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Regulatory Education
2022 Financial Planning Limits and Tax Rate Schedules
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Addressing the complexities of financial planning can be difficult.To help, Janus Henderson has created a guide to assist with: 2022 Tax Rate Schedules Comprehensive Income Tax Exemptions and Deductions Social Security Planning Coverage and Limits Medicare, Health Care and Retirement Plan Limits Estate and Gift Tax Planning Amounts Education Credits and Deductions Investment Planning
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Stress Eating Hamburger Helper, and Other Strategies for Coping with Inflation
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Rising prices can cause a lot of anxiety, particularly for younger investors who may be experiencing significant inflation for the first time. Retirement Director Ben Rizzuto outlines simple steps to help ease the stress and stretch your dollar amid this hopefully temporary inflation spike.
Regulatory Education
Time for an IPS Refresh: Incorporating Emerging Trends into Your Plan Design
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To help plan sponsors better understand how to ensure their investment policy statement (IPS) is clear and current, we spoke with renowned ERISA attorney Hon. Brad Campbell about three areas where well-intentioned but unclear or outdated IPS language can create problems.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Wealth Transfer: Easy as 1, 2, 3?
The wealth transfer process is complex, with financial as well as emotional matters that must be sorted through. But financial professionals can take steps to help ensure clients and their heirs are prepared. Retirement Director Ben Rizzuto outlines what he believes are the three key steps to success: preparation, empowerment and engagement.
Portfolio Construction Insights
Portfolio Diagnostic Report: Recover Wisely - Be Global, Be Picky
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Despite a violent COVID-driven correction in the first quarter of 2020, markets responded with a rebound throughout the remainder of the year and returns were primarily positive across asset classes. The 2021 Janus Henderson Market GPS Investment Outlook suggests cautious optimism for performance outcomes while exhorting investors to diversify in order to mitigate outlier risks.
Portfolio Construction Insights
Shifting Gears - Moving to a Goals-Based Fixed Income Strategy
For traditional fixed income investors, much of the last 40 years have been a relatively enjoyable ride. This benefit has slowly evaporated over the past 10 years, as rates have plunged to near zero and now extreme market turmoil from the COVID-19 pandemic has put investors at a crossroads: high-quality, traditional fixed income will always be a crucial bedrock for investment portfolios but emerging from this crisis with extremely low – or even negative – government bond rates means this “insurance” might become more expensive. It’s no wonder, then, that many investors are viewing the fixed income implications of the COVID-19 crisis as existential.
Retirement
The Not-So-Easy Steps to Investing Success
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While investors will always be looking for ways to time the markets, there are no shortcuts to investing success. Retirement Director Ben Rizzuto considers the lessons to be learned from the recent GameStop trading activity and outlines three steps to building a strategic long-term investing plan.