Financial Planning

Inflation and Pensions: Adjusting for the Future

Available for Interviews: Chris Janeway

Chris Janeway is Founder & CEO Fourth Point Wealth and coaches investors throughout southern CA. He is also a national speaker, financial coach, and advocate for financial literacy.

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Inflation & Pensions:

- - Inflation isn’t inherently a bad thing for pension systems when it’s under control. Mild inflation is a good thing over time and, if anything, it often helps boost the asset pool under management. The problem we’re seeing now is rampant inflation adding downside volatility to the economy accompanied by rising interest rates. The rising rate environment is adding huge volatility to the bond market, where pension systems and seniors go for safety from risk.

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Avoid These 5 Retirement Planning Mistakes

Available for Interviews: Chris Janeway

Chris Janeway is Founder & CEO Fourth Point Wealth and coaches investors throughout southern CA. He is also a national speaker, financial coach, and advocate for financial literacy.

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Retirement Mistakes to Avoid:

1. Failure to Launch. Not getting the retirement investing clock started early in your career is the absolute biggest mistake we see. The power of time in the market is what makes the major difference in your future and getting started as early as possible, even with a small amount, can make a massive impact on your plan’s longevity.

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How to Adjust Your Retirement Planning Post-Pandemic

Available for Interviews: Harry Abrahamsen

Harry J. Abrahamsen is Founder & CEO Abrahamsen Financial Group. His company offers customized wealth management solutions—creating plans and portfolios that protect, preserve, and grow client’s wealth. He was selected as one of the ten most dependable Wealth Managers in the Mid-Atlantic as published in Forbes magazine.

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Retirement Planning Post-Pandemic:

- Forced into early retirement? What should you do? It is important to seek new employment. Example: Take a top executive in PepsiCo who lost her job. She was in her late 50s. She worked with headhunters and did a lot of daily networking. Fortunately, she landed a great job.

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Fighting Inflation: Don’t Trust Banks to Have Your Back

Available for Interviews: Harry Abrahamsen

Harry J. Abrahamsen is Founder & CEO Abrahamsen Financial Group. His company offers customized wealth management solutions—creating plans and portfolios that protect, preserve, and grow clients’ wealth. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Money Rule$: It’s Not What You Make, It’s What You Keep.

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The Banking Industry’s Role in Wealth Growing:

As we deal with record-high inflation, unrest around the world, and an economy that has been thrown into turmoil by the pandemic, some may wonder about history repeating itself. Could we have another Great Depression? Should we trust banks to have our back?

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How 401k Participants Can Handle Inflation and the Current Climate

Available for Interviews: Chris Janeway

Chris Janeway is Founder & CEO Fourth Point Wealth and coaches investors throughout southern CA. He is also a national speaker, financial coach, and advocate for financial literacy.

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Inflation and 401ks:

Some points to keep in mind are the following when it comes to managing a 401k investment:

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The 4% Rule & Retirement: Does It Still Apply?

Available for Interviews: Chris Janeway

Chris Janeway is Founder & CEO Fourth Point Wealth and coaches investors throughout southern CA. He is also a national speaker, financial coach and an advocate for financial literacy.

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The 4% Rule & Retirement:

- We’ve long heard the 4% rule for distributing your assets in retirement. Does the rule, first popularized in the 1970s still apply?

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7 Essential Pointers on Preparing for Retirement

Available for Interviews: Harry Abrahamsen

Harry J. Abrahamsen is Founder & CEO Abrahamsen Financial Group. His company offers customized wealth management solutions—creating plans and portfolios that protect, preserve, and grow clients’ wealth. He was selected as one of the ten most dependable Wealth Managers in the Mid-Atlantic as published in Forbes magazine.

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Preparing for Retirement:

1. Have a game plan in place. Where do you want to live? Do you want to move and downsize? Do you have grandchildren you want to be close to?

2. Have a written retirement plan. It is essential for a person to have a written retirement income plan, not just an investment plan. Most people have money saved up, but they lack an actual written plan to determine where and what their retirement income will look like.

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When Short-Term Investments Make Money Sense

Available for Interviews: Chris Janeway

Chris Janeway is Founder & CEO Fourth Point Wealth and coaches investors throughout southern CA. He is also a national speaker, financial coach, and advocate for financial literacy.

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Financial Literacy:

What makes an investment short term? Typically, a short-term investment plan is around 1-3 years in length depending upon the situation. Some short-term investment plans can be discussed for periods under 1, depending upon the goal they are saving toward, such as a new home purchase or a child’s wedding.

The goal of a short-term investment is about protecting what you’ve built:

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Financial Literacy Is Essential for Our Youth

Available for Interviews: Chris Janeway

Chris Janeway is Founder & CEO Fourth Point Wealth and coaches investors throughout southern CA. He is also a national speaker, financial coach, and advocate for financial literacy.

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Financial Literacy:

The socio-economic wealth gap is clear by age 15 according to the PISA Study by Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (well before these teenagers have started their financial lives). The 2019 study took measures of economic, social, and cultural status rather than simply household income averages for a particular school.

Janeway can share with your audience the financial fundamentals that can help not only the youth but everyone where holes in their financial education exist. Financial literacy holds the key to unlocking seemingly elusive economic security.

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Personal Finance and Facing Money Anxiety

Available for Interviews: Chris Janeway

Chris Janeway is Founder & CEO Fourth Point Wealth and coaches investors throughout southern CA. He is also a national speaker, financial coach, and advocate for financial literacy.

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Money Anxiety:

The greatest source of financial stress and anxiety is the fear of the unknown. We’re often terrified of digging into our numbers and finding out bad news. In reality, the truth is a liberating thing. More often than not, the fear is worse than the facts of anyone’s situation and once we pin down the facts, we can create the steps to progress forward.

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