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When considering retirement, do you wonder what financial opportunities you may be missing? Busy lives take over and years pass without taking advantage. In this retirement podcast, Chad Smith and Mike Eklund unveil financial opportunities, to help you balance enjoying today so you are ready to retire later. By day, they are fiduciary fee-only financial advisors who answer questions about tax savings, investment decisions, and how to save more. If you’ve been putting off your financial to-do ...
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Welcome to "Unfiltered Finance," a podcast created by Symmetry Partners, LLC, an investment firm in Glastonbury, Connecticut. As part of our commitment to clients, this new media offering is designed to proactively address questions, and concerns, around a variety of investment-based topics. Your time, attention, and trust are paramount to our success, and, we’re grateful for it. As always, we’re invested in your goals. Symmetry Partners, LLC, is an investment adviser registered with the Sec ...
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Are You Living This Retirement Horror Story? Ep #227
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Investing can feel like a battle between two polar opposites within us, the rational and the emotional, just like the classic story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This week, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are our model investors, and we’re talking you through the spooky story of the risks, emotions, and rational strategies involved in long-term investing. **…
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The Evolution of your Emergency Fund, Ep #226
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Reaching your financial goals builds confidence and peace of mind, which are essential for making informed decisions that benefit your entire family. In this episode, we’re following a fictional pop culture couple from newlywed to pre-retirement, to demonstrate how their thought process around an emergency fund could evolve with their changing circ…
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How to Avoid Common Pitfalls in Your Retirement Withdrawal Strategy, Ep #225
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Retirement, a phase many of us anticipate for a long time, comes with its own set of financial intricacies. Specifically, how do you effectively withdraw funds from your savings to ensure a comfortable, sustainable, and tax-efficient lifestyle? A well-crafted retirement blueprint is essential. This plan should outline your long-term goals and the s…
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The Financial Benefits and Drawbacks of Working During Retirement, Ep #224
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Retirement planning is a delicate process, and you need to carefully consider your various income streams, including Social Security benefits. For those of us who plan to continue working while claiming Social Security, it’s important to understand how this decision can impact the monthly benefits you receive. In this episode, we’re sharing how to …
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We all have visions of our ideal retirement. However, our financial plans can quickly veer off course if we haven't appropriately managed our risks. On this episode of Financial Symmetry, Greg Suggs from Greg Suggs Insurance joins me to discuss how to manage common risks that could negatively affect your wealth. You won’t want to miss out on these …
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How to Pay for College in 3 Phases, Ep #222
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How do you begin to save for your children to go to college? With the rising costs of college education, is it worth the monetary commitment? Including tuition & fees, room & board, books & supplies, etc. the average cost of college is anywhere from $27,000 for an in-state public school up to $80,000–$90,000 a year for an Ivy League School. How you…
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Some problems are easily solved with a bit of reasoning, logic, or by using a bit of math. Other problems go beyond quantitative thinking. The most thought-provoking issues aren’t numbers-based. Many decisions surrounding retirement require much deeper consideration and often cause you to reevaluate your thinking of what you had originally imagined…
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How Bobby Bonilla Day Can Help You Decide Whether to Take a Pension or a Lump Sum, Ep #220
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One of the retirement questions that persists through the ages is whether to take a pension or a lump sum payment. On this episode, we flesh out an example from baseball: Did Bobby Bonilla Day make the right decision back in 1999 to take $1.2 million per year instead of a $5.9 million lump sum payment? Seeing this example play out over time can hel…
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Could You Be Spending More in Retirement? Ep #219
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What if you had a magic app that told you how much of your net worth you never got to spend at the end of your retirement? The trouble with planning for retirement is all the uncertainty, however, proper planning can help. In this episode, Cameron Hendricks joins me to discuss how you can learn to spend more in retirement. Outline of This Episode […
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Harnessing Your Financial Instincts to Build Your Retirement Nest Egg, Ep #218
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Have you considered how your instincts influence your decision-making around retirement planning? Our natural instincts and biases create frameworks that lead our perspectives on how we think the world works. These frameworks influence our decisions surrounding our financial decisions. On this episode of Financial Symmetry, we discuss how to build …
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What Starting an S-Corp Could Look Like for You in Retirement, Ep #217
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Today we’re diving in to a specific path that many retirees consider as they move away from the “corporate” world and enter their second act – which is starting a business. With increased life expectancy, cost of living increases and a desire for continued fulfillment, many retirees are excited to begin a new experiment in an area they are passiona…
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Decision Making in the Middle Years of Retirement, Ep #216
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Now that you have made it through the retirement danger zone, you have made it to the Arrivement phase of retirement. You may be wondering, what are my next steps? This season can be full of opportunities and connection with those you care about. At this point in your life journey, you may face some difficult decisions around relocating or how best…
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How to Approach Planning a Retirement Abroad, Ep #215
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Have you thought about retiring abroad? Oftentimes when we think of retirement, we think about sunny beaches with crystalline water shimmering in the sunshine. Could this or some other idyllic vision be your future? The realities of retiring abroad can be exciting, but at the same time overwhelming. Complex financial strategies need to be considere…
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How to Prepare for the Retirement Danger Zone, Ep #214
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If you are retiring soon, you've most likely wondered if your asset allocation is too risky. Some have called the period just before and after retirement the Retirement danger zone as it's a time where understanding how you should be invested matters for your long-term financial success. After years of great returns in tech and large cap US stocks,…
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Be Ready For These 10 Tax Surprises, Ep #213
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So many of us will be hoping for no tax surprises when preparing our tax returns this year. This is why we want to provide you with a list of common tax surprises to watch for. After working with hundreds of clients to prepare their tax returns, we’re sharing the latest tax surprises we see that could be helpful to know when completing your tax ret…
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How to Handle a Forced Early Retirement, Ep #212
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Retirement can hit us with numerous curveballs. One of those could happen right out of the gate–being forced with an early retirement. We all know that layoffs are part of the corporate landscape. While they are commonplace, when you are faced with one later in your career it can cause you to reevaluate your financial situation. In this episode, we…
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Tools for Making Better Financial Decisions, Ep #211
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While most of our listeners are in or on the cusp of retirement, many have loved ones who are earlier in their careers. Often we get questions on how our listeners and clients can help their younger family members make better financial decisions. As we celebrate International Women's Day with this episode, you’ll meet our newest CFP, Niamh Douglas.…
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