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February 2011
Greetings!

I hope January and the beginning of the new year treated everyone well.  We've been busy in the office and we stand to be even busier in February!  If you missed January's newsletter (which, given the mailing list size change, a lot of you did) it can be found here.

Many of you reading this right now are receiving this newsletter for the first time.  This last month I've done a lot of work adding people to our mailing list.  Whether you attended a workshop in the past, have met with us before, or I got around to calling you and taking down your e-mail address, you're receiving this because we think you'd like to see it every month and we think you'll find the information helpful!

Jim and I were recently at a huge financial planning conference in New Orleans where we learned a lot from some of the best advisors in the country.  Next month we'll have information on a brand new annuity product that only our clients will have access to.  I'm not the financial planning expert in the office, but as some of the preliminary details were announced at the conference, even I could tell how amazing of a product this is going to be.

We've gotten some content suggestions since the last newsletter and Jim picked out a couple articles this month that he thinks address some of your concerns.  If you have anything you'd like to ask us, feel free to send an e-mail or give us a call.

Starting soon, we'll also be planning a small series of client appreciation events and referral bashes for all of our clients.  By March, I'll have a tentative schedule for the rest of the year.  As always, if you have any friends that you think we could help, tell them about us and get yourself an invite to one of our referral bashes!  We're going to be doing more than ever to reach out to our current clients and take care of them in the coming year.

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-- Tyler Stillman

What You Pay for Medicare Won't Cover Your Costs
Yahoo! News via Associated Press, December 30, 2010
Yahoo! News logo You paid your Medicare taxes all those years and want
your money's worth: full benefits after you retire. Nearly
three out of five people say in a recent Associated
Press-GfK poll that they paid into the system so they deserve their full benefits - no cuts.

But a newly updated financial analysis shows that what people paid into the system doesn't come close to covering the full value of the medical care they can expect to receive as retirees.

 

Consider an average-wage, two-earner couple together earning $89,000 a year.  Upon retiring in 2011, they would have paid $114,000 in Medicare payroll taxes during their careers.

 

But they can expect to receive medical services - from prescriptions to hospital care - worth $355,000, or about three times what they put in.


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Baby Boomers Start To Turn 65

16 Statistics About The Coming Retirement  

Crisis That Will Drop Your Jaw

Alex Jones' InfoWars.com, December 30, 2010
Do you hear that rumble in the distance?  That is the Baby Boomers - they are getting ready to retire.  On January 1st, 2011 the very first Baby Boomers turn 65.  Millions upon millions of them are rushing towards retirement age and they have been promised that the rest of us are going to take care of them.  Only there is a huge problem.  We don't have the money.  It simply isn't there.  But the millions of Baby Boomers getting ready to retire are counting on that money to be there.  This all comes at a really bad time for a federal government that is already flat broke and for a national economy that is already teetering on the brink of disaster.

So just who are the Baby Boomers?  Well, they are the most famous generation in American history.  The U.S. Census Bureau defines the Baby Boomers as those born between January 1st, 1946 and December 31st, 1964.  You see, after U.S. troops returned from World War II, they quickly settled down and everyone started having lots and lots of babies.  This gigantic generations has transformed America as they have passed through every stage of life. Now they are getting ready to retire.

 

If you add 65 years to January 1st, 1946 you get January 1st, 2011.

 

The moment when the first Baby Boomers reach retirement age has arrived.

 

The day of reckoning that so many have talked about for so many years is here.


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