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1.	Bookmarks: 0	Trading The 401k Portfolio - Part II Retirement plan investment portfolios are managed to produce the promised income; 401k plans make no promises and do not seem to make much of an effort to offer income focused investment products. The income produced by the highest yielding (highest risk) mutual funds is generally lower than that which can be obtained from lower income tier Closed End Funds (CEFs).
2.	Bookmarks: 18	Value Stock Buy List Program - What's all the Excitement About? Investor's are discovering an Investment Grade Value Stock Selection and Trading Strategy that makes sense. Merritt Information Strategies has developed a multiple level spreadsheet program that allows you to implement the Market Cycle Investment Management methodology documented in The Brainwashing of the American Investor, inexpensively and productively, on your own PC, whenever...
3.	Bookmarks: 0	401k Plans Are Retirement Programs - NOT So long as we are in an environment where retirement plan income (and principal in the case of all private plans) is subject to income taxation, 401(k) participants would be wise to establish an after tax income portfolio invested in tax exempt securities--- or to vote more selfishly.
4.	Bookmarks: 0	Collective Investment Funds (CIFs) for Your Retirement Plans: Plan Sponsors, Principals, Advisors, Fiduciaries We all know that Mutual Funds, ETFs, and similar products don't prepare well for market downturns.... they are unable to take profits, build portfolio income, or hold equity smart cash that can be put back to work when the market falls. Collective Investment Trusts could be a solution to these problems... Active management and security transparency are the key differences.
5.	Bookmarks: 0	Let's Make 401k Plans Behave More Like Retirement Plans Although it is true that you do not pay taxes on your contributions during the earning years, you will absolutely pay through both nostrils when you retire. If your karma is off, you may find yourself retiring at a time when the stock market is not in a party mood and your shrinking mutual funds don't seem quite as secure as they did a few months earlier. We can deal with the market cycle; a saner tax code is a much bigger problem
6.	Bookmarks: 3	Retirement Income Investment Planning Defined Contribution plans are just not retirement plans --- even if your employee benefits department, the media, Wall Street, and Uncle assure you that they are. Most plans are difficult to self-manage with a retirement income objective. Still, these benefit plans are necessary and quite capable of taking you close to where you want to be.
7.	Bookmarks: 0	An Investor's View of The Fair Tax: A 2012 Resolution A Government that bemoans the population's low savings and investment rates has only itself to blame. The majority of Americans would agree that investing, retirement planning, and estate preservation would be easier to manage if the Internal Revenue Code was comprehensible. A landslide of American voters would elect any candidate championing IRC replacement surgery.
8.	Bookmarks: 0	Guaranteed Social Security Benefits: Finally, An Approptiate Use For (Fixed) Annuities What if, instead of donating 7.6% of your salary (15.3% if you are self employed) to support the war de jour: (a) you could choose to deposit from 3% to 5% of your salary in a guaranteed retirement program maturing anytime after age 60, (b) the lifetime benefit is totally income tax free, and (c) your employer uses his savings to either create jobs, raise non-executive salaries, reduce prices, or increase shareholder dividends. Interested?
9.	Bookmarks: 1	Guaranteed Social Security Benefits - The Old Fashioned Way What if, instead of donating 7.6% of your salary (15.3% if you are self employed) to support the war de jour: (a) you could choose to deposit from 3% to 5% of your salary in a guaranteed retirement program maturing anytime after age 60, (b) the lifetime benefit is totally income tax free, and (c) your employer uses his savings to either create jobs, raise non-executive salaries, reduce prices, or increase shareholder dividends. Interested?
10.	Bookmarks: 0	401k Retirement Plans Explained 401k retirement plans are special types of accounts, financed through pre-tax payroll deductions. The funds in your account are invested in various ways. Your funds can be invested through any number of stocks, mutual funds, and other ways, and it is not taxed on any capital gains or interest until the money is pulled out or withdrawn. Congress approved this retirement savings plan in 1981, and its name was rooted from the section of the Internal Revenue Code that contains it...
11.	Bookmarks: 4	How To Eliminate Capital Gains Tax First off I will give a short summary of the Capital Gains Elimination Trust (CGET). Then, I will provide some details about how it works and conclude with a case study as an example of how someone might use this. Summary:The Capital Gains Elimination Trust is better known as a Charitable Remainder Trust. How this works is one would deposit highly appreciated assets into the CGET. The trust sells the assets and pays no capital gains tax. You then get to withdraw an...
