July 14, 2024

Market Shifts: Tech Slows, Small Caps Rise, and Financial Planning Wins

Market Shifts: Tech Slows, Small Caps Rise, and Financial Planning Wins

In this episode of the Greenberg Financial Group Money Matters Show, we delve into the latest stock market trends. We discuss the rotation out of major tech stocks and the surge in small-cap and real estate stocks fueled by lower interest rates. The...

In this episode of the Greenberg Financial Group Money Matters Show, we delve into the latest stock market trends. We discuss the rotation out of major tech stocks and the surge in small-cap and real estate stocks fueled by lower interest rates. The CPI inflation report came in below expectations, causing interest rates to fall. Additionally, we share insights into our financial planning process, which has been helping many people feel more secure in their financial situations. Tune in and discover how our free financial planning meetings can assist you!

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Good morning everybody. It's Sunday morning, eight o'clock right here on seven ninety

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K and ST It's the Money Matter
Show with Dean Greenberg. We got some

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fun things to talk about. One
of the things we need to talk about

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today and be the theme of the
whole show is what do you doing the

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markets keep going higher? Do you? And how do you take some money

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off the table? How do you
mitigate risk and still make money? One

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of the things are going forward.
The other thing is it's not about market

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timing. It's about things getting over
exaggerated one way or the other. This

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is the Money Matter Show. It
is brought to you by Greenberg Financial Group.

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Investment advisor and they broke a dealer.

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They are registered with the SEC.
They have members of FINRA and the

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members of CIPIK. On the show. We talk about different products and different

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strategies. We have our own opinions
or own ideas. Everything we try to

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talk about and discuss has risk.
So understand you risk. Please understand your

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risk. It's very important that you
understand risk and your risk tolerance so you

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can move forward. I know right
now everybody feels great. The market's one

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up again this week, one percent
for the SMP, one point six percent

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for the Dow. The Nazak was
only up point three. Russell though,

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blew the waters off, up six
percent for the week. And finally,

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finally the S and P five hundred
equal rated up three percent for the week.

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So where's up put us for the
year? That was only up six

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percent, The S and P is
up seventeen, the Nazak's up twenty two,

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the Russell's up six percent. So
think about that, this whole week

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is what they made for the whole
year, and equal weighted S and P

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is up six point eight percent.
So that is why you don't try to

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get in and out or market time. You just don't. What you do

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is you set your allocations and every
once in a while you take some money

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off the table when the risk gets
too high. And how do you do

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that, Well, you look around
and you say, okay, my idea

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was, I don't want more than
three percent or five percent in any one

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position, in a stock position,
and that's what you have. So if

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you're up seven, eight, ten
percent, you reduce that stock position back

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down. Maybe you start it with
three and it's at eight, and you

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just reduce it to five. If
it keeps growing great, then you go

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ahead and take off more money.
If it keeps coming down, okay,

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now you buy back in. You
get to your five percent. That gives

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you the automatic of being able to
sell high and buy low, which is

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what you're supposed to do. Everybody
worries about the fear of missing out.

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Everybody worries about I shouldn't have sold
it, and wants so much higher.

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That is good if you're selling something
a part of your position because you made

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money and it went higher, so
be it. Don't get upset about it.

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And I promise you at sometime the
markets will come down, just like

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I promise you that the indexes will
always, at some time in your lifetime,

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will go up and make a new
high. I'm also telling you that

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when you make a new high,
every once in a while, you're going

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to have a drop in the markets. Markets tend to go down three percent,

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five percent, seven even fifteen to
twenty percent. We have a backstop.

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We have the Fed right now until
they lower interest rates. I don't

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believe there's any big moves down more
than maybe three, five or ten percent,

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But if it's in the stocks that
you have that have done so well

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and they fall back down, then
what do you do? And that happened

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on Thursday. The small caps went
up, the mid caps went up,

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the S and P went down,
The S and P went down because they

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are so heavy with the tech stocks
and they all got beat up. So

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if your if your portfolios mostly that, then on Thursday you lost money.

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On Friday made some back. That's
why you take. You don't know where

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the top of me, and if
it started down and continued to go down,

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you don't know where it would come
down. And all I have to

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do is tell you about twenty twenty
two, because in twenty twenty two,

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these tech stacks were doing great.
Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia, Apple,

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Google, they were flying second part
of the year. They didn't just come

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down, they got crushed. These
stocks were two to three four hundred pounds

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dollars during the pandemic. They came
down to the low one hundreds. N

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Vidio was in the low one hundreds, one fifteen, one twenty somewhere in

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there. They went up to over
one thousand and split ten for one.

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So where they are now one hundred
and twenty five would be about twelve hundred

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and fifty. If you remember,
Apple came all the way down to the

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one thirties or so, nobody wanted
to buy it. Then it came up

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too closer to one and then sat
down and won sixty five one seventy and

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nobody wanted it. And now it's
two hundred and twenty dollars. Amazon got

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down under one hundred, Google got
down into the one tens, and they

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roared back. AI. Artificial intelligence
is what brought them back. Artificial intelligence

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is not going away. It is
going to continue to move forward for the

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next three to five years. We've
been saying this over time. Right now

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that what you're seeing is A is
A is a fundamental change that is going

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to affect the world. It is
no different than when the computer was coming

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up on the rise. It took
three to five seven years for the computer.

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The hardware. Everybody was buying Dell
and IBM and Compact, and those

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stocks were flying well. Eventually they
became a commodity. But what was growing

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after that was the software. Everything
that went in the hip. Cisco was

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doing great. IBM was part of
the software apples. It was having a

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problems because it was hardware into the
nineties, all those stocks, and then

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what happened the big change after that
that changed everything was the smartphone. When

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Apple came up with the smartphone,
and then other people came up with the

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smartphone. Those that were left behind
that weren't part of the smartphone. Everybody

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else that had to go into the
computers that went into the phone. They

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did well and they took off from
there. And now where are we simple?

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Were AI? What is going to
drive AI? What is going to

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make things better? The world would
be better with the right AI. It's

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also going to have their bad actors. We know that there's a lot of

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fraud with articial artificial intelligence, which
means us as humans have to be smarter

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to understand if it looks too good, if it doesn't smell right. Don't

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go down that line, especially with
emails. Don't let yourself get zapped into

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these emails that look great. If
you have a question, you call the

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people. I can't tell you the
type of emails that we get. People

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are asking for money and thinking that
there was a client. We won't do

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it. We call the client,
call the client, Hey, was this

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an email? No, never send
that to you. Well, somebody got

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it to your computer and now they're
sending us emails under your name. It

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happens, but you know what you
deal with it. Be smart, don't

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get scammed. Do not get scammed. There's a lot of scams out there,

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a lot of people that want to
make money the easy way. These

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people are so smart they should just
do it the right way. And if

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they did it the right way,
guess what, it would take longer,

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but they would make money at it. The world where we are, what's

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going on. That's the theme.
But right now, I see the shift.

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Okay, it's not a one day
shift. I see a shift.

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And we've been saying this, we've
been buying into it. Mid Cap small

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cap stocks are going to do as
well, if not better than the S

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and P and all as we go
forward to maybe the next couple of years.

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So that doesn't mean you sell all
your big cap stocks, and it

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doesn't mean you buy small cap stocks
and mid cap stocks. What it means

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is you reduce your position in one
side if it's over invested, and you

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buy into the indexes. It's very
difficult to find small cats MidCap stocks that

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you can buy and hold and think
they're going to be great. If you

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buy the indexes and let the ones
come out of say small cat to midcaptain

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to starting to become large cap,
that's when you buy them. There is

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always time to buy those that are
going to be great stocks. You were

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able to buy Apple ten years ago, five years ago, even able to

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buy Apple two years ago, and
you would have made a lot of money

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out of it. Maybe you didn't
buy it at one dollar and watch it

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go all the way up to to
something. Same thing with Navidia. Okay,

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you were able to buy it at
one hundred. You didn't buy it

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at fifteen. Maybe it did,
who knows, But all of a sudden,

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instead of waiting from twenty fifteen to
twenty twenty two, you're able to

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buy it in twenty twenty two and
still make a lot of money with more

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quality and companies out there. But
in the meantime, that doesn't mean you

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can't buy ETF and electronic traded funds. Those are baskets of the stocks that

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you don't have the or the or. Like if you have the mid cap

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one four hundred, they will have
all the stocks in there, just like

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the S and P five hundred does, and that index sayes, Well,

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it's great, but your allocations are
spread around, your risk is spread around.

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And that's why you can buy a
lot of stocks for less money because

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it's in a basket. Same thing
with small caps. Very difficult to pick

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out which ones are going to be
the next Apple or the next Microsoft.

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I know, you can buy one
hundred of these newsletters. Sometimes they're right.

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Most of the time they're wrong.
All they're doing is picking like everyone

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else trying to do the work.
Why not just buy the indexes and you

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know which ones, if the good
stocks, they will be the ones moving

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the index. And if that's the
case, and you can take the top

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ten, look out of them and
figure out if you want it to take

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more risk and buy those at that
time. Most people don't want that much

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risk. Most people want to be
able to participate when the markets are going

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up and not get killed when the
markets are going down. The one thing

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we've always said, and I'll continue
to say it, is that markets by

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buying indexes one thing you know eventually
you'll always watch it make a new high.

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It just happens because if you take
the if you just take the Dow

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Jones, they got thirty stocks right. When the companies aren't doing well,

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they take them out, and when
the companies are doing well, they put

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them back in new ones, which
means the index by nature will always have

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the best stocks in it that are
doing well, the best companies that are

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doing well, producing, making money, growing, and then guess what it

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will make the index go to new
his and you don't have to worry about

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the ones that didn't do well.
Like Walgreens is out of the Dow Jones.

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It was put in a few years
ago, out of it. You

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don't have to worry about it if
you didn't if you don't own it individually.

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But the Dow Jones will go up
and being a new high without Walgreens

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because they put Amazon in or some
other stock that they put in to replace

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it. But they have other companies
that they put in that are doing well.

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Now they're thinking about making the video
part of it. Doesn't mean it

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does anything because eventually the video will
become a commodity company somewhere down the road

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when they are just like Cisco did, unless they start branching out into other

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areas. The reason Apple and Microsoft
have been so successful for so many years

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is one has products that everybody wants, but it's the software inside of it.

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Apple makes people's lives easier. Microsoft
makes people's lives easier. Apple came

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out with the cool hardware of being
able to have phones and watches and wearables

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and all that makes and makes it
the product you want to buy. Of

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hardware. Microsoft is tried, but
at the end of the day, it's

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what they do on the inside that
makes it great. They're all doing AI,

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everything from Amazon to Google to Apple, and whether they need to be

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AI, they need the video chips
and that's why the video is doing so

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well. So if the markets seemed
confusing to you, they shouldn't, but

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they do, and they're confusing to
me sometimes too, and they can confusing

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to me. When you have inflation
numbers that come out and the Consumer Price

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Index, the CPI comes out on
Thursday and actually is better than expected.

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It shows inflation's coming down. Markets
go up a little bit and then they

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get hurt the rest of the day. The S and P goes down,

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but the small caps go up.
On Friday, we come in PPI number,

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the Producer Price Index, which leads
to the CPI index, is much

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higher than expected, and their revised
number is much higher than expected, and

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the markets went up. Now it's
confusing because at the end of the day,

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are they going to raise interurtrate's or
lower interest rates that everyone keeps saying

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in September, Well, with that
data, I don't see how they lower

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it in September. No vomit December. We've been playing this game for a

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while. As an investor, I
like them playing the game, keep pushing

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it down the road because I know
that every time the markets get hit,

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they'll come up with the idea they're
gonna lower interestrates, and everyone thinks that's

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the end all to end dolls and
they buy the market because it's gonna help.

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Well, they got smart this time
and they started buying into the small

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cap and MidCap thinking that interest rates
eventually will come down. They will come

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down eventually, But if they're gonna
come down is because our economy is weakening.

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I don't know if I even trust
all the numbers out there that are

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now see we see unemployment going up
a little bit more, but the only

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jobs that are really being made are
government jobs. Seventy eight thousand jobs were

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done in the government out of the
two hundred thousand that's a lot of jobs.

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I don't want the government getting bigger. I want the government getting smaller.

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But there are people out there that
think a big government as a way

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to go. Why because they get
handouts to everything, every single thing.

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There are people out there that believe
and support Buiden going ahead and giving breaks

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to people that have their their school
loans. Let's reduce the school loans,

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let's get rid of their school loans. To me, that is the wrong

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message. It goes along with all
the illegal immigrants that come over that we

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start continue to give free stuff,
to credit cards, to money each month.

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Are the idea of debit cards?
Not credit cards, debit cards,

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housing, food, education, well, without even knowing what they could do

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to benefit us. I'm at the
point now after listening to this whole this

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uh this week about NATO and all
the people there, and everyone's just worried

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about is he is by going to
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their leaders. We know he's not. They're trying to build it up he

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is, But I'm more concerned about
how they are going ahead and discussing how

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great it is that these other countries
have join NATO, like Finland, Okay,

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nobody asks a question, are they
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And is it the same as everybody
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some mess of product? And if
so, have we gotten a check?

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I care about these things because what
they have done is they blew it totally

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out of proportion. With Trump saying
that he doesn't care about NATO and he

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wants to break up NATO and tells
Putin to do whatever the hell he wants,

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this is what bothers me about,
more politics than anything. Nobody wants

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to tell the truth or understand what
people say when they say it. The

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truth of the matter is, why
are we using our tax dollars to go

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ahead and support NATO? If these
other countries who were defending aren't paying,

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and if we don't make them pay, or if we don't threaten them that

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were not there, which of course
we would be, they don't pay,

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then what happens? They get weakened. So these socialistic countries, and trust

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me when I tell you Finland socialistic, France is socialistic. They're all socialistic.

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Company are countries okay where they believe
that otherbody else should pay for everybody

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else, and their hand is out
France just went left. That means now

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they can retire. They all want
to be able to have mandatory that they

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can all retire at sixty with a
great pension and the pensions never get hurt.

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Who's gonna pay for that? Who
does pay for that? They all

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want more days off, They all
want to work less. We all want

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that and get paid more. Who
doesn't want that. The world doesn't work

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that way, but they think it
does. So they don't think they have

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to pay natal But you know it's
amazing Trump got them to pay because the

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real fear of needing. Everybody comes
together and makes them pay. I am

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tired of paying more taxes and they
keep telling us we got to pay more

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taxes because we're making more our fair
share in taxes so we can give money

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away to the world. Well,
they don't have to pay. Why don't

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we have Is there any contract there? We're giving money to Ukraine. How

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are we going to get money back
from Ukraine. How are the people of

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the United States who are giving money
to their from their taxes to support Ukraine

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and then support Israel and to support
all these other countries around the world.

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How do we get that money back? Because all you keep doing is taking

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money from our pockets. And I'm
not saying I'm a nationalist and it's just

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us. I do believe we come
first. I do believe we shut off

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our borders so our tax money doesn't
have to go to people that don't even

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really care about America, who don't
think America is great. Our approval rating

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around the world has gone down.
We look like a bunch of idiots.

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Guess what. Don't let them in. Approval ratings will go through the roof.

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They all want to come here,
but they all want to crap on

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us. They all want to say
how bad it is. But yet they

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have their hands out. I want
more, Give me food, give me

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this, give me that. How
about changing the mentality of our young people

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to where you work, you get, you earn what you get. That's

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what America was built on, and
we've totally forgot that. People will always

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help others when they really need it. America will help others when they really

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need it. But we don't want
to be used. We don't want to

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be giving away our tax dollars.
You telling us we got to pay more

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taxes, and we do not know
how other people pay. I don't want

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to have to be able to defend
all these other countries that are in Europe

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next to Russia, where any type
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they don't pay you also, granted, I don't mind paying more, we

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have a higher GDP if we all
pay the same percentage, which then brings

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me back to taxes, our fair
share. We all pay the same towards

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NATO and our fair share. Of
course our number is bigger. But then

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when it comes to taxes, they
don't want to go to They don't want

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to pay the same percentage. Oh, that wouldn't be fair, That wouldn't

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be fair to the poor people.
A flat tax is the fairest thing.

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That's why they're doing it with NATO. If we put hundreds of billions dollars

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in the NATO and somebody else puts
ten billion dollars in, it's their percentage

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of their g d P, same
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whatever it is. We don't So
why don't we do the same thing with

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taxes? White doesn't he talk the
same way about taxes? Everybody put up

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the same amount of taxes ten percent, twelve percent, fifteen percent, and

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put it on a usable tax and
national sales or sales tax. You want

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to go buy a yacht for fifty
million dollars, you're gonna pay a hell

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of a lot more in tax than
someone that's gonna go ahead and and not

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buy a boat. If you want
filet moon and somebody else that wants to

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buy chicken, you're gonna pay more
for the fole monion and you're gonna pay

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more taxes on it. What's wrong
with that? That way, you're going

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to create more tax revenue through the
fact that people are using spending on what

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they have. When you go the
other way, all you do is complain

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about the people that don't pay their
fair share and billionaires that pay eight percent

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or ten percent in tax. It's
because that is the tax law. And

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every time someone brings us up,
I remind them only our Congress can change

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that. If they change it,
it changes. Then they use the excuse,

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we can't do that that would ruin
a real estate market. Then if

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it's going to ruin a real estate
market, then shut up and stop talking

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about how the rich don't pay their
fair share, or people that have built

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up their companies and they spare and
they've made billions and hundreds of billions of

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dollars because they own stock. That's
long term gains. And when they sell

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it off, all they have to
pay is long term gains. They took

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the risk at the beginning. They
put their blood, sweat, and tears

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into it. And you're only talking
about eighteen hundred billionaires that live in the

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entire United States, and you want
to put some type of wealth tax on

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it. You want to give disincentive
to people that have been successful or families

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over time that have been successful in
doing things. That is so wrong.

