How to Think About Investing When Prices Are High

In a recent article in The Wall Street Journal, titled, “The Surging Market: Too Late to Buy?” Brett Arends writes about the current market trend and how this is affecting the behavior of investors. The author invites investors and potential investors to think about how they think about the market.

 

As the stock market surges to new highs, those who missed a lot of the rise have been rushing to jump on board. Most people find it very hard to resist a crowd and, in today’s market, it can seem like everybody is making easy money except you.

 

What's the best strategy to get in on this action? Should you even try to get in on the action? Here are a couple of the key steps that Brett suggests the average investor should follow:

 

1. Don't get stampeded

"Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful," advises Warren Buffett, the most successful investor in history. Remember, the market is never so dangerous as when everyone else is optimistic. People often engage in a circular argument that stocks must be a good investment because they have already risen a long way. The reality could be quite different, Fund firm GMO, which correctly predicted the market drops in 2007 and 2009, says that the outlook for stocks is the worst since 2007.

 

2. Have a plan

The stock market is inherently volatile. Even when it has generated superior returns it has done so unevenly. Many investors plunge into the market after a boom, only to sell again in panic when prices fall. Historically, the risks of investing in the market decline the longer you stay invested in the market. Invest in stocks only with money you don't expect to need for four or five years.

 

At The Hidden Wealth System™ we teach you how to protect yourself from the next market correction or crash so that you can avoid the market volatility. The best way to do this is to have the money that you cannot afford to lose to the market in a place where it participates in the market when it goes up, but not when the market goes down. Learn how to protect your most valuable assets the way that the largest banks and corporations do, register and attend one of our educational webinars. For over two decades, we have taught our clients how to avoid losing their retirement savings to inflation, market losses and taxes. Let us show you how to build an inflation-protected, tax-free retirement income for life.

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Nations of Coaches Celebrity Golf Classic

Chuck Oliver, founder of the Hidden Wealth System™, and best-selling author of What To Do At 62, announces The Hidden Wealth System’s corporate sponsorship of Nations of Coaches Celebrity Golf Classic.

Orlando, FL – July 31, 2013, - Wealth Architect Chuck Oliver, founder of the Hidden Wealth System™, and best-selling author of What To Do At 62, announces The Hidden Wealth System’s corporate sponsorship of the Nations of Coaches Celebrity Golf Classic, being held July 16, 2014 at The River Golf Club, in Augusta, SC.

The Nations of Coaches Celebrity Golf Classic is an annual golf event where participants play with some of the most well-known college basketball coaches in America. The event is an exciting day of golf and fellowship. This is the second straight year that The Hidden Wealth System™ has been the Corporate Sponsor for the event.

Nations of Coaches is a 501-c3 charity that strives to see coaches, their families and all those whom they influence powerfully impacted for the glory of God. Athletes begin playing organized sports as young as age five these days; that means a coach’s influence starts early. Nations of Coaches mission is equipping coaches to leave a legacy of excellence.

To learn more about Nations of Coaches, please visit:

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The Hidden Wealth System™, provides unique wealth building strategies that ensure that their clients’ financial safety, liquidity and potential are secured. The Hidden Wealth System’s aim is to optimize resources, protect opportunities and enable clients to discover and uncover their hidden wealth. The Hidden Wealth System™ teaches clients how to safely and predictably earn over 8% tax-free in the worst decade since the great depression. The System emphasizes the importance of building your own Personal Protected Pension Plan™ for retirement peace of mind.

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Retirement Crisis: Will Baby Boomers Overwhelm the System?

We are facing a retirement crisis unlike anything we have faced before in this country.


The Baby Boomer generation is retiring – and it’s unclear if the weak government “safety net” will be up for the task. Social Security is on a path towards bankruptcy, Medicare is underfunded, and the federal government is running up unsustainable deficits.


Will the ever-increasing number of retirees be too much for the system to handle? What happens if the system collapses? A recent FiveThirtyEight.com article reports:


For decades, the retirement of the baby boom generation has been a looming economic threat. Now, it’s no longer looming — it’s here. Every month, more than a quarter-million Americans turn 65. That’s a trend with profound economic consequences. Simply put, retirees don’t contribute as much to the economy as workers do. They don’t produce anything, at least directly. They don’t spend as much on average. And they’re much more likely to depend on others — the government or their own children, most often — than to support themselves.


