This Week's White Paper Wednesday Project is from Michael Weiner, CFA, Chief Investment Officer @ Unified Trust Company.
According to multiple surveys, somehow accumulating
enough assets to retire comfortably, given all other
demands on our savings, remains a top five concern of
Americans. This is a major reason why Cash Balance
plans are on the rise throughout the U.S. and why it
may be something to consider for your business both
from a tax efficiency (Buffet style) and a retirement
savings perspective.
Cornerstone Wealth Management's July 2017 "Investment Insights" newsletter, focusing on the Dept. of Labor's Fiduciary Rule, which should reduce conflicts of interest and protect the interests of all investors.
Mini fund overview for investors - BetterCapital Real Estate FundBobby Sharma
A Better Way to Invest
Diversifying your portfolio to include real estate investments can be complex, time consuming and capital intensive. We designed Avestor from ground up to solve investor pain points and make it simple to build out a real estate portfolio.
Cornerstone Wealth Management's July 2017 "Investment Insights" newsletter, focusing on the Dept. of Labor's Fiduciary Rule, which should reduce conflicts of interest and protect the interests of all investors.
Mini fund overview for investors - BetterCapital Real Estate FundBobby Sharma
A Better Way to Invest
Diversifying your portfolio to include real estate investments can be complex, time consuming and capital intensive. We designed Avestor from ground up to solve investor pain points and make it simple to build out a real estate portfolio.
The Fiscal Cliff and 10 Moves Every Investor Should Consider Making Now (...B...D.B. Geehan
Originally published Oct 2012 -- White Paper regarding moves every investor should consider making in the run-up to December 31, 2012 and the Fical Cliff.
Mercer Capital's Tennessee Family Law | Q1 2019 | Valuation & Forensic Insigh...Mercer Capital
Mercer Capital is the largest valuation and financial advisory firm in Tennessee with offices in Nashville and Memphis. Complex financial issues are a critical part of many of your client engagements. The focus of this newsletter is to provide useful content about these financial issues from the perspective of financial experts. We seek to help you assist your clients in financial and accounting matters.
Now you can learn the 12 golden rules of investing success. This is something that all most anyone can learn and apply to achieve greater financial security. Start with the basics and learn all the rules followed by successful investors. You can do this. The presentation is available for purchase from Scribd https://www.scribd.com/doc/241726833/The-12-Golden-Rules-of-Investing
Newt is a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) platform enabling enterprises to offer digital financial products and services. Digital financial technologies and infrastructure are reshaping payments, commerce, and access to financial services, creating a growing market opportunity for digital financial service disruptors like Newt.
Newt is a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) platform enabling enterprises to offer digital financial products and services. Digital financial technologies and infrastructure are reshaping payments, commerce, and access to financial services, creating a growing market opportunity for digital financial service disruptors like Newt.
The Fiscal Cliff and 10 Moves Every Investor Should Consider Making Now (...B...D.B. Geehan
Originally published Oct 2012 -- White Paper regarding moves every investor should consider making in the run-up to December 31, 2012 and the Fical Cliff.
Mercer Capital's Tennessee Family Law | Q1 2019 | Valuation & Forensic Insigh...Mercer Capital
Mercer Capital is the largest valuation and financial advisory firm in Tennessee with offices in Nashville and Memphis. Complex financial issues are a critical part of many of your client engagements. The focus of this newsletter is to provide useful content about these financial issues from the perspective of financial experts. We seek to help you assist your clients in financial and accounting matters.
Now you can learn the 12 golden rules of investing success. This is something that all most anyone can learn and apply to achieve greater financial security. Start with the basics and learn all the rules followed by successful investors. You can do this. The presentation is available for purchase from Scribd https://www.scribd.com/doc/241726833/The-12-Golden-Rules-of-Investing
Newt is a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) platform enabling enterprises to offer digital financial products and services. Digital financial technologies and infrastructure are reshaping payments, commerce, and access to financial services, creating a growing market opportunity for digital financial service disruptors like Newt.
Newt is a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) platform enabling enterprises to offer digital financial products and services. Digital financial technologies and infrastructure are reshaping payments, commerce, and access to financial services, creating a growing market opportunity for digital financial service disruptors like Newt.
