Drew Forrester

Make Strategic Tax Planning a Priority For Your Retirement Plan

If you’re like most, you approach your retirement planning with the sole focus on building your nest egg, accumulating as much as possible to get you to your goals. Yet there’s an often overlooked piece of the planning that could have an impact on your finances in retirement –strategic tax planning. What could your tax exposure be, and how can…

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Krilogy Financial

Investment Committee & IA Department News – February 2017

Fear the Consensus? As we transition into 2017, it’s fair to say that 2016 was a test in fortitude as it relates to investing, a year littered with skepticism and uncertainty. After experiencing a sell-off at the beginning of the year of over 11% in the S&P 500, as well as volatility around the Brexit vote in June to name…

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Your Life Insurance Needs an Annual Checkup Too

Regular check-ups are a part of life. Your health, your car, and even things like your furnace are checked out annually, if not more frequently. Yet when it comes to life insurance, you may think that policy you purchased many years ago is fine just sitting in a drawer. There are several reasons that this is a dangerous practice, because…

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Krilogy Financial

How the Department of Labor Fiduciary Rule May Impact You and Your Relationship with Your Financial Advisor

Perhaps you’ve read about the Department of Labor’s Fiduciary Rule, which is scheduled to go into effect in April, 2017. To sum it up, the new rule places regulations on those who offer investment advice on retirement accounts, requiring them to act as fiduciaries, which means they act solely in the client’s best interest when offering financial services and advice….

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Krilogy Financial

Investment Committee & IA Department News – November 2016

BREAKOUT OR BREAKDOWN? With the S&P 500 having spent the last 3 months in a tight 3% trading range, the question on the mind of many investors relates to the direction that this range-bound market ends up moving in and how a Trump Presidency may influence it. Prior to the election outcome, very few had the stated expectation that the…

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Michael Brown

The Biggest Mistake Baby Boomers Make When Planning for Retirement

Today, like no other time in history, there are more ways to communicate than ever. Texting, E-mail, Messenger, Snapchat, and Twitter, are just a few options on the ever-growing list of ways to connect. While these methods of communication accomplish the basic communication requirements, they all lack the interpersonal connection that is sometimes needed in the relationship. Good old-fashioned face-to-face…

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Patrick Monahan

The Four Basic Client-Advisor Communications: Are You Getting Them?

When it comes to working with a financial advisor, many people are unsure of what to expect. They don’t know how often they should be communicating with their advisor, or what kind of feedback is appropriate on a regular basis. I believe that there are four basic communications that should happen on a routine basis between an advisor and his…

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John McArthur

Your Money and Process for Monitoring Your Financial Life

It’s more atypical for someone to achieve their retirement goals without a plan and the discipline and resources to navigate through it. Skill and insight are required, but the importance of well-established habits and monitoring progress can’t be understated. The same is true in many other aspects of life. Pilots, for example, need special skills to do their job. They…

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Krilogy Financial

Investment Committee & IA Department News – August 2016

New all-time highs for the S&P 500, so what’s next? As we advance through the 3rd quarter of 2016, we have seen a broad-based consistency in returns amongst many asset classes this year, which starkly contrasts to what we, as investors, had experienced in 2015, when virtually nothing seemed to work. In a somewhat refreshing change, the historically higher beta…

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Matt Haywood

The Top Five Things to Consider when Evaluating your 401(k) Advisor

Sponsors of 401(k) plans likely work with an advisor to help shape and make recommendations on the funds and investments they offer their plan participants. I say “likely work with” because today, there tend to be many who claim to wear the advisor hat but who may not live up to what you should be getting from a 401(k) plan…

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