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Sounds like the FA is not a fee FA but makes his $ from where he puts her $ - first warning sign.
Front load fee in this day and age - second warning sign.
Pressure to commit - third warning sign.
Warning! Will Robinson Warning!
I don't see the Ukraine becoming a thing. Europe depends upon Russia for their oil and gas. Also, an oil spike would threaten the weak economic recovery. Europe and the USA do not have interests in the area.
The China question is - What don't w…
That paper is 26 pages - I'm not going to read it.
JP Morgan's job is to sell fear and get people to give them their money for JPM to invest for them.
Retirement needs vary but, if you take a healthy individual with $1M in assets and renting an ap…
"She is sixty two and just suffered from several strokes"
As difficult as it will be for you, start looking into assisted care living and the issues around that with medicare/medicaid.
My mother died of Alzheimer disease - care was $6,000/mo in G…
I think you need to break it down by type of company and, short and long term.
Insurance companies should do well - companies are canceling employee programs. Employees are now forced to purchase higher cost policies - more money for the companies…
Reply to @Ted:
Ted thank you very much - that is exactly what I'm looking for.
Where do you research for such funds? For example, I posted a similar question about Health Fund that focuses on dividends and would like to do the research if I could.…
"Equity returns will slow next year, Wall Street strategists forecast. The S&P 500 will end 2014 at 1,950, according to the average of 20 estimates compiled by Bloomberg. That represents a 5.9 percent gain over the next 12 months. "
Do you know…
Reply to @bnath001:
You should start off by tracking your current spending by line items.
Then add and subtract items to get to your retirement budget and project that into the future.
I highly recommend the book "How to retire happy, wild and f…
Great question and if we had a thinking media we might have had an answer.
I got my Blue Cross Blue Shield increase recently. Included was a page showing the reason for the increase for all the requirements of the plan.
Young males - around 21 ge…
I didn't see anything in that article that said by getting GDP growth to X/year would reduce the debt to Y in Z years.
My guess is that the % would need to be at a high level for many years.
I've read some of his stuff before - I think - doesn't he write a letter with "picture of a stock market mania"? If so, he will be correct one day.
http://www.amazon.com/Code-Red-Protect-Savings-Coming/dp/1118783727
Mark,
I'm mostly interested in income (vs capital gains) but I understand the need to have stocks and those gains. In the coming years 5+ years I think outside the US will have good potential for growth - weaker $, stronger economies outside the …
I hit the RSS button and got this:
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
Same for the link Chip provided. Is it me?
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UPDATE - I figured it out.
Thanks
Again, thanks for the replies.
My plan is coming together in my mind - investment vehicles and time - it isn't finalized.
I'm thinking in terms of phases.
Phase 1 - now - start with low amount income averaging into income funds 6/8/10 months? - I j…
Thanks for the replies so far - let's not get sidetracked on the High Yield Corp issue - but the high valuation at this point does concern me.
Ted - I wish I stayed the course and just kept my eyes closed! Now when I open them it looks like I'm …