12.	Bookmarks: 0	Do You Know How Income Taxes Are Calculated? This is the first of a series of 2007 Tax reference sheets that I'll be sharing with you over the next month or so. This one focuses on some of the major federal income tax key numbers. I'll do future ones for estate planning, retirement planning and business planning in the not too distant future so stay tuned.Since federal income taxes are such a large part of most peoples life or expenditures, I thought that you might like a summary or reference sheet for some of the i...
13.	Bookmarks: 0	Rolling Over Your 401k Plan The Easy Way So what is a 401k retirement plan? A 401k plan is actually a retirement investments plan that is subsidized by employee or worker payments and often, corresponding involvements from your manager or employer. In addition, the most important draw for these plans is that the payments are taken from your pre-tax wage, and the funds rise tax-free until such time that it is withdrawn or pulled out. Also, the plans are, to some degree, independent and self-sufficient, and the good t...
14.	Bookmarks: 8	Retirement Plans for Solo Entrepreneurs Saving for retirement is even more important for solo-entrepreneurs because you don’t have a company sponsored pension plan or matching 401K contributions to rely on. There are many retirement plans available to self employed individuals and small businesses. Which one is right for you?
15.	Bookmarks: 7	Do You Have Enough Hobbies To Ensure An Enjoyable Retirement? Even if you’ve been saving your money since you were in grade school, that may not be enough to have an enjoyable retirement. Of course having enough money put away is the number one factor as to whether or not you’ll maintain your desired lifestyle once you stop working. But don’t overlook the small stuff. Does sitting in front of the TV sound like a fulfilling way to live, day in and day out? You’ll need something engaging to do with your free time and remember you wil...
16.	Bookmarks: 0	Embrace Tax EMBRACE TAXI know you hate tax. Everyone hates tax. You work every week, do a few extra hours and see a chunk of it taken away in taxes. It doesn’t seem worth it. Why should you work those extra hours just to be taxed at a higher rate and never see any benefit?Minimising tax is a national sport. Everyone is trying to get tax deductions, salary sacrificing, retirement plans, you name it. If there’s a deduction to be had chances are you are trying to find it to red...
17.	Bookmarks: 0	Juggling Retirement and College Savings Most parents want to pay for their children’s college education, or at the very least help pay for college. Paying for both college and retirement will be challenging for most parents. Here are some suggestions to help you to achieve both goals:
18.	Bookmarks: 0	LMK Wealth Management LMK Wealth Management is a World Class team of experienced financial professionals. We specialize in comprehensive financial and wealth management strategies. We have the resources and commitment to make your vision a reality...
19.	Bookmarks: 0	Study: Many Lack Basic Investment Knowledge According to American Century Investments' "On Plan I.Q. Quiz," a 10-question test taken by more than 800 investors, knowledge of some of the most basic investment concepts is poor. On average, participants selected about half of the correct responses on the multiple-choice test, which was given to individuals who have investments outside of a company retirement plan.
20.	Bookmarks: 0	Read This If You Can’t Possibly Save Enough for Retirement Worried about saving for retirement? Here are three outside-of-the-box tips from CPA Stephen L. Nelson.
21.	Bookmarks: 0	How to Find the Best Retirement Plans How to Find the Best Retirement Plans
22.	Bookmarks: 0	7 Common Mistakes of Estate Planning The most common mistake when it comes to estate planning is not getting around to doing it at all. Make sure that you take the time to plan at least the financial portion of your estate so that you leave your loved ones behind with some amount of security.
23.	Bookmarks: 1	Your 401(k) Investments and the IGVSI (May, 2008) Typically, 401(k) participants buy the higher priced, last-year-best-performing, and hot sector offerings while they sell or avoid the various products they feel have "under performed" the market. Nowhere else in their lives do they adopt such a perverse strategy. And nowhere else in their thinking would they blindly accept the premise that any one number represents what is, or should be, going on in their personal investment portfolios.
24.	Bookmarks: 0	Your 401(k) Investments and the IGVSI Smack, right up alongside the head. Your 401(k) investment program deteriorated rapidly as the stock market and the economy weakened. Who would have thought that there was so much risk of loss in those mutual funds, and ETFs? Fortunately, the pain is most often temporary, but the timing of the recovery could alter some participant retirement schedules and benefits--- not to mention the hefty confiscation level retirees can count on from Uncle Sam.