Feb. 7, 2025

Free Yourself

Free Yourself

Free Yourself – Chris Boyd, Jeff Perry, and Russ Ball dig into the value of time and when engaging a financial advisor can have a meaningful impact on free time as well as your financial plan. The trio share commentary how handing over the reins of...

Free Yourself – Chris Boyd, Jeff Perry, and Russ Ball dig into the value of time and
when engaging a financial advisor can have a meaningful impact on free time as well as
your financial plan. The trio share commentary how handing over the reins of your
portfolio can reclaim precious hours, rediscover your passions, and live a life enriched by
experiences and moments that money alone cannot buy. The AMR Team is offering a
complimentary guidebook titled, “Unleashing your time: The unexpected freedom of
delegated investing.”
For more information or to reach Chris Boyd, Russ Ball or Jeff Perry, click the following
link: https://www.wealthenhancement.com/s/advisor-teams/amr

 

Transcript
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Welcome to Something More with Chris Boyd.

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Chris Boyd is a certified financial planner practitioner

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and senior vice president financial advisor at Wealth

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Enhancement Group, one of the nation's largest registered

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investment advisors.

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We call it Something More because we'd like

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to talk not only about those important dollar

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and cents issues, but also the quality of

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life issues that make the money matters matter.

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Here he is, your fulfillment facilitator, your partner

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in prosperity, advising clients on Cape Cod and

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across the country.

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Here's your host, Jay Christopher Boyd.

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You know, we used to have a crowd

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cheering when we started the show.

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I kind of missed it, so I'm just

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throwing that off there.

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Anyway, welcome everybody.

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I'm just playing around, glad to have you

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with us for another segment of Something More.

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I'm Chris Boyd.

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I'm here with Jeff Perry and Russ Ball.

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We are all of the AMR team at

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Wealth Enhancement and our show today, we're talking

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about freeing yourself.

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Freeing yourself up in time and all kinds

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of things when it comes to whether to

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do things on your own or to get

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some help in the process.

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Jeff, where should we begin as we get

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started today?

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It's an interesting topic because it comes up

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in almost every part of your life, right?

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So do you want to paint that wall?

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Do you want to paint that room?

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It's going to make a mess.

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Or do I do it?

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It's tax season, right?

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I remember you and I had this conversation

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last year and I struggled with it last

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year.

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The listeners missed that episode last year.

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I was like, I can do this myself.

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I really think I can do this myself.

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I know I have a good understanding of

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it, but I'm not sure about this issue.

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Should I do the research?

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And I decided because time, you know, it's

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tough to replace time.

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I don't know anybody who can do it.

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Most valuable of assets.

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Valuable commodity or whatever the saying is.

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So I decided, and I decided again this

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year, Chris, to pay the money because that's

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what you're giving up, right?

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Everything that you have somebody else do costs

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something usually.

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So what do we want to do ourself?

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What are we capable of doing ourself?

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If I, you know, need a new outlet

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cover on my electrical switch because it cracked,

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I can do that.

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But if I need a new electric circuit

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panel, I don't think I should look at

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YouTube to how to do that.

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So what are we willing to give up?

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And is it worth the cost?

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And, you know, it's an individual question, but

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you do, if you allow other people to

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do things that they're experts at, it's usually

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done better.

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Oh, there's, yeah, that's a good point.

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There's expertise.

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Right.

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And I think there's also maybe sometimes confidence,

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you know, that that brings, right?

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People feel a little more confident in the

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outcome.

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So I think medical things come to mind

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as well.

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Like, you know, you think some things you

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could do yourself, but you wouldn't even think

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about it when it comes to some of

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the medical things.

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You want to get the expert to give

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you an opinion.

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It usually, as a retired lawyer, quote unquote,

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legal items, like so many people use legal

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forms or one of the websites, simple things,

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what they think of simple things, maybe a

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simple will, or maybe a contract, or maybe

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a lease, and everything's fine until it's not.

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as it might be if you went somewhere

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local.

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And it's not written, it's not written for

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your individual circumstances.

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Right.

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It's a template form.

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It's a template form designed to be happy,

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that everyone using it might be happy.

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For most circumstances, but not necessarily what you're

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trying to do.

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I saw several lease cases, tenant and landlord

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cases where people just use the standard form

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and things, you know, disputes came up.

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And sometimes those subjects aren't even in the

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lease.

