Episode 49: Are Fee-Based Financial Advisors the Best Choice for Investors?
Release Date: 02/24/2025
Episode 61: What Should I Do With My 401(k) When I Retire?
Coasting in Retirement
One of the most common questions we get from clients is what should they do with their 401k, specifically the question “What should I do with my 401k when I retire?”. And more often than not the 401k accounts are probably the largest retirement assets a client has. So what I want to do today is answer this question, and probably just as important, answer what NOT to do.
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Coasting in Retirement Shorts: David Stidham of IL Group
Coasting in Retirement
Josh interviews David Stidham of IL Group and Crye-Leike Vacations in the first episode of Coasting in Retirement Shorts!
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Episode 60: How to Avoid Financial Advisor Fraud
Coasting in Retirement
The title of today’s episode is “How to Avoid Financial Advisor Fraud”. And we are going to expand that to include investment managers and hedge fund managers – basically anyone that manages other people’s money. In this episode we are going to detail some of the boxes you want to check with anyone with which you wish to invest, and discuss the red flags to look for, some obvious, some not so obvious, unless you know the business well.
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Episode 59: The Silent Killer of your Money
Coasting in Retirement
Josh Null and John Luke are here to discuss the silent killer of your money: purchasing power. The purchasing power of your dollars has been going down steadily over the years, what can you do about it? We are here to explain all of the details of why your purchasing power is decreasing and how you can solve the issue.
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Episode 58: Am I Ready to Retire?
Coasting in Retirement
Our role is to use math, our various financial planning tools and our experience to help clients put all of the pieces of the puzzle together to figure out if they can retire, and if so, what retirement looks like financially. So listeners today Jay and I are going to discuss this very important question that many of you probably have asked: How Do I Know When I Am Financially Ready to Retire?
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Episode 57: The Future of Everything
Coasting in Retirement
I wanted to take the opportunity of having someone so young on this show, of such a different generation than me and most of our listeners, and get your opinion on some of the various topics that we discuss often on the show. I’m calling this episode, “The Future of Everything” and we are getting first hand knowledge of what a Gen Z individual thinks of all the recent technological and financial developments.
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Episode 56: Balancing Fear with FOMO
Coasting in Retirement
Today Josh is going to translate our different financial investment roller coaster approaches to how investors view the stock market. He is also going to explain a concept for those of you, that are like him and don’t care for roller coasters, especially those of you that don’t think you can stomach the extreme ups and downs of recent stock market volatility. There is a concept in the investing world called “Fear of Missing Out”, commonly known as FOMO. The Oxford dictionary defines FOMO as “anxiety that an exciting or interesting event may currently be happening elsewhere”, with...
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Episode 55: Long Term Care with Jay Stubbs
Coasting in Retirement
I want to discuss what is called an “evergreen” topic with Jay Stubbs on our show – Long Term Care. I’ve been getting a lot of questions about long-term care recently, and as Jay is considered an expert in this field, I wanted to spend 15 to 20 minutes with Jay discussing everything a person should know about long-term care insurance and how to financially navigate an extended health care event. Let’s start with this because many listeners have probably never had this type of protection explained in detail to them – Jay, how do you define long term care insurance?
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Episode 54: Just Stop It
Coasting in Retirement
Regular listeners know that I tend to be skeptical of a lot of things related to my own industry, financial services, including a lot financial advertisements and glossy marketing content masquerading as responsible financial advice, as Michelle knows firsthand, I get very, very irritated when I hear someone in my line of work espouse a bunch of info that is nothing more than lies. And in times of market turbulence, this type of misinformation gets shouted from the roof tops. So with that in mind, we’re going to play a little game of “Just Stop It”, kind of like true or false, except,...
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Episode 53: Well, That Was Fun
Coasting in Retirement
We are recording this episode on Thursday, April 10th, less than 24 hours removed from the largest single day rise in the stock market valuation, right smack dab back into another 2-3% trading dip. The word “historical” gets way overused, but in the case, it’s not hyperbole to say that we are experiencing truly historical levels of volatility, eclipsing even the crazy ups and downs we saw at the beginning of the Covid crisis. And for a radio show based on top-of-mind topics for investors in or near retirement, or any investor of any age I would say, I think it goes without saying that...
info_outlineMost workers get paid in a couple of basic ways, maybe salary as a W2 employee like Michelle, maybe hourly or on commission as a 1099 subcontractor. Now, you would think my profession, financial planning and financial advising, would be the same, right? Well listeners, I’m here to tell you that it’s not, that the various advisors and agents and reps and planners in my line of work get paid in all kinds of ways, and knowing how your financial advisor is getting compensated is way more important than you probably realized. In fact, you can almost pre-determine the type of financial advice you’re going to get if you know how the advisor is paid before you meet them. Unfortunately, these various pay structures can produce all kinds of conflicts of interest, and if your advisor has the wrong set of conflicts for your particular situation, it can have devastating effects on your investment portfolio. What we are going to be talking about today is the eat-what-you-kill side of our business, where a regular paycheck is never a guarantee, especially when you’re new to the business. And we’re also going to disclose how we get paid at Gulf Coast Financial Advisors, including doing my best to explain any conflicts of interest we have, because we all have them.