Women have unique financial issues and needs. This presentation discusses 15 of the most common misconceptions women have about general financial strategies, retirement and estate planning, insurance, as well as money and relationships. It provides guidance on strategies to help women manage their finances.
To paraphrase Dickens, there’s a lot of controversy today about whether we live in the best of times or worst of times concerning retirement. On the one hand, many Americans generally have some kind of retirement support, if you include Social Security, Medicare, private and public pension plans, and the many types of pre-tax retirement plans, such as IRAs and 401(k)s.
On the other hand, demographic and economic forces are making retirement itself a much bigger challenge, primarily because people live longer now. That means you need to work and save enough today to somehow pay for later without employment — a tall order. And recent market upheavals have demonstrated that you may not be able to rely on the stock market in the short term to pay the bill.
This presentation will introduce you to strategies that could help you to potentially build a bigger nest-egg during your working years, make it last longer in retirement, and even pass on more to your heirs.
Because, after all, retirement should be a time to finally relax, stop worrying and enjoy life. But you can’t escape the daily grind until you are financially independent, which in the end is what retirement is all about. So bottom line, let’s talk about working toward financial independence.
What Are the Tax Benefits of Charitable Giving? - Worth MagazineCBIZ, Inc.
John Sheridan, (CPA, Senior Manager at CBIZ) wrote a piece published to Worth Magazine on how charitable giving will affect your taxes. Be sure contact John should you have any further questions.
Defined contribution (DC) plan sponsors face increasingly complex issues. Russell Investments has developed a priority list of eight ideas and actions to help plan sponsors guide their participants toward better decision-making as they save for retirement.
Today’s increasingly complex investment and regulatory landscape places greater pressure on the plan sponsors and fiduciaries overseeing defined contribution plans. Fiduciaries are not only re-examining their current investment decision-making practices, they are also seeking to ensure that those practices allow for enough flexibility in implementation to maximize the likelihood of investment success, while protecting the plan sponsor from potential litigation.
Central to the idea of a well-managed program, a clearly articulated investment policy statement (IPS) serves as the foundation of sound governance and a robust oversight process
By 2025, many DC plan sponsors will likely adopt characteristics of the most successful pension plans to help put them on a path to create a fully funded retirement income stream for plan participants. Here are ten considerations
Ever ask: “How does our retirement plan compare to others?” Learn what Russell Investments believes all excellent DC plans share and actions you can take to help position your plan for excellence.
While many assume the greatest source of retirement plan liability is the plan’s investments, in reality, the vast
majority of lawsuits and regulatory actions involve failures in administration.
how can I sell pi coins after successfully completing KYCDOT TECH
Pi coins is not launched yet in any exchange 💱 this means it's not swappable, the current pi displaying on coin market cap is the iou version of pi. And you can learn all about that on my previous post.
RIGHT NOW THE ONLY WAY you can sell pi coins is through verified pi merchants. A pi merchant is someone who buys pi coins and resell them to exchanges and crypto whales. Looking forward to hold massive quantities of pi coins before the mainnet launch.
This is because pi network is not doing any pre-sale or ico offerings, the only way to get my coins is from buying from miners. So a merchant facilitates the transactions between the miners and these exchanges holding pi.
I and my friends has sold more than 6000 pi coins successfully with this method. I will be happy to share the contact of my personal pi merchant. The one i trade with, if you have your own merchant you can trade with them. For those who are new.
Message: @Pi_vendor_247 on telegram.
I wouldn't advise you selling all percentage of the pi coins. Leave at least a before so its a win win during open mainnet. Have a nice day pioneers ♥️
#kyc #mainnet #picoins #pi #sellpi #piwallet
#pinetwork
The European Unemployment Puzzle: implications from population agingGRAPE
We study the link between the evolving age structure of the working population and unemployment. We build a large new Keynesian OLG model with a realistic age structure, labor market frictions, sticky prices, and aggregate shocks. Once calibrated to the European economy, we quantify the extent to which demographic changes over the last three decades have contributed to the decline of the unemployment rate. Our findings yield important implications for the future evolution of unemployment given the anticipated further aging of the working population in Europe. We also quantify the implications for optimal monetary policy: lowering inflation volatility becomes less costly in terms of GDP and unemployment volatility, which hints that optimal monetary policy may be more hawkish in an aging society. Finally, our results also propose a partial reversal of the European-US unemployment puzzle due to the fact that the share of young workers is expected to remain robust in the US.
how to sell pi coins effectively (from 50 - 100k pi)DOT TECH
Anywhere in the world, including Africa, America, and Europe, you can sell Pi Network Coins online and receive cash through online payment options.