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That's jealousy. Turn the culture around
to where you want people to learn how

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to be successful, how to earn
it, how to play hard, work

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hard, get the opportunities and take
advantage, show up to work, stop

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complaining, do what needs to be
done. Take risk on your own.

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People that tell us successful take risk
on their own. And all we want

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to do is say, hey,
don't worry about it. Contracts don't mean

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anything anymore. Don't worry about it. You got a contract to pay back

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for your student loan, don't worry
about it. You have a mortgage,

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you can't pay it right now,
Hey, don't worry about it. We're

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not. We'll figure it out.
How about is your ways of doing things

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that have changed the problem? Okay? Small businesses is the crux of our

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nation. And they are the ones
that take the risk, and those are

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the ones that become very successful,
and they are the ones that get hurt

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the most if we change the We'll
let the Trump tax code expire and do

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not still keep in that twenty percent
off of small businesses. And that's the

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LLCs and thees corps, the ones
that get k ones. We are going

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to be causing a bad, bad
precedent on charging small companies the burden of

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the taxes that go on. Where
do they go? They will stop hiring,

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they'll have to do different things,
and that happens, all right,

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so the markets can launch higher,
but be careful. The rest of the

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show, we're going to talk about
how you be careful. We'll be right

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back. It's Dean Greenberg and this
is the Money Matter Show. Welcome back,

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everybody, It's the Money Matter Show. We got Dylan, Todd and

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Sebastian today. Davis back east for
a was it he is seeing Oh wait,

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no, no it's not, No, it's not he's seeing his relatives

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for probably the last time. He
says, oh, yes, Linda's family

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is I think. Okay, that's
good. Well, I know, I

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know, I know he wasn't excited
about going, but he had to go.

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That's all I remember to Kentucky.
All right. So markets they keep

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moving higher, they keep making new
hives. Kind of a weird thing.

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On Thursday you had the SMP finally
moved down, and the and the Russell

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two thousand, the small companies,
mid cap companies, they kind of soared

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it. You know it. Don't
get too excited. It's like going into

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a football game and you know the
team. The team scores on the first

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series, in the second series,
and you think that's how the game is

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going to go, and next thing
you know, they're losing the game in

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the fourth period. Okay, but
we've been saying start building a position in

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dollar costs average. We've been saying
this now for probably the last month or

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so, into the small caps,
into the mid caps. It doesn't mean

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you have to have a full position
now, but making sure you have a

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position so you can keep adding it
to it over the next six months.

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Yeah, it's like you can start
a position too. I mean, just

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because small cap went up six percent
last week. Doesn't mean you can't start

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getting your feet wet in there's now
you don't have to go all in.

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If you want a five percent position, you don't have to put all five

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percent in next week. But maybe
if you want to just start and attached

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to it more, you put one
percent in setting started dabbling into it.

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Todd, would you say this was
the best day in the small caps since

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what two thousand and one? Thursday's
trading day was Russell's two thousand's best trading

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day against the QQQ since two thousand
and one, and that really is showing

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you that the small cap stocks in
the two thousand, the Russell two thousand

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have done really well in comparison against
the top one hundred Nasdaq stocks. Now

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that was only for one day,
and a lot of the times this rotation.

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Every day we've seen this happen,
it's just reversed and it did kind

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of do just that on Friday as
well. IWM was also up on Friday,

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but the rest of the market was
up on Friday as well, so

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a continuation of the trend. We
had one day break of just the MAGNIFICENTCE

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seven taking over, so we want
to continue to see this trend continue,

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because otherwise it's just top ten stocks
driving the market. Yeah, there's four

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hundred and ninety other stocks in the
SMP five hundred two. And I mean,

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as we saw last week, the
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and that equal weight to SMP was
up three percent. So you're seeing a

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lot of the other four hundred and
ninety companies that were doing well last week,

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not necessarily just in video, which
is good to see, which makes

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it feel like it if it can
continue, it makes it feel like a

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stronger market rather than an easy one
to turn over if those seven stocks just

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decide to sell out. The one
thing that a lot of people have had

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fears about is the Nasdaq being overvalued
some of these high flyers that have come

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about in the videos the apples.
The real difference between this era and the

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dot com bubble is value is actual
earnings that are coming in the door.

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So if the comparison between the valuations
and actual earnings, and if you look

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at two thousand and one compared to
right now, it's actually we have plenty

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of earnings that account for where these
valuations should be. So it's not pieing

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the sky stuff. There is earnings
that's backing up. And speaking of earnings,

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we just started the new earning season
with banks starting here on Friday and

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that will continue into next week.
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something to the dot com bubb of
two thousand, that's more like twenty twenty,

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when all those companies that weren't making
money had nowhere needs the spects and

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he's fact that when public the day
it went up one hundred percent, if

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not more, and for no reason, and it was for no reason for

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months and then that bubble burst.
That's more similar recent similar comparison to two

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thousand and one, rather than what's
going on right now. These are good

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companies, it's just very concentrated,
so it makes it's starting to make people

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nervous because how long can a concentration
like that last without that without even like

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if they just dropped ten percent,
which isn't huge in sense of a bubble,

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how much longer can it last if
it drops ten percent? Is that

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going to freak more people out and
then start selling take profits? And that's

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when you can see the tumble down
the Nasdaq and the S and P five

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hundred hit an all time high.
The Rustle of two thousand also hit an

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all time high. The Dow Jones
did not. In the equal weight it

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is just right under its all time
high. It's interesting that the doll Jones

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still hasn't hit it's all time high, as it's been lagging again. That's

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what we've seen with when you're just
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the dial Jones is compared to a
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you just it makes it way harder
on your portfolio or index to be

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able to perform and track against these
other ones. So that's what we saw

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this week. And also with oil, it was down a dollar went to

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eighty two dollars a barrel from eighty
three. Gold was up about twenty five

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dollars to twenty four to ten an
ounce. The dollar had an interesting week

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on the back of interest rates.
We had the CPI inflation report on Thursday,

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which came in much lower than expectations. It actually came in negative,

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so we had a negative point one
month over month on the inflation rating,

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which is obviously disinflation deflation, so
the opposite of inflation. That's the first

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time we've seen that since the pandemic
era, and that led to interest rates

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falling drastically. The mortgage rate is
now at six point eight nine percent of

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the thirty year FREDDYMAC, and with
the interest rates moving down, the ten

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year is now at four point So
across the board, the two year ten

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year spread has still kind of been
where it's at. It's still inverted.

406
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There's still potential signs of a recession, and with this first deflation rating on

407
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the CPI, that is kind of
the first sign of a recession coming.

408
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So will it continue, that's the
question. Now. There's a ninety three

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percent chance that the Fed will cut
rates for the first time in September's meeting.

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There's only a five percent chance in
July, and almost a ninety six

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percent chance for the December meeting.
Yeah, and a lot of the time

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when they announce it now, it
gets priced in now because the market is

413
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a leading indicator. So if they
do end up actually cutting it in December,

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you're not necessarily going to see a
huge market run up because it's already

415
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been priced in. Exactly every market
is trying to think about six months into

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the future, and right now,
a lot of people are going to start

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thinking about the election. We've talked
about how July is seasonally a really good

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year, especially in an election year. As we come through the fruition of

419
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July, that's when we will kind
of start to look to pair back some

420
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of our risk side and be a
little more cautious heading into the election where

421
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we expect some volatility. I mean, there's a good chance though, with

422
00:31:10.279 --> 00:31:14.759
the anticipation of interest rates coming down, that the markets can broaden out,

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keep the indexes moving, and we
can go up another double digits from here

424
00:31:19.119 --> 00:31:22.640
between the end of the year,
but there will be a decline in between

425
00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:26.759
now and the end of the year. That's when you jump back on and

426
00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:32.440
say I'm going to ride this.
Let's talk about this whole thing with interest

427
00:31:32.519 --> 00:31:37.200
rates. Why the effect of them
helps a small cap and the MidCap more.

428
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Well, the easy way to put
it is stocks are valued higher when

429
00:31:42.960 --> 00:31:48.960
interest rates are lower because their forward
looking earnings are more valuable because the discount

430
00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:52.720
rate you're discounting on against is lower. So it's just a simple number of

431
00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:56.440
interest rates lower, a stock valuation
can be higher. Yeah, but there's

432
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also another reason. The borrowing weight
is lower. Okay, companies are always

433
00:32:01.079 --> 00:32:06.839
borrowing, are always most of the
most of the borrowing that they do is

434
00:32:06.960 --> 00:32:10.319
variable rates go up and down.
Obviously they do short term lending, and

435
00:32:10.359 --> 00:32:14.759
that lending comes due, then they
have to go and get high lending,

436
00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:16.680
and it goes the opposite way.
So the less they have to pay on

437
00:32:16.759 --> 00:32:22.000
interest, the more they are able
to go forward and also more flexible than

438
00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:28.079
big companies when things are changing.
So that's a big reason why tech.

439
00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:31.200
When you see interest rates drop,
tech companies tend to go up because they're

440
00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:36.559
borrowing more often because they're more in
the growth stages of the cycle, so

441
00:32:36.559 --> 00:32:37.880
they're gonna try and borrow more money
makes it cheaper for them, they want

442
00:32:37.880 --> 00:32:42.200
to go up, and that's why
you see the NASDAC and the tech companies

443
00:32:42.279 --> 00:32:45.319
jump when interest rates drop. So
if interet rates are gonna come down,

444
00:32:45.799 --> 00:32:51.799
obviously money market's gonna come down,
and those short term bonds that are gonna

445
00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:53.519
come due are not gonna be able
to get the same type of interest that

446
00:32:53.559 --> 00:32:59.680
they're getting now. So what's a
game plan going forward from here over the

447
00:32:59.720 --> 00:33:02.039
next five years, How would you
look at it to be able to take

448
00:33:02.079 --> 00:33:07.039
advantage of in your trates coming down
and be able to lock into age today.

449
00:33:07.119 --> 00:33:09.039
Yeah, I mean there's different ideas, and it depends on what route

450
00:33:09.079 --> 00:33:12.680
you want to take. There's always
what we've talked about before is the MIGO,

451
00:33:12.680 --> 00:33:15.440
which is the multi year guaranteed annuity
you can lock in. I mean

452
00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:20.000
that fluctuates best paying high five percents
right now. You can lock that in

453
00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:22.880
for five years. Obviously you lock
it up, that's something you got to

454
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:24.440
know. You can take out max
ten percent a year. But the idea

455
00:33:24.440 --> 00:33:28.359
with that is that you're putting in
a way as kind of like a CD

456
00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:30.160
back by an insurance company paying a
little higher. So if you want to

457
00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:32.240
lock that in, that's something to
think about for five years. Well,

458
00:33:32.279 --> 00:33:36.240
the other advantage there there's no taxes
too, exactly, it's the third.

459
00:33:36.559 --> 00:33:38.480
I would also point out that with
interest rates going lower, there's a lot

460
00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:43.079
of equity industries that we could look
into at that time. For example,

461
00:33:43.079 --> 00:33:46.359
we've already entertained the solar play.
Solar becomes more attractive when the strates are

462
00:33:46.359 --> 00:33:50.759
lower. We know evs become more
attractive when interstrates are lower because of the

463
00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:52.480
financing side of things, right,
But I was talking more of the fixed

464
00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:55.599
income part of their portfolio. That's
why I want to concentrate on right now,

465
00:33:55.759 --> 00:33:59.519
because a lot of people have fixing
cup and they want to stay with

466
00:33:59.559 --> 00:34:04.279
the fixed fixed income all right,
So simply, what was one of the

467
00:34:04.319 --> 00:34:07.119
things that we did when interst rates
were coming down. We got out of

468
00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:10.400
we got out of the long term
bond fund bond funds, and we got

469
00:34:10.679 --> 00:34:14.400
short term bond funds. Well,
we first went to short term bond funds

470
00:34:14.440 --> 00:34:16.960
and then kept coming down, we
got out of those and started buying individual

471
00:34:17.039 --> 00:34:21.480
bonds. Treasuries were the safest and
those started paying a lot of interest.

472
00:34:21.519 --> 00:34:27.400
So we started buying treasuries, started
buying investment grade corporate income corporate bonds individually,

473
00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:30.639
so then at the maturity date,
you get your principle back with whatever

474
00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:32.840
interest that's paying, so rather than
a bond fund where you could lose principle.

475
00:34:32.840 --> 00:34:36.599
Because if insurt rates kept going up
like they did as we saw in

476
00:34:36.599 --> 00:34:39.039
twenty two as well, that's why
the bond funds went down. The thing

477
00:34:39.079 --> 00:34:42.320
you're thinking about though, I mean, now, if you think instrants are

478
00:34:42.320 --> 00:34:45.239
coming down, bond funds could be
a little more attractive because insustrants go down

479
00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:49.760
bond funds become more valuable, right, so what what what didn't work before

480
00:34:50.119 --> 00:34:53.199
in twenty two and twenty three,
yep, will work now in going back.

481
00:34:53.239 --> 00:34:58.199
And it's obviously you want to be
with someone that understands these things and

482
00:34:58.320 --> 00:35:00.599
able to capture that. And that's
where right now, what we're doing is

483
00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:05.400
we're doing a bond ladder out five
years. We're going ahead and rolling them,

484
00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:08.480
but we're also putting some money into
the bond funds that are out longer

485
00:35:08.639 --> 00:35:13.320
that if IGIT rates go down,
they're gonna appreciate. Offset what you'll miss

486
00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:15.519
on the other side, gain back
some of the losses that you had before,

487
00:35:15.800 --> 00:35:21.119
and put yourself in a very nice
fixed income position. That's what you're

488
00:35:21.159 --> 00:35:23.280
looking to try to do. Figure, if you don't know what you're doing,

489
00:35:23.519 --> 00:35:28.159
if you haven't heard this, if
it doesn't matter, if someone hasn't

490
00:35:28.159 --> 00:35:30.639
presented this to you, then you
need to come and see us because this

491
00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:35.079
is your fixed income party of portfolio. We're gonna come back. We're going

492
00:35:35.159 --> 00:35:37.599
to talk about your equity and your
wrist side of the portfolio and what to

493
00:35:37.639 --> 00:35:40.800
do in the type of situation we
are now. It's the money about of

494
00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:45.960
show with Dean Greenberg and the rest
of the colleagues here. We'll be right

495
00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:50.599
back. Welcome back, everybody.
It's the money about the show. We

496
00:35:50.679 --> 00:35:53.519
got Sebastian, Dylan, Todd and
myself. Dave's had to go away for

497
00:35:53.559 --> 00:35:58.840
the weekend and hopefully he's enjoying himself, but you know he misses you and

498
00:35:58.880 --> 00:36:01.880
he misses being here. Hey.
So we were talking about markets and and

499
00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:07.599
want to do one of the things
I want to really bring up and distinguish

500
00:36:07.880 --> 00:36:10.599
between what we do and others.
We don't sit there and just say don't

501
00:36:10.599 --> 00:36:14.320
worry about it. When the markets
go down, they'll come back. And

502
00:36:14.360 --> 00:36:16.639
we certainly don't sit there when the
markets just keep going higher. Don't worry

503
00:36:16.679 --> 00:36:22.000
about it. Markets go up and
down, enjoy the ride. We understand

504
00:36:22.039 --> 00:36:28.159
the markets fixed income, We understand
the markets from the from the stock portfolio.

505
00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:31.119
We try to do our best that
helps you. That's why we are

506
00:36:31.559 --> 00:36:37.800
fiduciaries that work on behalf of our
clients. And like all these other people

507
00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:40.599
say, but they don't explain it
exactly. The way we make money is

508
00:36:40.639 --> 00:36:45.199
on a fee based business. When
you do better, our fees go up.

509
00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:47.480
We do better. When you go
down, our fees go down,

510
00:36:47.800 --> 00:36:52.880
and even I'm not talking about the
percentage. I'm just talking about the amount

511
00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:55.280
that goes up and down. And
there's all these people make it sound like,

512
00:36:57.159 --> 00:36:59.719
oh, they when the markets go
down, they don't make money.

513
00:36:59.719 --> 00:37:04.000
That's not true. We have to
make money. Everyone has to make money.

514
00:37:04.199 --> 00:37:06.639
It's a base. So just look
at it this way. You got

515
00:37:06.639 --> 00:37:12.519
five hundred thousand dollars and you're one
percent. How much is that if we

516
00:37:12.599 --> 00:37:16.800
charge one percent, fifty thousan dollars. Okay, if the market goes to

517
00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:22.920
four hundred thousand, it's only four
thousand dollars. And that's how you figure

518
00:37:22.960 --> 00:37:25.840
out up and down it because it's
a six hundred thousand, it's six thousand.