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So, you know, it's fine, you save some

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money, you can do it yourself, but you're

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probably not protecting yourself in the legal sense.

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Or, you know, it's not accomplishing what you

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intended it to do.

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That's right.

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And ultimately, it can cost you more money.

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Well, and that's the case when it comes

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to the kinds of things people deal with

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when it comes to our profession as well.

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Definitely.

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We run into people routinely who are smart

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people.

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You know, they can they they're doing investing

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on their own.

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And sometimes people who really spend the time

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and develop the skills of evaluating a company's

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balance sheet or trying to evaluate why to

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buy, why to sell a company, they can

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do that effectively.

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Sometimes more broadly, they look into which fund

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to mutual fund or exchange traded fund they

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might want to own.

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And these are things that people can do.

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It's not say you can't do it, but

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you do it with the same kind of

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time and energy.

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There's a there's a value to the time.

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One, freeing up that time to when you

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deal with this day in, day out, are

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the things you recognize and are there things

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you learn that someone who does it on

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the weekend doesn't necessarily have the opportunity to

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do?

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Let's talk about timing.

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Right.

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Sometimes we talk about not wanting to time

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the market.

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Right.

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But that doesn't mean there aren't times when

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we make some judgments.

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About do we want to what's happening with

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interest rates?

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Oh, maybe we want to change a little

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bit of the weight of where we have

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emphasis in our portfolio on the duration, the

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interest rate sensitivity of our portfolio.

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There may be changes in the spread of

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the credit spread of how much more benefit

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am I getting by taking credit risk or

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is it enough benefit to take that credit

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risk?

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In an example I came across recently, people

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had their fixed income investments entirely in high

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yield bonds.

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the the uncorrelated experience you might be expecting

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the bonds to play the role of being

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less risk in the portfolio.

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So, you know, these are that's just one

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small example in thinking about like a fixed

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income slice.

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And there's like times when you say, yes,

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I do want this and no, I don't.

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Sometimes they're paying you for the risk, extra

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risk, and sometimes they're not.

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And it might be worth it.

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Or in the same with the interest rate

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sensitivity of, well, their interest rates expected to

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be rising or falling.

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That could have an impact on where I

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want to position myself when it comes to

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duration and what that would mean for the

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consequence of price on my bonds, my existing

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bonds.

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So when it comes to stocks, you can

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you can make similar analogies, right?

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That there's there's times when you want a

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little more of this, a little less of

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that and why that might be right.

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very common thing, how much international one owns

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in their portfolio.

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Over the last decade or so, it's been

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advantageous to be overweight U.S. equities relative

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to foreign stock.

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And that won't always be the case, no

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doubt.

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And there will be times when things flip.

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But if you are invested in a, say,

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a target date fund or some blend of

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indexes, a balanced fund that has different indexes,

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you probably have a lot more international exposure

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than what you might do if you were

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designing things yourself.

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So if you're kind of relying on the

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experts when it comes to do it yourself

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or offering, you know, a streamlined, simplified offering,

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you may not get the nuance and the

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judgment of how to position things.

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If you're doing it yourself and trying to

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say, well, what should I compare it to?

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How much should I have?

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You either might totally miss out on international

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and not have some of the diversification effects

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that there's reasons to have.

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And at times we want more.

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Right.

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And at times we want less.

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Or you might be inclined to just say,

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well, what's the index?

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And I'll have 40 percent of my equities

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be international and 60 percent be domestic.

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And in the process, you know, you might

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be have been overweight over the last decade.

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You follow my point.

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I'm just coming to things that sometimes having

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someone who's in it a little more in

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the thick of it, they can bring some

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judgment to this that you might not always

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know.

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Well, and then there's you don't know what

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you don't know.

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So, you know, that we do a very

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thorough meeting.

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Meeting number one, getting to know the client

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and before we are suggesting anything.

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And part of that is doing a risk

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analysis, risk assessment.

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And I don't think too many do it

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yourselfers do a self or even, you know,

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any structured risk assessment.

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It's just they kind of have a feeling.

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Right.

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Which I think when you're just having a

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feeling, you're either one or the other.

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You're like, oh, I risk doesn't bother me.

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I'm going to.

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You know, develop a portfolio of individual high

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tech stocks because I'm OK with risk or

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risk really bothers me, I'm not doing anything

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with the stock market, I don't know, I

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can't handle that.

