Author: Scott Neal

Finance FRONT 

At a Crossroads

February 1, 2021February 17, 2021 Scott Neal $, 1.9, 70% success, absence of trump, agenda of national survival, American prophecy, Biden, Biden 's $1.9 trillion dollar request, Biden administration, boom generation, boomer, Boomer script, brand-new culture war, Care act, Congress raise, COVID-induced, COVID-induced recession, crossroad, culture war, dollar request, generous relief, gray champion, history turn, Joe Biden, Joe Biden 's policy, long-lived life, mark of a true elder statesman, maximum danger, missionary elder, new strain, new strain of the virus, next Gray Champion, overwhelm post-inauguration sentiment, PE, PE ratio, post-inauguration, post-inauguration sentiment, presence of Biden, pro-choice secularist, pro-life evangelical, rally, rd turn, recovery, Saecula, Scott Neal, significant new fiscal stimulus, steady decline of employment, stock, stock market, strong stock market, time of maximum danger, true elder statesman, typical business cycle, unfamiliar challenge, unfamiliar challenge of self-restraint, unraveling-era, unraveling-era skirmish, vaccine, vaccine rollout, virus, Woody Brock, young millennial

While a few people have told me this month that they are afraid of a Biden administration, the overwhelming post-inauguration

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Where Do We Go from Here?

December 1, 2020February 17, 2021 Scott Neal -contribution limit, 70½, B., Biden, Biden victory, calendar move, Care act, catch-up limit, contribution, COVID, Dr. Woody Brock, duration of the market, employer 's match, entire employer 's match, entire final paycheck, financial house, firm 's sale, FOMO, free money, inherited IRAs, interest rate, IRA, IRA contribution, K., late market move, let 's keep, minimum amount necessary, owner of inherited IRAs, paycheck, plan administrator, polarized electorate, prospect of future earnings, QCD, required minimum distribution, RMD, RMD wrinkle, RMDs, Roth contribution, Roth IRA, Scott Neal, smart folk, steep sell-off, stock, stock market, tax year, tax-year contribution, tortuous decline, traditional IRA, trap of FOMO, upward bias, v-shaped recovery, wall street analyst, wash sale, year-end

For the nation, 2020 has been one of the most difficult years in memory. We are grappling with COVID and

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Finance 

Q & A with Scott Neal

October 1, 2020December 1, 2020 Scott Neal 4.75% real return, â– , C., calculated return, commodity shock, consumer, current market trend, deep loss, deflation, deflation of consumption good, Dr., Dr. C., Dr. M., excess demand growth, expected rate of return, figure chart, front end of large downturn, hot growth stock, IBM, inflation, inflation of financial asset, inflation of the price, inflationary event, investment, large downturn, M., MACD indicator, monetary ease, money print, projected inflation rate, purpose of the investment, real return 's on investment, reference case, reference case of the plan, Scott, Scott Neal, sequence-risk, serious inflation, spend power, stable level of inflation, stock, stock present good value, tech stock, time of a purchase, trend 's reversal, XYZ stock

In recent days, we have heard questions from a variety of people. I usually think that when a few people

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Finance 

Discover What’s Normal

August 1, 2020October 19, 2020 Scott Neal 2020, 2020s decade, adequate PPE, aspect of generation, catastrophic crisis, champion of new ideal, childhood toy, Chinese word, climactic event of WWII, climactic period, collective wisdom, community purpose, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, crisis, current crisis, development of a simplified workable worldview, established normalcy, family supper, favorite childhood toy, financial column, financial plan, financial plan career, find resolution, found moment, generational think, gray champion, health of patient, healthy paradigm shift, history run, Howe, huge segment, investment, junior spy, late William Strauss, lens of history, life of a junior spy, long-lived life, mask-free, member of a large group, millennial, much-maligned millennial, negative term, Neil Howe, new normal, opportunity, pandemic, periscope, pessimistic worldview, pre-COVID, pre-COVID 19, respected advisor, Saecula, Scott Neal, season of life, simplified workable worldview, social distance, Strauss, strengthen of family, sure feel, worldview

Before getting into the financial column, let me say that you who are watching after and attending to the health

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New Tax Rules and Planning Opportunities Under CARES

May 1, 2020September 4, 2020 Scott Neal 10, 10 year rule, beneficiary, beneficiary designation, calculate interest, contribution, contribution deduction, conversion, Coronavirus aid, deduction, early confusion, economic security act, estimated tax, financial future, financial plan, high earn year, IRA, IRA contribution deadline, medical need of patient, minimum distribution, new law, new tax rule, pandemic, penalty, potential trap, prior limit, re-cast, retirement, retirement account, retirement account distribution, retirement account owner, retirement plan, RMDs, Roth, Scott Neal, secure act, select group of beneficiary, spouse, spouse die, survive spouse, tax filing, taxable social security, traditional retirement account, tread, unique plan opportunity, young beneficiary

Before talking about taxes and money, let me first say thank you to all of you who are meeting the

