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Don’t Expect Much Help from Social Security Administration
While many people discuss the financial condition of Social Security, few people, even those in Congress, pay attention to the quality of the bureaucracy. This post argues that the service offered by the Social Security Administration is poor and becoming poorer. The SSA has steadily reduced the services it provides to us. In a recent […]
August 2014
August 29, 2014 11:00 a.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review I’m closing this week’s review a little early because of the holiday week. I hope each of you have a great Labor Day weekend. Thanks to all of you who joined us at last week’s San Francisco MoneyShow. I appreciate the positive feedback about […]
Social Security’s Low-Ball Estimates
It appears that for some reason Social Security deliberately underestimates the value of future retirement benefits. A few weeks back I came across an item that argued when SSA estimates future benefits it deliberately uses a low inflation or growth forecast. This item argues that SSA also understates the percentage of income that will be […]
More Stock Market Myths
People, especially investors, tend to believe things that aren’t true. They hear rules of thumb or assertions from others and latch on to them instead of looking at the research and thinking things through. Here’s a quick summary of seven market myths that Cullen Roche believes you should ignore. 3. You should focus either on […]
July 2014
Save the Date: Please join me at The MoneyShow San Francisco, this August 21-23! I’ll be making two presentations and always enjoy these opportunities to meet with some of my readers. There also will be dozens of other financial advisors making presentaitons. Get their latest stock picks, current market outlooks, most successful trading strategies and […]
The Shrinking Stock Market
Every investor should read this interview. It’s with Marc Andreeson, a well-known private equity or venture capital investor, especially in technology. The interview largely is devoted to explaining why fewer companies are listing their stock on public stock exchanges (going public) and why they are doing so later in their growth cycles than before. It’s […]
Millenials and the Stock Market
The generation named Millenials appears to have different attitudes toward investing and the stock market than previous generations. This article technically is about “robo-advisors” or computer-assisted investing, but it contains a lot of information about how cautious Millennials are about the stock market and how they don’t trust traditional financial advisors. As a result, they […]
Evaluating Estimates of Future Stock Market Returns
A number of analysts are estimating that investment returns over the next 10 years will be less than the long-term average, perhaps considerably less. They estimate annualized returns from stocks of 3% to 4% in many cases. Among the most prominent is John Hussman of the Hussman funds. This post pulls apart Hussman’s methodology and […]
