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Investors' Insights and Market Updates — 310 episodes

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Volatility and Votes

2

The Sequence of Returns Risk

3

Feeling Richer?

4

Analyzing Individual Stocks

5

A Week Worth Watching

6

Reports Are In

7

Market Fireworks

8

The Global Impact of U.S. LNG Exports

9

Honeymoon with the Fed

10

Deal or No Deal?

11

The Fed’s Influence on the Markets

12

Wealth vs. Money

13

Behind the Headlines

14

Who is Carrying the Cost of Tariffs?

15

Markets and the Midterms

16

Earnings Bonanza

17

Understanding 530A Accounts

18

What’s China Got to Do with It?

19

Changes in E-Commerce: What Gives?

20

GDP and the Need for Enhanced Productivity

21

Fed Decisions, Escalation in War

22

Correlation and Causation

23

Oil Tells the Story

24

Crypto ETFs vs Owning Actual Crypto

25

What’s Changed?

26

Commercial Construction Slowdown

27

“The Truth is the First Casualty.”

28

Why Has Job Growth Slowed?

29

Tariffs, Taxes, and Earnings, Oh My!

30

Pros and Cons of a Roth 401(k)

31

Hold Your Horses

32

The Race Between Inflation and Productivity

33

Sports Spending and the GDP

34

Walking Tall at the Fed

35

The Use of AI on Wall Street

36

Market Expansion

37

The Rising Cost of Eldercare

38

The Impact of AI on Small Business

39

We’ll See…

40

Online Best Practices

41

Expect the Unexpected in 2026

42

Closing Out 2025

43

529 Plans – Overview and Important Changes

44

We’ve Never Seen…

45

Fed Up with the Fed and AI

46

Manufacturing and the US GDP

47

Holiday Market Wishlist

48

Thanksgiving Table Topics

49

Innovation Starts with a Bold Mindset: Insights with Jack Hernig

50

How High Can It Go?

51

Innovation Meets Automation: Insights with Elliott Davis

52

Shutdown Over: Now What?

53

How Smart Businesses are Using AI to Level Up: Insights with Magna5

54

Creative Destruction

55

How About Those Credit Cards?

56

The Art of Effortless Travel: Insights from Classic Travel by Pam

57

These Checklists Don’t Lie

58

Discovering How to Lead Yourself in Order to Lead Others: Insights with John Bentley

59

Profits and Tariffs: A Deeper Dive

60

Market Overvalued? Not so fast…

61

October Markets: Trick or Treat?

62

The Triple Tax Advantage of an HSA

63

Full House

64

Introducing our New Marketing Manager

65

966 Days

66

Hidden Tax of Market Volatility

67

Fed Meeting? Government Shutdown?

68

Rates are the Story

69

Fed Comments, Market Response

70

Out-Earning Inflation

71

Life Estates

72

Outperforming Expectations

73

Decisions and Deadlines

74

Charitable Giving Strategy

75

How Soon We Forget

76

How Women are Impacting Wealth Transfer

77

Charts You Need to See

78

Retirement Plan Options

79

Second Half and Earnings

80

How Large is the US Debt?

81

Not Just a Bill

82

Market Strength in July?

83

Taxes, Oil, and Technicals

84

Mid-Year Outlook

85

Facts Not Emotions

86

Behind The Curtain

87

Selling a Business: External Options

88

Better Than Expected

89

Selling a Business: Internal Options

90

Confidence Building?

91

Hot off the Press

92

Market Resistance

93

Understanding Bonds

94

It’s All Relative

95

Numbers Behind the Noise

96

Recession Checklist

97

Don’t Panic

98

Ownership, Buybacks, and Trade

99

Talking Tarrifs

100

Buried in the News

101

The Economic Impact of Energy Costs

102

Stay Focused

103

Building Your Child’s Credit History Early

104

Expectations

105

America’s Natural Gas Advantage

106

Government Shutdown?

107

Tax Time Insights

108

Celebrating 20 Years of Fi Plan Partners

109

Headwinds vs. Tailwinds

110

It’s a H.I.T.

111

Slippery Slope

112

AI Influence vs. Market Breadth

113

Topics for a Historical Day

114

The Risk of Relying on Average Returns to Make Financial Decisions

115

Rates, Rates, Rates

116

Headlines for 2025

117

Navigating Elder Care

118

Gifting a Financial Plan

119

Santa Claus Rally?

120

The Four Intangible Capitals

121

It’s Not a Guessing Game

122

Understanding Your Credit Score

123

December to Remember?

124

The Importance of Saving Early

125

Home for the Holidays

126

Year-End Deadlines

127

Rates, Housing, and Markets

128

Elections, Rates, and Stocks

129

The Decisions for the Week

130

What is a 1031 Exchange?

131

Eight Days Out

132

Client Correspondence and Account View 2.0

133

Pause or Refresh?

134

What The Market Is Telling Us

135

Innovation Mavericks: Andy J. McFetridge, Head of Strategic Relationships and Investment Specialists, John Hancock Investment Management

136

Jobs Earned, Jobs Saved

137

Volatility, China, and Jobs

138

Maximizing Value in a Buy-Sell Agreement

139

Fed Cut, Now What?

140

The Cost of Buying and Selling Real Estate

141

Fed on the Move

142

Earnings, The Fed, and Deficit

143

Explaining the Market’s Fear Gauge

144

Jobs Lost, Housing Found

145

Innovation Mavericks: Jeff Brabant, Vice President, Federal Government Relations- NFIB

146

Unnecessary Fear

147

Is This Normal?

148

Pullback or Bubble?

149

Target Date Funds

150

Changes Coming?