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Finance 

Recollections of Financial Crisis

March 1, 2020June 1, 2020 Scott Neal 20, 200 day move average, 50 day move average drop, 800+, area rise, bear market territory, care train, cash, cash flow, Cash management, COVID-19, COVID-19 crisis, COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 virus, crisis, crisis hit, death cross, Dow, Dow future, financial impact, financial plan, financial plan area rise, free e-book, great sense, great sense of control, hold space means, insurance, lot of call, market 's crash, moment of encounter, pandemic, pastoral care train, recollection of financial crisis, resolve stress, respondent, Scott Neal, two-question, two-question poll, uncertainty, unfulfilled expectation, virus, wild swing

At 5:00 AM on March 20, 2020, the DOW futures were registering an implied open to the trading day 800+

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The SECURE Act and Your Retirement

February 1, 2020April 2, 2020 Scott Neal 70½, asset, beneficiary, bracket, bracket management, carryforwards, consideration, conversion, critical decision factor, current tax regime, deceased owner, decision factor, free income, future generation, high tax bracket, important provision of the act, income recognition, income recognition strategy, inherited IRAs, insurance, IRA, IRA beneficiary designation, IRAs, IRS table life expectancy, job act, large retirement account relative, life insurance, low tax year, minimum distribution, must start, non-retirement, non-retirement account, non-spouse, non-spouse beneficiary, plan opportunity, prior plan, prolong wealth, re-evaluated, reprieve, retirement, retirement account relative, retirement asset, retirement enhancement, RMDs, Roth, Roth asset, Roth conversion, Roth distribution, Roth IRAs, Roth reprieve, Scott Neal, secure act, stock advice, strategic approach, tax bracket, tax-free, tax-free distribution, tax-free growth, taxpayer, top of the current 24% bracket, traditional IRAs, traditional retirement asset

For as long as I can remember, the stock advice about IRAs has been to stretch them out as long

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Smarter Investment Objectives

November 1, 2019February 21, 2020 Scott Neal aspect of liquidity, asset, asset 's tax, available cash, cash, cash flow, category, charitable organization seek year-end contribution, difficulty set investment goal, dividend, Droms, economic benefit, economic benefit of an investment portfolio, elimination of capital gain, G., Georgetown university 's William G., immediate taxation, immediate taxation of dividend, important tax benefit, investment, investment goal, investment portfolio, liquidity, little quiz, MD-UPDATE, MD-UPDATE issue, moderate growth, portfolio, qualified retirement account, question of allocation, quiz, retirement account, risk tolerance, Scott Neal, security selection, share of a widely-traded stock, smart give, smart investment objective, substantial growth, tax benefit, tax consideration, tax-efficient invest, tradeoff, valid entry, widely-traded, widely-traded stock, work of Georgetown university 's William G., year-end contribution

Before we get into the topic for this issue, I offer a reminder. If the contents of your inbox resemble

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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

October 1, 2019December 9, 2019 Scott Neal American Gridlock, blind discipleship, BOMC, Book-of-the-Month-Club, co-chairman of Oaktree capital management, compel memo, Crestmont, Crestmont research, Crestmont research forecast, D., demand of the affordable Care act, dynamics of total health care expenditure, Ed Easterling, financial physics, financial plan, founder of Crestmont research, free memo, free website, H., impact of current financial decision, investor, investor 's horizon, Laurence Kotlikoff, loftiness of the stock market, market cycle, Marks 's memo, MD-UPDATE, member of the Book-of-the-Month-Club, memo, non-financial professional, Oaktree capital management, periodic newsletter, president of strategic economic decision, reader of MD-UPDATE, Scott Neal, secular stock market cycle, secular stock market insight, shoulder of giant, stock market cycle, stock market insight, strategic economic decision, thoughtful investor, total health care expenditure, website, Woody Brock, world-class economist

Were you ever a member of the Book-of-the-Month-Club? I joined BOMC back in the 80s, but I quickly decided that

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Life’s Black Swans

September 1, 2019October 28, 2019 Scott Neal 30 year old, 32-year-old client, age-in-place, attorney, best-laid, Black swan event, chair lift, chaos, client, co-appointees, coordinator of healthcare, decisional capacity, family communication plan, family member express compete view, financial plan, financial plan standard, financial planner experience, first-floor, first-floor master suite, first-time homebuyer, health care surrogate, healthcare, healthcare power, healthful lifestyle, incapacity, incapacity hit, let 's deal, life 's black swan, life 's predictable predicament, low probability of occurrence, middle of family member express compete view, mind of a first-time homebuyer, model uncertainty, ounce of prevention, plan conversation, planner experience, pound of cure, predicament, price of a chair lift, real cause of volatility, remote risk, round-the-clock caregiver, Scott Neal, single mother of a toddler, stagger consequence, step present, swan, true value of an investment, truth of the adage, valid healthcare power, valid healthcare power of attorney, vibrant 30-something

Who, better than you, knows the truth of the adage “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure?”

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