519
00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:30.199
You make a hundred, we make
a thousand more. Yeah, exactly,

520
00:37:30.239 --> 00:37:32.960
So in a sense it stays proportional. Yes, so we're moving up

521
00:37:32.960 --> 00:37:36.599
and down with you. So when
the markets are bad, we're down there

522
00:37:36.639 --> 00:37:39.400
with you. Our whole goal is
to grow accounts with you. We will

523
00:37:39.400 --> 00:37:44.000
not sit there and do nothing.
We don't believe in that. We're also

524
00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:47.639
not going to sell everything and buy
everything. It's allocation process. It's understanding

525
00:37:47.679 --> 00:37:52.840
fixed income, it's understanding inequity.
It's understanding when markets go higher, how

526
00:37:52.840 --> 00:37:55.440
to mitigate risk when markets go lower. Not being afraid to buy, and

527
00:37:55.480 --> 00:37:59.800
with being an independent investment firm,
we have the ability to go into a

528
00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:02.920
different products to mitigate risks, to
try and get a little extra acceleration on

529
00:38:02.960 --> 00:38:07.559
the upside if we think markets a
bottom, different tools, different outlets to

530
00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:12.320
work. We do are not confined
by a certain amount of funds because we

531
00:38:12.360 --> 00:38:15.719
worked for a big wirehouse. So
it's nice that we can check out everything

532
00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:19.599
that's going on through the market and
see what best benefits our clients. A

533
00:38:19.599 --> 00:38:22.760
couple stocks that pointed out to me
on the interest rates play that really benefited

534
00:38:22.760 --> 00:38:27.760
one was ITB. You can also
look at XHB. It's the home builders

535
00:38:28.039 --> 00:38:32.280
construction ETF. The I shares ETF
was up eleven percent this week, eleven

536
00:38:32.280 --> 00:38:37.199
point three percent this week alone.
Really had a huge day, up just

537
00:38:37.679 --> 00:38:40.280
seven percent a loan on Thursday off
the back of that lowes CPI inflation number.

538
00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:45.239
So obviously housing would play really well
with lower interest rates. Another ETF

539
00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:51.360
that had a really big pop was
XBI, the biotech ETF. They saw

540
00:38:51.440 --> 00:38:54.440
a big pop on the back of
the lower interest rates, and so there

541
00:38:54.480 --> 00:38:58.880
are a lot of different equity sides, and like I said before, the

542
00:38:58.920 --> 00:39:01.960
solar side of things, they would
benefit as well as ev side would benefit.

543
00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:08.119
So anything that would be dependent on
retail going out and getting a loan

544
00:39:08.320 --> 00:39:13.599
to buy that product, obviously lower
interest rates benefit really well for those And

545
00:39:13.679 --> 00:39:15.760
ETF is a good way to get
into this sector too. Rather than trying

546
00:39:15.760 --> 00:39:21.679
to find one company within say biotech, you can buy the XBI the Biotech

547
00:39:21.679 --> 00:39:24.119
ETF, which is one hundreds of
biotech companies, so you're gaining exposure to

548
00:39:24.159 --> 00:39:28.800
the sector without trying to pick the
stock that does the best. You're not

549
00:39:28.800 --> 00:39:32.639
going Obviously there's times where the ETF
isn't going to outperform maybe one stock that's

550
00:39:32.639 --> 00:39:37.079
in it because it's more diversified.
But if the biotech sector as a hole

551
00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:42.719
is going up, you're gonna see
gains. Another interesting place that I was

552
00:39:42.760 --> 00:39:46.119
looking at this week is bitcoin.
Bitcoin fell down to fifty four thousand over

553
00:39:46.159 --> 00:39:50.440
the weekend, bounce back up to
fifty eight. Now it's training around fifty

554
00:39:50.559 --> 00:39:53.400
seven to six, and it's built
a nice base here at its Fibonacci level,

555
00:39:53.519 --> 00:39:58.400
so it'd be interesting to see how
it responds off of it and I'd

556
00:39:58.440 --> 00:40:04.599
expect it to go higher back up
sixty did you did you guys see Costco

557
00:40:04.760 --> 00:40:07.679
this week? That was an interesting
play. They raised their membership fees and

558
00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:10.239
after markets they went up about ten
percents. Did not hold it the next

559
00:40:10.320 --> 00:40:14.400
day. That was a quick way
to raise five hundred million dollars though.

560
00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:19.480
Yeah, they increased their membership by
five dollars. Yeah, five dollars,

561
00:40:19.519 --> 00:40:22.280
and then the kind of more advanced
here they raised about ten but yeahnts around

562
00:40:22.559 --> 00:40:27.639
hot dogs the same price as long
as that founders are at Another thing about

563
00:40:27.639 --> 00:40:30.280
the interest rates could have been that
that's why Tesla had such a good week

564
00:40:30.360 --> 00:40:34.239
last week. Now, inter rates
didn't falled that big last week, but

565
00:40:34.320 --> 00:40:37.760
they were up twenty seven percent last
week. This week they held their gains

566
00:40:37.800 --> 00:40:40.880
only down one percent, So it
was interesting that they were able to hold

567
00:40:40.920 --> 00:40:45.199
those gains. Now trades at two
forty eight, Yeah, Tesla's a still

568
00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:46.679
a very viotle stock, and then
it dropped twenty points in one day,

569
00:40:46.719 --> 00:40:51.440
then a gain's it back then gained
fifty points in three days. I think

570
00:40:51.440 --> 00:40:54.719
tos and Tesla did what it did
was because people with short that stock was

571
00:40:54.760 --> 00:40:59.159
a heavily shorted stock, it started
to get away from them. I don't

572
00:40:59.199 --> 00:41:01.679
know why people cantinue to try to
short that stock, because at the end

573
00:41:01.679 --> 00:41:05.679
of the day, they've got their
heads handed to them. Selling a stock

574
00:41:05.760 --> 00:41:08.000
short means you're trying to bet the
stock's going to go down, and at

575
00:41:08.039 --> 00:41:12.599
some time you have to cover that
stock if it's down, which means buy

576
00:41:12.639 --> 00:41:15.559
it after you sold it. And
what it did. It came out with

577
00:41:15.639 --> 00:41:20.840
surprising a news. The news forced
to stock higher. People started buying the

578
00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:23.719
stock. The shorts had to come
in and cover. People started buying the

579
00:41:23.760 --> 00:41:27.119
stock because they were afraid they were
going to miss it. And I'm sure

580
00:41:27.159 --> 00:41:30.199
and everyone's buying the stock's going back
to five hundred. It could go it

581
00:41:30.239 --> 00:41:32.519
again, who knows. But at
the end of the day, short selling

582
00:41:34.519 --> 00:41:39.639
becomes double buying at some time when
people get scared. And nothing's different of

583
00:41:39.960 --> 00:41:43.920
Tesla this week than it was last
week, other than the fact that the

584
00:41:43.960 --> 00:41:46.639
stock is much much higher. Another
thing that we want to talk about is

585
00:41:46.679 --> 00:41:51.280
the risk levels that our clients are
at right now. We're at fifty six

586
00:41:51.920 --> 00:41:54.119
and the S and P five hundred. That was the fifty six hundred year

587
00:41:54.159 --> 00:41:58.559
price target when we came into this
year, so we are already at the

588
00:41:58.639 --> 00:42:01.559
end of your price target obviously readjusted. Now we're thinking about six thousand.

589
00:42:01.800 --> 00:42:06.519
The point of this is that if
you are looking at your portfolio and you're

590
00:42:06.519 --> 00:42:07.920
happy with it, that doesn't mean
you're going to be happy with it in

591
00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:12.800
a year's time or two years time. Just because you're at the risk level

592
00:42:12.840 --> 00:42:15.239
now doesn't mean that's where you're going
to need to be in the next six

593
00:42:15.320 --> 00:42:17.519
months. So come in here.
Let's give you a free risk analyzer.

594
00:42:17.559 --> 00:42:21.920
We can put in your holdings of
your current portfolio, show you how risky

595
00:42:21.960 --> 00:42:24.480
your current porfolio is. That way, you can see your risks at this

596
00:42:24.679 --> 00:42:29.280
level and not at a bottom level
like where most people want to see it.

597
00:42:29.679 --> 00:42:31.559
Right now, it's the more important
time where you actually have made the

598
00:42:31.599 --> 00:42:35.800
money. Now's the time to mitigate
risk, not when it's too late.

599
00:42:36.400 --> 00:42:38.800
You know, I've been thinking about
that a lot. That we are looking

600
00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:45.679
for fifty six hundred plus for the
market to get to and top out,

601
00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:47.559
and it's like, Okay, why
am I still bullish on the market.

602
00:42:47.920 --> 00:42:52.199
Why do I still think you can
go higher? Okay? Simple? They

603
00:42:52.239 --> 00:42:57.639
never lower delingistrates. They kept talking
about lowing them in March, lowing them

604
00:42:57.639 --> 00:43:00.840
in June, lower them in August, September, Well, we haven't gotten

605
00:43:00.880 --> 00:43:04.800
to September yet, and they keep
talking about it. And if it's not

606
00:43:04.880 --> 00:43:08.599
that, it's November. So my
feeling is is that the markets have continued

607
00:43:08.639 --> 00:43:14.480
to come up because the anticipation that
it's going to happen, and it hasn't.

608
00:43:14.559 --> 00:43:16.440
If you go back and look at
history, when they lower ingistrates,

609
00:43:16.440 --> 00:43:21.400
you get a pop, and then
there's a problem because they have to keep

610
00:43:21.440 --> 00:43:27.159
lowering interest rates. What ends up
happening is the economy is not doing as

611
00:43:27.159 --> 00:43:30.800
well. Now. Eventually all these
people that called the recession are going to

612
00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:34.599
say, you see, I told
you a recession. What's coming? It

613
00:43:34.719 --> 00:43:38.599
was also forty percent ago in the
markets, So if you just thought that

614
00:43:38.599 --> 00:43:43.960
that I'm getting out, you gave
up a lot of appreciation to the upside.

615
00:43:44.599 --> 00:43:49.440
Yes, a recession won't come.
So, like Todd just said,

616
00:43:49.719 --> 00:43:55.159
know your risk tolerance, But what
most of you don't know is what your

617
00:43:55.199 --> 00:44:01.360
portfolio risk is. You need to
come in and let us put your portfolio

618
00:44:01.400 --> 00:44:07.280
through the same thing as you would
as a person, and see what your

619
00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:13.079
portfolio is. What is your risk
number on your portfolio right now, I

620
00:44:13.119 --> 00:44:17.480
got people are much there with portfolios, are much riskier than what they really

621
00:44:17.519 --> 00:44:22.599
want to handle. Explain the process
of how that works on the portfolio side.

622
00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:24.800
Yeah, So if you're thinking about
what's a really risky stock Bitcoin for

623
00:44:24.840 --> 00:44:28.639
example, it's a ninety nine on
a risk scale, you're thinking what's the

624
00:44:28.679 --> 00:44:30.800
most least risky stuff it's going to
be in cash, You're gonna have a

625
00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:34.800
one on the risk scale. If
you're on a S and P five hundred

626
00:44:34.800 --> 00:44:37.679
percent of S and P five hundred, your risk score for that stock would

627
00:44:37.679 --> 00:44:42.159
be a seventy seven for example.
Okay, so every single holding has its

628
00:44:42.159 --> 00:44:45.920
own risk ore, and then as
a composite with all those holdings, based

629
00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:49.280
on how much money is in each
holding, you get a composite risk score

630
00:44:49.360 --> 00:44:52.800
for your portfolio. So if your
risk score of your portfolio seventy and you

631
00:44:52.920 --> 00:44:58.000
coming in as fifty on your risk
score on your personal risk score, then

632
00:44:58.039 --> 00:45:01.559
there's a disconnect there. So there's
that's how we can see if you're currently

633
00:45:01.599 --> 00:45:07.000
where you can handle the level of
risk that your portfolio is showing. Right,

634
00:45:07.079 --> 00:45:16.159
So simplifying does your portfolio and you
match up as as risky as you

635
00:45:16.199 --> 00:45:21.199
want to be And the only way
you're going to do it is you actually

636
00:45:21.199 --> 00:45:25.000
spend the time go through I mean
you have So this is where this is

637
00:45:25.039 --> 00:45:30.639
where AI actually helps. Okay,
our programs are all done by algorithms,

638
00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:37.199
all AI stuff in them, and
it's predictive and it will tell you and

639
00:45:37.239 --> 00:45:40.800
it takes. What it takes into
consideration is liquidity. How long you think

640
00:45:40.840 --> 00:45:45.079
you need the markets, how you
feel about the markets, What do you

641
00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:47.039
feel if the markets go down?
How do you feel if you come out

642
00:45:47.039 --> 00:45:52.920
of something and it goes the other
way? Versus actual risk? If you're

643
00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:57.519
just in the SP five hundred,
that's seventy seven. That means, okay,

644
00:45:57.559 --> 00:46:00.840
you're going to do about seventy five
to eighty percent of what market does.

645
00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:04.840
But on the downside, you're gonna
do the same thing. So can

646
00:46:04.880 --> 00:46:08.840
you handle losing fifteen to twenty percent? Most people can't. They can certainly

647
00:46:08.880 --> 00:46:13.159
make it on the upside, but
they can't handle it on the downside.

648
00:46:13.239 --> 00:46:16.880
So right now, make your decision
that you're going to at least do that

649
00:46:16.960 --> 00:46:22.039
over the next thirty days is find
out what your portfolio risk is, what

650
00:46:22.119 --> 00:46:27.320
your personal risk is, and we'll
do it for you. For nothing and

651
00:46:27.480 --> 00:46:30.559
twelve in a financial plan. If
that's what you want, Okay, financial

652
00:46:30.599 --> 00:46:34.880
plan uses the risk. We use
that risk to build your financial plan to

653
00:46:34.880 --> 00:46:37.360
show you what it looks like during
retirement because a lot of the time,

654
00:46:37.760 --> 00:46:40.159
your risk tolerance is going to be
a lot more conservative. Once you hit

655
00:46:40.199 --> 00:46:45.039
retirement and you're not getting in the
paycheck every two weeks or every month.

656
00:46:45.440 --> 00:46:49.480
Right now you're fifty, you might
have a high risk tolerance, a high

657
00:46:49.800 --> 00:46:52.639
aggressive you want to be going because
you're not retiring for ten years, or

658
00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:57.119
you were fifty and now you're sixty
and you're thinking, Okay, it's time

659
00:46:57.119 --> 00:46:59.760
to get a little more conservative.
I don't know how I've been aggressive my

660
00:46:59.800 --> 00:47:02.360
whole life. We can show you
how it would look during retirement to be

661
00:47:02.400 --> 00:47:07.480
more conservative. This analyzer also shows
you your expense ratio that you're paying for

662
00:47:07.519 --> 00:47:09.280
all the holdings in your account,
which really is good to know if you're

663
00:47:09.320 --> 00:47:13.920
overpaying. So go to our website, find a phone number, either contact

664
00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:15.920
us to email or give us a
call, set up an appointment and get

665
00:47:15.920 --> 00:47:19.320
this done. We'll be right back. It's the Money Matter Show. We

666
00:47:19.360 --> 00:47:46.280
have another hour for you to listen
to us and learn more. By one.

667
00:47:47.480 --> 00:47:52.599
Hello and welcome to Money Matters.
I'm Sarah Peterson here with Dean Greenberg

668
00:47:52.760 --> 00:47:58.639
and Dylan Greenberg of Greenberg Financial Group. Good morning. How are you guys

669
00:47:58.639 --> 00:48:02.079
doing. We're good. Every week
we get to see you. Lucky you

670
00:48:02.159 --> 00:48:07.079
know, I'm just kidding. I
love you guys. This is a great

671
00:48:07.079 --> 00:48:10.199
way for people to understand their money
does matter. It doesn't. Money's not

672
00:48:10.239 --> 00:48:15.559
everything. But we are looking at
the way we all approach our financial plan

673
00:48:15.400 --> 00:48:21.119
so that we can retire wonderfully,
beautifully the way we all envisioned and have

674
00:48:21.199 --> 00:48:23.719
peace of mind. And that's what
we're getting. Yeah, I mean,

675
00:48:23.760 --> 00:48:27.679
that's the biggest thing is we want
to have people have their peace of mind

676
00:48:28.039 --> 00:48:30.159
through their retiring years. We don't
want them to stress about where the money's

677
00:48:30.159 --> 00:48:32.039
coming from, how much do they
got to spend. We want to deal

678
00:48:32.079 --> 00:48:37.239
with all that before they retire,
so they know their plan for the golden

679
00:48:37.320 --> 00:48:38.920
years. Quote unquote. People who
are just tuning in and seeing you guys,

680
00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:44.320
they don't really understand how different things
are at Greenberg Financial Group. You

681
00:48:44.360 --> 00:48:49.760
guys are not just a team,
but oh a father and a son.

