Retirement – Page 7 – Argent Advisors

Workers Worry About Money Today, Not Retirement Tomorrow

Financial Planning, Financial Wellness, General Advice, Retirement / By Byron Moore

What causes the average Joe stress at work? Work, right? Or maybe something about work – a bad boss, poor working conditions, toxic co-workers or maybe just Facebook being blocked on their work computer (“dang IT guys!”). Each year international accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) sponsors an Employee Financial Wellness Survey. Their 2020 survey asked employees, […]

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Are You Prepared to Live to 100?

Financial Planning, General Advice, Retirement / By Byron Moore

What would happen if you lived to be 100? When Wayne was contemplating his retirement from public service, he didn’t want to retire from life. He was looking for an older man who had lived the last portion of his life in an exemplary way. Wayne was 61 at the time. Who looks for a

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Spring Cleaning … Where Do I Start?

How is it that when you have the most unstructured time on your hands, you get the least done? Now, if you’re a doctor or nurse tending to Coronavirus patients, a banker pushing out PPP loans or a grocer working overtime to restock the toilet paper shelves, this doesn’t apply to you. But waaaay more

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Freedom from Fear

Coronavirus, Financial Advice, General Advice, Retirement / By Byron Moore

Freedom. It’s one of those things we as Americans prize very, very highly. In fact, Americans prize freedom above almost all else. In the past, we have proven that we will even die to ensure freedom for those we love. But we find ourselves living in a time when that precious gift – freedom –

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Symbols are No Surrogate for Substance

Financial Advice, Financial Planning, Retirement, Savings / By Byron Moore

I wonder how many patients gorge on fried chicken the day before their first cardiology appointment. I’ve had many people come to see me for financial planning and begin the conversation by “admitting” they just bought a new car. Or a new house. Or maybe a new boat. It didn’t take long to figure out

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Money is a Mirror

Financial Advice, Financial Planning, Retirement / By Byron Moore

Have you seen the latest fitness craze? It’s a mirror. Actually, they call it “The Mirror.” This $1500 piece of technology combines video and live feedback technology to provide the experience of a one-on-one trainer in your home…only she’s really just in your mirror. It’s actually kind of spooky. There you are, standing in front

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One-Time Expenses are Rarely One Time

Financial Advice, Retirement / By Byron Moore

It would be a one-time expense. He was not asking my permission. He was notifying me of a change I was now being tasked to make in his retirement plan. He drove that change to our meeting. I had not previously thought of him as a tricked-out Escalade kind of guy, but there he was

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Is Retirement Bad for You?

Retirement / By Byron Moore

What if you found out retirement was bad for you? Would you reconsider it? Or at least the way it is traditionally done? Richard W. Johnson thinks so. He’s the director of retirement policy at the Urban Institute. His survey of studies done on the health of retirees suggests a number of downsides for retirees,

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