
Weekend Reading: Why Fixed Indexed Annuities Are Back
Within the past year, one-year caps on FIA strategies have doubled from five percent to 10 percent.

Weekend Reading: When Should You Change Your Asset Allocation?
As you invest more money, does your investment strategy need to be more complicated? Not exactly.

Weekend Reading: The Power of Not Having a View
“I don’t know” is an unfulfilling response when you are searching for more certainty in an economy that is (most certainly) uncertain. However, making predictions in the investment environment today is either difficult or impossible.

Weekend Reading: Expectations and Reality
The gap between expectations and reality is where powerful emotion is felt, especially the larger we perceive that gap to be.

Weekend Reading: There is No Medium Risk
Despite what a quick search on Google will tell you, every investment has risk.

Weekend Reading: Social Security More Valuable Than Ever – Even for Millionaires, Advisors Say
Despite stock market volatility causing a 25 percent decline over the past year, there is good news for Social Security recipients: In 2023, benefits will increase by 8.7 percent to keep pace with rising inflation and cost-of-living.

Weekend Reading: How Our Perceptions of Time and Money Change as We Age
Have you reached your “cross-over point” of time and money? The perceptions you hold around the value around these two subjects will change throughout life, but there comes a point when you realize that time holds the most value.

Weekend Reading: The Lazy Way to An Awesome Life: 4 Secrets Backed By Research
Your expectations have enormous power in affecting the way you perceive life events. They influence your response to things that happen to you, especially in difficult situations.

Weekend Reading: How the Worst Market Timer in History Built a Fortune
You’ve likely heard it before, but this old adage holds true: “Time in the market is vastly more important than timing the market.”

Weekend Reading: The Opportunity Cost of Everything
According to Young Money author Jack Raines, the definition of opportunity cost is, “the loss of potential gain from other alternatives when one alternative is chosen.” It’s at the core of every decision you make, regardless of whether or not you’re consciously aware of it.

Weekend Reading: The Thrill of the Trade
We know that investing over the long-term is where wealth is made, but this doesn’t change the fact that there is excitement in playing the market game.

Weekend Reading: Does Arthur Brooks Have the Secret to Happiness?
You might spend time planning for your financial future, making a better business decision or finding the perfect pair of shoes, but what about planning for your happiness?