682
00:48:50.039 --> 00:48:52.880
Yes, you know, any one
thinks you know a lot of people go,

683
00:48:52.960 --> 00:48:57.440
oh, isn't that great? It's
so fantastic. You some wanted to

684
00:48:57.440 --> 00:49:00.519
get into the business and do this
and that, and you know maybe some

685
00:49:00.159 --> 00:49:05.199
parent kids relationship starts up that way
and they always want to do it.

686
00:49:05.239 --> 00:49:08.960
I knew he wanted to be in
financial stuff, but working together was an

687
00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:13.280
idea, but never something that was
like, Okay, we're going to do

688
00:49:13.320 --> 00:49:16.280
it right away. But circumstances,
you know, obviously changing. When I

689
00:49:16.320 --> 00:49:21.280
was looking for that person, you
know, dealers in Minnesota looking for stuff

690
00:49:21.280 --> 00:49:22.920
in New York, and I'm like, what do you want to do?

691
00:49:22.840 --> 00:49:24.480
Do you want to be an institutional
I want to be a financial advisor?

692
00:49:24.679 --> 00:49:28.239
I said, then why are you
going to start off there trying to build

693
00:49:28.719 --> 00:49:31.719
a book for somebody else and not
be back with us? He said,

694
00:49:31.800 --> 00:49:35.880
okay. So I talked to him
into coming back and working with us and

695
00:49:35.880 --> 00:49:39.679
starting with us. And like I
tell everybody, working with me and our

696
00:49:39.760 --> 00:49:44.199
firm, every year is a dog
here. I mean, you're learning seven

697
00:49:44.280 --> 00:49:46.239
years of stuff in one year compared
to what you would learn in a big

698
00:49:46.280 --> 00:49:52.480
company. But it's okay because my
style is real simple. You'll make mistakes,

699
00:49:52.320 --> 00:49:55.639
but that's all right. We'll fix
them. You won't know everything,

700
00:49:55.920 --> 00:50:00.000
but you'll ask questions and you will
learn it, and you'll get so much

701
00:50:00.119 --> 00:50:02.360
much faster and know so much more
from there. I remember the first time

702
00:50:02.360 --> 00:50:05.360
he was on the radio. I
mean he was with us for a week.

703
00:50:05.400 --> 00:50:07.320
I think put him on the radio, he's stumbling and bumbling, and

704
00:50:07.320 --> 00:50:12.599
now he's smooth and does a great
job. But then it came down to

705
00:50:12.639 --> 00:50:16.000
that father son relationship. And I
know it's a little personal, but I'm

706
00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:19.519
going to tell people this because a
lot of people want to be in that

707
00:50:19.559 --> 00:50:23.639
relationship with their kids. It's as
a dad, you expect things to be

708
00:50:23.679 --> 00:50:27.039
a certain way. As a son, you expect things to be a certain

709
00:50:27.079 --> 00:50:31.000
way. And that dynamic isn't as
easy as you think it is. But

710
00:50:31.039 --> 00:50:35.280
the one thing that we agree to
is that we will continue to talk and

711
00:50:35.280 --> 00:50:38.639
communicate until we got the answer.
We weren't going to walk away with each

712
00:50:38.679 --> 00:50:42.039
other. We weren't going to say
no to this and that, but we're

713
00:50:42.039 --> 00:50:45.039
going to be honest and open with
each other. Well, you're both athletes

714
00:50:45.079 --> 00:50:49.559
too, and you both like you
both approach things with a team perspective,

715
00:50:49.599 --> 00:50:52.840
and I think that's something we can
all appreciate that's the easy part. Oh

716
00:50:52.920 --> 00:50:55.280
yeah, that's the easy it's it's
how we interacted with each other. It

717
00:50:55.320 --> 00:50:59.719
was the first couple of years it
was a dynamic between it was being my

718
00:50:59.800 --> 00:51:02.360
dad or my boss and then his
son or employee. So that dynamic until

719
00:51:02.400 --> 00:51:05.960
we figured it out was a rough
couple of years. Well, like you

720
00:51:05.960 --> 00:51:07.920
said, we stick it out.
But I do love to how you have

721
00:51:07.960 --> 00:51:12.400
a different perspective. You're a young
guy. You see, you're kind of

722
00:51:12.400 --> 00:51:15.320
got your finger on the pulse right
now. You're learning so quickly. There's

723
00:51:15.400 --> 00:51:19.440
just so many changes in the financial
world every day, so much to learn.

724
00:51:19.800 --> 00:51:23.960
And it's great that you are so
interested in this long term perspective because

725
00:51:23.960 --> 00:51:28.920
people are coming in. Younger people
people twenties, thirties, forties. They

726
00:51:28.920 --> 00:51:31.719
need to start planning and it's great
to be building their future with you and

727
00:51:31.840 --> 00:51:36.800
know that you can kind of stick. But it's even retired people. They're

728
00:51:36.880 --> 00:51:39.880
happy that I have younger people there
because say, look at man. They

729
00:51:39.880 --> 00:51:43.280
go, okay, tell me the
truth I do. I say, listen,

730
00:51:43.280 --> 00:51:46.599
I don't plan on retiling, but
if I can't mentally handle it,

731
00:51:47.320 --> 00:51:52.199
I will walk away. But I
still got ten twelve, fifteen years more

732
00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:54.320
to go, for sure, But
I don't want to be that guy.

733
00:51:54.440 --> 00:51:59.119
I want the young people over the
next three, five, seven, ten

734
00:51:59.199 --> 00:52:01.760
years to be able to be the
ones. So I give him a lot

735
00:52:01.760 --> 00:52:05.719
of leeway to input and give me
the ideas that they want. If I

736
00:52:05.840 --> 00:52:08.320
like him, we'll try it.
If we don't, I'm not afraid to

737
00:52:08.400 --> 00:52:12.800
give them some things to see how
they work out. But you know,

738
00:52:13.000 --> 00:52:15.119
one of the things with Dylan,
which was tough and different for me,

739
00:52:15.199 --> 00:52:20.000
when I started with nothing in nineteen
eighty eight, I had nothing to lose,

740
00:52:20.440 --> 00:52:22.039
you know, so people were pulling
for me. It was great,

741
00:52:22.079 --> 00:52:24.480
you know what I mean, Hey, you got you're starting your own company.

742
00:52:24.559 --> 00:52:28.400
That's great. I hope that works
for you. And it's a struggle

743
00:52:28.440 --> 00:52:31.079
for fifteen years, you know,
making less than fifty grand a year was

744
00:52:31.119 --> 00:52:35.440
not that great, and then all
the expenses and having kids and doing all

745
00:52:35.440 --> 00:52:37.880
that stuff. You had to build
up from there. But somehow, somewhere

746
00:52:37.920 --> 00:52:42.840
you do it right. And so
like Dylan, always wanted to do it

747
00:52:42.880 --> 00:52:46.960
himself. Even when Dylan was a
sophomore playing football, he didn't want me

748
00:52:47.000 --> 00:52:50.880
to coach him anymore. He wanted
me to go someplace else because he wanted

749
00:52:50.920 --> 00:52:52.599
to do it on his own.
He didn't want anyone to think that he

750
00:52:52.639 --> 00:52:55.880
made varsity because of me or was
a starter because of me. So I

751
00:52:55.920 --> 00:52:59.639
said, fine, I get that. So the same thing with the business.

752
00:52:59.679 --> 00:53:01.599
He thought, but I don't want
to be given anything. I don't

753
00:53:01.599 --> 00:53:04.440
want to do it. I don't
want to do this me alone. Until

754
00:53:04.480 --> 00:53:06.920
I sat him down and go tell
him. You don't understand. Man,

755
00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:10.280
You've got so much more pressure on
you than I ever had on me.

756
00:53:12.119 --> 00:53:15.400
If I'd made this go and I
didn't make it go, people would either

757
00:53:15.400 --> 00:53:19.920
feel great or bad. Okay,
I said, I turned this over to

758
00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:22.360
you. You've got a legacy you
got to hold up. You have an

759
00:53:22.400 --> 00:53:28.840
opportunity. You fail, you're gonna
you're not gonna be a happy camper because

760
00:53:28.840 --> 00:53:32.360
you let something that was successful go
in a different direction. And that,

761
00:53:32.480 --> 00:53:37.159
I said, is more pressure.
So right now, take all that other

762
00:53:37.159 --> 00:53:39.000
stuff out, take the jealousy out, take the haters out of your mind

763
00:53:39.159 --> 00:53:43.880
because if they don't mean anything to
you, and open your mind to how

764
00:53:43.880 --> 00:53:45.400
we're going to make the successful.
And I said, I'm gonna bring other

765
00:53:45.400 --> 00:53:49.000
people in like we did with Todd
and all, who are going to help

766
00:53:49.039 --> 00:53:53.199
you be successful and you're gonna work
together and he goes great, and that's

767
00:53:53.199 --> 00:53:57.519
what changed everything around. Yeah,
I mean, that's really what changes when

768
00:53:57.519 --> 00:54:00.000
we brought other people that had the
same mindset. And now that's why I

769
00:54:00.079 --> 00:54:02.960
like our whole team dynamic has changed
from the first time I was there about

770
00:54:02.960 --> 00:54:07.440
six years ago. It's changed into
we have my dad and Dave Sherwod who

771
00:54:07.480 --> 00:54:10.000
have been in there for forty years, and then they have myself, Todd

772
00:54:10.079 --> 00:54:14.119
and Sebastian who has been in there. I've been there six, Todd's three,

773
00:54:14.119 --> 00:54:16.639
and then Sebastian's new, our new
guy. But them teaching us how

774
00:54:16.679 --> 00:54:21.400
to do these things and showing us
the longevity of this business is something that

775
00:54:21.440 --> 00:54:22.719
you can look forward to. You
want to look forward to, and if

776
00:54:22.719 --> 00:54:27.280
you stick it out in a business
like this, you will be successful in

777
00:54:27.320 --> 00:54:30.000
the long run. But it's really
the first couple of years we're obviously,

778
00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:32.119
like he was explaining, kind of
tough. But now being into it and

779
00:54:32.159 --> 00:54:36.480
being in there for you never see
yourself doing anything else. That's the best

780
00:54:36.480 --> 00:54:38.719
part about it. But the idea
of having the team aspect is my favorite

781
00:54:38.760 --> 00:54:43.119
part. A lot of people are
intimidated to talk about their finances and doing

782
00:54:43.119 --> 00:54:46.199
it with you guys makes it feel
very comfortable in a family atmosphere. I

783
00:54:46.199 --> 00:54:51.000
think this is what people want.
It's such an intimate conversation to be having,

784
00:54:51.480 --> 00:54:53.239
right. We always talk about health
and wealth, and people are not

785
00:54:53.719 --> 00:54:58.840
always willing to bear their financial soul
to a lot of people. So you

786
00:54:58.920 --> 00:55:01.400
need to feel comfortable with that not
only do they have your best interests at

787
00:55:01.440 --> 00:55:05.559
heart, but that they are educated
and that they know what they're talking about.

788
00:55:05.599 --> 00:55:07.840
And you guys have all of those
things, and you educate people.

789
00:55:08.360 --> 00:55:12.599
We do, and I've taught them
how to do that, and they do

790
00:55:12.639 --> 00:55:15.559
a great job at it. One
of the biggest things I picked up was

791
00:55:16.199 --> 00:55:21.039
don't talk to people that like they're
your age or thirty eight forty. Talk

792
00:55:21.079 --> 00:55:25.159
to these people that are retiring.
Put your mind frame as if you're in

793
00:55:25.159 --> 00:55:30.519
my position right now. Think about
paying off debt, think about relieving stress,

794
00:55:30.840 --> 00:55:36.400
thinking about being more conservative. And
they've done a fantastic job doing that.

795
00:55:36.840 --> 00:55:38.599
How does the time just fly by
like this? We have to take

796
00:55:38.599 --> 00:55:42.800
a quick commercial break. That number
at the bottom of the screen is five

797
00:55:42.840 --> 00:55:45.480
two zero five four four four nine
zero nine. I hope you'll stay with

798
00:55:45.559 --> 00:55:50.519
us because we have so much more
to talk about with your money Matters.

799
00:55:50.559 --> 00:55:55.960
We'll see you in a few Hello, and welcome back to money Matters.

800
00:55:57.000 --> 00:56:00.400
I'm Sarah Peterson here with Dean Greenberg
and Dylan Greenberg of Greenberg Financial Group,

801
00:56:00.480 --> 00:56:04.760
and we're getting into it today.
First, we learned a lot about you

802
00:56:04.800 --> 00:56:07.679
guys, and I love the family
atmosphere. I love the fact that you

803
00:56:07.760 --> 00:56:14.239
have generations of people now working and
you're so young to be dealing with the

804
00:56:14.280 --> 00:56:16.880
retirement phase. But this is going
to change your perspective too on how you

805
00:56:16.880 --> 00:56:20.519
live your own life. It is, I mean, makes me want to

806
00:56:21.039 --> 00:56:24.039
say for retirement, makes me know
all about what could happen when I'm sixty

807
00:56:24.039 --> 00:56:27.400
and like all the good things that
can happen with the two when you're retired.

808
00:56:27.440 --> 00:56:31.199
It shows what you think about when
you're twenty nine in reality, because

809
00:56:31.199 --> 00:56:35.719
they're sixty seventy fifty five getting ready
to retire, they are retired, they're

810
00:56:35.800 --> 00:56:37.760
eighty five. They've seen the world, and that's what their perspective now is.

811
00:56:38.000 --> 00:56:40.440
I'm done. I just want to
hang out with my family in town.

812
00:56:40.639 --> 00:56:43.320
I don't want to go to Europe
anymore. I've done it. This

813
00:56:43.559 --> 00:56:45.800
different all different paths. But it's
like the idea of what you think about

814
00:56:45.840 --> 00:56:49.199
what is your life going to look
like in forty years. It's kind of

815
00:56:49.239 --> 00:56:52.800
showing you right across the table what
it is, what it could be.

816
00:56:52.800 --> 00:56:57.800
Well, I think that looking at
life in segments. You know, people

817
00:56:57.920 --> 00:57:00.920
think that they have a financial plan
if they're working with an advisor and they're

818
00:57:00.960 --> 00:57:04.519
investing, right, But that's not
the kind of plan that we're talking about.

819
00:57:04.960 --> 00:57:06.960
That's just one aspect of it.
Right. You take your four on

820
00:57:07.000 --> 00:57:08.480
O K and that's just one aspect
of investing it. But the other aspect

821
00:57:08.519 --> 00:57:13.559
of social security. Do you need
life insurance? Do you have a pension

822
00:57:13.599 --> 00:57:15.719
that you used to have were you
in the military. Like we talked about

823
00:57:15.800 --> 00:57:19.320
on another show, was the federal
employees they still get their pensions. Do

824
00:57:19.360 --> 00:57:22.599
they have pensions, Do they have
health insurance? Do they have all that

825
00:57:22.639 --> 00:57:24.360
different things they go into it?
Do they want long term care? All

826
00:57:24.400 --> 00:57:28.280
those create the plan. And then
a big thing with the plan too,

827
00:57:28.360 --> 00:57:31.360
is your expenses, your budget during
retirement. That is a big thing that

828
00:57:31.360 --> 00:57:37.079
people don't what we see that's the
hardest part for them to find is what

829
00:57:37.119 --> 00:57:39.199
do they spent on a monthly basis
because they're just like, I don't know.

830
00:57:39.320 --> 00:57:42.519
I just see there's enough money in
account. I don't really care.

831
00:57:42.920 --> 00:57:45.039
But then when we say, like
we sit down, they see that is

832
00:57:45.159 --> 00:57:49.639
sometimes more than they think. It's
actually something that we talk about. I

833
00:57:49.639 --> 00:57:52.840
mean I personally talk about at home. We don't live like that either.

834
00:57:52.960 --> 00:57:54.840
We don't say we have X amount
to spend and you just say, oh,

835
00:57:54.920 --> 00:57:58.519
the kid needs this or that,
and you're ordering an Amazon has just

836
00:57:58.599 --> 00:58:00.719
changed everything. You just click a
button and then you don't realize everything.

837
00:58:00.760 --> 00:58:05.719
Well, those are like this is
coming in every single day. I don't

838
00:58:05.800 --> 00:58:09.559
understand it. Sometimes their necessities,
their necessity. The necessity is fine,

839
00:58:09.840 --> 00:58:14.800
the addictive, being addicted to having
it. Do that, it's so easy.

840
00:58:15.159 --> 00:58:17.480
I have your wife's back. I'm
sure those are all things he needs

841
00:58:17.480 --> 00:58:21.320
for you. Yeah you met my
wife. Yeah I have her back.

842
00:58:21.800 --> 00:58:24.239
But no, I think this is
the day and age of like instant gratification

843
00:58:24.800 --> 00:58:29.199
and so that we're not aware on
a constant basis, almost like we need

844
00:58:29.199 --> 00:58:30.840
to take our credit cards away for
a month and pay for everything in cash

845
00:58:30.880 --> 00:58:35.280
and then you're really aware. You
know, you were talking about that earlier.

