Category: Investment

Is Your Brain Wired for Wealth?

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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The hidden side of personal finance:
How your brain works to control money decisions

“The neural process underlying that which we call creativity has nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look at how the brain generates creativity, we will see that it is not a rational process at all; creativity is not born out of reasoning.”                                                                                     –Rodolfo Llinás

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Avoid These 5 Retirement Planning Mistakes

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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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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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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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Secrets About Money That Can Change Your Life

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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Financial missteps to avoid:

  1. Do not roll a previous employer’s 401 (k) into a new employers 401 (k) plan
  2. Consider investing your previous employer’s 401 (k) into a fixed indexed annuity with no fees, this way your money is invested with uncapped upside growth potential and zero risk for market volatility.

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Stop Treating Your Finances Like a Junk Drawer in 2022

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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Money Tips for 2022:

    • Doing a seasonal health & wellness checkup of your financial holdings and preparing for the future is a great idea.
    • 401 (k) accounts, IRA’s, investment accounts, various savings, bank accounts, insurance policies, Wills and legal documents, auto, and home insurance policies are scattered all over the place.

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3 Tips Young Investors Can Apply Now to Retire at the Incredible Age of 45

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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Retiring 20 Years Sooner:

Retirement by 45 seems incredible and is no small task. To take 20 years off the saving years and add them to the spending years, takes incredible discipline and planning.  Understanding exactly what you want to live like and how much that costs is crucial in creating the plan to get there.

Of course, a big part of this picture is assessing the kind of lifestyle you wish to have in the future and all of the costs associated with it. Once you come to that conclusion, you can start to take the following tips into consideration:

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