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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Matt Haywood

The Top Five Things to Consider when Reviewing your 401(k) Provider

As an employer, you may have opted to offer your employees a 401(k) plan as an added benefit for recruitment and retention purposes. Yet what many companies don’t realize is that you should be regularly reviewing your plan to ensure that it continues to be the right fit. I recently wrote an article about your responsibilities as a plan sponsor,…

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John McArthur

Your Money and Your Day-to-Day Decisions

We started this article series talking about your money and your emotions. Our emotions have an effect on financial matters, whether we realize it or not. The everyday decisions we make also have an impact on long term success. Those decisions are made at the ice cream stand, the hardware store, the auto repair shop, and with many other things…

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John McArthur

Your Money and Your Legacy; How “Legacy Thinking” Can Enrich Your Life

What does a legacy look like? “Legacy” is defined in different ways. Some of the most common dictionary sources cite definitions similar to this: leg•a•cy – something (such as property or money) that is received from someone who has died. We at Krilogy have a different viewpoint. You probably do, too. Our clients often see their legacy as being partly…

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Krilogy Financial

Investment Committee & IA Department News – May 2016

Just a growth scare or prelude to something bigger? The S&P 500 is up over 200% from the March 2009 lows and this bull market currently trades just shy of 17x forward earnings and is 7 years into the cycle. However, we know bull markets don’t die of old age or from what are reasonable, yet higher, valuation levels. As…

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John McArthur

Your Money and Your Retirement Dreams

Is there a brighter future in your retirement than you think? There just might be. The subject of retirement dreams conjures up widely different images. Instead of retirement being a mysterious future unknown, it can be a life you enjoy because you’ve planned, sought out expertise, and taken control early on. If you are proactive in your efforts, you avoid…

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Matt Haywood

Five things to know and do AFTER you’ve enrolled in a 401(k)

You’ve enrolled in your company’s 401(k) program. You got the ball rolling, so now what? In a previous article we gave some pointers about right-sizing your involvement and getting help from a professional. But you still have questions. Financial planning has many layers. Let’s peel back some of those layers and address five important points. Revisit asset allocation frequently Proper…

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Matt Haywood

401(k) Auto-Enrollment – Cruise Control or Active Involvement?

Whether you like it or not, an Automatic Enrollment 401(k) Plan is a good thing. Everyone knows the importance of saving and investing wisely in your future. Making people choose “not to save,” instead of “to save” gets people past the initial uncertainty and questions when entering a 401(k) plan. We no longer hear people say “Let me take this…

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