Ep 22: What Basketball Can Teach Us About Retirement Planning
What can basketball teach us about financial planning? Surprisingly, they have a lot in common. We’ll explain how
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Ep 20: Is Your Advisor Doing This?
Does your financial advisor look at your tax returns? What about the fees in your in-vestments? We’ll explain how your advisor should be helping you.
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Ep 19: Financial Lessons from Christmas Carols
How are Christmas carols like retirement planning? Mark Howard sings some songs and tells you how they apply to financial planning.
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Ep 18: How Overconfidence in Your Finances Can Lead to Destruction
Overconfidence in your financial life can sometimes lead to destruction. Let’s look at a few examples.
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Ep 16: How to Spot Villains in the Financial World
Villains in the movies are usually pretty easy to identify, but villains in the financial world aren’t always so easy to identify. Here’s how to recognize them.
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Ep 15: Are We Playing Chess, Roulette or Poker?
Many financial decisions can be compared to playing chess, roulette or poker. Some use skill and some use luck, and we will explain why.
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Ep 14: What’s Your Spending Personality?
Are you an emotional spender or someone who loves to do research before making a purchase? No matter how you spend money, it’s helpful to know your personality type so you can best plan for retirement.
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Ep 13: Financial Wisdom From Moms’ Favorite Sayings
In honor of all the wonderful mothers, let’s take some of their favorite sayings and apply them to financial planning.
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Ep 12: Top 6 Retirement Google Searches
Mark breaks down the top six financial topics that people search on Google and what you should know about them.
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Ep 11: Don’t Make These Assumptions About Retirement
Are you making assumptions about your retirement and what it will look like? Mark breaks down some of the expectations people have and where you can go wrong.
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Ep 10: 5 Types of Financial Risks
Most people don’t know what types of risk they should guard against in their finan-cial planning. We break down five risks and how to address them. Plus, Mark an-swers your mailbag questions.
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Ep 9: 5 Classic Pre-Retiree Mistakes
Everyone gets tripped up by mistakes in retirement planning and sometimes they’re unavoidable. But many times we see pre-retirees make bad decisions that hurt their financial future and they could have steered clear of these with a little assistance. Let’s look at the classic mistakes that we see before answering a few mailbag questions.
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Ep 8: Financial Forecast: How Planning is Like the Weather
Financial lessons can be found everywhere you look, even on The Weather Channel. Today we’re taking four common weather terms and finding the equivalent in retirement planning.
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Ep 7: The Challenges Facing Baby Boomers in Retirement
We work with many, many Baby Boomers so we see and hear the concerns they have heading into retirement. Let’s discuss what challenges are facing this generation and where mistakes often get made during the planning process.
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Ep 6: How to Ruin Your Retirement
After all of the hard work it takes to make it to retirement, why would you go and do anything to jeopardize your finances or your lifestyle? Unfortunately, it happens all too often for a number of different reasons. Today we’ll tell you about some of the most common mistakes people make and what you can do to avoid the same fate.
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Ep 5: How the SECURE Act Impacts Your Retirement
The SECURE Act took effect to start 2020 and it’s the first significant retirement legislation in many years. Let’s look at the key changes to retirement planning and how it might impact your future.
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Ep 4: What They Don’t Teach You In School: Coronavirus Edition
With so many people still fearful of where the economy is headed and worried about
how it will impact their finances, it’s time to change your mindset with a pep talk. Mark
will speak candidly about our current situation and what it takes to navigate these uncertain times and end up successful.
Ep 3: Investing Like a Genius
Do you ever wonder what the best investors do that regular people don’t? There are
certain traits that all highly-intelligent people possess that separate them from the pack.
On this episode, we’ll discuss a few of those characteristics and explain how they apply
to financial planning.
Ep 2: Choosing Between a Traditional vs Roth IRA
The traditional IRA has long been the popular retirement account for investors but the
Roth is making up a lot of ground. Let’s explore the differences between the two and
help you understand why you might choose one over the other.
Ep 1: Who We Are and Why We Chose a Podcast
Mark Howard has worked in financial planning for more than three decades and plans to bring that knowledge and experience to the world of podcasting. On this debut episode, we’ll tell you more about Mark, how the business began, and what we have in store for this show.
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The Retirement Huddle
Financial and retirement planning guidance with Mark Howard of the Howard Financial Group in Savannah.
Mark has almost three decades of experience in the financial industry, has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, South Magazine and several other publications. He has also been featured on the Savannah Morning News.
In addition to clients in Savannah, Mark also serves Hilton Head, Bluffton, Statesboro, and the rest of the Low Country.
To get your own Financial Game Plan, contact Mark today at 888-511-PLAN (7526) or go to HowardFinancialGroup.com
The Financial Cereal Bowl
What can our favorite cereals teach us about financial planning? Much like selecting cereal, choosing financial products involves a myriad of options, each with its own set of benefits and drawbacks. From healthy and sensible choices to the flashy and appealing, Mark and Ron draw parallels between cereal selection and financial decision-making in today’s episode.
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Here’s some of what we discuss in this episode:
- Fruity Pebbles: Risky financial choices such as overloading a portfolio with gold, crypto, or retiring early without proper planning
- Raisin Bran: Seemingly healthy financial choices like whole life insurance and starting Social Security early, which may not be as beneficial upon closer examination
- Sprouted Brown Rice Cacao Crisps: Less exciting but effective financial strategies such as long-term market investments, term life insurance, and low-risk guaranteed income strategies
- Frosted Flakes: Financial products endorsed by mascots or celebrities + the importance of choosing trustworthy and reliable financial sources
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Want to get in touch with Mark?Â
https://retirementhuddle.com/mark@howardfinancialgroup.com 888-511-7526
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