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So I think that's something that do it

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yourself is miss the opportunity to, you know,

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do a proper risk assessment and develop a

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portfolio that's in line with that risk assessment.

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So many of them are maybe not taking

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enough risk, excuse me, or they're taking too

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much risk that they wake up in the

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middle of the night.

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Yeah, exactly.

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And I think sometimes when, you know, this

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you bring this topic up, not only are

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they starting out at the right place of

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what's the right allocation that they should have,

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but there's also the notion of markets move

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and create anxiety.

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I'm missing out.

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I should maybe I want more of that.

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Oh, my gosh.

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The market's dropped.

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What the hell?

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I don't want any of that.

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Get me out.

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Right.

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And there's that overreaction.

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We've seen a Dalbar study year upon year

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upon year where the average investor invested in

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a given fund has a drastically different performance

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under performance relative to the performance of the

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fund.

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So what the fund posts as its returns.

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The average investor typically gets far less than

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that because they tend to buy it after

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it's done well and sell it in a

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year after it's done poorly and they move

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on to another investment.

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And in the process, the experience they had

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is far different than the experience of the

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fund itself.

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That's right.

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We've referred to the study from Vanguard that

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they talk about the value of a good

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financial advisor and that this can add as

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much as three percent per year to a

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portfolio because of all the things that advisors

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can do, including paying attention to the risk

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profile that you described, right, paying attention to

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costs of the investments you own, when to

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pull money, where do we draw from decisions

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about asset location, you know, like which investments

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go in, which tax status, all of these

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considerations can add some incremental value.

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The biggest thing they focus on is behavioral

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coaching, which is to say, I'll give you

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an example that's common these days.

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My politics are X, therefore, I want more,

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I want less, whatever it is I want

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in or I want out.

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And that's an example where behavioral coaching can

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really add value because what we've seen year

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after, you know, administration after administration is stocks

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tend to rise.

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It's not to say they always rise, but

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they tend to rise over time.

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And we're better to have exposure than to

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not.

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It's a question of that asset allocation decision,

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how much is befitting your temperament for volatility,

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your tolerance for risk.

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We had Russ and I had a conversation

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about this just yesterday with a client who

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their risk tolerance on their questionnaire kind of

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kind of landed them more like a conservative

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investor.

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But they've been really nervous and had a

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lot of cash and didn't really feel comfortable

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with markets.

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So they were really underweighted.

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So we said, all right, let's let's at

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least incrementally enhance how much, you know, risk

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you're taking.

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So instead of it being an amount that

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was in line with their appearance of risk

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tolerance, we recognized that their actual risk tolerance

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was far less.

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But the fact that we're saying, hey, we're

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going to do this in a measured way,

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they're open to doing some, you know, more

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than they otherwise would have.

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And so I think long term, that'll help

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them get better returns.

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The other piece is, I think, especially around

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politics, clients will come in and rather than

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they might come in with a with a

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stance of, oh, I want to sit on

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the sidelines now or now I want to

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get even more invested.

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I think just having our take on what

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the way we're seeing the market, what we're

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seeing in the whole political atmosphere, you know,

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our part of our full time job is

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to keep abreast of all the information that's

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out there and read these reports and assess

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its impact.

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And we're really in the weeds and we're

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learning what the consensus is and we're building

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our own views.

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And that kind of dialogue with clients can

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help them either decide to stay the course

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or, you know, scale back risk, but maybe

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not take everything out or put everything in

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and make some kind of drastic decision there.

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So let's go back to this this notion

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of do it yourself.

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I think sometimes we've talked to people and

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they like doing some of this stuff.

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You know, they have the enjoyment from it.

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We've got a longtime client who has coined

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the phrase, you know, he wanted to play

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in a sandbox and we use that.

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We've applied that to all of them, talking

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about this notion.

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And, you know, while he's interested and enjoying

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it, he's doing some of it himself.

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But what he's also said is, I don't

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want to put all my money at this

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kind of risk I'm willing to take when

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I do this, because I'm not as an

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individual.

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He's not as focused on risk management.

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He's looking at, oh, where do I think

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there's opportunity?

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So he's delegated to us to say, hey,

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you do some of this stuff in a

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way that's responsible and careful in an allocation

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that's befitting our circumstances.

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But I'm going to take these risks over

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here and have some fun with it and

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see what I can do.

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Nice way to end that impulse, knowing that

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he's taking more risk, willing to take the

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risk because he thinks he can outperform.