Pi has not yet been launched on any exchange because we are currently using the confined Mainnet. The planned launch date for Pi is June 28, 2026.
Reselling to investors who want to hold until the mainnet launch in 2026 is currently the sole way to sell.
Consequently, right now. All you need to do is select the right pi network provider.
Who is a pi merchant?
An individual who buys coins from miners on the pi network and resells them to investors hoping to hang onto them until the mainnet is launched is known as a pi merchant.
debuts.
I'll provide you the Telegram username
@Pi_vendor_247
US Economic Outlook - Being Decided - M Capital Group August 2021.pdfpchutichetpong
The U.S. economy is continuing its impressive recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and not slowing down despite re-occurring bumps. The U.S. savings rate reached its highest ever recorded level at 34% in April 2020 and Americans seem ready to spend. The sectors that had been hurt the most by the pandemic specifically reduced consumer spending, like retail, leisure, hospitality, and travel, are now experiencing massive growth in revenue and job openings.
Could this growth lead to a “Roaring Twenties”? As quickly as the U.S. economy contracted, experiencing a 9.1% drop in economic output relative to the business cycle in Q2 2020, the largest in recorded history, it has rebounded beyond expectations. This surprising growth seems to be fueled by the U.S. government’s aggressive fiscal and monetary policies, and an increase in consumer spending as mobility restrictions are lifted. Unemployment rates between June 2020 and June 2021 decreased by 5.2%, while the demand for labor is increasing, coupled with increasing wages to incentivize Americans to rejoin the labor force. Schools and businesses are expected to fully reopen soon. In parallel, vaccination rates across the country and the world continue to rise, with full vaccination rates of 50% and 14.8% respectively.
However, it is not completely smooth sailing from here. According to M Capital Group, the main risks that threaten the continued growth of the U.S. economy are inflation, unsettled trade relations, and another wave of Covid-19 mutations that could shut down the world again. Have we learned from the past year of COVID-19 and adapted our economy accordingly?
“In order for the U.S. economy to continue growing, whether there is another wave or not, the U.S. needs to focus on diversifying supply chains, supporting business investment, and maintaining consumer spending,” says Grace Feeley, a research analyst at M Capital Group.
While the economic indicators are positive, the risks are coming closer to manifesting and threatening such growth. The new variants spreading throughout the world, Delta, Lambda, and Gamma, are vaccine-resistant and muddy the predictions made about the economy and health of the country. These variants bring back the feeling of uncertainty that has wreaked havoc not only on the stock market but the mindset of people around the world. MCG provides unique insight on how to mitigate these risks to possibly ensure a bright economic future.
BYD SWOT Analysis and In-Depth Insights 2024.pptxmikemetalprod
Indepth analysis of the BYD 2024
BYD (Build Your Dreams) is a Chinese automaker and battery manufacturer that has snowballed over the past two decades to become a significant player in electric vehicles and global clean energy technology.
This SWOT analysis examines BYD's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats as it competes in the fast-changing automotive and energy storage industries.
Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Shenzhen, BYD started as a battery company before expanding into automobiles in the early 2000s.
Initially manufacturing gasoline-powered vehicles, BYD focused on plug-in hybrid and fully electric vehicles, leveraging its expertise in battery technology.
Today, BYD is the world’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer, delivering over 1.2 million electric cars globally. The company also produces electric buses, trucks, forklifts, and rail transit.
On the energy side, BYD is a major supplier of rechargeable batteries for cell phones, laptops, electric vehicles, and energy storage systems.
Currently pi network is not tradable on binance or any other exchange because we are still in the enclosed mainnet.
Right now the only way to sell pi coins is by trading with a verified merchant.
