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Zero Percent Financing Deals: Too Good to Be True?
On this week's Mullooly Asset Management video, I cover a basic financial planning topic related to credit. In the midst of the holiday season, all of us at Mullooly Asset thought it would be timely to discuss zero percent financing deals. A lot of big-ticket items...
Master Limited Partnerships: High Yield, High Risk
In this week's Mullooly Asset Management video, Tom talks about Master Limited Partnerships. These investments trade like stocks on an exchange and pay out distributions to their shareholders. The current low interest rate environment has attracted many yield...
How Much Life Insurance Will I Need?
A question that frequently comes up in our client financial planning sessions is, "How much life insurance will I need?". On this week's Mullooly Asset Management video, Tim shares the six main questions people who want life insurance need to answer. It's important to...
Near Retirees Feel They Were Too Conservative
On this week's Mullooly Asset Management video, Tom discusses the findings of a recent TIAA-CREF retirement savings survey. TIAA-CREF interviewed 1,000 employer sponsored retirement plan participants about their biggest investment related regrets. Of those aged 55-64,...
Not In The Predicting Business
Mullooly Asset Management is not in the predicting business! Even though the rest of Wall Street seems to be! When you make predictions, you will either be right or wrong. You may be good at making predictions, for a while. Sooner or later you will run into a bad...
What Makes Up the S&P 1500 Index?
On this week's video I discuss the S&P 1500, which is also commonly referred to as the "total stock market". One thing I strongly believe is that investment advisors should never speak over investors' heads. While Tom and I (and other investment advisors, brokers,...
IRS Sets New Retirement Plan Contribution Levels for 2015
One of the many services we provide to our clients at Mullooly Asset Management is managing the risk in their retirement accounts. We help investors with their 401k accounts, 403b annuities, 457 plans, and IRA's. Last week the IRS announced adjustments to retirement...
IBM Technical Outlook October 2014
In this week's Mullooly Asset Management video, Tom takes a look at the point and figure chart of IBM. IBM reported subpar earnings this morning (October 20, 2014) and also reported paying one of their competitors to take a division off their hands. Not great news....
“Buy and Hold” Blindly is Not a Game Plan
A fantastic article written by Ben Carlson titled, "Some Stocks Don't Come Back" is the inspiration for today's Mullooly Asset Management video. In his article, Ben tells us, "the problem with ‘buy when there’s blood in the streets’ is that sometimes individual stocks...
Interest Rates are Too Low!
A post from Business Insider prompted this week's Mullooly Asset Management video. You can check out the post here: http://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-is-worried-about-savers-2014-9 The article talks discusses how interest rates are too low for seniors and...
Secular Bull and Bear Markets: A History Lesson
In our morning research meeting today we discussed bull markets and how long they typically run for. A book that discusses this topic in-depth is Unexpected Returns by Ed Easterling. In this week's video, Tom shares a brief history lesson on bull and bear markets. In...
Floating Rate Funds: How Appropriate Are They?
How familiar are you with bank loan funds? Maybe you've heard of floating rate funds? For the record, most bank loan funds are floating rate funds. They're becoming popular due to the interest rate environment we're experiencing. Many people feel interest rates will...
Retirement Account Beneficiary Forms: Very Important
For many investors today, their 401k account, pension plan, or IRA is the largest financial investment they have. Something that often goes overlooked is the beneficiary form of these retirement accounts. Tom is here to explain why neglecting to fill out, update, or...
Stepped Up Cost Basis in Joint Accounts
Last week we discussed the cost basis of inherited stock on the Mullooly Asset Management video. If you missed it, check it out here: https://mullooly.net/cost-basis-inherited-stock/7538 That video led to a very good question from one of our viewers. Their question...
The Cost Basis of Inherited Stock
A lot of investors don't know what their cost basis is when they inherit stock from someone who's passed away. Tom put together a short video explaining the answer to this question. When somebody passes away with stock in their portfolio, the first thing that needs to...
Transfer on Death Accounts
We've had a lot of people ask us if they can make an account "payable on death". "Payable on Death" (or POD accounts) accounts are offered by banks. When the account's owner passes away, the intended recipient can walk into the bank with their death certificate and...
The Importance of Knowing What You Own
We recently had a client get in touch with us here at Mullooly Asset. They had an IRA elsewhere that "wasn't doing anything" and wanted us to begin managing it for them. So we reviewed their account and found out more regarding their situation. This individual left a...
Non-Spouse Beneficiary IRAs
What are your options when you inherit an IRA from somebody who wasn't your spouse? This is a great question and one that we help clients with on a regular basis. There are a handful of options available in this situation. This specific type of IRA is fittingly...
Things to Remember about Most Annuity Guarantees
A lot of investors who have been sold annuities believe that it doesn't matter what happens in the market because they've been guaranteed a specific rate of return. When it comes to the guarantees of most deferred annuities there are a couple of things you should keep...
Why the Strong Second Quarter from Bonds?
Recently there's a been a lot of curiosity about the strong second quarter turned in by the bond market. Tom discusses two theories that may explain the bond market's second quarter. These are, of course, just theories because nobody ever discloses their personal...
