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Is the Value Premium Pining for the Fjords? There’s no magic formula for investing. The financial markets seem to take some sort of cosmic joy in bringing people back down to Earth. And it’s value investing’s turn – in fact, it’s been value investing’s turn for a while now. To put it mildly, this has been a rough decade and

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2020 – Q4 Quarterly Market Review 2020- Q2 Quarterly Market Review The post 2020 – Q4 Quarterly Market Review appeared first on Retirement Researcher. Source: Retirement Researcher 2020 – Q4 Quarterly Market Review

What Do Low Interest Rates Mean for Stock Returns? Interest rates are one of the key tools that the Federal Reserve has to manage the economy. Changing how much it costs to borrow money can slow down an economy or give a the economy a nudge. The post What Do Low Interest Rates Mean for Stock Returns? appeared first on

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A Tax on Giving – Understanding the Rules of the Gift Tax Getting taxed once is hard enough, but getting hit a second time on the same dollars? That’s enough to give even a compliant taxpayer the urge to toss crates of tea into Boston Harbor. Whether double taxation like the gift tax is morally right or not is a topic for

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I have taken the Retirement Income Style Awareness™ Profile. Is it helpful to use this with a financial professional? Here, we address whether or not you feel it would be helpful to share your personal RISA™ results with a financial professional. The post I have taken the Retirement Income Style Awareness™ Profile. Is it helpful to use this with a

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I’ve taken the Retirement Income Style Awareness™ Profile. What’s next? We were able to categorize next steps after the RISA™ into five groups. The post I’ve taken the Retirement Income Style Awareness™ Profile. What’s next? appeared first on Retirement Researcher. Source: Retirement Researcher I’ve taken the Retirement Income Style Awareness™ Profile. What’s next?

Retirement Income Style Awareness Profile (RISA™) and Its Accuracy We asked RISA™ participants if they felt the results were accurate; did the RISA™ “capture the essence of their style?” The post Retirement Income Style Awareness Profile (RISA™) and Its Accuracy appeared first on Retirement Researcher. Source: Retirement Researcher Retirement Income Style Awareness Profile (RISA™) and Its Accuracy

Retirement Income Style Awareness Profile (RISA™) and Your First Reactions In the spirit of transparency, we are continuing to refine a scale to determine your retirement income style. I thought it would be a good idea to share with all of you some of the feedback we have received from the RISA™’s release in early 2020. The post Retirement Income

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Join Life Happens’ Twitter Chat for Life Insurance Awareness Month Join Life Happens for a Twitter Chat to kick off Life Insurance Awareness Month (LIAM) this September. We’ll discuss new data that shows Americans are rethinking their finances and taking part in tough financial conversations in response to COVID-19. The pandemic has been a reality check and made many of

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Brooke Shields Has an Important Message for Life Insurance Awareness Month Brooke Shields is an actress, model, fashion designer, wife and mom. And now she can add life insurance advocate to that impressive list. The multi-hyphenate is the 2020 national spokesperson for Life Insurance Awareness Month (LIAM), a national awareness campaign that nonprofit Life Happens created in 2004 and coordinates

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