retirement planning
Market Update: April 6, 2022 Fed Minutes Drop The Market
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Everybody, welcome to Wednesday, the S&P 500 was down almost 1%. Today, big catalyst was that the minutes came out from the meeting from the Federal Reserve in March. And they talked about reducing their balance sheet. And you probably recall, during the pandemic that the Federal Reserve was purchasing bonds to
California Prop 19 and Home Transfers to Children
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: How does prop 19 affect the transfer of my house to my son? Tom Vaughan: Yeah, to sign, okay. So this was really interesting, obviously, with Prop 19. When you transfer your home to your beneficiaries, there is it’s like the sale was done, again, in terms of property taxes. So if
Hourly Wages are up 5.6%, How Does This Affect the Market?
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: On average, or average hourly pay is up strong 5.6% Over the last 12 months, and what’s its effect on the market? And just the Feds decision process on, you know, raising rates? Tom Vaughan: Yeah, so think about that. Wages are up 5.6%. So, year over year over the last 12
Tom’s Week in Review March 28 – April 1, 2022
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: I do like to start off though, the week with a summary of kind of what I saw happening in the market this weekend. Really amazing timeframe. Of course, if you recall last Friday, it was talking about how we’ve had two great weeks in a row at that point. And generally
Market Update: March 31, 2022 When A Market Drop Can Be A Good Thing
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Everybody, welcome to Thursday, the S&P 500 was down 1.6%. Today, starting at the end of last week had been calling for a pullback, thought it might start on Monday, didn’t start till Wednesday. And these are actually, in my opinion, a healthy part of a recovering market. At this point in
How Do I Plan for Aging Parents Who Don’t Have Retirement Savings?
Easan Arulanantham: How do I plan for my aging parents who don’t have enough money for retirement. Tom Vaughan: That’s a tough one, right? I mean, basically kind of getting into what’s called the sandwich generation, you know, where you have a person or a couple that are, you know, got kids, they’re caring for
Should I Do Direct Indexing or Buy Index Funds?
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: What are your thoughts on direct indexing versus, you know, just using the index funds like a VTI or VTO? Tom Vaughan: yeah, so direct indexing is where you’d make your own index, there’s some companies that you can go to and say, hey, I want to make this index, probably more
Market Update: March 30, 2022 Yield Curve Inversion Makes The Market Nervous
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Everybody, welcome to Wednesday, the S&P 500 was down point 6%. Today, we’ve had this huge run up going on now for two and a half weeks, finally had a little bit of a pullback today, actually think these types of things are positive, you need to get these pull backs to
Market Update: March 29, 2020 FOMO Takes Over
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello, everybody, welcome to Tuesday, the S&P 500 was up 1.23%. Today, even better, the Small Cap index, Russell 2000 was up 2.7%. Today, when people start buying small caps, they feel more comfortable about the market, it can kind of give you some signals for what’s happening here. And the market