of the person you hire to manage your money—is to optimize gains, while minimizing losses.  Sounds easy, but today, you need a strategy built for the low interest rate environment of the 2020’s, not the 1990s.  Well-chosen stocks can be long-term sources of wealth creation, just like well-located real estate. This is true even if you buy at what seems like the worst possible time. For example, if you invested in an S&P 500 index fund in early October 2007, the next couple of years would have felt awful.  If you were still contributing to a 401k, however,  it turned out to be really good news. Your steady contributions kept buying more units of mutual funds at lower prices.  Even buying at the so called “wrong time” just before the 2008 crash, HIGH QUALITY  stocks delivered terrific gains by 2020—upwards of 300 percent—by just staying the course and not panicking. That said, in retirement you will be unemployed for 30 years or so. Therefore, a properly built financial plan will separate income capital from growth capital into a Smarter Bucketing system to protect against crashes. Today, we'll get into the fundamentals of putting together a rock solid financial plan...for the LONG HAUL.  Don't miss it....MASTERING MONEY is on the air!!!

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Your Daily IQ Retirement Brief 1/10/22

So, just where do your beliefs and opinions come from? If you're like most people, you feel that your convictions are rational, logical, and impartial, based on the result of years of experience and objective analysis of the information you have available.  In reality, all of us are susceptible to faulty thinking and emotional biases--often at the sub-conscious level.   Even the smartest person on earth can make errors in judgement. Today we'll review why Behavioral scientists say you are susceptible to making the same investment mistakes over and over, and exactly how to fix it. Then Health insurance and Medicare Expert Shelley Grandidge joins us for the Q & A.   A fascinating show you don't want to miss...MASTERING MONEY is on the air!!

Your Daily IQ Retirement Brief 1/7/22