What is a pi merchant?
A pi merchant is someone verified by pi network team and allowed to barter pi coins for goods and services.
Since pi network is not doing any pre-sale The only way exchanges like binance/huobi or crypto whales can get pi is by buying from miners. And a merchant stands in between the exchanges and the miners.
I will leave the telegram contact of my personal pi merchant. I and my friends has traded more than 6000pi coins successfully
Tele-gram
@Pi_vendor_247
how can i use my minded pi coins I need some funds.DOT TECH
If you are interested in selling your pi coins, i have a verified pi merchant, who buys pi coins and resell them to exchanges looking forward to hold till mainnet launch.
Because the core team has announced that pi network will not be doing any pre-sale. The only way exchanges like huobi, bitmart and hotbit can get pi is by buying from miners.
Now a merchant stands in between these exchanges and the miners. As a link to make transactions smooth. Because right now in the enclosed mainnet you can't sell pi coins your self. You need the help of a merchant,
i will leave the telegram contact of my personal pi merchant below. 👇 I and my friends has traded more than 3000pi coins with him successfully.
@Pi_vendor_247
Empowering the Unbanked: The Vital Role of NBFCs in Promoting Financial Inclu...Vighnesh Shashtri
In India, financial inclusion remains a critical challenge, with a significant portion of the population still unbanked. Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) have emerged as key players in bridging this gap by providing financial services to those often overlooked by traditional banking institutions. This article delves into how NBFCs are fostering financial inclusion and empowering the unbanked.
when will pi network coin be available on crypto exchange.DOT TECH
There is no set date for when Pi coins will enter the market.
However, the developers are working hard to get them released as soon as possible.
Once they are available, users will be able to exchange other cryptocurrencies for Pi coins on designated exchanges.
But for now the only way to sell your pi coins is through verified pi vendor.
Here is the telegram contact of my personal pi vendor
@Pi_vendor_247
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what is the best method to sell pi coins in 2024DOT TECH
The best way to sell your pi coins safely is trading with an exchange..but since pi is not launched in any exchange, and second option is through a VERIFIED pi merchant.
Who is a pi merchant?
A pi merchant is someone who buys pi coins from miners and pioneers and resell them to Investors looking forward to hold massive amounts before mainnet launch in 2026.
I will leave the telegram contact of my personal pi merchant to trade pi coins with.
@Pi_vendor_247
how to sell pi coins at high rate quickly.DOT TECH
Where can I sell my pi coins at a high rate.
Pi is not launched yet on any exchange. But one can easily sell his or her pi coins to investors who want to hold pi till mainnet launch.
This means crypto whales want to hold pi. And you can get a good rate for selling pi to them. I will leave the telegram contact of my personal pi vendor below.
A vendor is someone who buys from a miner and resell it to a holder or crypto whale.
Here is the telegram contact of my vendor:
@Pi_vendor_247
What website can I sell pi coins securely.DOT TECH
Currently there are no website or exchange that allow buying or selling of pi coins..
But you can still easily sell pi coins, by reselling it to exchanges/crypto whales interested in holding thousands of pi coins before the mainnet launch.
Who is a pi merchant?
A pi merchant is someone who buys pi coins from miners and resell to these crypto whales and holders of pi..
This is because pi network is not doing any pre-sale. The only way exchanges can get pi is by buying from miners and pi merchants stands in between the miners and the exchanges.
How can I sell my pi coins?
Selling pi coins is really easy, but first you need to migrate to mainnet wallet before you can do that. I will leave the telegram contact of my personal pi merchant to trade with.
Tele-gram.
@Pi_vendor_247
If you are looking for a pi coin investor. Then look no further because I have the right one he is a pi vendor (he buy and resell to whales in China). I met him on a crypto conference and ever since I and my friends have sold more than 10k pi coins to him And he bought all and still want more. I will drop his telegram handle below just send him a message.
@Pi_vendor_247
how to sell pi coins in South Korea profitably.DOT TECH
Yes. You can sell your pi network coins in South Korea or any other country, by finding a verified pi merchant
What is a verified pi merchant?
