All right, so John Oliver's epic rant about retirement, the financial industry
and financial advisors was hilarious and spot-on. But he left out one important
detail. And it's a detail that saved one of my clients hundreds of thousands of
dollars - in one moment. Find out what that is coming up. Hey folks, I'm Patrick King,
financial planner and host of Transformative Television. Here on this
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need financial help through one of those situations, please don't hesitate to give
me a call. But in this video, what I want to do is pick apart a little bit of John
Oliver's epic retirement rant and share my thoughts on that and talk about the
one thing that I think he missed that saved one of my clients hundreds of
thousands of dollars in one moment.
"Take annuities. Now certain types of those can be very complicated investment
products that have high fees and would only be appropriate for certain types of
portfolios. But some financial advisers push them hard." Oh man.
Annuities. Man, I see these annuities all the time. They get so many fees and
they're impossible to get out of. One thing all the time I find myself working
with new clients to figure out ways to get out from under some of these annuity
contracts. And the commissions that these "advisers" - brokers, insurance agents
get paid on these annuities are up to 10% - maybe even more - of the contract
value up front. So if you're selling someone a million dollar annuity, you're
gonna get almost a hundred grand. Stupid. No wonder why these folks have an
incentive to sell you these things. "Now generally, it is currently legal for
financial advisors to put their own interests ahead of yours unless - and this
is interesting - they are what's called a "fiduciary". Because not all financial
advisors are bound to act in your best interest, but fiduciaries are." All right, so
here we are with fiduciary again. Y'all are gonna get sick of hearing me talk
about fiduciaries, right? There you go. "But compound interest works both ways.
meaning while your money adds up, your fees can really add up too." Man. Fees.
Fees! All the time - all right so I did the math behind this particular example
using the fees from their retirement plan and compared them to the fees from
a from a fee-only fiduciary financial advisor (my fees in this case) and what
the difference would be for a $1,000,000 investor. Let's say you retired with a
million dollars and both portfolios grew the same - let's say 7%. Just the
difference in fees alone over the 30-year retirement would be $1.6 million
Check the math, it's in the show notes below. It's absolutely ridiculous.
Fees matter. Fees matter and they're hidden a lot of times, so always check
for that stuff. "But the problem with active management
is that even many Wall Street experts find it difficult to consistently beat
the market." Man, active management. So active management, if you actually pay
attention to the math, it doesn't really hold up, you know? So there are studies
that have shown that over a fifteen year time period only 17% of the mutual funds
that start that time period beat their index or their benchmark. 17%! And to give
you an idea how bad those odds suck, over that same course of time only 48% of
funds survived! 52% went out of business! So you've got a
better chance of picking a fund that goes out of business than you do a
finding one that's gonna beat the benchmark. Good luck with that!
All right, at the end, you know the one thing that I really love that they
touched on was, you know they mentioned working with fiduciary advisor. They
worked with - to invest in low-cost index funds, Vanguard funds they mentioned in
the in the video. But I think the thing that kind of got left on the cutting
room floor (along with Kristin Chenoweth) was, is there a difference between
people who work with an advisor and people who don't? You know, is there a
benefit of working with a fiduciary advisor? And there was a study done by
none other than Vanguard on this topic. And what they found was that the clients
that worked with a fiduciary advisor tended to see 3% more return than those
that didn't in a given year. Now of course, individual years varied, but what
they saw is, over time, they averaged three percent more per year. Now we
talked about the little bit in fees that made a huge difference. 3 percent is
ridiculous. So you know what were the factors that were involved in this 3
percent? What were those things that those advisors were doing to get
that extra 3 percent that the clients that work with them saw? Well the two
biggest were behavioral coaching and spending strategy in retirement, the
biggest being behavioral coaching. So this, I think, is the most important point
of working with an advisor that wasn't mentioned in the video. So to give you a
quick story of why I think this makes such a big difference, I want to share
with you the experience of a client of mine. Obviously can't name names but
this gentleman - he was an older gentleman - this was back in the
financial crisis and he came in, he almost picked them up bottom of the
market. This was March 2009, so obviously he's scared. You know, recessions and and
corrections are a normal part of investment but we'd never seen
anything like that before. Stock market's down a lot, but you know
his portfolio didn't have a whole ton of stocks in it. It was down a little bit
but, you know, it was not nearly as down
the market in general. So he came in and he wanted to go to cash. He couldn't take
it anymore. He had been watching the news and reading the headlines. And so he's
like, "You know Patrick, we gotta go to cash." But as unusual as those
circumstances were, we stuck with our strategy. We had a strategy for a reason.
And again, he didn't have 100% stocks, but we stuck with it. And if he
had gone to all cash at that moment he would have locked in his losses forever
or until he decided to get back in "when it was safe". So we stuck with the
strategy. Fast-forward a year later, he comes back in, his portfolio is way up.
And we're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars. But in that one moment we
decided to stick with our strategy, we kept his his money invested and it
allowed him to participate fully in that recovery when the market bounced back in
March of 2009. And of course it did nothing but go up with a couple of blips
since then which has been kind of ridiculous. So not only did he did he
benefit by NOT locking in hundreds of thousands of dollars of losses in that
one year, but that growth also compounded over time too, as the market continued to
go up and he continued to participate in it. So that behavioral coaching thing is
the biggest benefit as evidenced by the Vanguard study and it could be worth
hundreds of thousands of dollars. So that's where that "advisor alpha" comes
from and, I think, one of the important points of working with a fiduciary
family advisor that wasn't that wasn't included in that
video. Of course that story's not quite as hilarious as his but it's a true
story and it's real dollars. So all right folks, thank you so much for watching. I
hope you enjoyed this video, If you did click like below, consider subscribing,
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Until next time I'm Patrick King. This is Transformative Television. Take a deep
breath. You got this!
You know, I totally have an elf-spotting degree now. Thanks, John Oliver!
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