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But at the same time, maybe saying just

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in case and the thing he's also really

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focused on is I may not be here

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forever or I may not have capacity forever.

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If and when something happens that I'm not

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able to do this, I want the team

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in place with my estate plan, with my

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financial plan, with my portfolio, with my insurance,

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whatever it is, to be in a position

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that others will be able to help my

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spouse in his case, his wife, have confidence

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and be in a position where things will

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work out OK.

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I think that's a big driver for people

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when they do it themselves.

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The reason they hire help, it's not because

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they can't do it themselves.

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It's because they recognize their mortality or the

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risk of an incapacity as, you know, you

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know, as time people age and sometimes get

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less engaged in their portfolio, less attentive.

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And the potential for incapacity or whatever that

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they may not be bringing to it as

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much of the judgment that they love now,

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you know, someday they won't.

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And so the idea of having the opportunity

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to select the team, to build around them,

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they think is a good plan for just

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in case and and it gives them a

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little bit of that.

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I don't know what I don't know.

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So this helps me to, you know, hedge

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the risk.

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Yeah.

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Even though even the individuals who do who

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are interested, whether it's in a sandbox or

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they're managing their whole account and they, you

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know, they're reading Barron's on Saturdays and they're

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watching CNBC in the morning and they really

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feel like they're putting the time in.

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Yeah.

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One of the things I see from even

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the people who fit in that category is

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they're not they either don't recognize it or

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don't have the skills.

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What you don't know is to put that

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their investment, their their savings, their investments, their

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IRAs, their 401ks, whatever it is, in the

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context of a comprehensive financial plan and to

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do proper forecasting.

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Like so you can be really good at

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and interested in investing and analyzing and think

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you can pick the right funds.

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But is this a plan that's actually going

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to work for you in the decades to

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come?

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And is your you have goals, the goals

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in line with your that you're investing in

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your plan that you kind of have in

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your head?

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So I think I'm glad you brought it

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up.

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The idea that there is a difference in

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investing and the overall personal finance picture.

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And again, whether it's on the part of

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the portfolio management where, you know, the depth

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of resources may be different for an individual

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than for someone who does it for lots

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of people with, you know, hundreds of millions

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of dollars or more, depending on who you're

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working with.

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And then.

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The the same thing about when it comes

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to financial planning, the kind of tools and

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resources that might be at the disposal of

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the professional can be really beneficial.

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And it it's not say that people can't

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do some spreadsheets and come up with some

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similar kinds of resources, but.

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You know, we go through these analysis with

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people and I mean, the in an instant,

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we can evaluate alternative scenarios.

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What if what if the person one dies

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at a young age?

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Boom.

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It affects all the pension numbers.

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It affects spending numbers.

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You know, we've we've got it all structured

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in the way the program works that we

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can then forecast, OK, the income is different.

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You know, how does that play out?

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Oh, it's good.

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It's bad.

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Whatever.

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What's the reverse?

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What if this person dies too soon and

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that person lives long?

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What if we have long term care events?

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What if we change our Social Security timing?

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What all these variables that we can kind

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of.

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Do assessment around in rapid succession, it it's

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funny, we had a conversation recently with a

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client and they were saying, hey, I want

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to make sure we're dealing with I saw

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this thing on TikTok, I think it was,

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I don't know, whatever it was.

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It was one of the social media somewhere

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with that opening line.

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It could be anything.

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Well, no, it was social media was.

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But anyway, they saw this this reel, you

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know, and the guys talked about all these

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pillars and he's like, are we dealing with

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have we looked at all these pillars?

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And it's like we don't talk about it

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necessarily with the sizzle that they had from

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the from from the presentation.

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But it was like, yes, we've looked at

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your income planning and your your portfolio design

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and your tax strategies and, you know, whether

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you should do a Roth conversion and what's

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going to be the impact of health care

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and estate planning and so forth.

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It's all been done, but it's been done

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in a way that we tried to jam

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it into a communication very rapidly where we've

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done all this work behind the scenes.

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And then we have a one and a

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half hour meeting trying to go through everything.

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And, you know, a lot of times people

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don't realize there's a lot of work that's

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gone into this that's been done in the

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background before they even came in.

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You know, and then in the meeting, we're

539
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:06,180
going through a what if this and what

540
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if that.

541
00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:08,240
And if we wanted to change this, we

542
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could, you know.

