Tom Takes a Reactive Approach to Market Volatility Transcript: Katie Nealis: Many investors are hedging against market volatility as summer approaches. Do you agree with that? And why? Tom Vaughan:No, I don’t. Again, I am a huge believer in the concept of reaction and not prediction. And I know that sounds really strange. But I
Tom’s Tips for the Early Road of Investing Transcript: Katie Nealis: What are some of the pitfalls for a beginning investor to avoid? Tom Vaughan:Pitfalls for a beginning investor? Well, I would say one of the things, I’ve actually had quite a few conversations with some beginning investors over the last, you know, two years
Tom Warns of Potential Ticking Timebombs Transcript: Katie Nealis: So looking at the difference between a 401k and a Roth, what Why would you say that you prefer the Roth now versus a 401k? Tom Vaughan: Well, 401k actually has two, two different versions. One is a traditional 401k, which is what most people are
Tom Gives Himself Investment Advice 20 Years in the Past Transcript: Katie Nealis: So let’s talk pre retirement, we have another question in here asking, what financial advice would you give yourself? If you could give it to yourself when you were, say 20 years younger? Tom Vaughan: Wow. Okay, so here, yes, you know,
Tom Discusses How His Investment Strategies Address Changes in Markets Transcript: Katie Nealis: In the past, we’ve talked, we’ve talked about the bull versus the bear market before. And just straight off the bat, we have a pretty amazing question in from one of our clients asking, since we are at the last stage of
Tom’s Thoughts on a Down Market Effect on Bonds Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: So how do I protect my fix? Are my bonds and my bond investments? Should I, you know, should I be looking to change how my duration or something like that to protect myself? Tom Vaughan: Yeah, because the one part that’s going
Transcript: Katie Nealis: Why are interest rates rising right now? Tom Vaughan: Oh, that’s a good question. The really we’re seeing, in fact, if you go back to that, let me share that again, because that’s a good question. Here we go. Here’s the leading economic indicators. Look, oops, sorry, look at what has happened
Tom and Easan talk about Age Milestones on the Road to Retirement Transcript: Katie Nealis: So we have another question in here from Lorraine, asking, Are there any particular age milestones I should be thinking about, like age 50, 60, etc, when planning my retirement? Tom Vaughan: Well, in terms of planning, retirement, you know,
Tom Talks about Dollar Cost Averaging Transcript: Katie Nealis: We have a question in from Terrell saying I have a lot of cash to invest and am unsure of if I should invest it all at once. Do you have a strategy for doing partial investment periodically? Tom Vaughan:Yeah, I think what what you’re talking
Tom Explains Market Indicators Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: So you talked about indicators can kind of give a basic understanding of what’s like a leading versus like a lagging indicator. Tom Vaughan: Yeah, that’s they have like three different levels. Matter of fact, you can kind of see this is the leading one, and then this