by Ryan Shumaker, The Retirement Team | Apr 27, 2023 | Blog
The stock market hit a new 52 week low a whopping 13 times last year. That’s more than what we saw over the entire last decade and nearly twice as many times as what occurred during the booming 90s. Banks are starting to fail, inflation is still stubbornly high, and...
by Ryan Shumaker, The Retirement Team | Nov 18, 2022 | Blog
Gas prices, grocery store bills, and interest rates have all been rising at a fairly high rate recently. It seems to be what everyone is talking about. The question is, where are they headed next? To be blunt and to the point, no one knows and listening to those that...
by Ryan Shumaker, The Retirement Team | Sep 16, 2022 | Blog
When it comes to investing, for every loser there is an equal and opposite winner. If someone sells something to someone else and it goes up in value the person that sold lost while the person that bought won (and vice versa). According to Dalbar’s most recent study...
by Ryan Shumaker, The Retirement Team | Apr 15, 2022 | Blog
There’s been a lot of negative news headlines recently and I’m hearing the phrase “with what’s going on right now, should I just cash everything out until things calm down?” when having new meetings with prospects. If you’ve been thinking or wondering the same thing,...
by Ryan Shumaker, The Retirement Team | Sep 3, 2021 | Blog
Over the course of the average retirement all prices more than double. In fact, they’ll go up more than 2.5 times. Something that costs $100 today will cost $257 by the end of a 30 year retirement. That’s assuming just historical average levels of inflation as...
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