151

Estate Planning for Blended Families

152

No Politics, Market Insights

153

Business Owner Readiness

154

Bring on Earnings

155

Business Attractiveness

156

AI-EI-O

157

Fireworks in the Second Half?

158

Innovation Mavericks: Mitch York, Certified EOS Implementer®

159

Client Concerns

160

Ten, Ten, 2020

161

Better Richer Fuller: Owning a Business

162

Fed Up, Stock Supply Down

163

Understanding SBA Loans

164

Election and The Economy

165

Forming an Exit Strategy

166

It Matters

167

How Can a CEPA Help You?

168

Fed Dilemma

169

Topics That Business Owners Overlook

170

Market Returns and Fed Policy

171

Qualified Charitable Distributions

172

Dividends and Liquidity Matter

173

Taking the Good With the Bad

174

Corporate America’s Balance Sheet Versus The US Treasury

175

Masters and the Markets

176

Bull Market Top?

177

Important Tax Reminders

178

Debt and Earnings on the Rise

179

End of a Negative Era

180

Commercial Real Estate Vacancies

181

Higher Inflation vs. Higher Productivity

182

What is a Stock Split?

183

Valuations and Expectations

184

Consumers, Cars, and Gasoline

185

Inflation and P/E Ratio

186

Government Shenanigans

187

Nineteen Years of Celebration

188

Maximizing Employee Benefits

189

Facts Over Emotion

190

Exciting News and Introductions

191

Payouts and Rate Cuts

192

Weather, Containers, and Markets

193

Will The US Dollar Remain The Reserve Currency?

194

Conflicts Near and Far

195

Reserved Optimism

196

Beyond the Market Headlines

197

Economic Indicators

198

The Importance of an Umbrella Policy

199

Home Insurance

200

Rate Cut Grinch

201

Trends vs. Reality

202

Year-End Deadlines

203

Finish The Job

204

Deposits vs. Loans

205

Thankful Markets

206

The Impact of Interest Rates on Corporate America

207

Inflation High, Water Levels Low

208

Market Momentum?

209

On Fed and Recession Watch

210

Exit Strategies for Your Business

211

Watching Spikes Carefully

212

Earnings vs. Geopolitical Events

213

Secure Act 2.0: Provisions Effective in 2025 and Beyond

214

Global Tensions

215

Rise Together

216

Updates to Your LPL Statements

217

Cautiously Optimistic

218

Secure Act 2.0: Provisions Effective in 2024

219

Shutdowns and Stress

220

Secure Act 2.0: What’s New for 2023

221

Pullbacks

222

September Blues?

223

Debt, Drugs, and Driveways

224

Understanding the Four Types of Inflation

225

Stubborn Markets

226

Zombie Inflation

227

Inflation and the 1970s

228

Artificial Intelligence and the Global Economy

229

Don’t Hold Your Breadth

230

Money Market Stimulus

231

Recession Watch

232

Unique Market Connections

233

Annuity Basics

234

Rolling Recession and Rate Hikes

235

Major Decisions for Your Estate Plan

236

Stress Test

237

Exploring Stock Market Indexes

238

Russian Roulette

239

Will AI Replace Human Advisors?

240

Skip or Pause

241

How to Satisfy Your RMD

242

Fed Surprise?

243

Mortgage Rates

244

Headline Market Strength vs. Underlying Weakness

245

Secure Act 2.0: New Laws for 529 Plans

246

Blessings and Markets

247

What is GDP?

248

Winning with Interest Rates?

249

Reshoring of US Manufacturing Jobs

250

Where Are We Going?

251

The Federal Reserve and Interest Rates

252

It’s All In the Wording

253

New RMD Rules for 2023

254

Fund Flows

255

Inflation and Investment Returns

256

Seven Percent Gauge

257

What is Correlation?

258

Debt Up, Fuel Down

259

The Client Experience

260

The Misery Index and Markets

261

Understanding SIPC Asset Protection

262

Market Seasonality

263

Banking and the Economy

264

Is Volatility The New Norm?

265

Financial Planning Tips for Homeowners

266

Be Careful What You Wish For

267

Finding Tax Documents on Account View

268

Panic Not Required

269

Can the Market Hold the Line?

270

ETFs Vs. Mutual Funds

271

Inflation and Market Volatility

272

Behind the Screens

273

An 18th Anniversary Celebration

274

Romance with Inflation

275

The Pros and Cons of Preferred Stocks

276

Golden Cross

277

Fed Fury

278

Tax Loss Harvesting

279

Charts Don’t Lie

280

Unrealized vs Realized Gains and Losses

281

2023 and You

282

The Impact of Interest Rates on Housing Costs

283

The Fed Grinch

284

Innovation Mavericks: Rush Garner, Owner of Rush Wine Cellars

285

Inflation: Naughty or Nice?

286

Low on Energy, High on Jobs

287

Is Your Life Insurance the Best for You?

288

Markets, Elections and China

289

Carving Up Inflation

290

The Impact of the Elections?

291

2023 Tax Planning

292

Charting the Course

293

Higher Rates and Your Money

294

Trends

295

Social Security Cost of Living Adjustments

296

The McRib and Markets

297

Inherited IRA Rule Changes

298

Investors’ Wishlist

299

How the European Energy Crisis Affects the Global Economy

300

Good News, Bad News

301

Operations and Year-End Checklist

302

Cutting Supply

303

Returning Cash to Shareholders

304

Innovation Mavericks: Michelle and Hunter Norwood, A Little Something Extra Ice Cream

305

All About The Fed

306

Surprising September

307

Election Impact on Markets

308

Understanding Your Cash

309

Answering Client Questions

310

Innovation Mavericks: Brian Collins, Atomic Pictures