Since pi network is not launched yet on any exchange, the only way you can sell pi coins is by selling to a verified pi merchant, and this is because pi network is not launched yet on any exchange and no pre-sale or ico offerings Is done on pi.
Since there is no pre-sale, the only way exchanges can get pi is by buying from miners. So a pi merchant facilitates these transactions by acting as a bridge for both transactions.
How can i find a pi vendor/merchant?
Well for those who haven't traded with a pi merchant or who don't already have one. I will leave the telegram id of my personal pi merchant who i trade pi with.
Tele gram: @Pi_vendor_247
#pi #sell #nigeria #pinetwork #picoins #sellpi #Nigerian #tradepi #pinetworkcoins #sellmypi
1. Cashing In on Cash Balance
The Buffett Rule
Warren Buffet, the “Oracle of Omaha” might be the
most accomplished living investor. His homespun
commentary is often quoted and his example emulated
where possible. For instance Mr. Buffett often
admonishes us to “invest in stocks as if you were buying
a business” and “the stock market is the only thing we
want more of when prices are high and less of when
prices are low.” Much like EF Hutton of a generation
ago, when Warren Buffet
speaks, people listen.
Mr. Buffett famously
opined that he pays less
tax dollars as a percent
of his income than does
his secretary. This
innocuous statement
morphed into “The
Buffett Rule” that nearly
became policy in our
nation. Millionaires
or thereabouts would
have been subject to a
minimum 30% tax rate
as a ‘fair share’ had
legislation been passed.
For perspective, the majority of Mr. Buffett’s income
is capital gain, which up until recently was taxed at
a maximum of 20%, a rate probably lower than the
marginal rate paid by many middle class Americans.
However, last spring, the Oracle described the real
Buffett Rule: “I will not pay a dime more of individual
taxes than I owe, and I won’t pay a dime more of
corporate taxes than we owe. And that’s very simple,”
Mr. Buffett told Fortune magazine. The billionaire also
gave a clue about his thoughts on corporate inversions
(an American acquirer taking the tax domicile of a target
foreign company to gain that country’s lower tax rate).
“I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to
reduce Berkshire’s tax rate,” he said. Interesting.
Mental connections are funny things. Just the other
day we came across an article regarding Cash Balance
Plans and it made us think about the real Buffett Rule.
Cash Balance plans offer the chance to do what Mr.
Buffett does, not what he says, namely, pay no more
in taxes than you owe. Cash Balance plans are
becoming increasingly more popular and you may
not have heard much about them yet. At small and
midsize firms, when used in conjunction with a 401(k)
program, these plans can help participants save more
towards retirement in a tax deferred manner and help
business owners improve the cost and tax efficiency
of their organization. Not
too shabby.
Cash Balance plans are
considered a bit of hybrid
plan as they combine the
high contribution limits
of a defined benefit plan
with the flexibility and
portability of a 401(k)
plan. According to
the US Department of
Labor, “A cash balance
plan is a defined benefit
plan that defines the
benefit in terms that are
more characteristic of
a defined contribution
plan. In other words, a cash balance plan defines the
promised benefit in terms of a stated account balance.”
The stated account balance is a function of the plan
sponsor’s contributions and a crediting rate.
According to multiple surveys, somehow accumulating
enough assets to retire comfortably, given all other
demands on our savings, remains a top five concern of
Americans. This is a major reason why Cash Balance
plans are on the rise throughout the U.S. and why it
may be something to consider for your business both
from a tax efficiency (Buffet style) and a retirement
savings perspective.
To learn more about Cash Balance plans, contact
Jason Grantz, QPA, AIFA®, Institutional Retirement
Consultant at jason.grantz@unifiedtrust.com or (732)
227-9252.
Michael Weiner, CFA®, Chief Investment Officer, Unified Trust Company
Mr. Weiner received his Bachelor’s Degree from Duquesne University and his MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He is responsible for establishing and implementing investment policy, including research, policy development, asset allocation, mutual
fund and separate account manager selection. His position leads the Trust Investment Committee for both the Wealth Management and
the Retirement Plan Consulting Group business lines. Mr. Weiner joined Unified Trust in 2013 with more than 29 years of experience in
the investment management industry and is an accredited CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst).
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