543
00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:09,860
Yeah.

544
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And and it's a peace of mind thing

545
00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:12,520
as well.

546
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And not just it's a time thing.

547
00:23:14,660 --> 00:23:17,680
You know, obviously you're gaining time by having

548
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:19,880
someone else do these things for you.

549
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:23,220
But it's also equally it's a peace of

550
00:23:23,220 --> 00:23:23,540
mind.

551
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:25,220
You have long term projections.

552
00:23:25,500 --> 00:23:28,520
You have annual reviews, which I think are

553
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,240
just really key where you come in at

554
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:31,900
least once a year.

555
00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:34,340
We encourage you sometimes more depending on what's

556
00:23:34,340 --> 00:23:35,940
going on, but at least once a year

557
00:23:35,940 --> 00:23:38,060
to come in and go through those projections

558
00:23:38,060 --> 00:23:38,540
again.

559
00:23:38,660 --> 00:23:41,200
Talk about did anything in your life change?

560
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:41,800
Good or bad?

561
00:23:42,260 --> 00:23:43,220
That's exactly it.

562
00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:43,440
Right.

563
00:23:43,580 --> 00:23:44,400
That's the reason.

564
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,680
And even if they don't, circumstances change.

565
00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:48,200
That's right.

566
00:23:48,340 --> 00:23:49,760
You know, things around us change.

567
00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:50,520
That's right.

568
00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:54,420
And so, you know, you get these refreshers

569
00:23:54,420 --> 00:23:55,980
and you can add in family as you

570
00:23:55,980 --> 00:23:57,820
get older, you can add in family members

571
00:23:57,820 --> 00:24:00,620
or and then these things come up like

572
00:24:00,620 --> 00:24:03,440
you're you were mentioning, you know, like, oh,

573
00:24:03,500 --> 00:24:06,700
my gran, my grandson is going to college.

574
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:07,700
Can I help him?

575
00:24:08,300 --> 00:24:08,400
Right.

576
00:24:08,540 --> 00:24:10,560
And you can meet with your advisor and

577
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:13,220
say, if I do this, if I do

578
00:24:13,220 --> 00:24:15,720
ten thousand dollars a year, a hundred thousand

579
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,400
dollars a year, whatever your wealth is, what

580
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:20,420
does it mean to my likelihood of my

581
00:24:20,420 --> 00:24:22,860
plan working until I'm ninety five or whatever

582
00:24:22,860 --> 00:24:23,940
your target is?

583
00:24:23,940 --> 00:24:28,580
Yeah, actually, Jeff, this unknowingly, we just had

584
00:24:28,580 --> 00:24:35,260
that conversation with someone yesterday where he was

585
00:24:35,260 --> 00:24:36,800
saying, you know, this year I think we're

586
00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:38,140
going to take out some money.

587
00:24:39,180 --> 00:24:41,800
Grandson's going to college and we might want

588
00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:43,680
to help out.

589
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And, you know, so we're like, oh, let's

590
00:24:46,120 --> 00:24:47,060
dust off the plan.

591
00:24:48,020 --> 00:24:49,020
Let's take a look.

592
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,380
And this was interesting.

593
00:24:51,380 --> 00:24:54,240
This this client had been really had a

594
00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:56,840
lot of forethought in when we remember back

595
00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:58,920
when there was an opportunity for people to

596
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:02,440
convert to Roth and pay the tax over

597
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:03,780
a number of years.

598
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:04,580
Yeah, yeah.

599
00:25:04,820 --> 00:25:06,340
I forget when that was because I don't

600
00:25:06,340 --> 00:25:06,520
know.

601
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,440
But Ed Slott always brags that he did

602
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:08,780
it.

603
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:12,300
Whenever you listen to Ed Slott, he went

604
00:25:12,300 --> 00:25:12,880
all in.

605
00:25:12,980 --> 00:25:14,320
He converted everything.

606
00:25:14,380 --> 00:25:14,800
Ed Slott.

607
00:25:14,940 --> 00:25:15,960
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

608
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:16,860
Yeah.

609
00:25:16,980 --> 00:25:18,000
So this guy did too.

610
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:21,120
Basically, he had he he basically took the

611
00:25:21,120 --> 00:25:22,480
opportunity to do all that.

612
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,560
And so, you know, feeling feeling good about

613
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:26,240
that decision.

