
Episode 64: Do Stock Market Bubbles Matter Anymore?
On this week's episode, we discuss 2 questions with John Luke. 1. Are we in a stock market bubble? And 2. If we are in a bubble, does it matter?
On this week's episode, we discuss 2 questions with John Luke. 1. Are we in a stock market bubble? And 2. If we are in a bubble, does it matter?
There are many commentators and market analysts claiming that we are in the middle of another stock market bubble, this one fueled by sky-high market valuations of tech companies that are heavily investing in artificial intelligence, or AI for short. There’s a saying that history doesn’t repeat itself but it does rhyme, so over the next 2 episodes were going to do a deep dive on the current state of the stock market and if investors should be worried about a market crash similar to the dot.com crash of 25 years ago.
One of the most common questions we get from clients is what should they do with their 401k, specifically the question “What should I do with my 401k when I retire?”. And more often than not the 401k accounts are probably the largest retirement assets a client has. So what I want to do today is answer this question, and probably just as important, answer what NOT to do.
The title of today’s episode is “How to Avoid Financial Advisor Fraud”. And we are going to expand that to include investment managers and hedge fund managers – basically anyone that manages other people’s money. In this episode we are going to detail some of the boxes you want to check with anyone with which you wish to invest, and discuss the red flags to look for, some obvious, some not so obvious, unless you know the business well.
Josh Null and John Luke are here to discuss the silent killer of your money: purchasing power. The purchasing power of your dollars has been going down steadily over the years, what can you do about it? We are here to explain all of the details of why your purchasing power is decreasing and how you can solve the issue.
Our role is to use math, our various financial planning tools and our experience to help clients put all of the pieces of the puzzle together to figure out if they can retire, and if so, what retirement looks like financially. So listeners today Jay and I are going to discuss this very important question that many of you probably have asked: How Do I Know When I Am Financially Ready to Retire?