Protecting Your Investments in an Inflationary Environment
By: Jim Kirby
The Debt, The Deficit, and Quantitative Easing Many people are aware of the fiscal crisis in Washington. Investment portfolios need to take into consideration macroeconomic...
Is Your Financial Advisor Licensed?
By: Jack Waymire
Licenses Protect Your Retirement Anybody can sell investment products whether they are licensed or not. Taken to an extreme a financial advisor may be part...
Investor Protection from Unauthorized Withdrawals from Accounts
By: James Dunlap
It’s a Brokerage Firm’s Duty to Protect Client Accounts from Unauthorized Withdrawals! What are Unauthorized Withdrawals? FINRA has warned member firms to protect investors against...
Accelerate Your Investment in Retirement Assets
By: Jack Waymire
It is standard retirement doctrine that you must save 10% of your pre-tax income during working years to afford a comfortable, secure lifestyle after you...
Protecting Investors from High Costs
By: James Watkins
This is Part 1 of a 2 Part series on Actively-managed Mutual Funds. You are given two investment options. Fund A charges an annual management...
Why are ETFs dangerous?
By: Adam Gana
Exchange-traded funds, otherwise known as ETFs have become investors’ new best friends in the investment world. Investors have spent over $1 trillion into these investment...
Retirement Portfolios – Shifting from Accumulation to Distribution
By: Marshall Serwitz
Creating sustainable retirement portfolios is as much art as science. The tendency to view our annual capital projections as only science, due to the mathematics...
A Solution to Low Interest Rates during Retirement
By: Jack Waymire
You are retired and you are currently taking a 4% distribution from your retirement assets to fund your standard of living. You are an old...
The Best Retirement Plan or Not?
By: Jack Waymire
Millions of Americans have financial planners, retirement planners, and investment advisors who tell them what to do with their assets. People follow the professionals’ advice...
What is Unauthorized Discretionary Securities Trading?
By: Adam Weinstein
Unauthorized trading occurs when a broker buys, sells, or exchanges securities without proper authority from the investor. FINRA Rules 2510(b) and 2020 and NYSE Rule...