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Rare Coins: Preserving Wealth in a Low-Rate, Weak-Dollar, Volatile Financial Environment
Estate planning has been a growth industry for more than a decade, fueled by potential clients' rising concerns about preserving wealth for a comfortable retirement and building a legacy for their heirs. Especially perplexing for many who thought they had a good plan, new regulations and changing rules collided with the Great Recession. As a result, the retirement plans of the leading edge of Baby Boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964), and all those who are waiting in the wings, have been disrupted, and their game plans going forward are being re-examined.
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Latest Research From BERU
Despite the recent downturn in the price of gold,
Blanchard and Company does not see any change in market fundamentals or the global economy that should be driving it in that direction on a long-term basis. Investors should look at the current consolidation and dip in gold's price as an opportunity to add to their long-term positions. We think traders are viewing the current equities markets through rose-colored glasses and that the growing bubble is in stocks - not gold. Any additional unanticipated downward moves in gold will give investors who want to preserve and grow their wealth the opportunity to obtain the precious metal at value prices.
[ Read more… ]April 6, 2012
The Federal Open Market Committee
statement issued on Jan. 25 essentially guarantees that investors holding interest-bearing accounts will receive close to zero returns on those funds for the next several years. In promising to keep the target range for the Fed funds rate at zero to 0.25% through late 2014, the Federal Reserve has ensured that interest-bearing accounts are now dead money -- and will be for years to come. Figuring in the real rate of inflation, the next five to six years will see funds left in interest-bearing accounts lose 30% or more of their buying power.
[ Read more… ]March 1, 2012
