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, featuring top market experts and heard by millions of listeners coast to coast—including Saturdays right here on Money Radio! After an update of the markets and today's breaking financial news stories, we'll take you to an exclusive broadcast of the Motley Fool Money Show--plus a timely financial update from Steve you won't want to miss! -- MASTERING MONEY IS ON THE AIR!
Retirement planning is a multi-dimensional undertaking. Done properly, retirement planning spans two-thirds of a person’s life! Ideally, retirement planning begins at the point a person begins working, and continues for at least thirty years and beyond. The advent of the 401k plan has created a generation of millionaires-on-paper who have accumulated over a million dollars when combining retirement accounts, investments, and home equity. Studies show that people with a million dollars in 401ks and IRAs have something in common: Almost all of them worry they will run out of money one day. They worry that the market will crash, taxes will rise, social security will go broke, and inflation cuts their buying power in half. Today, we’ll talk about five specific retirement planning REALITIES that you can't get wrong, for those who HAVE had a good fortune--and the fortitude--to accumulate a substantial 401k. You don't want to miss today's show--MASTERING MONEY is on the air!!
According to Randall Forsyth writing in Barron’s, wealth taxes tend not to work--But they still might be coming your way. The much publicized difference between the poor, the merely prosperous, the rich and the ultra rich is leading to a wealth tax. It is becoming the preferred method of paying for extravagant, never-before-tried projects like Medicare for All and the Green New Deal—with price tags in the realm of SIXTY trillion dollars over the next ten years, all in! Alexandria Ocasio Cortez says that is no problem--it is simply an INVESTMENT! Liz Warren and Bernie Sanders are drawing big crowds at rallies on the same battle cry. Today, Steve and I will review a Barrons article on the wealth tax that you don't to miss, followed by specific pointers on comparing annuities. Don't miss today's show MASTERING MONEY is on the air!!
Online brokerages are dangling a new temptation in front of investors: FREE trading commissions!! That’s right, buy or sell any stock or exchange-traded fund and pay nothing! But the Wall Street Journal warns: investors should think carefully before they jump in. Why? For one thing, investors can fall into the trap of trading too much when they don’t have a bill to pay—possibly and PROBABLY hurting their returns! When the market becomes an all-you-can-eat buffet, you may put too many trades on your plate and find yourself losing money in one of three ways. We'll review those three ways pointed out by the Wall Street Journal, and the anti-dote--having a clear, written DEFINED strategy for building retirement wealth the SMART WAY. Don't miss today's show, MASTERING MONEY is on the air!!
Make no mistake: Electric Cars will begin to rule the global landscape by 2030 according to the Wall Street Journal, and the real key to Electric Cars Is... The BATTERY. One little known Chinese Firm Dominates the Industry and is likely to grow its market share. China is by far the biggest “EV”—Electric Vehicle--market. No surprise--China began pressuring foreign auto makers to use locally-made batteries in their country several years ago. In the Market Intel segment, we'll reveal the name of the company that China has turned into a juggernaut with insights from the Wall Street Journal. Then Estate and Probate Attorney Libby Banks joins us for the Q & A. A fact filled show you don't want to miss, 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, featuring top market experts and heard by millions of listeners coast to coast—including Saturdays right here on Money Radio! After an update of the markets and today's breaking financial news stories, we'll take you to an exclusive broadcast of the Motley Fool Money Show--plus a timely financial update from Steve you won't want to miss! -- MASTERING MONEY IS ON THE AIR!
Over seventeen trillion dollars worth of government bonds are now paying NEGATIVE interest rates. Those rates are driving U.S. rates down, with numerous negative consequences. The main one is that retirees who want to tone down the risk in their portfolio and focus on safety and secure income can no longer turn to bonds. This is leading to increasing demand for dividend GROWTH stocks--stocks that RAISE THEIR DIVIDENDS every single year. Today on Mastering Money, Steve will demonstrate how a stock whose PRICE declines by thirteen percent over ten years can still realize a positive return of more than six percent because of reinvesting RISING dividends. Learn how a declining market may actually HELP you build more wealth for the future... than a rising market! Don't miss TODAY'S show. MASTERING MONEY is on the air!
The two largest assets of most middle and upper middle-class households are the family home and the 401(k) or other employer-sponsored plan. These assets form the core of almost every American family's financial security. How important are these assets? They are so important that homeowners are REQUIRED to carry insurance on their houses by most mortgage lenders, if not by state law. And, when you buy your home, title insurance is required. Why? Because the outcomes of these transactions cannot be in question. What if you could insure that you would never again take an investment loss due to the stock market falling, and in the same asset insure that you and your spouse would always have a monthly income that would never go down—like a pension? There is a unique form of principal secure retirement annuity available now that can do just that, plus much more, without all the fees of variable annuities. Steve and I will review it in detail. You don't want to miss today's show MASTERING MONEY is on the air!!
So, ..what factors drive return-on-investment in the stock market? We know that the stock market is all about supply and demand, but researchers have isolated multiple factors that, when properly employed, show evidence of increasing investment returns over time. Isolating and separating those factors may put an investor in the position of outperforming benchmarks like the S & P over time—or matching benchmarks with less risk—which is just as important. Global markets are made up of dozens of asset classes and millions of individual securities…making it challenging to understand what really matters for your portfolio. Today, we'll review in detail what really matters and why you need an asset allocation model built for a new financial environment. Then Medicare specialist Shelley Grandidge joins us. A big show you don't want to miss...MASTERING MONEY is on the air!!
It's an understatement to say that we have entered one of the most brutal election years in history. How will it affect the stock market and your 401k or IRA? Obviously, the Democrats would LOVE to see the stock market crash before next year's election. But let’s think about it and your personal investments--If a Democrat is elected, corporate interest rates are headed back up and that could bring down the stock market. All of the Democrat candidates, including the most moderate one—Joe Biden—want to RAISE corporate rates by at least fourteen percent. Today, we'll examine how the markets and your investments would be impacted by a Democrat victory and the return to a thirty five percent or forty percent tax rate, along with tips on building retirement wealth the SMART way.