3 Things To Do Before July 28th.

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​3 Things To Do Before July 28th.
This should take you less than five minutes to read, so that the focus can be on action rather than reading. You can take any of these action points deeper with other blogs/podcasts/webinars on each topic (links below).
 
Why do I say to act before July 28th? The U.S. will know whether or not the country is in a recession at 8:30 AM Eastern time on July 28, 2022. (When the U.S. sneezes, the world catches a cold.) At this point it’s less a question of “will we?” and more a question of when? If we wait for the headlines that we’re in a recession, it can be too late. Learn the rising risk of a recession in my blog from July 13, 2022. 
 
The Bear Market
If we have lost more than 6% that’s a red flag that our wealth plan is not properly diversified and protected. While we might think that we’ve already lost a lot, most 21st-century recessions have dropped by more than half. The S&P500 is currently down about 18% from its January 2022 highs, so the bottom could be a lot further down. If our portfolio is down 18% or more, it signals that we don’t have enough safe – that our plan is not well-designed for the bear market.
 
When someone tells us to just hang on because the markets always come back and we’ll just be selling low if we make changes now, that is not the truth of 21st Century recessions. Buy & Hope worked well in the last century, but has been a disaster since 2000. The next bear market recession will not be a repeat of the Pandemic Recession, which was the shortest in history. We can’t print up almost $6 trillion and give it to everybody to save the day. In fact we’re doing the opposite. We are tightening up the money supply. Many people and corporations don’t have access to loans, and if they do, they’re paying a lot more in interest. Instead, we’re seeing savings dwindle and the markets weaken, which is a recipe for more trouble ahead. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell and others have gone on record a lot this year talking about taking our medicine and the pain that most of us are going to experience this year.
 
So here’s our 3-step action plan that we should get started on now – before the 2Q 2022 GDP is announced on July 28, 2022.

• Know how much we’ve already lost
• Diversify and protect our wealth
• Know what is safe in a debt world

 
And here is more information on each line item.
 
Know How Much We’ve Lost
It’s essential to know where we stand right now because this is an indicator of whether or not our plan is properly designed. If most of our wealth is in our retirement account and/or brokerage account, then it’s as simple as just looking at the statements from today comparing them to the statements from January of this year. You might ask your broker-salesman for a chart of your current plan’s performance compared to the S&P500 for the last 15 years (or at minimum 3 years). If you’ve lost as much or more than the S&P500, then it’s time to learn and implement a Wealth Protection strategy. That will require getting solutions from someone other than the person who designed the losing plan. We’re here to help with time-proven, 21st Century solutions. Email [email protected] or call 310-430-2397.
 
Diversify and Protect Your Wealth
A properly designed wealth plan protects us from losses in recessions and allows us to soar in bull markets. A lot of people check multiple boxes in their 401K, or have 18+ pages of holdings, and hope that they are properly protected and diversified as a result. 99% of the time, that is not the case. We must know what we own and why, and why it fits into the easy-as-a-pie-chart nest egg strategy. This easy plan with regular rebalancing earned gains in the Great and Dot Com Recessions (when most people lost more than half of their wealth) and outperformed the bull markets in between. (Click to learn more about regular rebalancing.)

Sample easy-as-a-pie-chart nest egg investing by Natalie Pace. (c) 2022. All rights reserved.

Know What is Safe in a Debt World
While bonds are normally put on the safe “fixed income” side of the equation, today bonds are losing principal, while also being illiquid and negative-yielding. (Click to learn more in my podcast and webinar.) Many traditionally safe, fixed-income products are vulnerable or losing money. Regulators have claimed that Celsius Network’s promises that depositors were FDIC-insured were illegal. (Click to learn more about the Crypto Crash in my podcast and webinar.)
 
So, who can you trust to protect your money – at a time when inflation is limiting our buying power?
 
The safe side of your wealth plan is not supposed to lose money. As we age and get closer to retirement, we can’t afford to risk losing half or more of our wealth. So, the first step is to keep at least a percentage equal to your age safe. (We’re overweighting 20% safe due to the recession risk.) The second step is to consider safe, income-producing hard assets that you purchase for a good price. Believe it or not, there is some low-hanging fruit here (not high-priced real estate).
 
You can read about What’s Safe in a Debt World in that section of The ABCs of Money 5th edition. You can learn and implement a safer strategy by attending our Financial Freedom retreats. You can also reach out for an unbiased 2nd opinion on your current plan to receive color-coded, step-by-step analysis of what you currently have and what a safer plan looks like. When our physical health is at risk, we get a second opinion. So, let’s be sure to do that for our fiscal health and future, too.
 
Why Bonds, Money Market Funds and Annuities are Vulnerable
In most recessions, the Federal Reserve Board will cut interest rates to spark economic growth. That action actually makes existing bonds with a higher interest rate more valuable. When the FOMC raises rates, the existing bond value (with a lower interest rate) goes down. Today, there is credit risk, in addition to interest-rate risk, and also duration risk and opportunity costs. Annuities are not FDIC-insured (so vulnerable, just like the Celsius Network deposits were). Money market funds have redemption gates and liquidity fees, and can lose money.
 
 
Bottom Line
It’s time to know exactly what we own and why, and to protect our fiscal health. We can’t just have blind faith that some financial professional is doing this for us, particularly if we have more than 10% in losses to date. Take this July 28 deadline date seriously. Consider registering for the October retreat now, so that you get immediate access to the four-part webinar series. If you have a lot at stake, email [email protected] to learn about getting an unbiased 2nd opinion from me personally on your current wealth plan.
 

If you're interested in learning 21st Century time-proven investing strategies for protecting your wealth and managing the bear market from a No. 1 stock picker, join us for our Oct. 8-10, 2022 Financial Freedom Retreat. Email [email protected] or call 310-430-2397 to learn more and to register. Click on the banner ad below to discover the 18+ strategies you'll learn and master. Get the best price when you register with friends and family. Register now to access your free 4-part Protect Your Wealth Now webinar that will get you started immediately.
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Natalie Wynne Pace is an Advocate for Sustainability, FinancialLiteracy & Women's Empowerment. Natalie is the bestselling author of The Power of 8 Billion: It's Up to Us and is the co-creator of the Earth Gratitude Project. She has been ranked as a No. 1 stock picker, above over 835 A-list pundits, by an independent tracking agency (TipsTraders). Her book The ABCs of Money remained at or near the #1 Investing Basics e-book on Amazon for over 3 years (in its vertical), with over 120,000 downloads and a mean 5-star ranking. The 5th edition of The ABCs of Money was released on September 17, 2021. 
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