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
4 Questions People are Currently Asking Their Retirement Planner
What do you want to know about your money right now? We look at an article that boils it down to 4 questions.
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Keeping a Cool Head When Markets Put You in Emotional and Financial Distress
We know markets go up and down, but when we see a plunge, it always seems to take us by surprise. How do you stop the losses and prevent this from happening in the future?
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Keeping Calm During a Financial Storm | One Group is Spending Freely in Retirement. What’s Their Secret? | How Buying the Dip Can Help with Retirement Taxes | There’s a Fight Going on Which Helps With Your IRA-to-Roth Conversion. Are You on the Winning Side?
On this week's episode:
- Is your financial advisor’s advice helpful during this market volatility?
- Spending YOUR money vs THEIR money in retirement.
- Why this might be a great time for an IRA-to-Roth …
Has Bengen Gone Batty?
William Bengen created the 4% rule in the 1990s. Now, Bengen says INCREASE your exposure to stocks while you’re IN retirement. Greg disagrees…LOUDLY.
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Greg calls baloney on the four big questions people are asking their advisor right now | Is this the time to buy gold? | One financial mentor has gone off the rails with his latest advice
On this episode:
- How Wall Streets’ concerns and your concerns aren’t the same.
- Gold is going up, should you consider investing?
- More “paint by numbers” advice from the national financial media that …
Will Medicare Cover Your Long-Term Care? The Answer May Surprise You
Are you prepared for the rising costs of long-term care in retirement? The average cost is now $10,000 a month and could double in the next 25 years. Many retirees mistakenly believe Medicare will co…
Answering “How much do I need to save for retirement?” | What are you getting for what your advisor is charging? | Memories vs. Money, what’s more important? | How do you decide what is true from the financial media?
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$1.5 million, $1.6, $1.7....the number keeps going up. How do you figure out your number?
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Financial advisors charge by how much you have saved. Why?
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When you look back on your …
Dave Ramsey Has Foot-in-Mouth Disease…Again!
Dave Ramsey has helped a lot of people get out of debt, but his advice on Social Security is suspect.
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What’s going on with the stock market? | 70% of people in retirement wish they had done THIS | What if we apply DOGE to your retirement plan?
On this episode:
- Is this market event short or long term?
- Learning from a common retiree mistake.
- Getting rid of waste and inefficiency in your retirement plan.
- Options for income in retirement.
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Finding the Illegal Bananas in Your Retirement Plan
If you are traveling internationally, you have to know the rules about what you bring home. That story brought us to discussing the unknown rules we all need to know about retirement.
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Why are there so many financial advisors in my small town? | What is stagflation? | Tony Robbins has problems with your 401(k) | Many people have a planned date for their retirement, 60% of them go early. Why?
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Watch out, financial advisor fees are coming for you.
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What is stagflation and is that where we are headed?
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What is missing from your 401(k)?
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Forced early retirement is very c…
The HOT STOVE of Retirement Accounts
The 401(k) comes with lots of rules and most of them are telling you not to touch it until the Government says you have to. How is that making your retirement better?
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In Retirement, It’s OK to Be Selfish | What Can Hurt You More, Too Much Debt or Too Much Risk? | Mom’s Lesson about Your 401(k) | Mailbag: I Don’t Trust My Advisor Anymore
On this episode:
- For once in your life, it’s all about YOU!
- Trying to hit a financial homerun before retirement.
- You save it, why can’t you spend it in retirement?
- Uncle Sam is hungry, how do you ke…
What Chef is in Charge of Your Retirement Planning?
Just because the chef wears a white smock doesn’t make them a great cook. Just because your financial advisor says they do retirement planning doesn’t make them proficient at it.
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Is Your Retirement Planning Chef the Right One for You? | How Our Roadmap for Retirement Helps with More Than Finances | Is this the Golden Age of IRA-to-Roth Conversions? | Is the Stock Market for Suckers?
On this episode of Expedition Retirement:
- There are a lot of levels of chefs. There are a lot of levels of retirement planning. Do you have the right chef?
- Many people have a hard time making the em…
Is This a Time for Risk Avoidance?
One financial talking head said "This is a time for risk management, not risk avoidance." What does that mean, and does it apply to you?
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Developing that Big Juicy Paycheck in Retirement | 85% of People in This Survey Said They Would Be Fine to Pay More Taxes if This Happened | The Great Lie of the 401(k) | A Retirement Lesson from Tom Brady
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4 ways to develop income in retirement.
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Would you trade higher taxes for more retirement security?
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How the 401(k) comes up short.
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The Top 6 Reasons People Choose NOT to Use a Financial Advisor
Many times people who seek help planning for retirement are more successful than those who don’t. So why do 75% of people NOT use a financial advisor. We go through the list and show how Golden Reser…
Do We Need to Buckle Up For a Rough Year in the Market? | Could You Use AI to Get an Edge on Investing? | Vanguard With a Major Announcement on Fees | Could You Really Get 1.5 million in Social Security?
Golden Reserve Founder Greg Aler and Retirement Planner Phil Huff discuss markets, risk, AI, investment fees, and the real story behind your Social Security benefit.
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Is it time to rebuild your retirement plan?
After the Super Bowl, every team is looking to rebuild or refresh for next season. Is it time for you to do the same thing with your retirement plan?
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