If you are counting on government benefits to fund your retirement, you may be headed for a harsh wakeup call. And even if you’re not directly dependent on Social Security, what would happen to your retirement portfolio if taxes and inflation went through the roof as a result of the Baby Boomer retirement flood? Even more threatening, The Obama 2015 Budget Proposal plans to overhaul many positive boomer retirement benefits. Learning about these changes now could be the difference of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Learn from my newly released book What To Do at 62 – How To Have a Protected Retirement Income Plan. Simply register for our new educational webinar at www.LearnHowToRetireNow.com


We live in a period of economic volatility and uncertainty. It’s more important than ever that you have a solid retirement plan – and we can help. We will reduce your vulnerability to market risk, as well as your exposure to taxes and inflation. We eliminate market risk; in the last decade, NONE of our clients have lost a single dime in the market. Prior gains can’t be lost, either.  This is why our clients have averaged over 8% during the worst economic downturn since The Great Depression.


There is a retirement crisis brewing in America, and it’s getting worse every day. Don’t get left out in the cold when the system falls apart. To learn more, please visit LearnHowToRetireNow.com.

Traditional Planning = Lower Retirement Lifestyle

It’s been a rough five years for the American economy. The 2000’s was a lost decade for retirement savings. The three straight down market years of 2000, 2001 and 2002 along with the financial collapse of 2008 changed everything as retirement savings were wiped out. Investors saw their portfolios washed away in a matter of weeks, and many of them have yet to recover.


Most people assumed that things would turn around eventually. After all, that’s what always happens after a recession… right?
Things have improved since then… but not by much. Unemployment remains alarmingly high. The stock market is highly volatile. Government debt is skyrocketing. Those hoping for a robust recovery have been disappointed. And some analysts are beginning to wonder if this is the “new normal” in terms of economic performance.


A recent CNBC.com article explores this possibility:
In the 4 1/2 years since the Great Recession ended, millions of Americans who have gone without jobs or raises have found themselves wondering something about the economic recovery:


Is this as good as it gets?


It increasingly looks that way.


Two straight weak job reports have raised doubts about economists’ predictions of breakout growth in 2014. The global economy is showing signs of slowing—again. Manufacturing has slumped. Fewer people are signing contracts to buy homes. Global stock markets have sunk as anxiety has gripped developing nations.


It’s time to face the fact that the “same old approach” to investing will not work in this new global economic environment. It’s possible that the economy may never experience a full recovery—and if that’s the case, what will your retirement plan solution be? Are you prepared for a future of high unemployment, rising taxes, skyrocketing medical costs, and large-scale inflation?
If not, we can help.


Let us show you how our trademarked Personal Protected Pension Plan™ removes your vulnerability to economic uncertainty, as well as your exposure to taxes and market risk. We eliminate market risk; in the last decade, NONE of our clients have lost a single dime in the market. Prior gains can’t be lost, either.  This is why our clients have averaged over 8% Tax-Free during the worst economic downturn since The Great Depression.


Don’t let our dangerous economy destroy your retirement hopes. To learn how to restore your retirement, register right now to learn how at www.LearnHowToRetireNow.com.

What Happens When the Fed Stops Propping Up the Market?

There’s been some good economic news lately – a modest decline in the unemployment rate and encouraging data regarding consumer spending during the vital holiday season chief among them.


Traditionally, this would be great news for investors. But in today’s complicated financial marketplace, an improving economy means that the Federal Reserve Bank is likely to accelerate their  tapering of the economic stimulus know as Quantitative Easing. As a result, the markets have actually trended downward in response to this economic news. Reuters News reports:


Concerns that the Fed would taper its stimulus earlier than expected have weighed on the market for days. The three major U.S. stock indexes recorded their biggest drop in a month on Wednesday as traders took profits from the recent rally a day after a provisional budget deal was reached in Washington. The budget agreement removed a potential economic hurdle cited by the Fed in September when it chose to keep its stimulus intact.


Many market participants have expected the Fed to announce a cut in stimulus in March, but that timeline may have been accelerated by some in the wake of Friday’s better-than-expected November payrolls report. The Fed has said it would slow its $85 billion a month in bond purchases when certain economic measures meet its targets, including a drop in the U.S. unemployment rate.


What’s going to happen when the Fed begin to hasten the tapering of its “stimulus” program? It’s impossible to say for sure, but it seems certain that we’re in for an extended period of market volatility. An even more important concern is if the stock market can even function at all without the Fed support.


Can you  afford to risk your future on a volatile market?. Let us show you how to reduce your vulnerability to market risk, as well as your exposure to taxes and inflation. We eliminate market risk; in the last decade, NONE of our clients have lost a single dime in the market. Prior gains can’t be lost, either.  This is why our clients have averaged over 8% during the worst economic downturn since The Great Depression.


Don’t let stock market volatility destroy your retirement hopes. To learn more, please visit http://www.whattodoat62.com

Could a Housing Market Hiccup Ruin Your Retirement?