846
00:58:35.320 --> 00:58:38.360
The biggest thing he's learned this bad
debt, good debt. Pay those

847
00:58:38.360 --> 00:58:43.400
credit cards off every month. It's
such a good feeling. Yeah, Todd,

848
00:58:43.400 --> 00:58:45.320
who's been on the other shows,
he said he just found a new

849
00:58:45.320 --> 00:58:47.960
credit card thirty percent interest. Right, it's ridiculous what they are going up

850
00:58:49.000 --> 00:58:51.320
to, and like, well it
benefits of four years ago it was like

851
00:58:51.360 --> 00:58:54.480
eighteen percent. I think to be
offering something amazing, but that's just where

852
00:58:54.480 --> 00:58:57.480
it's going. And then if you
don't pay it, that's how it can

853
00:58:57.519 --> 00:59:00.880
get racked up so quickly. Good
debt is the mortgage thirty percent. It's

854
00:59:00.960 --> 00:59:06.039
ridiculous, that is, and they
just keep going up, and they say

855
00:59:06.039 --> 00:59:08.239
that this is the highest rate of
credit card debt they have ever seen history

856
00:59:08.280 --> 00:59:13.199
and credit card delinquency, so people
aren't budgeting very well. And then what

857
00:59:13.519 --> 00:59:16.039
we talk about too is the idea
that student loans payments were started in October

858
00:59:16.440 --> 00:59:19.760
and they already had these They had
three years of not worrying about it.

859
00:59:19.840 --> 00:59:22.480
So now these people are going to
start having to pay those debts back or

860
00:59:22.519 --> 00:59:23.480
not. Then it's going to hit
their credit. Then they're gonna have to

861
00:59:23.480 --> 00:59:25.960
pay the credit cards back that they
didn't account for, having to pay five

862
00:59:27.039 --> 00:59:29.840
hundred dollars towards student loans. There's
all these different aspects that are coming into

863
00:59:29.920 --> 00:59:32.119
it that aren't thought about all the
time. If you don't have your budget

864
00:59:32.119 --> 00:59:36.519
and check well, and I mean
a lot of that falls on the conversations

865
00:59:36.559 --> 00:59:38.599
we had previously about planning for college. Like I have a family member who's

866
00:59:38.599 --> 00:59:43.280
dealing with massive student loans and he's
really he's got a good job, he's

867
00:59:43.280 --> 00:59:45.880
trying to get ahead, but it's
it's really hard when you've got that,

868
00:59:45.559 --> 00:59:50.800
you know, that lead thing sitting
on your shoulder like that. So it

869
00:59:50.840 --> 00:59:53.400
would have been nice if the previous
generation can plan for those things, help

870
00:59:53.400 --> 00:59:57.280
well plan before that. Yeah,
you don't want those student loans, you

871
00:59:57.280 --> 00:59:59.719
know what you need to do.
Parents need to make sure the kids have

872
00:59:59.760 --> 01:00:04.320
good rates because in the state of
Arizona and the and the schools that all

873
01:00:04.320 --> 01:00:07.559
have this reference back and forth for
the same tuition. If you have good

874
01:00:07.559 --> 01:00:10.760
grades three, five and above,
you get a lot of your college paid

875
01:00:10.760 --> 01:00:15.559
for. Okay, if you are
good at something, whether it's musician,

876
01:00:15.880 --> 01:00:20.760
whether it's the band, whether it's
soccer, whether it's football, basketball,

877
01:00:20.800 --> 01:00:22.599
you name it, be an athlete, you get your foot you get school

878
01:00:22.599 --> 01:00:27.960
paid for. But it all starts
with grades, and people don't get that.

879
01:00:28.079 --> 01:00:30.280
I deal with that with the freshman
parents that come in. I talk

880
01:00:30.360 --> 01:00:32.760
to him, you want your kid
to get a scholarship. Make sure he's

881
01:00:32.800 --> 01:00:36.679
got good grades. If he turns
out to be six four, three hundred

882
01:00:36.679 --> 01:00:37.960
pounds, we'll do something for him. If he turns out to be,

883
01:00:38.639 --> 01:00:42.519
you know, a great running back, that's fine. D one will find

884
01:00:42.519 --> 01:00:45.599
you. If not, you better
have good grades because you can go if

885
01:00:45.599 --> 01:00:47.079
you want to play sports and college
because we coach football, so like that's

886
01:00:47.119 --> 01:00:50.840
what we do with a lot of
the time. A running back with you're

887
01:00:50.840 --> 01:00:52.639
a little undersize, you can go
play in D three, D two and

888
01:00:52.679 --> 01:00:55.760
get your school paid for if you
have good high school grades. If you

889
01:00:55.840 --> 01:01:00.519
kind of just just don't do well
in high school, she's like, Ah,

890
01:01:00.519 --> 01:01:01.199
it doesn't matter. I'm going to
go. Do you want to get

891
01:01:01.239 --> 01:01:05.280
a scholarship? Gray still matter?
Gray still matter for D one. Any

892
01:01:05.480 --> 01:01:07.480
if you're trying to play sports and
calls, they matter. Okay, your

893
01:01:07.480 --> 01:01:12.960
parents don't have money, you get
pelgrants if you have good grades. It

894
01:01:13.000 --> 01:01:15.639
all goes down to the grapes,
and the grades are telling you that you

895
01:01:15.840 --> 01:01:20.760
cared enough to study and do what
you're supposed to to get those grades.

896
01:01:20.800 --> 01:01:22.800
Because I'll tell you right now,
high school, public high school in Arizona

897
01:01:23.079 --> 01:01:25.440
is not tough. What you need
to do is put the effort in.

898
01:01:27.800 --> 01:01:30.360
No I mean, and there are
so many options you're correct in Arizona for

899
01:01:30.400 --> 01:01:35.639
these kids that it really does make
me very encouraged for my children to stay

900
01:01:35.639 --> 01:01:39.280
here. I do want to talk
to you somewhat about some of our viewer

901
01:01:39.400 --> 01:01:44.840
questions, but before I do that, let's talk about what options there are

902
01:01:44.880 --> 01:01:47.559
for us. When we're looking at
all of these things, all of these

903
01:01:47.760 --> 01:01:52.880
buckets that we have, how do
we know how to plan properly with our

904
01:01:52.920 --> 01:01:57.400
taxes? We're not talking about tax
preparation, but we're talking about how to

905
01:01:57.480 --> 01:02:00.840
strategize. We all need to pay
taxes. Were very lucky to be American

906
01:02:00.880 --> 01:02:02.039
citizens, but we don't want to
pay too much. And I feel like

907
01:02:02.079 --> 01:02:06.639
there are so many tools available to
us. How do we know where to

908
01:02:06.679 --> 01:02:09.039
start? Well, Mainland, that's
why we started teaming up with Yeah,

909
01:02:09.039 --> 01:02:14.440
that's the financial plan, but also
with our holistic plan of approach is we

910
01:02:14.480 --> 01:02:16.599
teamed up with an accounting firm,
be teamed up with an a state planning

911
01:02:16.599 --> 01:02:20.880
firm, so we can work all
together to get your financial plan in every

912
01:02:20.880 --> 01:02:22.800
which way, so they can help
in the nitty gritty part of it.

913
01:02:22.880 --> 01:02:27.239
What we can help with on the
tax side is just which investment account do

914
01:02:27.239 --> 01:02:28.800
you want to take it out of? Do you want it You don't want

915
01:02:28.840 --> 01:02:30.239
to take that out of the regular
brokerage because you don't want to do with

916
01:02:30.239 --> 01:02:34.199
capital gains. You don't want to
take it out of the traditional iray because

917
01:02:34.320 --> 01:02:36.400
or your four own kay, because
you got to deal with taxes, which

918
01:02:36.440 --> 01:02:39.719
will be whatever you take out will
be out of your income tax. And

919
01:02:39.719 --> 01:02:42.960
then so maybe you want to take
the money out of your oth iray depending

920
01:02:43.000 --> 01:02:46.400
on your thing. Obviously everything is
specialized and unique to your situation. But

921
01:02:46.400 --> 01:02:50.360
that's the avenues that we take and
we look at to see where should you

922
01:02:50.400 --> 01:02:53.039
get the money. Business owner is
a more complicated, right, That's why

923
01:02:53.039 --> 01:02:55.440
we use the estate plan or in
the accounting firm. But the good thing

924
01:02:55.519 --> 01:03:00.320
is well with them, we can
tell them what he's looking at for what

925
01:03:00.360 --> 01:03:02.840
he's doing. He could tell them
too, but we understand from the perspective

926
01:03:02.880 --> 01:03:07.480
of the investments too, of what
he has and what we're trying to accomplish,

927
01:03:07.679 --> 01:03:10.320
so we all work together and that's
why we're under one roof. This

928
01:03:10.400 --> 01:03:14.079
is what I'm talking about. It's
kind of one step shop and it's amazing

929
01:03:14.119 --> 01:03:16.639
because I feel like we all have
all these questions and we don't want to

930
01:03:16.639 --> 01:03:21.119
be sent out to hear Sally,
Joe and Bob. It's really nice to

931
01:03:21.159 --> 01:03:23.199
know everybody's in one place you can
convert with each other. For me,

932
01:03:23.360 --> 01:03:25.800
this is just a second opinion,
just like we do with our doctors,

933
01:03:25.800 --> 01:03:30.400
we go get a second opinion.
If you have a financial advisor that you're

934
01:03:30.440 --> 01:03:35.159
working with and these are not conversations
that you've had you are approaching retirement,

935
01:03:35.599 --> 01:03:38.920
please give us a call five two
zero five four four four nine zero nine,

936
01:03:39.079 --> 01:03:42.320
or you can scan the QR code
at the bottom of the screen.

937
01:03:42.639 --> 01:03:46.039
But this is something that we offer
complimentary for the viewers. Other advisors charge

938
01:03:46.039 --> 01:03:49.559
thousands of dollars of war. You're
so kind to do this as a gift

939
01:03:49.760 --> 01:03:52.760
to the viewers for spending time with
us. But this is our gift to

940
01:03:52.800 --> 01:03:57.039
you for spending time and learning along
with us, so that you can find

941
01:03:57.039 --> 01:04:00.199
out if you're on the road to
a retirement, the road that you you

942
01:04:00.440 --> 01:04:02.559
want to be on because your Money
Matters. We're going to take quick commercial

943
01:04:02.559 --> 01:04:08.199
break and we'll come back and talk
more about your amazing viewer questions. Stay

944
01:04:08.199 --> 01:04:12.440
with us. Hello, and welcome
back to Money Matters. I'm Sarah Peterson

945
01:04:12.480 --> 01:04:15.519
here with Dean Breenberg and Dylan Greenberg
of Greenberg Financial Group, and we are

946
01:04:15.519 --> 01:04:19.199
getting into the viewer questions. They're
my favorite. I know you always get

947
01:04:19.199 --> 01:04:23.599
a love it. Well. I
mean, these are things that everybody has

948
01:04:23.599 --> 01:04:26.840
on their mind, and the things
I had excite you're the questions and budgets.

949
01:04:27.679 --> 01:04:30.360
The B word does not excite me, okay unless it says I know,

950
01:04:30.440 --> 01:04:32.960
well if you guys not giving me
that information yet, if you give

951
01:04:33.000 --> 01:04:36.280
me that information, I will see
you later. I don't think anyone's ever

952
01:04:36.320 --> 01:04:40.000
going to tell me I can spend
more, but I can dream, can

953
01:04:40.119 --> 01:04:43.960
I? Okay? I thought this
was a great question. Uh. This

954
01:04:44.000 --> 01:04:46.519
is from Jessica. She asks an
Ira, I'm inheriting an Ira. If

955
01:04:46.519 --> 01:04:50.480
I inherit it before the age of
fifty nine point five, can I have

956
01:04:50.559 --> 01:04:55.719
it sent directly to my own ira? And what are the tax implications?

957
01:04:56.199 --> 01:04:59.360
So there's a couple of different things
that you got to think about when talk

958
01:04:59.400 --> 01:05:01.159
to you when that happens is if
you inherit, So say Jessica inherited the

959
01:05:01.199 --> 01:05:04.320
ira, but it's your husband that
passed away that can go straight into her

960
01:05:04.360 --> 01:05:08.599
ira, and it's called the spousal
inheritance. And it goes into her ira,

961
01:05:08.880 --> 01:05:11.760
then it's just her. She has
no timeline of taking it out.

962
01:05:11.800 --> 01:05:15.199
You have. But say it's her
grandma that passed away and she inherits that

963
01:05:15.199 --> 01:05:17.000
that has to be opened in a
deceit in ira, which is completely different

964
01:05:17.000 --> 01:05:21.679
from her ira, and then she
has ten years to distribute that. But

965
01:05:21.880 --> 01:05:25.519
either way, if it's a roth
iray or a traditional ra, she has

966
01:05:25.559 --> 01:05:28.159
to distribute that. She has to
take the money out in a ten year

967
01:05:28.199 --> 01:05:30.639
period. Traditionals, you'll have to
pay the taxes roth ira. You could

968
01:05:30.679 --> 01:05:33.440
just obviously won't stay any taxes,
but you have to take the money to

969
01:05:33.559 --> 01:05:36.880
close the account. They started these
rules. Irs put these rules in the

970
01:05:36.880 --> 01:05:40.679
place a couple of years ago because
they don't want somebody who in erit's an

971
01:05:40.719 --> 01:05:43.840
ira to just never touch it,
and another generation never touched it, and

972
01:05:43.880 --> 01:05:46.800
so on until it's like ten billion
dollars and then that generation just sounds great.

973
01:05:47.199 --> 01:05:50.599
That's why the irs stop doing it. But if it's your spouse that

974
01:05:50.719 --> 01:05:54.559
passes away, you can move it
straight into your IRA. But obviously if

975
01:05:54.599 --> 01:05:57.840
you're under fifty nine and a half, can't touch it. Otherwise you're gonna

976
01:05:57.840 --> 01:06:00.800
be penalized, especially if it's a
traditional IRA. If it's rough iray,

977
01:06:00.800 --> 01:06:04.920
you can take the contributions out at
any point. I love it, okay,

978
01:06:05.079 --> 01:06:09.440
my spouse and I, oh,
this is already. My spouse and

979
01:06:09.480 --> 01:06:13.760
I are seventy and sixty seven years
old and retired. We have a fixed

980
01:06:13.760 --> 01:06:16.679
and variable annuity. Is this a
good investment for monthly income? We sometimes

981
01:06:16.719 --> 01:06:23.519
need extra income for home maintenance.
Is it a good investment for a monthly

982
01:06:23.559 --> 01:06:26.719
income only if you change it into
a monthly income? You know, the

983
01:06:26.760 --> 01:06:32.320
fix indextinuity can be changed into an
income stream by innuitizing it. They have

984
01:06:32.400 --> 01:06:34.920
to, you know, obviously,
look at all the details of it,

985
01:06:35.079 --> 01:06:39.360
because you don't know how much you'll
pay, and if it's pass through,

986
01:06:39.360 --> 01:06:42.000
when it's not going to pay you
enough, depending on how long it is

987
01:06:42.039 --> 01:06:45.039
and what to pass surrenda, you
can always move it into a different one

988
01:06:45.039 --> 01:06:48.840
that will pay you more. Now
because interistrates are higher, the variable annuity

989
01:06:49.280 --> 01:06:54.360
kind of the same thing, depending
what it is, what you can convert

990
01:06:54.360 --> 01:06:57.719
it to or not, what the
income stream is. But you would have

991
01:06:57.760 --> 01:07:01.239
to look at what the annuity is, the company, the details behind it,

992
01:07:01.280 --> 01:07:04.599
and figure out is it best to
a new attize that one or to

993
01:07:04.599 --> 01:07:10.360
move it to another one exchange it? You guys ready for another question?

994
01:07:10.679 --> 01:07:15.800
Yeah, okay, this is a
hefty one. I was advised to roll

995
01:07:15.800 --> 01:07:18.159
my four to one K plan from
a previous employer into a traditional IRA,

996
01:07:18.360 --> 01:07:21.960
which I did. I haven't made
any contributions to it since rolling it over,

997
01:07:23.280 --> 01:07:25.760
and it's grown very little. I
have a four oh one K with

998
01:07:25.760 --> 01:07:29.039
my new employer. Should I roll
my traditional IRA into my new four to

999
01:07:29.119 --> 01:07:31.440
one K? I think if I
combine them, my money will grow the

1000
01:07:31.480 --> 01:07:35.239
most. I was advised to leave
my traditional IRA at the company that it's

1001
01:07:35.360 --> 01:07:39.480
at, so I'm not sure what
the best option is. There's so many

1002
01:07:40.400 --> 01:07:43.400
to ask about that question. What
did you roll it into? Did you

1003
01:07:43.480 --> 01:07:45.599
roll it to a bank, did
you roll it in a CD with one

1004
01:07:45.639 --> 01:07:47.440
percent? Did you roll it into
the stock market? What? What are

1005
01:07:47.480 --> 01:07:51.800
your allocations? You know? So
it's it's absolutely amazing how many people don't

1006
01:07:51.840 --> 01:07:56.079
know the difference between you know,
oh I got I got an IRA,

1007
01:07:56.280 --> 01:07:59.679
Well, what's in your IRA?
The IRA is a bucket that protects you

1008
01:07:59.679 --> 01:08:02.039
from how to pay taxes. So
you take the money out and there's so

1009
01:08:02.039 --> 01:08:05.079
many different investments. So people just
roll into the IRA and sometimes they leave

1010
01:08:05.079 --> 01:08:08.559
it in the money market and they
just trates, won't paying you want anything

1011
01:08:08.559 --> 01:08:11.480
for this? So long they go, it's only made any money. And

1012
01:08:11.760 --> 01:08:15.599
that's where you have to get in
and build a relationship and talk to the

1013
01:08:15.639 --> 01:08:17.560
person. Let me see it,
let me look at the stuff. What

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01:08:17.600 --> 01:08:21.079
were you trying to do, and
then explain to them all their other options.

