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Featured Videos from Josh
Your Tax Buckets
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Growing Government Debt and a Future with Potential Higher Taxes
Key topics include year-end retirement planning priorities, managing Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs), exploring Medicare enrollment changes, and maximizing Roth conversions for tax efficiency.
The FSR Wealth Client Experience and Timeless Advice
Josh emphasizes that transitioning to retirement is a significant life change, often more profound than expected, due to the loss of regular income and the need to make crucial financial decisions.
Election Results Impact on Your Retirement & Balancing Your Portfolio
The episode discusses the impact of political changes, like Trump’s election victory, on financial portfolios and tax strategies.
Weddings, The Election, Social Security, End of Year Taxes and The Own Your Retirement Process
One of the key themes is the significance of tax planning in retirement. The hosts discuss how strategic tax decisions can impact overall financial well-being, highlighting the differences between taxable, tax-deferred, and tax-free accounts.
Rolling Over IRAs and Falling Interest Rates
In the latest *Own Your Retirement Show*, hosts Mark Elliott and Josh Bretl share key tips on rolling over 401(k)s, maximizing returns, and avoiding common mistakes, with insights on both finance and life.
Preserving and Optimizing Your 401K in Retirement
Preparing for retirement and relying on a 401(k) means it’s essential to preserve and optimize these funds for income, and how to handle them and taxes in retirement and more.
Approaching 2025, Optimizing Social Security and Time Machine 1990
Changes and other things to keep note of ahead of the end of 2024 and the start of 2025. Optimizing your social security in retirement and a flashback to 1990 in the time machine and what it can teach with past lessons.
Fed Cutting Rates, Taking Control of YOUR Retirement & Mailbag Questions
Interest rates are on the move again, with the Fed’s recent vote to cut rates. We’ve all experienced a series of unprecedented events in recent years, so we discuss what YOU can be doing RIGHT NOW to help take back control of your financial future.
Retirement Savings Regret, Retirement Planning for Women, and Taxes Trivia
There can be regret with not saving enough for retirement or actions in retirement. We discuss how to handle that, in addition to some keys to know with retirement planning for women and couples.
Making Retirement Money Last and Time Machine 2008
How to help your retirement money last after lots of savings and efforts to get it there. Plus, flashback to 2008 and what the time machine can teach us.