The economy has been showing signs of improvement lately—although the recovery is certainly taking place at a much slower pace than all of us hoped for.

One of the critical pieces of economic recovery in this country is the health of the housing market. Unfortunately, there have been signs recently that the housing market may not be as strong as it has seemed. Naturally, the media hasn’t focused on this issue; doesn’t fit their narrative of recovery.

It is important to see beyond the media hype, and to draw conclusions based off the facts, not the spin. This week Bloomberg reported on the recent struggles of the housing industry:

The residential real-estate rebound suffered a setback in June as housing starts unexpectedly fell to the lowest level in almost a year, curbing how much construction contributed to U.S. economic growth last quarter.

Work began on 836,000 houses at an annualized rate, the least since August and down 9.9 percent from a revised 928,000 pace in May, figures from the Commerce Department showed today in Washington. The drop was led by a 26.2 percent plunge in multifamily projects, which are more volatile than work on single-family homes. 

The figures were in contrast to a report yesterday showing homebuilders this month were the most optimistic in seven years as sales improved, indicating the reversal will probably prove temporary. The slump came as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said monthly asset purchases aimed at spurring the economy could be reduced or expanded as conditions warrant, with housing one area policy makers will monitor.  

"As construction ramps up, we’re bound to have some hiccups along the way," said Guy Lebas, chief fixed-income strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott LLC in Philadelphia. Having called for 915,000 starts, Lebas had the lowest estimate in the Bloomberg survey. “I don’t think this one data point is immediately concerning. The housing markets are going to be a driver of economic growth.” 

We certainly hope that the analysts are correct. A healthy housing market will contribute greatly to a long overdue economic recovery.

But what if housing doesn’t lead the recovery? A collapsing housing market would be devastating to financial markets—remember, it was the housing market collapse that sparked the stock market crash of 2008 in the first place. Investors who have their money exclusively in the stock market will be in really deep trouble. Also, if your main investments are held in real estate, right now is the time to lock in gains in value and to protect those gains (and yourself). This way you’ll avoid the trap of being house rich (maybe) and cash poor.

So what you should you do? Two words: “protect yourself.”  We can help. Let us show you how to reduce your vulnerability to market risk, as well as your exposure to taxes and inflation. We eliminate market risk; in the last decade, NONE of our clients have lost a single dime in the market. Prior gains can’t be lost, either.  This is why our clients have averaged over 8% during the worst economic downturn since The Great Depression.

Don’t let the risk of a housing collapse destroy your retirement hopes. To learn more, please visit www.HiddenWealthVideo.com to watch our short, ten minute video.

New Hidden Wealth Radio Shows!

Chuck Oliver, founder of the Hidden Wealth System, announces the debut of his radio show, Hidden Wealth Radio in Charlotte, NC, Dayton, OH and Atlanta, GA.

Orlando, FL – July 31, 2013, - Wealth Architect Chuck Oliver, founder of the Hidden Wealth System, a wealth creation and preservation practice, announces the debut of his radio show, Hidden Wealth Radio in three new cities: Charlotte, NC, Dayton, OH and Atlanta, GA.

Hidden Wealth Radio can now be heard on WBT News Talk 1110, in Charlotte at 1:00 to 2:00 pm Sundays, on News Talk Radio WHIO 95.7FM/AM1290 in Dayton on Saturday’s at 3:00 to 4:00 pm and Saturdays & Sundays at 7:30 am on News Talk Radio 640 WGST, in Atlanta.  In addition to these new stations, Hidden Wealth Radio retains its current shows in Orlando, Saturdays and Sundays from 1:00 to 2:00 pm on News Talk WFLA AM540 and in Jacksonville on Sundays at 11:30 am and 2:30 pm on News Talk WOKV AM 690.

Hidden Wealth Radio teaches listeners how to safely and predictably earn over 8% tax-free in the worst decade since the great depression. During the show, Chuck provides insights into strategies that can protect retirement savings from taxes, inflation, market losses and economic uncertainty.  Each week, Chuck speaks to his listeners about the importance of building their own Personal Protected Pension Plan™ for their own retirement peace of mind.
Chuck Oliver states in his show, “We teach people how to save TIME.  For us, TIME is an acronym. It stands for: Taxes; Inflation, Market Losses and Economic Uncertainty. I’ve learned the hard way about the drastic turns that the market can make. I want to teach you how to avoid these threats to your retirement.  That’s why it’s so vital for people to build their own Personal Protected Pension Plan™”

Chuck Oliver’s Hidden Wealth System specializes in retirement protection and income growth. They help clients to achieve financial independence and become immune from economic downturns.
To learn more about the Hidden Wealth System, please visit http://www.thehiddenwealthsystem.com