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01:08:21.399 --> 01:08:27.439
Usually on the surface, the IORA
will give you many more options than

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01:08:27.439 --> 01:08:30.960
a four one K, But the
biggest thing in IORA will do is give

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01:08:30.000 --> 01:08:32.640
you the ability to mitigate risk,
which you cannot do in a four one

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01:08:32.720 --> 01:08:36.479
K plan. Nice we talked about
the four O one k's before, but

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01:08:36.520 --> 01:08:40.479
I feel like it's a terrifying thing
because they just hand it to you.

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01:08:40.560 --> 01:08:43.920
Nobody's really looking out for you.
It's the company. They just it's a

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01:08:43.920 --> 01:08:45.359
great benefit. But if you don't
know what you're doing with it, well

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01:08:45.359 --> 01:08:47.880
that's why there's limited options. And
mostly you can go into a fund you

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01:08:47.920 --> 01:08:51.079
can said, do you want to
be really aggressive, moderately aggressive, conservative,

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01:08:51.159 --> 01:08:54.800
or just cash? So they give
you those options. But that's why

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01:08:54.800 --> 01:08:57.840
he was saying, there's many more
options in an iray that you can do

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01:08:58.279 --> 01:09:00.359
than a four oh one K.
But that's mainly the reason, and is

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01:09:00.359 --> 01:09:02.960
they throw you on your own.
They can't really the company that's holding they

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01:09:02.960 --> 01:09:06.640
can't really tell you much about other
than what's in the fund. So it's

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01:09:06.720 --> 01:09:11.720
up to you to educate yourself.
Or we can help too in different ways.

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01:09:11.720 --> 01:09:13.960
We can talk to you about what's
going on with it. And the

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01:09:14.000 --> 01:09:16.159
employers are not allowed to tell you
what to do. I mean, they're

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01:09:16.199 --> 01:09:23.199
not advisors, and the DOL rules
and Department of Label rules make it difficult

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01:09:23.199 --> 01:09:27.800
for people and make it very very
restrictive for advisors to tell people what to

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01:09:27.840 --> 01:09:30.680
do. But like I said,
odd job is to advise. I'm not

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01:09:30.720 --> 01:09:34.319
afraid of advising someone if you do
all the right things. First, what's

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01:09:34.319 --> 01:09:38.399
your rich tolerance? How do you
want to be allocated? What's your time

1037
01:09:38.439 --> 01:09:42.279
frame? Can you handle this risk? Can you handle this reward? How

1038
01:09:42.279 --> 01:09:44.680
do you feel a tomorrow if it
goes down this much? How do you

1039
01:09:44.680 --> 01:09:46.359
feel if it goes up this much
and be honest with them, you know

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01:09:46.399 --> 01:09:49.560
what I mean. The most common
one we see with the problem with this

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01:09:49.680 --> 01:09:53.960
is the TSP, which is a
federal retirement plan, which is like therefore

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01:09:54.039 --> 01:09:57.319
one k is because there's about six
funds and then they have the target funds.

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01:09:57.479 --> 01:10:00.000
But you call TSP, they have
a tough time getting hold of it

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01:10:00.039 --> 01:10:02.439
anybody. They're usually talking to a
chatbot, and then they don't even they're

1045
01:10:02.479 --> 01:10:06.520
not legally able to help you with
anything going on, your allocation anything.

1046
01:10:06.760 --> 01:10:10.159
They can just tell you what the
fund is, what it's called, what

1047
01:10:10.199 --> 01:10:13.079
the ideas of it, and that's
it. So it's up to you.

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01:10:13.119 --> 01:10:16.000
And that's why a lot of people
they are timid with the TSP and put

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01:10:16.039 --> 01:10:17.640
a lot of it in cash,
and that missed out a lot of market

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01:10:17.680 --> 01:10:20.880
games throughout the years because they don't
know what's going on and nobody there can

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01:10:20.920 --> 01:10:24.760
help them. We have roughly a
minute left, and we always run out

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01:10:24.800 --> 01:10:28.760
of time, but I really would
like you to quickly tell us about this

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01:10:28.880 --> 01:10:32.159
process. When people call, what
happens to get them on the road to

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01:10:32.399 --> 01:10:34.960
creating this plan. It's a simple
process. You call, we'll set up

1055
01:10:35.000 --> 01:10:38.880
a meeting. The first meeting is
the financial planning meeting where we gather.

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01:10:38.920 --> 01:10:42.520
It's information gathering, so we get
all your expenses, your maybe, your

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01:10:42.560 --> 01:10:45.159
pensions, your investments, life insurance, mortgages, all that different stuff goes

1058
01:10:45.159 --> 01:10:48.399
into that first plan give you go
through a Monte Carlo simulation which gives you

1059
01:10:48.399 --> 01:10:54.000
a thousand different scenarios of different returns
on where your investments, and that gives

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01:10:54.000 --> 01:10:57.840
you a chance with like a shows
a success rate. Then from there we'll

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01:10:57.840 --> 01:11:00.720
get your risk Hollerance questionnaire, which
will give you a risk based on one

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01:11:00.760 --> 01:11:02.640
of ninety nine. And then from
there we'll build the proposal, which will

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01:11:02.640 --> 01:11:05.640
show you our suggestions and how we
would invest your money and how we would

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01:11:05.640 --> 01:11:09.479
create your entire financial plan based off
where we're doing, where we would get

1065
01:11:09.479 --> 01:11:12.359
your money from, what we would
invest you in, all those different things.

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01:11:12.479 --> 01:11:15.720
It's a three or four meeting process
and a conversation that goes on and

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01:11:15.760 --> 01:11:18.319
then and then it goes back and
forth, and then at the end they

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01:11:18.359 --> 01:11:21.560
either decide to do business or not
do business, or do partial business or

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01:11:21.560 --> 01:11:25.840
not. You know, and we
don't push anybody. You know. They

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01:11:25.880 --> 01:11:29.079
say no, they say no,
that's fine, there's coffee, right,

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01:11:29.199 --> 01:11:31.079
They say yes, they say yes
coffee. We wouldn't be in business if

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01:11:31.560 --> 01:11:38.119
too many people said no. Who
can say no to that base? Listen,

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01:11:38.319 --> 01:11:41.319
there is so little risk and make
this call. You will not be

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01:11:41.439 --> 01:11:44.000
sorry. Your money matters and this
has been so much fun. Thank you

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01:11:44.000 --> 01:11:47.399
for spending time with us. Five
two zero five before four nine zero nights.

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01:11:55.880 --> 01:11:59.640
Hello and welcome to Money Matters.
I'm Sarah Peterson here with Dean Greenberg

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01:11:59.760 --> 01:12:02.560
and Todd Glick of Greenberg Financial Group. Good morning, gentlemen, Good morning.

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01:12:02.640 --> 01:12:06.279
How are you today? We're good, fabulous, fabulous and good all

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01:12:06.319 --> 01:12:09.199
good things. Well, we have
so much to talk about. We're going

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01:12:09.239 --> 01:12:13.520
to dive right in. Todd is
one of the newer members to your team.

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01:12:13.600 --> 01:12:15.239
Right, we've got him before,
he's been there while now, Yeah,

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01:12:15.319 --> 01:12:16.840
I mean we love it. We
talk about the team, but we

1083
01:12:16.880 --> 01:12:20.079
have to talk about the all the
players, right and Todd, he knows

1084
01:12:20.119 --> 01:12:23.560
his stuff. So we with Todd, we can get into it, right.

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01:12:24.000 --> 01:12:26.159
Yes, we'll get the nitty gritty. We're going to get into the

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01:12:26.199 --> 01:12:29.960
nitty gritty. So today we want
to talk about shift in the tax and

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01:12:30.000 --> 01:12:31.760
real estate codes, which is something
I know very little about and you know

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01:12:31.800 --> 01:12:35.199
a lot about so we're going to
get in this conversation. These are things

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01:12:35.199 --> 01:12:38.640
that a lot of people don't know. We've talked about it before, Dean

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01:12:38.680 --> 01:12:42.279
and I how this conversation we're having
is not something that most people get at

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01:12:42.279 --> 01:12:45.359
home. You don't get this in
school. This is something that people don't

1092
01:12:45.359 --> 01:12:47.479
even know where to start with questions
because they don't know what questions to ask.

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01:12:47.960 --> 01:12:50.319
I mean, what we first,
what we know is at the end

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01:12:50.319 --> 01:12:54.439
of twenty twenty five, a tax
law that Trump put into act in twenty

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01:12:54.479 --> 01:12:57.840
seventeen, which is the Jobs and
Tax Cut Act, that goes away at

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01:12:57.840 --> 01:13:00.159
the end of twenty twenty five.
So starting in twenty twenty six, it

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01:13:00.159 --> 01:13:03.760
gets reverted back unless the new president
who gets elected or the current one keeps

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01:13:03.760 --> 01:13:08.319
it the same. It really depends
on which party gets into office, right,

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01:13:08.319 --> 01:13:10.880
and so that's what is really going
to come down to it at the

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01:13:10.960 --> 01:13:13.319
end of the day. What's going
to happen in twenty twenty six is the

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01:13:13.399 --> 01:13:16.680
state planning gets cut down potentially from
thirteen million where it is currently for a

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01:13:16.720 --> 01:13:20.279
couple down to around six and a
half. Okay, so anyone with assets

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01:13:20.479 --> 01:13:24.239
net worth more than six and a
half million would have to pay the estate

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01:13:24.279 --> 01:13:27.800
tax on top of it, which
is around a bill forty percent, and

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01:13:27.800 --> 01:13:30.359
that's right off the top to the
government. And that's just talk about a

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01:13:30.399 --> 01:13:32.399
million. Well, yeah, it's
even if they just reverted back to the

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01:13:32.600 --> 01:13:35.960
million. Anyone who's net worth is
more than a million, if you try

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01:13:36.000 --> 01:13:40.199
to transfer that to your next generation
or your heirs, if it's more than

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01:13:40.239 --> 01:13:42.319
a million, you have to pay
forty Your heirs will have to pay forty

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01:13:42.319 --> 01:13:44.600
percent. I mean Todays day and
age. A million is like saying,

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01:13:45.039 --> 01:13:47.640
you know, a dollar is like
right, which is why when when Trump

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01:13:47.680 --> 01:13:50.600
did this, lat he increased the
estate tax from six and a half to

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01:13:50.640 --> 01:13:54.279
twelve and a half. Now it's
around thirteen because of inflated adjusted numbers.

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01:13:54.479 --> 01:13:58.319
But again it's it's already in the
code to revert back automatically in the start

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01:13:58.319 --> 01:14:00.920
of twenty twenty six, start of
twenty twenty six, So people who are

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01:14:00.920 --> 01:14:03.760
even thinking about this have an opportunity
between now and then. Yes, and

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01:14:03.800 --> 01:14:06.800
that's again what we talk about the
team approach here at Greenberg Financial is we're

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01:14:06.800 --> 01:14:11.079
obviously financial advisors, we're not estate
planning attorneys, so we cannot give you

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01:14:11.079 --> 01:14:14.199
recommendations or strategies what you should be
doing in those fields. But what we

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01:14:14.279 --> 01:14:17.039
can do is work with an estate
planning attorney that has those strategies, has

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01:14:17.039 --> 01:14:20.399
the expertise in that field, and
coupled with our financial planning see what's the

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01:14:20.399 --> 01:14:24.239
most efficient route for you to take. And that's really what comes down to

1123
01:14:24.239 --> 01:14:27.199
the estate planning side, because then
there's another side of things called a taxes,

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01:14:27.359 --> 01:14:29.960
and that's just the day to day
taxes, because what we're talking about

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01:14:30.000 --> 01:14:33.439
here is across the board two percent
increase on tax brackets. When twenty twenty

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01:14:33.439 --> 01:14:38.399
six starts, it's already just built
into the code. So again who what

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01:14:38.560 --> 01:14:42.840
president gets elected in November will obviously
have the decision on what's going to happen

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01:14:42.880 --> 01:14:45.600
in this next turn. These are
things that you need to be thinking about

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01:14:45.720 --> 01:14:48.279
now because you can do things about
them now until they're too late, right,

1130
01:14:48.319 --> 01:14:50.199
And so those are the type of
things that we want to talk about

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01:14:50.199 --> 01:14:55.600
with people because our financial planning tool
actually is able to implement those strategies hypothetically

1132
01:14:55.640 --> 01:14:57.920
and see if it will works,
see if it's efficient, and we can

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01:14:57.960 --> 01:15:00.199
play with what happens if tax brackets
increase two percent? What happens if the

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01:15:00.279 --> 01:15:04.039
estate tax law gets decreased our financial
planning, so offerre is able for us

1135
01:15:04.039 --> 01:15:08.079
to put in those different variables and
see how it would work out, which

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01:15:08.079 --> 01:15:10.520
is incredible. We were just talking, you know, before the show,

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01:15:10.520 --> 01:15:14.399
about AI and all these things that
we can do that it's just projecting what

1138
01:15:14.479 --> 01:15:17.039
our lives could be and how they
are, and it's just starting, right.

1139
01:15:17.079 --> 01:15:18.600
I mean, you know a lot
of people say, well, can

1140
01:15:18.600 --> 01:15:21.560
this markets keep going? Can we
still do this? The whole idea is

1141
01:15:21.560 --> 01:15:28.000
I'm looking at AI right now as
being the same thing that computers did back

1142
01:15:28.039 --> 01:15:30.600
in the nineties. I'm not talking
about the eighties and stuff in the seventies

1143
01:15:30.640 --> 01:15:33.000
when we had those big punch cards. I'm talking about the eighties when we

1144
01:15:33.039 --> 01:15:36.680
started getting those personal computers. And
then what was the next thing that happened,

1145
01:15:38.199 --> 01:15:42.920
the iPhone. We all have everything
that we want on our phones,

1146
01:15:42.960 --> 01:15:45.319
so you could operate almost anything you
want from your phone. Do you know

1147
01:15:45.399 --> 01:15:49.199
my daughter writes papers for school on
her phone. Considers that to be a

1148
01:15:49.239 --> 01:15:53.479
computer, right, I think it's
horrible. I'm like, you're gonna hurt

1149
01:15:53.520 --> 01:15:56.279
your eyes, you need to sit
and tight or something. I really feel

1150
01:15:56.319 --> 01:16:00.000
like there's something about the connection between
your brain and your fingertips. That happened.

1151
01:16:00.560 --> 01:16:02.119
We're rushing everything too much. Well, there is something about that connection

1152
01:16:02.159 --> 01:16:05.119
piece, and I think that's why
robo advisors kind of was a fad a

1153
01:16:05.159 --> 01:16:08.119
couple of years ago, and you
don't hear muchbout them anymore, right,

1154
01:16:08.159 --> 01:16:11.359
because people do have that connection to
human to human that they want with an

1155
01:16:11.359 --> 01:16:13.920
advisor. Because what is this whole
industry about at the end of the day,

1156
01:16:14.000 --> 01:16:16.520
it's trust and relationships. So having
that trust and knowing that the person

1157
01:16:16.520 --> 01:16:19.119
acrossing the table is communicating to you
in a way that you can understand.

1158
01:16:19.119 --> 01:16:23.000
It means a lot more to you
than having computer tell you what the most

1159
01:16:23.039 --> 01:16:25.640
optimal outcome is. How does that
make you feel like, Yeah, that's

1160
01:16:25.640 --> 01:16:28.640
what I need to be doing.
The computer doesn't know your kids' names necessarily

1161
01:16:28.720 --> 01:16:30.880
right, what they're into, or
their values, your visions. They don't

1162
01:16:30.920 --> 01:16:33.119
know who you are. Yeah,
if you don't ask questions after a question,

1163
01:16:33.199 --> 01:16:35.479
you never get deep enough of you. We talked about layers all the

1164
01:16:35.520 --> 01:16:40.319
time. Okay, most people are
surface. We go deeper. We want

1165
01:16:40.359 --> 01:16:44.439
those roots in there so we can
grow a relationship together. But the going

1166
01:16:44.479 --> 01:16:47.439
back to what I was saying about
the iPhone and the computer. AI is

1167
01:16:47.520 --> 01:16:49.560
just starting. This is not a
one or two or three year deal.

