Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: What is the VIX? You know, I keep hearing about it in the news, you know, people are always talking about the VIX, whenever there’s kind of like this turmoil in the market. What is it? Tom Vaughan: All right. So the VIX is a fear gauge. Okay? Let me show share
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: What is stagflation? Versus a recession? Tom Vaughan: Okay, start with recession, maybe it’s easier to kind of go. A recession is a contraction in the economy. And it’s defined by two quarters of gross domestic product so that they measure the overall economic growth under something called GDP gross domestic product.
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: How long will the bear market last? Tom Vaughan: How long will the bear market last? Okay? This this actually came up in one of our client strategy session. So we, we found some information. And this is something I’ve talked about actually, over the over the, you know, this year, especially
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: Should I include hobbies that can be profitable in my retirement plan? So this person is going this question. It says, I love collecting baseball cards. And from time to time I sell these cards for a profit. And, you know, what should I do with this in my plan? And how
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: What are some strategies that you use to make sure that your portfolio is kind of defensive? In a sense when the market is kind of turning for the worse? Tom Vaughan: Yeah, that’s a good point, right? Because here we are, you know, coming back down looks like we might be
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: If inflation keeps getting worse, you know, what are some possible good investments for the outlook? Tom Vaughan: Yeah. So if you look, the overall stock market is down during this inflationary time period, the overall bond market is down during this inflationary time period, both because there’s expectations for higher interest
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: I saved a lot for retirement, I’m heading into retirement, how do I figure out how much I can spend? Tom Vaughan: This is actually one of the biggest questions we get on a constant basis actually is just, you know, how much money can I spend in retirement? Either it’s a
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: How do I take a withdrawal during a down market? Tom Vaughan: How do I take it withdrawal during a down market? Yeah, that’s a good question. Because we’ve got the scenario now, right? I’ll tell you what we’ve done. There’s a lot of different situations that people might be in. But
Transcript: Marie Marinovich: What’s the advantage of tax loss harvesting? Tom Vaughan: Oh, tax loss harvesting, it’s actually really important. What we do here generally speaking on and this, this would be in an account, where when you make a transaction, it ends up on your tax return, right? So an IRA, that doesn’t happen,
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: Do you think the Federal Reserve is trying to slow down the stock market? And if they do that, like what would happen? Tom Vaughan: Yeah, there’s been several articles on this and different speakers at conferences talking about the fact that they feel like the Federal Reserve is sort of purposely