614
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:28,480
And it's, you know, it's worth bragging about

615
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:28,840
now.

616
00:25:28,940 --> 00:25:29,540
It's brilliant.

617
00:25:29,660 --> 00:25:29,860
Right.

618
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:30,960
You know, no tax.

619
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:31,340
Right.

620
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:35,220
So anyway, in any case, so we were

621
00:25:35,220 --> 00:25:37,160
going through that kind of an assessment of

622
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,860
like, what if how much, you know, we

623
00:25:39,860 --> 00:25:40,700
might want to do this.

624
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,560
So it's it's exactly that, you know, things

625
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:46,680
change and evolve.

626
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,780
And, you know, and you start thinking, well,

627
00:25:49,900 --> 00:25:50,860
what's the impact?

628
00:25:51,020 --> 00:25:54,700
How well, you know, the thing, you know,

629
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,160
if if one of us dies, maybe our

630
00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:58,720
income is different considerably.

631
00:25:58,880 --> 00:25:59,720
Do we still have enough?

632
00:26:00,060 --> 00:26:01,180
You know, that kind of thing.

633
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:01,480
Right.

634
00:26:01,540 --> 00:26:04,200
Make sure that there's resources to meet your

635
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:04,460
needs.

636
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:05,120
Yeah.

637
00:26:05,660 --> 00:26:07,680
And then when you retire or if you're

638
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,000
retired already, what do you want to do

639
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:10,660
in your retirement?

640
00:26:10,780 --> 00:26:13,160
Do you want to do it financially, you

641
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,420
know, being a financial analyst, or do you

642
00:26:15,420 --> 00:26:17,620
want to do it or do you want

643
00:26:17,620 --> 00:26:18,740
to unleash your time?

644
00:26:18,940 --> 00:26:19,040
Right.

645
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:19,900
Yeah.

646
00:26:20,220 --> 00:26:21,540
And so, right.

647
00:26:21,740 --> 00:26:23,340
What do you want your focus to be

648
00:26:23,340 --> 00:26:25,320
and how easy do you want the transition

649
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:26,400
to be as you get older?

650
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,820
And, you know, should something happen, it's a

651
00:26:29,820 --> 00:26:32,020
gift to your to your loved ones to

652
00:26:32,020 --> 00:26:35,420
have your situation organized and, you know, not

653
00:26:35,420 --> 00:26:37,400
in chaos, which happens with some people as

654
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,080
they get older and lose their, you know,

655
00:26:39,380 --> 00:26:40,920
their cognitive skills decline.

656
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:42,260
It's going to happen to all of us.

657
00:26:42,300 --> 00:26:42,500
Right.

658
00:26:42,580 --> 00:26:42,880
Yeah.

659
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:43,180
Yeah.

660
00:26:43,460 --> 00:26:46,540
So well, I mean, that's the point about

661
00:26:46,540 --> 00:26:47,880
time is such a great one.

662
00:26:48,140 --> 00:26:50,680
I mean, none of us knows how long

663
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:51,100
we have.

664
00:26:51,220 --> 00:26:51,380
Right.

665
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,440
And there's only an amount of time that

666
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,500
we can spend in whatever we want to

667
00:26:56,500 --> 00:26:56,920
prioritize.

668
00:26:58,120 --> 00:27:00,440
I'm laughing because there's a talk show host

669
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:05,280
that talks whenever she's talking about certain things

670
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,120
with the caller, she says, OK, between now

671
00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:10,420
and dead, what do you want your life

672
00:27:10,420 --> 00:27:10,700
to be?

673
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:11,540
What do you want to do?

674
00:27:11,540 --> 00:27:11,820
Right.

675
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:12,680
Yeah.

676
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:14,160
You want to spend your time.

677
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,320
Doing because you get to pick that.

678
00:27:17,820 --> 00:27:19,640
Well, and I'll tell you, for me, it's

679
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:20,900
not doing my tax return.

680
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,080
I guess I'm with it because I'm sure

681
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,900
that's a good example, you know.

682
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:28,160
But yeah, that's exactly it.

683
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,700
And for other people, we deal with people

684
00:27:30,700 --> 00:27:33,680
all the time who, you know, they'll say,

685
00:27:33,820 --> 00:27:35,540
well, I'm sure glad you like doing this

686
00:27:35,540 --> 00:27:35,840
stuff.

687
00:27:35,860 --> 00:27:36,340
And we do.

