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Investors' Insights and Market Updates — 323 episodes

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1

How Will Stocks React?

2

The Importance of Saving Early

3

Is AI Replacing America’s Back Office?

4

Changing Seasons

5

The Aging of America’s Trades

6

Earning Respect

7

The Cost of Long-Term Care

8

Momentum is our Friend

9

Avoiding Mid-Career Stall

10

The 3-6-9 Savings Rule

11

Generations of Wisdom: Timeless Perspective with Ann Powell

12

The Great Reset

13

Rare Earth Metals, Brazil, and the US GDP

14

Volatility and Votes

15

The Sequence of Returns Risk

16

Feeling Richer?

17

Analyzing Individual Stocks

18

A Week Worth Watching

19

Reports Are In

20

Market Fireworks

21

The Global Impact of U.S. LNG Exports

22

Honeymoon with the Fed

23

Deal or No Deal?

24

The Fed’s Influence on the Markets

25

Wealth vs. Money

26

Behind the Headlines

27

Who is Carrying the Cost of Tariffs?

28

Markets and the Midterms

29

Earnings Bonanza

30

Understanding 530A Accounts

31

What’s China Got to Do with It?

32

Changes in E-Commerce: What Gives?

33

GDP and the Need for Enhanced Productivity

34

Fed Decisions, Escalation in War

35

Correlation and Causation

36

Oil Tells the Story

37

Crypto ETFs vs Owning Actual Crypto

38

What’s Changed?

39

Commercial Construction Slowdown

40

“The Truth is the First Casualty.”

41

Why Has Job Growth Slowed?

42

Tariffs, Taxes, and Earnings, Oh My!

43

Pros and Cons of a Roth 401(k)

44

Hold Your Horses

45

The Race Between Inflation and Productivity

46

Sports Spending and the GDP

47

Walking Tall at the Fed

48

The Use of AI on Wall Street

49

Market Expansion

50

The Rising Cost of Eldercare

51

The Impact of AI on Small Business

52

We’ll See…

53

Online Best Practices

54

Expect the Unexpected in 2026

55

Closing Out 2025

56

529 Plans – Overview and Important Changes

57

We’ve Never Seen…

58

Fed Up with the Fed and AI

59

Manufacturing and the US GDP

60

Holiday Market Wishlist

61

Thanksgiving Table Topics

62

Innovation Starts with a Bold Mindset: Insights with Jack Hernig

63

How High Can It Go?

64

Innovation Meets Automation: Insights with Elliott Davis

65

Shutdown Over: Now What?

66

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

67

Creative Destruction

68

How About Those Credit Cards?

69

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

70

These Checklists Don’t Lie

71

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

72

Profits and Tariffs: A Deeper Dive

73

Market Overvalued? Not so fast…

74

October Markets: Trick or Treat?

75

The Triple Tax Advantage of an HSA

76

Full House

77

Introducing our New Marketing Manager

78

966 Days

79

Hidden Tax of Market Volatility

80

Fed Meeting? Government Shutdown?

81

Rates are the Story

82

Fed Comments, Market Response

83

Out-Earning Inflation

84

Life Estates

85

Outperforming Expectations

86

Decisions and Deadlines

87

Charitable Giving Strategy

88

How Soon We Forget

89

How Women are Impacting Wealth Transfer

90

Charts You Need to See

91

Retirement Plan Options

92

Second Half and Earnings

93

How Large is the US Debt?

94

Not Just a Bill

95

Market Strength in July?

96

Taxes, Oil, and Technicals

97

Mid-Year Outlook

98

Facts Not Emotions

99

Behind The Curtain

100

Selling a Business: External Options

101

Better Than Expected

102

Selling a Business: Internal Options

103

Confidence Building?

104

Hot off the Press

105

Market Resistance

106

Understanding Bonds

107

It’s All Relative

108

Numbers Behind the Noise

109

Recession Checklist

110

Don’t Panic

111

Ownership, Buybacks, and Trade

112

Talking Tarrifs

113

Buried in the News

114

The Economic Impact of Energy Costs

115

Stay Focused

116

Building Your Child’s Credit History Early

117

Expectations

118

America’s Natural Gas Advantage

119

Government Shutdown?

120

Tax Time Insights

121

Celebrating 20 Years of Fi Plan Partners

122

Headwinds vs. Tailwinds

123

It’s a H.I.T.

124

Slippery Slope

125

AI Influence vs. Market Breadth

126

Topics for a Historical Day

127

The Risk of Relying on Average Returns to Make Financial Decisions

128

Rates, Rates, Rates

129

Headlines for 2025

130

Navigating Elder Care

131

Gifting a Financial Plan

132

Santa Claus Rally?

133

The Four Intangible Capitals

134

It’s Not a Guessing Game

135

Understanding Your Credit Score

136

December to Remember?

137

The Importance of Saving Early

138

Home for the Holidays

139

Year-End Deadlines

140

Rates, Housing, and Markets

141

Elections, Rates, and Stocks

142

The Decisions for the Week

143

What is a 1031 Exchange?

144

Eight Days Out

145

Client Correspondence and Account View 2.0

146

Pause or Refresh?

147

What The Market Is Telling Us

148

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

149

Jobs Earned, Jobs Saved

150

Volatility, China, and Jobs

151

Maximizing Value in a Buy-Sell Agreement

152

Fed Cut, Now What?

153

The Cost of Buying and Selling Real Estate

154

Fed on the Move

155

Earnings, The Fed, and Deficit

156

Explaining the Market’s Fear Gauge

157

Jobs Lost, Housing Found

158

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

159

Unnecessary Fear

160

Is This Normal?

161

Pullback or Bubble?

