Fire Your Financial Advisor by Golden Reserve
The Fire Your Financial Advisor Podcast by Golden Reserve is for every-day retirees. We challenge financial advisors and the fees the trillion-dollar industry takes from your hard-earned savings.
Join us each week for straight shooting, honest insights on protecting your assets from taxes, market risk, fees and long-term care. We'll also challenge financial advisors and the fees the trillion-dollar industry takes from your hard-earned savings.
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- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 350
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Is retirement the most financially complex time of your life? | How many people have actually saved 1 million dollars? | You’ve been downsized before your retirement date. Now what?
Social Security, Medicare, and RMDs. Retirement is just different. Most people don’t have 1 million in savings. Does that mean you won’t have a happy retirement? Work throws you an early retirement c…
Are Financial Advisors Really Still Saying THAT?
We were shocked when we found out that AOL was still around. We are even more surprised to find out that some financial advisors are still using these outdated ideas.
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Are you too conservative with your investments?
Motley Fool says without some money in the stock market you risk not achieving the growth you need for a long retirement. Are they correct?
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What You Need to Know If You Get an Inheritance | THIS Could Be the Biggest Drain on Your Retirement Money | Your 90-Year-Old Best Friend in Retirement
On this episode:
- Many people will get an inheritance, but many are not ready for the issues surrounding it.
- Markets, Fees, and Healthcare can be big costs in retirement. Are you ignoring your bigges…
What Does the Average Couple Spend Per Month in Retirement?
The financial media now says we need 1.8 million dollars to retire. That doesn’t square with what couples actually spend. We have those numbers.
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Warren Buffett Is Selling Stock. Should You? | How Much Do Couples Spend per Month in Retirement? | With Investments, Sometimes Boring Is Better
On this episode:
- How much should we follow the investment moves of people like warren Buffett?
- New data on what people need and spend in retirement.
- A retirement lesson from George Carlin.
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Dividend Paying Stocks: Is It Still a Good Idea?
One big company just cut their stock dividend in half. Is this a trend?
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7 Assumptions People Make About Retirement That Could Hurt You | “All I get from my Financial Advisor is invoices!” | My IRA-to-Roth Conversion Hit a Snag
On this episode:
- Taxes, the markets, inflation, and your health. Don’t assume it will remain the same.
- How often do you hear from you advisor?
- It’s a problem, but a good problem.
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72% of Seniors Say They Wish They Had Done THIS Before Retirement
Many seniors skip this retirement tax strategy. Then they get into their 70s and regret it.
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Filling the Upcoming Gap in Your Social Security Check | A 401(k) With Fees 64 Times the Norm! | Many Advisors are Using a Strategy Now That They’ve Never Used Before
On this episode:
- Social Security may cut your check soon by 20%. What do you do?
- Is your 401(k) loaded with fees?
- How many financial advisors are turning to…GASP…annuities to fill retirement income …
The Saving and Income Formulas Don’t Work
The rule of thumb is that you need to replace 80% of your current income to continue your lifestyle in retirement. Does that formula work?
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Greg Aler and Tim Stallings on Estate Planning Issues of Protecting Your IRA, Your Savings, and Your House | You Want to Retire but You Aren’t at Retirement Age | How Much Faith Do You Have in the Stock Market Going Forward
On this episode:
- Protecting your assets against the high cost of long-term care.
- Should you put your kids on the title of your home?
- You can’t handle work one more day, but you feel you are too youn…
Over Half of Us are Terrified of THIS in Retirement
Can you replace some or all of your paycheck in retirement? It’s an issue many of us don’t know how to solve.
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A Closer Look at the Big Beautiful Bill and How It Could Affect Your Retirement Planning | How Often Does the Market Crash? | What Retirees Say They Are “Terrified” Of
On this episode:
- Taxes, Social Security, and Medicare: What are the changes under the Big Beautiful Bill?
- We are all scared of the next stock market crash. Should we be?
- How can we solve the problem…
Where NOT to Put Your Retirement Money
There is lots of advice out there on where to put your money. We have a list of 7 places NOT to put your money.
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A Huge Advisor Foul Up | 7 Places NOT to Put Your Retirement Money | An NFL Quarterback Gets a Tax Surprise | The Rage About Rates: Does It Really Matter?
On this episode:
- What to do when your advisor makes a mistake.
- Avoid these places with your retirement money.
- How does all the talk about interest rates effect you?
- A retirement lesson from the Ro…
Does Your Advisor Call You Back?
What happens when your financial advisor won’t call you back? We break down the risks, the red flags, and what to do when silence costs you.
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Why Are We Asking, “How Does My Retirement Compare to Everyone Else?"
You see it in the financial headlines. How much should I have saved at this age? For some reason we want to know how we are doing compared to everyone else. Is that a good thing or not?
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TINA is Back! (And We’re Not Talking Tina Turner)
TINA (There is no alternative) is how people feel about the stock market. If you want growth, it’s the only game in town. But is that true?
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The 3 Worst Things to Inherit | The Big Retirement Issue People Ignore | What Could Grab Half Your Retirement Money? (And It’s Not the Stock Market) | Should You Live Off Your IRA to Let Your Social Security Grow
On this episode:
- Don’t be Bad Santa when sending money and assets to your children.
- The upside and downside of living into your 90s.
- A down stock market isn’t your only enemy in retirement.
- 4 trilli…