688
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:37,560
We love doing this stuff.

689
00:27:38,020 --> 00:27:39,620
But not everyone does.

690
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:42,580
And that's perfect.

691
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:44,320
Hey, that's what makes an economy.

692
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:45,480
I'll do this for you.

693
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:46,900
You do something for someone else.

694
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,300
And we've got the we've got the economy

695
00:27:49,300 --> 00:27:50,020
moving along.

696
00:27:50,300 --> 00:27:51,140
You know what I mean?

697
00:27:51,700 --> 00:27:55,120
Chris, we have a guidebook called Unleashing Your

698
00:27:55,120 --> 00:27:59,640
Time, the Unexpected Freedom of Delegated Investing, that

699
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:01,780
if anyone's listening and they would like a

700
00:28:01,780 --> 00:28:04,760
complimentary copy, just send us an email and

701
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:06,060
we'll just email it back to you.

702
00:28:06,060 --> 00:28:09,700
It's no obligation, no sales, no salesperson will

703
00:28:09,700 --> 00:28:10,000
call.

704
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:11,980
It's just a great opportunity.

705
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,020
And then, you know, obviously we're happy to

706
00:28:14,020 --> 00:28:14,720
help if we can.

707
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,180
But Unleashing Your Time, is that what it

708
00:28:18,180 --> 00:28:18,420
was?

709
00:28:18,860 --> 00:28:21,140
Unleashing Your Time and its subtitle is the

710
00:28:21,140 --> 00:28:24,780
Unexpected Freedom of Delegated Investing.

711
00:28:24,820 --> 00:28:27,200
And I'll add in financial planning.

712
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:29,680
Yeah, because we'll definitely talk about that as

713
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:29,960
well.

714
00:28:30,120 --> 00:28:31,880
If you if you were if you were

715
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:35,820
to inquire with us, take advantage of it.

716
00:28:35,820 --> 00:28:36,460
It's a freebie.

717
00:28:36,620 --> 00:28:37,420
It's not very long.

718
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:39,820
It's it's a nice little resource.

719
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,680
We'll send it either by email or in

720
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,000
print, whatever you'd prefer.

721
00:28:46,260 --> 00:28:47,240
Let us know.

722
00:28:47,460 --> 00:28:49,980
So to take advantage of that, there's a

723
00:28:49,980 --> 00:28:51,260
few ways you can do that.

724
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:55,620
Let me pull up the the scroll.

725
00:28:55,820 --> 00:28:57,360
So I have the right scroll here.

726
00:28:57,780 --> 00:29:00,080
But you can well, I'll throw this one

727
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:00,260
up.

728
00:29:00,260 --> 00:29:02,160
You can if you're watching us on video,

729
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:05,360
you can send us an email at amr

730
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:09,960
-info at wealthenhancement.com.

731
00:29:10,940 --> 00:29:12,240
You can always give us a call as

732
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:12,580
well.

733
00:29:13,060 --> 00:29:16,760
866-771-8901 is an easy way to

734
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:17,160
do that.

735
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:20,660
We would love to hear from you, not

736
00:29:20,660 --> 00:29:22,060
only for this purpose.

737
00:29:22,380 --> 00:29:25,860
So if you want the free, the complimentary

738
00:29:25,860 --> 00:29:30,620
brochure, OK, whatever the right to refer this

739
00:29:30,620 --> 00:29:32,040
book is what we guidebook.

740
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:33,120
Thank you.

741
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:34,680
Take advantage of it.

742
00:29:34,820 --> 00:29:37,460
But if you want to tell us topics

743
00:29:37,460 --> 00:29:39,900
you'd like to hear more of, if you'd

744
00:29:39,900 --> 00:29:42,640
like to have a question, something going on

745
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:44,880
that you'd like us to talk about and

746
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,280
give some input on with, you know, just

747
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,480
from a distance, you can send us an

748
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:49,640
email.

749
00:29:49,740 --> 00:29:50,620
We'd love to hear from you.

750
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:54,160
Amr-info at wealthenhancement.com.

751
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,260
And if you'd like to schedule anything with

752
00:29:57,260 --> 00:29:58,740
us, of course, you can reach out to

753
00:29:58,740 --> 00:30:03,240
us by phone either locally 508-771-8900

754
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:08,740
or toll free 866-771-8901.

755
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,520
Until next time, keep striving for something.

756
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:14,660
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