By Brian Preston, 1 year ago

Roth 401k, Financial Records to Keep, and Social Security

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By Brian Preston, 1 year ago

Pizza and Other Financial Leftovers

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pizzaI've had a crazy, crazy week. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) called last week and let me know that they were stopping by our offices. As you can imagine, this is not my favorite kind of phone call. We had nothing to hide or worry about, but it's still a stressful situation. In light of this visit I decided that this would be a great time for me to focus the show on a few "rainy day" articles I had put away to discuss.

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By Brian Preston, 1 year ago

College Planning & Savings

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Points of Consideration for Education Planning
Many of you have written to ask that I provide some guidance on education planning and I have stayed away from the subject because education planning is one of those subjects that has a limited audience. I always try to do the Money Guy show with the understanding that we have listeners that are new to investing and personal financial planning as well as tried and true weathered investors that I can still enlighten from time to time with my insight.


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By Brian Preston, 1 year ago

Asset Allocation Basics

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I did a show back in January titled «The ABCs of Asset Allocation», but many things have changed over the last 9-10 months. We have added quite a few listeners and many have sent me emails looking for specific discussion on asset allocation. My last show was on the basics of investing, so I think the timing is right to work on your allocation knowledge.

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