Retirement Talk Podcast with Laura Stover
Retirement talk - Redefining Wealth and Your Money with Laura Stover is a podcast that educates, entertains, and helps prepare our listeners for retirement. It's a show designed for those looking to maximize their financial efficiency and fulfill their lifestyle. It is also geared toward those needing to transition from accumulation to preservation and the necessary shift in how money is managed. Based on Laura’s two decades of experience with financial coaching and consultation to hundreds of individuals across the US, this podcast could make a difference in your retirement income, cutting your taxes, or both!
Laura shares thoughts and ideas from today’s premier experts in the field of retirement, as well as the latest in retirement trends to help you make better financial decisions regarding YOUR retirement.
In each episode, Laura will share financial news and provide insight and resources on topics such as retirement, retirement income planning, reducing unnecessary taxes, protection from market risk, wealth transfer, estate planning strategies, long-term healthcare, social security and much more.
Your host is wealth advisor Laura Stover. Laura is the CEO of LS Wealth Management. She is also the founding partner of LS Tax, a consulting and tax planning firm. Laura is a registered financial consultant and investment advisor. She attended Huntington University, as well as the prestigious Wharton School with a certification in executive leadership, and focus on entrepreneurism. She has been a co-author with Renowned Businessman Steve Forbes as well as a multiple time contributing columnist to many national publications such as the Wall Street journal, CNBC online and USA today. A sought-after speaker and entrepreneur, Laura has close to twenty years of experience as an investment advisor. She has become a well-known financial resource and a go-to advisor for national media outlets and clients across the country.
The focus starts with why you plan to retire in the first place, how you will fulfill your dreams and most efficiently organize your assets. You'll plan how to manage the growth necessary to sustain your lifestyle needs throughout your retirement journey. We want to redefine your wealth and money.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2023
The Best Retirement Plans of 2023
Americans have been falling behind on retirement planning for some time now, and the past two years have only increased the difficulty to save money and grow a nest egg. This recent trend emphasizes …
Are Bonds a Good Investment During a Recession?
If you go back to October of 2022, you’ll find the worst 12-month period ever for bonds. With the pressure on the economy, bonds struggled right alongside many other investments.
The last year showed…
Planning Your First Required Minimum Distribution
For the vast majority of retirees, there will come a time when the IRS comes calling and you’re required to start taking money out of qualified retirement accounts. These required minimum distributio…
What is Taxable Income and How Does it Work?
It’s that time of the year where taxes become top of mind as people look through income over the past year to get their filing in order, but taxes need to be at the forefront of your financial planni…
What’s a Safe Withdrawal Rate Today?
A declining market will make any retiree uncomfortable, and it could put your future in jeopardy if you haven’t thought through your withdrawal strategy. Many retirees struggle to shift their mindset…
Advisors Should Rethink the ‘M’ in RMD
The recent passing of SECURE Act 2.0 brought about a long list of planning opportunities, but the change in age for required minimum distributions will give advisors a chance to think outside the box…
SECURE Act 2.0 – How It Will Affect Retirees
The start of 2023 brought us another round of retirement changes with SECURE Act 2.0 officially taking effect and there are a number of important provisions that retirees need to be aware of.
In thi…
What’s the Difference Between Average and Actual Rate of Return
Investors use rate of return to make decisions and evaluate performance all the time, but they often get misled by the average return. With the market showing some positive signs to start the new yea…
A Bear Market Checklist
Despite seeing a few positive days to begin the new year, investors are still in the midst of the longest bear market in nearly 15 years and plenty of economic doubt and uncertainty remains in 2023. …
The Hustler – Lessons From a Young Warren Buffett
No matter how experienced you are with money, there’s always room to grow and learn. It’s a characteristic you’ll find in the most successful people, including one of the greatest investors of all ti…
What is a Dividend Yield?
The extended downturn in the market has given investors a chance to re-evaluate their portfolio and rethink the strategy that best fits their needs in retirement. Dividend-paying stocks are often a p…
How Often is the Market Down in Consecutive Years?
As we prepare to turn the page to 2023, it’s impossible to ignore the state of the market as we close out a second consecutive year with negative returns. Investor concern seems more elevated than no…
Owning Individual Bonds vs Owning a Bond Fund
This past year in the market has been difficult for just about everyone. Even conservative investors, who felt comfortable in bonds or fixed income have seen those returns near 40-year lows. As we lo…
Annuities are Continuing Their Record Breaking Year
Annuities have experienced drastic growth in 2022 as investors look for guaranteed income during a market correction, but should you be allocating money into fixed index annuities or other options? O…
4 Barriers to Break Down for a Successful Retirement
No matter how well you’ve planned, there’s going to be some level of uneasiness for retirees when the economy struggles like it has over the past year. These volatile times motivate people to take th…
Why Fixed Index Annuities are Back
We’ve experienced a lot of market volatility this year and a tremendous rise in interest rates, and people are looking for ways for their dollar to grow to combat inflation. As people explore options…
After a Pandemic, Is Long-Term Care Important to Retirees?
The COVID pandemic has changed so much of our perspective on life but will it help drive people to pay more attention to the need for long-term care? At the onset of the pandemic in 2020, the last pl…
Mutual Fund Taxation and Capital Gains
As we prepare for the end of the year, there are numerous financial conversations that will happen as part of the Redefining Wealth® planning process and we want to get you thinking about one of thos…
2022 – The Year in Review – What Lies Ahead?
Not many people expected 2022 to turn out the way it has from an economic standpoint as inflation, rising interest rates, and market declines have been in the headlines all year. The uneasiness has p…
Unprecedented Times
The steep decline in the stock market and rising inflation is impacting all Americans but no one is feeling it quite like people that are nearing retirement or those that recently made the transition…