1168
01:16:50.000 --> 01:16:53.880
Where are we going to be with
AI in ten years? And that's where

1169
01:16:53.880 --> 01:16:57.399
the money's going to be made,
the relationships to the AI of what's going

1170
01:16:57.439 --> 01:17:00.520
on. But with that, I
also want to give caution to everything out

1171
01:17:00.520 --> 01:17:02.680
there that has AI attached. Doesn't
mean you're going to make money all right,

1172
01:17:02.920 --> 01:17:08.399
Stay to the quality, good companies
that have the money to keep going

1173
01:17:08.439 --> 01:17:12.439
forward and keep innovating. All these
little companies, let somebody buy them out.

1174
01:17:12.640 --> 01:17:14.840
Let somebody else pick them up,
because if you have one hundred of

1175
01:17:14.880 --> 01:17:17.279
them, three of them are going
to be great. And at the end

1176
01:17:17.319 --> 01:17:19.760
of the day, if you try
to start making money off all these little

1177
01:17:19.760 --> 01:17:23.800
companies, it's the greatest idea.
Everybody calls you and tries to sell you

1178
01:17:23.840 --> 01:17:27.760
something, you're going to maybe be
lucky enough to win, but you're probably

1179
01:17:27.800 --> 01:17:30.800
going to end up losing. Just
like dot Com. Everything was dot com

1180
01:17:30.840 --> 01:17:32.399
dot com dot com. It all
went up there for a while, and

1181
01:17:32.439 --> 01:17:35.520
then what happened. A lot of
them got beat up and got crushed.

1182
01:17:35.800 --> 01:17:40.880
So be careful with the AI market
right now. Thank you for that.

1183
01:17:41.479 --> 01:17:44.239
I didn't think that's where we were
heading out. There's also a really cool

1184
01:17:44.239 --> 01:17:46.520
AI tool in the financial planning software
we use called Supersolve, And so if

1185
01:17:46.520 --> 01:17:49.640
we have a plan that doesn't work
on surface value, it would actually change

1186
01:17:49.680 --> 01:17:51.880
all kinds of different variables. Do
we need to spend less, do we

1187
01:17:51.880 --> 01:17:55.520
need to get more aggressive, do
we need to do some strategies. It

1188
01:17:55.560 --> 01:17:59.239
will basically create a simulation of what
you what it thinks you should do.

1189
01:17:59.359 --> 01:18:00.479
And for advice, it's really just
a tool, right, so Okay,

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01:18:00.479 --> 01:18:02.640
this is what it thinks it should
do. Maybe that's not what we're actually

1191
01:18:02.640 --> 01:18:05.199
going to do, but it gives
us ideas and instead of because at the

1192
01:18:05.239 --> 01:18:06.800
end of the day, you just
have a human brain, right, you

1193
01:18:06.840 --> 01:18:10.439
can only think about what you're thinking
about. But with the tools of AI

1194
01:18:10.760 --> 01:18:14.319
coupled with the human brain, right, having the emotional side coupled with the

1195
01:18:14.399 --> 01:18:18.039
informational data side of things really brings
everything into one beautiful picture. And now

1196
01:18:18.039 --> 01:18:23.039
you know why I have young guys
bottom team say that I'm seeing the big

1197
01:18:23.079 --> 01:18:25.880
picture here. We always run out
of time. We are already ready for

1198
01:18:25.920 --> 01:18:27.880
our first commercial break. So I
want to give you that phone number.

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01:18:27.880 --> 01:18:30.319
It's five two zero five four four
four nine zero nine. And speaking of

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01:18:30.359 --> 01:18:32.800
technology, we have a lovely QR
code at the bottom of the screen.

1201
01:18:32.840 --> 01:18:35.800
You can scan that. I'll take
you right to Greenberg Money Matters and you

1202
01:18:35.840 --> 01:18:40.000
can fill out the form to get
in here and get your financial plan that

1203
01:18:40.079 --> 01:18:43.119
is going to tell you whether or
not you're on the right path to the

1204
01:18:43.159 --> 01:18:45.680
retirement of your dreams or whether you
need to make some changes. Now is

1205
01:18:45.680 --> 01:18:47.840
the time when the sun is shining. Stay with us. We're going to

1206
01:18:47.880 --> 01:18:50.760
take a quick break. We'll come
back talk more about all the changes in

1207
01:18:51.159 --> 01:18:57.520
the financial industry and how we're going
to help you prepare for them. Hello,

1208
01:18:57.600 --> 01:19:00.159
and welcome back to Money Matters.
I'm Sarah Peterson here with a dynamic

1209
01:19:00.279 --> 01:19:04.199
duo Dean Greenberg and tuglic of Greenberg
Financial Group, and we are getting into

1210
01:19:04.199 --> 01:19:08.439
it. I love how you guys
have such a different take. It's so

1211
01:19:08.520 --> 01:19:10.760
awesome to see this yin and yang
and this is what we need, this

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01:19:10.960 --> 01:19:15.319
next generation that has a super interest
in how technology plays a part in the

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01:19:15.399 --> 01:19:16.000
FEA And to me, the way
you're going to get it this is if

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01:19:16.000 --> 01:19:19.159
you get young, small people with
you, you know, and that's part

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01:19:19.199 --> 01:19:23.279
of the team you're building a team. I put the right players in place.

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01:19:23.319 --> 01:19:26.680
That's what I keep telling everyone that
keeps saying that to them, And

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01:19:26.720 --> 01:19:29.439
I keep getting the feedback from the
people that come in to do a financial

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01:19:29.439 --> 01:19:30.960
plan. They're like, Wow,
I can't believe how great this is.

1219
01:19:31.680 --> 01:19:34.359
You know, I've always sid I
don't think it's ever you're ever too young

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01:19:34.760 --> 01:19:38.359
to start planning. But I can
also see how people will you know,

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01:19:38.399 --> 01:19:40.560
approach you in a different way too. I'm sure that you can connect with

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01:19:40.760 --> 01:19:44.239
younger people and help them to understand
that what you do now can impact your

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01:19:44.319 --> 01:19:47.079
financial future. It's really cool that
we have all these tools in our toolbox.

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01:19:47.079 --> 01:19:49.239
We just need to learn how to
use them. So before break we

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01:19:49.239 --> 01:19:53.600
were talking about potential changes. We
don't have a crystal ball, but we

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01:19:53.640 --> 01:19:56.760
do know that there will be changes
in the text code that is the plan

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01:19:56.920 --> 01:20:00.119
at least, well, no changes, we hope exactly. So in the

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01:20:00.159 --> 01:20:03.319
event of these changes or you know, if not, we still need to

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01:20:03.359 --> 01:20:06.840
make plans and we have a lot
of tools at our disposal. Yeah,

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01:20:06.880 --> 01:20:10.720
so let's talk about a first couple. One that comes to mind is so

1231
01:20:10.800 --> 01:20:13.359
something everyone likes to talk about roth
conversions. Right, when does it make

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01:20:13.399 --> 01:20:15.800
sense, is really what it comes
down to. And that's why financial plan

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01:20:15.880 --> 01:20:17.920
where we bring it back to,
because this financial planning software has a tax

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01:20:17.960 --> 01:20:20.920
planning tool where we can actually put
in roth conversions. Say we do twenty

1235
01:20:20.920 --> 01:20:24.079
thousand for the first year, or
we do it for five years, and

1236
01:20:24.119 --> 01:20:27.000
we can see how much you We
can project how much taxes you'll pay on

1237
01:20:27.000 --> 01:20:29.720
a rock conversion, how much taxes
it will save you in lifetime taxes in

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01:20:29.800 --> 01:20:31.600
terms of tax free growth, or
whether or not we're paying taxes at a

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01:20:31.640 --> 01:20:34.720
smaller rate. Right, like I
said before the break, if taxes brackets

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01:20:34.720 --> 01:20:38.199
all increase across the board by two
percent, well then you're talking at least

1241
01:20:38.199 --> 01:20:40.720
two percent savings right off the bat
if you did a roth conversion before they

1242
01:20:40.800 --> 01:20:43.840
change those tax brackets. So potentially
there's one right there. But again,

1243
01:20:43.920 --> 01:20:47.920
roth conversions can just be a beneficial
strategy without any tax changes in the horizon.

1244
01:20:48.119 --> 01:20:51.319
And that's all can be seen with
the financial plan because the Noto Carlo

1245
01:20:51.399 --> 01:20:55.920
simulation that we use takes a thousand
simulation of market returns good and bad and

1246
01:20:55.960 --> 01:20:59.279
can see does that tax free growth
actually lead to more tax savings than it

1247
01:20:59.279 --> 01:21:01.159
does from just pay the taxes up
front. And that's another thing about people

1248
01:21:01.319 --> 01:21:04.520
don't you know, really consider with
rock conversions, is when you do a

1249
01:21:04.600 --> 01:21:08.680
rock conversion and it gets added to
your adjusted gross income, your tax will

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01:21:08.720 --> 01:21:12.119
income. What does that effect Medicare
premiums? And then that light bulb goes

1251
01:21:12.119 --> 01:21:14.960
off, Oh snap, i might
be paying three hundred dollars more a month

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01:21:15.079 --> 01:21:16.720
because I'm showing up more income on
my bracket because it's a two year look

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01:21:16.760 --> 01:21:19.319
black. That's how medicare, you
know, works. So the minute they

1254
01:21:19.359 --> 01:21:21.840
looked at two years and see that
rock conversion and you're one twenty thousand,

1255
01:21:21.840 --> 01:21:25.359
all of a sudden with the two
forty you're in a different Medicare bracket.

1256
01:21:25.359 --> 01:21:27.640
Now you're paying more for those premiums. So how much did that tax savings

1257
01:21:27.720 --> 01:21:30.279
really give you in terms of the
extra cost and of Medicare On the other

1258
01:21:30.319 --> 01:21:31.640
side, we can play those numbers
and actually look at it. And so

1259
01:21:31.640 --> 01:21:33.960
those are a couple of things that
you know, just because the rock conversion

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01:21:33.960 --> 01:21:36.560
sounds good on paper doesn't mean it
always is. Right. There's people that

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01:21:36.760 --> 01:21:40.319
start rm d's and they're trying to
do rock conversions. How are you gonna

1262
01:21:40.359 --> 01:21:43.159
do it right? You're showing too
much income, there's not gonna be savings.

1263
01:21:43.239 --> 01:21:45.920
But if certain circumstances, and this
is really the bread and butter for

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01:21:45.000 --> 01:21:48.039
rock versions. I think if you
are in your sixties, you've retired,

1265
01:21:48.279 --> 01:21:51.199
you're not showing a lot of income
because you haven't started Social Security, right,

1266
01:21:51.359 --> 01:21:54.720
don't. You don't have any real
other income coming in. That's where

1267
01:21:54.720 --> 01:21:56.920
you have a lot of room to
be able to do rock conversions and get

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01:21:56.960 --> 01:22:00.359
around those pesky r and ds which
people don't know about their required minimum distributions,

1269
01:22:00.359 --> 01:22:02.479
and they're coming for you. Most
of us it's around seventy five,

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01:22:02.520 --> 01:22:05.000
but it can be seventy three to
seventy five. It's based on your age,

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01:22:05.039 --> 01:22:08.199
but for most of us it's gonna
happen at seventy five. Right,

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01:22:08.199 --> 01:22:10.439
and you have no choice. You're
taking about three or four percent out each

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01:22:10.479 --> 01:22:13.319
year. Di I arrest mandates it, so instead of paying taxes. Then

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01:22:13.479 --> 01:22:15.119
when you don't have a choice,
it could be potentially beneficial for you to

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01:22:15.159 --> 01:22:17.960
do it. Now, you know
it's so much if it's about timing,

1276
01:22:18.000 --> 01:22:21.399
it's not how much you have,
but it's where it is and when you

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01:22:21.520 --> 01:22:25.159
utilize it. So this is why
it's so important. To have a professional

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01:22:25.279 --> 01:22:29.560
I got a question, really statement, A lot of people can't do loss.

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01:22:29.960 --> 01:22:31.600
They make too much money. Okay, you make what one hundred and

1280
01:22:31.640 --> 01:22:34.720
forty four thousand or something like that. Single? Yeah, yeah, joint

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01:22:34.720 --> 01:22:38.319
it's about two twenty. You know, you make more than that, you

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01:22:38.319 --> 01:22:42.199
can't do a loth. However,
there is a loophole. It's called a

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01:22:42.239 --> 01:22:44.479
back door wroth, and we've been
doing more and more of these, and

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01:22:44.520 --> 01:22:47.880
the reason being is if you believe
like we do, there's a great chance

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01:22:48.119 --> 01:22:50.359
the only way we're paying for a
lot of this debt and everything else we

1286
01:22:50.439 --> 01:22:54.760
got going on is because they're gonna
have to weigh saxes. There's nothing better

1287
01:22:54.960 --> 01:22:58.560
than to pay the taxes now on
the money you have and do this back

1288
01:22:58.600 --> 01:23:01.640
door loth where you could stop putting
money in that every penny you earn for

1289
01:23:01.680 --> 01:23:03.239
the rest of your life, and
then when you take it out, you'll

1290
01:23:03.279 --> 01:23:06.560
never have to pay taxes. Yeah, I mean, the conventional idea of

1291
01:23:06.600 --> 01:23:09.800
these things is, you know,
I'm going to put money into a traditional

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01:23:09.880 --> 01:23:11.720
ira and then when I retire,
I'm going to take it out at a

1293
01:23:11.760 --> 01:23:14.840
lower tax bracket. But what people
don't understand is inflation is when you are

1294
01:23:14.880 --> 01:23:16.439
retiring and you're probably taking out just
them ount the same. So, like

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01:23:16.479 --> 01:23:19.399
Dean said, doing that WROTH is
so beneficial because of the tax free growth

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01:23:19.439 --> 01:23:23.239
you get with it. And what
he's talking about is for those higher income

1297
01:23:23.239 --> 01:23:26.640
earners, you can still contribute to
an IRA. A regular non deductible IRA

1298
01:23:26.760 --> 01:23:28.760
is actually what they call it,
because once you get over a certain income

1299
01:23:28.800 --> 01:23:32.239
threshold, you cannot actually deduct your
IRA contribution from your taxes, which means

1300
01:23:32.239 --> 01:23:34.920
it's not a pre tax contribution.
It's actually an after tax contribution. But

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01:23:34.960 --> 01:23:38.640
it still goes into the traditional IRA
if you do it in the same year.

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01:23:38.680 --> 01:23:41.880
What we can do is do a
backdoor WROTH. IRS knows about it.

1303
01:23:41.880 --> 01:23:44.319
They're completely cool with it as long
as you follow all the rules.

1304
01:23:44.399 --> 01:23:46.239
You're doing a ROTH conversion, right, So you put in the limit of

1305
01:23:46.319 --> 01:23:48.319
you know, I think of this
year, it's around seven thousand. You

1306
01:23:48.359 --> 01:23:51.640
put seven thousand into a non deductible
IRA. It doesn't get deducted off your

1307
01:23:51.640 --> 01:23:55.319
taxes, it's just sitting in there. And then you take that seven thousand,

1308
01:23:55.359 --> 01:23:57.840
put it into a WROTH the same
year, and then that grows tax

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01:23:57.880 --> 01:24:00.039
free for the rest of your life. So for the people that think that

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01:24:00.039 --> 01:24:02.640
they're not eligible. We're going to
take a quick commercial break because we always

1311
01:24:02.680 --> 01:24:04.720
run out of time. I want
to make sure we can get to all

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your viewer questions that numbers five two
zero five four four four nine zero nine.

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Give us a call and we can
get you on the path to retirement.

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01:24:13.319 --> 01:24:15.760
There is literally no risk, and
I hope you'll stay with us because

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01:24:15.760 --> 01:24:25.920
we're going to get to some of
the nitty gritty questions. Hello, and

1316
01:24:25.960 --> 01:24:30.279
welcome back to Money Matters. I'm
Sarah Peterson here with Dean Greenberg and Todd

1317
01:24:30.279 --> 01:24:34.039
Glick of Greenberg Financial Group, and
we are just talking about all the tools

1318
01:24:34.039 --> 01:24:38.800
in the toolbox to get us to
where we need to be for financial planning

1319
01:24:38.800 --> 01:24:43.079
for a retirement. We talked about
roth conversions, we talked about backdoor rods.

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01:24:43.319 --> 01:24:45.520
Is there anything else that we are
missing out on that you know is

1321
01:24:45.520 --> 01:24:48.239
a newer tool. It's not a
newer tool. It's been around for a

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01:24:48.279 --> 01:24:51.680
long time. But it's just called
a qualified charitable distribution for the people that

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01:24:51.720 --> 01:24:55.520
are more charitably inclined. If they
don't want to take the R and D

1324
01:24:55.640 --> 01:24:58.760
to show up on their tax bil
income, they can simply donate their R

1325
01:24:58.800 --> 01:25:01.079
and D to a charity. The
charity doesn't have to pay taxes. You

1326
01:25:01.119 --> 01:25:03.439
don't have to pay taxes. You
don't get the money, but the charity

1327
01:25:03.479 --> 01:25:08.600
gets it and it makes you feel
good and it maybe doesn't impact your medicare

1328
01:25:08.680 --> 01:25:11.560
premiums. If you're really close to
the next bracket or something and you don't

1329
01:25:11.560 --> 01:25:15.319
want to take on that extra income, you can do a qualified charitable distribution.