162

Target Date Funds

163

Changes Coming?

164

Estate Planning for Blended Families

165

No Politics, Market Insights

166

Business Owner Readiness

167

Bring on Earnings

168

Business Attractiveness

169

AI-EI-O

170

Fireworks in the Second Half?

171

Innovation Mavericks: Mitch York, Certified EOS Implementer®

172

Client Concerns

173

Ten, Ten, 2020

174

Better Richer Fuller: Owning a Business

175

Fed Up, Stock Supply Down

176

Understanding SBA Loans

177

Election and The Economy

178

Forming an Exit Strategy

179

It Matters

180

How Can a CEPA Help You?

181

Fed Dilemma

182

Topics That Business Owners Overlook

183

Market Returns and Fed Policy

184

Qualified Charitable Distributions

185

Dividends and Liquidity Matter

186

Taking the Good With the Bad

187

Corporate America’s Balance Sheet Versus The US Treasury

188

Masters and the Markets

189

Bull Market Top?

190

Important Tax Reminders

191

Debt and Earnings on the Rise

192

End of a Negative Era

193

Commercial Real Estate Vacancies

194

Higher Inflation vs. Higher Productivity

195

What is a Stock Split?

196

Valuations and Expectations

197

Consumers, Cars, and Gasoline

198

Inflation and P/E Ratio

199

Government Shenanigans

200

Nineteen Years of Celebration

201

Maximizing Employee Benefits

202

Facts Over Emotion

203

Exciting News and Introductions

204

Payouts and Rate Cuts

205

Weather, Containers, and Markets

206

Will The US Dollar Remain The Reserve Currency?

207

Conflicts Near and Far

208

Reserved Optimism

209

Beyond the Market Headlines

210

Economic Indicators

211

The Importance of an Umbrella Policy

212

Home Insurance

213

Rate Cut Grinch

214

Trends vs. Reality

215

Year-End Deadlines

216

Finish The Job

217

Deposits vs. Loans

218

Thankful Markets

219

The Impact of Interest Rates on Corporate America

220

Inflation High, Water Levels Low

221

Market Momentum?

222

On Fed and Recession Watch

223

Exit Strategies for Your Business

224

Watching Spikes Carefully

225

Earnings vs. Geopolitical Events

226

Secure Act 2.0: Provisions Effective in 2025 and Beyond

227

Global Tensions

228

Rise Together

229

Updates to Your LPL Statements

230

Cautiously Optimistic

231

Secure Act 2.0: Provisions Effective in 2024

232

Shutdowns and Stress

233

Secure Act 2.0: What’s New for 2023

234

Pullbacks

235

September Blues?

236

Debt, Drugs, and Driveways

237

Understanding the Four Types of Inflation

238

Stubborn Markets

239

Zombie Inflation

240

Inflation and the 1970s

241

Artificial Intelligence and the Global Economy

242

Don’t Hold Your Breadth

243

Money Market Stimulus

244

Recession Watch

245

Unique Market Connections

246

Annuity Basics

247

Rolling Recession and Rate Hikes

248

Major Decisions for Your Estate Plan

249

Stress Test

250

Exploring Stock Market Indexes

251

Russian Roulette

252

Will AI Replace Human Advisors?

253

Skip or Pause

254

How to Satisfy Your RMD

255

Fed Surprise?

256

Mortgage Rates

257

Headline Market Strength vs. Underlying Weakness

258

Secure Act 2.0: New Laws for 529 Plans

259

Blessings and Markets

260

What is GDP?

261

Winning with Interest Rates?

262

Reshoring of US Manufacturing Jobs

263

Where Are We Going?

264

The Federal Reserve and Interest Rates

265

It’s All In the Wording

266

New RMD Rules for 2023

267

Fund Flows

268

Inflation and Investment Returns

269

Seven Percent Gauge

270

What is Correlation?

271

Debt Up, Fuel Down

272

The Client Experience

273

The Misery Index and Markets

274

Understanding SIPC Asset Protection

275

Market Seasonality

276

Banking and the Economy

277

Is Volatility The New Norm?

278

Financial Planning Tips for Homeowners

279

Be Careful What You Wish For

280

Finding Tax Documents on Account View

281

Panic Not Required

282

Can the Market Hold the Line?

283

ETFs Vs. Mutual Funds

284

Inflation and Market Volatility

285

Behind the Screens

286

An 18th Anniversary Celebration

287

Romance with Inflation

288

The Pros and Cons of Preferred Stocks

289

Golden Cross

290

Fed Fury

291

Tax Loss Harvesting

292

Charts Don’t Lie

293

Unrealized vs Realized Gains and Losses

294

2023 and You

295

The Impact of Interest Rates on Housing Costs

296

The Fed Grinch

297

Innovation Mavericks: Rush Garner, Owner of Rush Wine Cellars

298

Inflation: Naughty or Nice?

299

Low on Energy, High on Jobs

300

Is Your Life Insurance the Best for You?

301

Markets, Elections and China

302

Carving Up Inflation

303

The Impact of the Elections?

304

2023 Tax Planning

305

Charting the Course

306

Higher Rates and Your Money

307

Trends

308

Social Security Cost of Living Adjustments

309

The McRib and Markets

310

Inherited IRA Rule Changes

311

Investors’ Wishlist

312

How the European Energy Crisis Affects the Global Economy

313

Good News, Bad News

314

Operations and Year-End Checklist

315

Cutting Supply

316

Returning Cash to Shareholders

317

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

318

All About The Fed

319

Surprising September

320

Election Impact on Markets

321

Understanding Your Cash

322

Answering Client Questions

323

Innovation Mavericks: Brian Collins, Atomic Pictures