On the Money with Secure Money: Episode 147

You should never build a plan around a market that you can’t control, because that means that you must have the market cooperate 100% of the time in order for you to be successful with your investments.
On the Money with Secure Money: Episode 146

And so, what Rebecca and I are talking about here right now is how to eliminate taxation when you pass it on to your heirs.
On the Money with Secure Money: Episode 145

Your 401(k), your IRA, your 403 B account. That money is tax deferred money, which means that every dollar that comes out is going to be taxable, and if you don’t do any type of tax planning, that tax bill is going to become larger and larger.
On the Money with Secure Money: Episode 144

Some of the questions I typically get, are annuities a good way of preventing myself from running out of money? And the answer is yes, because annuities are an insurance product. That’s exactly what they’re designed for, right?
On the Money with Secure Money: Episode 143

They are not an investment. They are an insurance product. They are designed to do one thing and one thing only, and that’s insure and guarantee your income. So, think about this for a minute. Do we insure our home? Yes, our cars, our health, right?
On the Money with Secure Money: Episode 142

Why would you have your money invested so aggressively to try to achieve a 20% rate of return when you only need 5 to 6%?
On the Money with Secure Money: Episode 141

It’s never too late. And I’m going to tell you there’s lots of great strategies that you can utilize to really accelerate your retirement savings. I’ll give you a perfect example. I had a lady came in. She got divorced later on in life. She had raised the kids. She had not worked in a very, very long time.
On the Money with Secure Money: Episode 140

We have a lot of questions and a lot of comments, and a lot of people are asking about health care, and we always talk about for your retirement. Why is health care one of those columns of the things you help people with?
On the Money with Secure Money: Episode 139

Pensions still exist in a very small percentage. And if you look at how pensions are designed, they’re designed to provide you with a monthly income. Now, what’s unique about a pension is that typically, if you have one, you know, we still see teachers having them, state workers like police officers, postal people, they still have pensions, and there’s big decisions that need to be made about those pensions, like you know, are you going to take a single life option?
On the Money with Secure Money: Episode 138

If you even look at what’s happening in the financial industry right now, there’s a big exit of financial advisors out of the big box firms into the independent world, because they just don’t want to have to sit down with a client anymore and have an agenda.