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01:25:15.920 --> 01:25:18.680
Let's talk about annuities too, because
a lot of people talk about annuities

1331
01:25:19.920 --> 01:25:27.039
when it comes to saving on taxes. Annuities in the right situation are good,

1332
01:25:28.279 --> 01:25:31.560
especially when you need to fill in
your income gap. That's probably the

1333
01:25:31.600 --> 01:25:38.319
most important thing. What gets me
about annuities is when people are trying to

1334
01:25:38.359 --> 01:25:42.800
talk about because if you're afraid of
the market, you won't lose any money.

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01:25:43.239 --> 01:25:45.840
You won't make any money, all
right, So, especially in an

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01:25:45.840 --> 01:25:50.319
IOA, putting an annuity in an
iora to not make anything more on the

1337
01:25:50.359 --> 01:25:54.880
average than you can make in government
bonds right now makes no sense to me.

1338
01:25:55.560 --> 01:26:02.199
None. However, there are things
called mygas that are basically like annuity

1339
01:26:02.199 --> 01:26:08.079
CD that pays you and guaranteed by
the insurance company. What about five point

1340
01:26:08.159 --> 01:26:12.039
two five point five percent right now, and the five years seven years longer,

1341
01:26:12.760 --> 01:26:15.640
those we don't have a problem with
because they will be tax deferred,

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01:26:15.720 --> 01:26:18.560
especially outside there, and you don't
have to pay taxes and grow and then

1343
01:26:18.560 --> 01:26:20.960
you can use it for your emergency
money. You can always take out ten

1344
01:26:20.960 --> 01:26:28.159
percent if you need it. But
these the fixed index annuities. If you're

1345
01:26:28.199 --> 01:26:31.239
taking money from the fixed income side, okay, But if you're taking it

1346
01:26:31.319 --> 01:26:36.880
from your growth side because you're so
afraid of the market and you're not going

1347
01:26:36.960 --> 01:26:40.479
to make anything even though they try
to tell you you can make four or

1348
01:26:40.479 --> 01:26:45.239
six percent, very rarely will you
because this at the end, and the

1349
01:26:45.319 --> 01:26:48.600
only thing I'm going to agree with
like Fisher Investments and those guys that talk

1350
01:26:48.760 --> 01:26:53.479
so bad about annuities, is that
if you don't read the fine print,

1351
01:26:53.880 --> 01:26:58.479
you don't understand the annuity. And
maybe two percent of people actually understand the

1352
01:26:58.560 --> 01:27:04.159
fine print when there's so many restrictions, and then and the annuity companies can

1353
01:27:04.199 --> 01:27:09.239
slide the interest rates up and down. As interestrates go up and down,

1354
01:27:10.159 --> 01:27:14.399
that is everything against the customer.
That probably bothers me the most. But

1355
01:27:14.439 --> 01:27:16.960
if you're getting into a fix indexinuity
with the idea that you can make some

1356
01:27:17.079 --> 01:27:21.840
money, but really for the guaranteed
income, whether it's three years, five

1357
01:27:21.920 --> 01:27:25.960
years, ten years, whatever you
need it for, then I'm all about

1358
01:27:26.000 --> 01:27:30.439
that. And because they will give
you that income stream that you need for

1359
01:27:30.479 --> 01:27:32.239
the rest of your life, no
matter if you run through all your principle

1360
01:27:32.319 --> 01:27:36.000
or not, they will always give
you that. And that's good. But

1361
01:27:36.079 --> 01:27:40.079
when you're trying to get it for
because of protection, there's so many other

1362
01:27:40.119 --> 01:27:44.079
ways you can protect and mitigate risk
and get the upside when you can do

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01:27:44.119 --> 01:27:47.119
You think annuities have just gotten a
bad reputation because people don't understand them.

1364
01:27:47.800 --> 01:27:51.039
Well, I think the nwity's got
a bad reputation because they made it a

1365
01:27:51.039 --> 01:27:55.800
bad reputation. A lot of them, aren't. You know. You got

1366
01:27:55.800 --> 01:28:00.319
a lot of lower level annuities promising
you all this stuff and can for fill

1367
01:28:00.319 --> 01:28:04.079
it because it's not even an index. All right, they say we're matching

1368
01:28:04.119 --> 01:28:08.239
the index and you'll get sixty percent
of the S and P five hundred.

1369
01:28:09.079 --> 01:28:12.840
But then they can change that as
interstrates go up and down. They can

1370
01:28:12.880 --> 01:28:15.880
move it from sixty to forty,
or they can move it up. If

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01:28:15.880 --> 01:28:17.920
interistrates go higher, you make more. If interistrates go lower. Do it?

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01:28:17.920 --> 01:28:20.640
So, if you think the market's
going to go down, interstrates will

1373
01:28:20.680 --> 01:28:24.800
probably go down because then they have
to lower interest rates because we're in a

1374
01:28:24.800 --> 01:28:28.640
bad scenario. Then your annuity isn't
doing what you expected it to do.

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01:28:29.880 --> 01:28:33.479
Yes, you don't lose money if
that's the only thing you're looking at by

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01:28:33.600 --> 01:28:38.319
government bonds. You don't have to
pay state tax on it anyway. All

1377
01:28:38.399 --> 01:28:42.279
right, it's better than a CD. There's other ways to do things than

1378
01:28:42.359 --> 01:28:45.439
to be able to do that.
Do it roth? All right? I

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01:28:45.520 --> 01:28:49.600
mean there's other ways than just buying
those. Do I think annuities are good

1380
01:28:49.600 --> 01:28:54.000
in certain places? Absolutely? Do? I think there's some good annuities out

1381
01:28:54.039 --> 01:28:57.359
there. Yet, Do I think
the annuities are better today than they want?

1382
01:28:57.479 --> 01:28:59.880
Yes? And there are people that
come in and say, listen,

1383
01:29:00.439 --> 01:29:03.479
I don't want anything to do with
the market, but I want an annuity.

1384
01:29:03.840 --> 01:29:08.279
We'll find the best annuity for them. That's how it works. Well,

1385
01:29:08.319 --> 01:29:10.840
I was going to ask you if
you were a question, but let's

1386
01:29:10.880 --> 01:29:13.880
just try to get to this one. I love this question because I feel

1387
01:29:13.920 --> 01:29:16.600
like this is on a lot of
people's minds. I'm exactly five years away

1388
01:29:16.640 --> 01:29:20.079
from retirement and do not have a
plan in place. Is it too late

1389
01:29:20.119 --> 01:29:25.359
for me? Absolutely not. I
mean that's probably the most people that walk

1390
01:29:25.399 --> 01:29:28.680
in our door are probably around five
years away from retirement. And the reason

1391
01:29:28.720 --> 01:29:30.479
being is because, I mean,
you don't want to really think about something

1392
01:29:30.560 --> 01:29:34.000
until it's kind of close to it. If you think about retirement fifteen years

1393
01:29:34.039 --> 01:29:38.399
out, eventually you realize it's still
fifteen years out, and you get kind

1394
01:29:38.399 --> 01:29:42.119
of sad. Right, So most
people they honestly start thinking about retirement five

1395
01:29:42.159 --> 01:29:44.560
years out and that there's plenty of
time to think about it. Right.

1396
01:29:44.560 --> 01:29:46.760
You still have a long runway of
four to one K contributions coming in the

1397
01:29:46.760 --> 01:29:50.119
door. We can change those contribution
percentages if we need to to up them,

1398
01:29:50.159 --> 01:29:53.840
whatever we need to do. But
it actually is perfect because we can

1399
01:29:53.960 --> 01:29:57.159
then lay out a strategy and make
changes if we need to. Instead of

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01:29:57.159 --> 01:30:00.880
you coming one year in front before
retirement. The only reason somebody won't come

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01:30:00.920 --> 01:30:03.920
to us or anybody else for a
financial plan with five years ago. They're

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01:30:03.920 --> 01:30:08.600
afraid to know the truth. They're
afraid to know if they can retire or

1403
01:30:08.640 --> 01:30:11.119
not. And to me, I
say, that's ridiculous. Your might as

1404
01:30:11.119 --> 01:30:14.720
well know where you're at beforehand.
That means you've got to work two or

1405
01:30:14.720 --> 01:30:17.800
three more years to get to the
goals you want. Fine, If that

1406
01:30:17.840 --> 01:30:19.960
means you might not ever get there, then we have to come up with

1407
01:30:20.000 --> 01:30:25.520
a plan on how you're going to
retire and spend, you know, because

1408
01:30:25.600 --> 01:30:29.479
the idea is if you're going to
go into debt when you're retired, it's

1409
01:30:29.479 --> 01:30:32.079
going to snowball and the stress level
is going to be off the charts.

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01:30:32.159 --> 01:30:35.039
Yeah, ignorance is bliss, but
if you fail to plan, you plan

1411
01:30:35.079 --> 01:30:43.640
to fail, so to to He's
so wise and so young. Just love

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it. I actually love that there
is this. You have such a great

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grasp of this at such a young
age because I think that you know,

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I'm trying to teach my children.
I would like them to know from now,

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you know, they buy something,
I want them to understand what taxes

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are. I want them to understand
there's always implications to the money you earn

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01:31:00.199 --> 01:31:02.880
and the money you spend. And
my Todd for dinner, he'll teach your

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kids. Yeah, he doesn't look
like he hates that much, So I

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01:31:08.840 --> 01:31:13.840
think I can afford its marathons.
I love it well. And then he

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01:31:13.880 --> 01:31:17.039
could teach them some discipline too.
One thing that I think we get from

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01:31:17.079 --> 01:31:21.359
you guys is there is a real
family aspect of this business and a real

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01:31:21.399 --> 01:31:25.720
team effort, and you really get
to know your clients. It's so important.

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01:31:25.760 --> 01:31:27.920
I know for me, I would
really want to know that somebody had

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01:31:27.920 --> 01:31:30.520
my best interest at heart when it
comes to my finances, and no computer

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01:31:30.600 --> 01:31:33.560
can really do that, right,
So that's what it's only your best interest.

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01:31:33.640 --> 01:31:38.000
We love that we know what we're
doing. My young guys know what

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they're doing. They read, they
learn, they study, they ask questions.

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It's very important. Absolutely. Well, you know what that phone number

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has been at the bottom of the
screen and I haven't addressed it. It

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01:31:47.720 --> 01:31:51.840
is five two zero five four four
four nine zero nine. We also have

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a QR code at the bottom of
the screen. You can scan that.

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01:31:55.399 --> 01:31:58.840
It will take you to Greenberg moneymatters
dot com. It will help you get

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right on the road to figuring out
if you are where you need to be

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and what we're offering. Other people
charge thousands of dollars or more for And

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you guys give this as a gift
to the people who watch the show for

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taking the time to educate yourself with
us. So Thank you for spending the

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time, and we hope that you'll
join us on the next show. Enjoy

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01:32:15.800 --> 01:32:49.439
your road to retirement. We'll see
you soon. Hello, and welcome back

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01:32:49.439 --> 01:32:54.720
to Money Matters. I'm Sarah Peterson
here with a dynamic duo Dean Greenberg and

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01:32:54.840 --> 01:32:57.800
Toddle of Greenberg Financial Group, and
we are getting into it. I love

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how you guys have such a different
take. It's so awesome to see this

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01:33:00.479 --> 01:33:02.880
yin and yang, and this is
what we need, this next generation that

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01:33:02.920 --> 01:33:08.079
has a super interest in how technology
plays a part in theater. And to

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01:33:08.119 --> 01:33:09.399
me, the only way you're going
to get it this is if you get

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01:33:09.439 --> 01:33:12.520
young, smack people with you,
you know, and that's part of the

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01:33:12.520 --> 01:33:15.479
team. You're building a team.
I put the right plays in place.

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01:33:15.479 --> 01:33:17.960
That's what I keep telling everyone that
keeps saying that to them, and I

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01:33:18.039 --> 01:33:20.760
keep getting the feedback from the people
that come in to do a financial plan.

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01:33:20.800 --> 01:33:24.920
They're like, Wow, I can't
believe how great is this. You

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01:33:24.960 --> 01:33:28.000
know, I've always said I don't
think it's ever you're ever too young to

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01:33:28.039 --> 01:33:30.880
start planning. But I can also
see how people will you know, approach

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01:33:30.920 --> 01:33:32.239
you in a different way too.
I'm sure that you can connect with younger

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01:33:32.239 --> 01:33:35.920
people and help them to understand that
what you do now can impact your financial

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01:33:35.920 --> 01:33:40.239
future. It's really cool that we
have all these tools in our toolbox.

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01:33:40.279 --> 01:33:42.560
We just need to learn how to
use them. So before break we were

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talking about potential changes. We don't
have a crystal ball, but we do

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01:33:45.960 --> 01:33:47.960
know that there will be changes in
the text code. That is the plan

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01:33:48.079 --> 01:33:53.199
at least, well, no changes, we hope exactly. So in the

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01:33:53.319 --> 01:33:56.479
event of these changes or you know, if not, we still need to

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01:33:56.520 --> 01:34:00.359
make plans and we have a lot
of tools at our disposal. So let's

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01:34:00.359 --> 01:34:02.159
talk about a first couple of one
that comes to mind. Is so something

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oh, everyone likes to talk about
Roth conversions, right when does it make

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01:34:04.600 --> 01:34:06.960
sense? Is really what it comes
down to. And that's why financial plan

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where you bring it back to,
because this financial planning software has a tax

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01:34:11.119 --> 01:34:14.079
planning tool where we can actually put
in roth conversions. Say we do twenty

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01:34:14.079 --> 01:34:15.239
thousand for the first year, or
we do it for five years, and

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01:34:15.279 --> 01:34:18.159
we can see how much you We
can project how much taxes you'll pay on

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01:34:18.199 --> 01:34:20.920
a Roth conversion, how much taxes
it will save you in lifetime taxes in

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01:34:20.960 --> 01:34:24.800
terms of tax free growth, or
whether or not we're paying taxes at a

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smaller rate. Right, like I
said before the break, if taxes brackets

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all increase across the board by two
percent, well then you're talking at least

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two percent savings right off the bat
if you did a Roth conversion before they

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01:34:31.960 --> 01:34:35.039
change those tax brackets. So potentially
there's one right there. But again,

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01:34:35.119 --> 01:34:41.119
roth conversions can just be a beneficial
strategy without any tax changes in the horizon.

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And that's all can be seen with
the financial plan because the Motho Carlo

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01:34:44.560 --> 01:34:47.079
simulation that we use takes a thousand
simulation of market returns good and bad and

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01:34:47.159 --> 01:34:50.439
can see does that tax free growth
actually lead to more tax savings than it

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01:34:50.479 --> 01:34:54.399
does from just paying the taxes upfront? And that's another thing about people,

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01:34:54.479 --> 01:34:57.920
don't you know, really consider with
Roth conversions is when you do a rock

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01:34:57.960 --> 01:35:00.159
conversion and it gets added to your
adjusted growth income, your taxable income,

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what does that effect medicare premiums?
And then that light bulb goes off,

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01:35:03.479 --> 01:35:06.640
Oh snap, i might be paying
three hundred dollars more a month because I'm

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01:35:06.640 --> 01:35:10.079
showing up more income on my bracket
because it's a two year look back.

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That's how medicare, you know,
works. So the minute they looked at

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01:35:12.800 --> 01:35:15.159
two years and see that rock conversion, and your one twenty thousand all of

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01:35:15.199 --> 01:35:16.640
a sudden went to two forty.
You're in a different medicare bracket. Now

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01:35:16.640 --> 01:35:19.039
you're paying more for those premiums.
So how much did that tax savings really

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01:35:19.119 --> 01:35:21.880
give you in terms of the extra
cost and of medicare On the other side,

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01:35:23.000 --> 01:35:24.960
we can play those numbers and actually
look at it. And so those

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are a couple of things that you
know, just because the rock conversion sounds

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01:35:27.399 --> 01:35:30.159
good on paper doesn't mean it always
is. Right. There's people that start

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01:35:30.239 --> 01:35:31.600
rm d's and they're trying to do
rock conversions. How are you gonna do

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01:35:31.600 --> 01:35:34.359
it right? You're showing too much
income, there's not gonna be savings.

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01:35:34.399 --> 01:35:38.720
But if certain circumstances, this is
really the bread and butter for rock versions.

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01:35:38.760 --> 01:35:41.720
I think if you are in your
sixties, you've retired, you're not

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01:35:41.720 --> 01:35:44.720
showing a lot of income because you
haven't started solid security, right, don't

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01:35:44.720 --> 01:35:46.199
You don't have any real other income
coming in. That's where you have a

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lot of room to be able to
do rock conversions and get around those pesky

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01:35:49.159 --> 01:35:53.520
r and ds which people don't know
about. They're called required minimum distributions,

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and they're coming for you. Most
of us it's around seventy five, but

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it can be seventy three to seventy
five. It's based on your age,

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but for most of us it's gonna
happen at seventy five and you have no

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01:36:00.880 --> 01:36:02.319
choice. You're taking about three to
four percent out each year that I arrest

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01:36:02.359 --> 01:36:05.560
mandates it, so instead of paying
taxes then when you don't have a choice,

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it could be potentially beneficial for you
to do it now.