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Retirement may seem a long way off, but there are things you can do to prepare now!

In this webinar recording, financial advisors Ryan Monette and Allison Alexander discuss strategies that can help you prepare to retire.

The concept of retirement – as we know it – has been around for more than a century with a premise of saving for “old age.” Savant’s retirement research paints a different picture of today’s retiree.

Most of us know someone who experienced a false-start retirement. After many rounds of golf or several vacations, they feel unfulfilled and return to work. Find out more about how to avoid a false-start retirement and the numbers behind this phenomenon.

So far, the markets seem unaffected by the Taliban’s return to power, but without a crystal ball, it’s difficult to know what any potential long-term implications are. In situations like this one, it can be beneficial to understand how the markets have treated other geopolitical events.

In this webinar, Savant advisors challenge and test the investment and financial planning world’s most common rumors, popular beliefs, and urban legends.

Elder abuse is fairly common, affecting at least one in 20 older adults. It takes a team of people – including financial and other advisors, family members, and the individual – to ensure the right protections are in place to prevent it from happening.

The prevailing narrative over the past few years was Big Tech is carrying the market. But this year, the rest of the market is punching back. Daniel Noonan, an investment research analyst, presents a high-level perspective of what’s driving the market.

Because of the “September Effect,” superstitious investors often steer clear of the market this time of year, claiming that it has historically produced low returns for the month of September.

As we enter mid-August, daily new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. have spiked. We saw about 190,000 new daily cases on July 20, up from approximately 20,000 in the prior month, but the death rate remains low. Despite this backdrop, the economy continues to achieve new highs.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how to select the best account to use for college funding and questions to ask yourself when setting your college-savings goal.

Custom indexing appears to potentially be the next disruptive force in asset management. In the same way the invention of the exchange-traded fund (ETF) took assets away from mutual funds, custom indexing will likely compete for assets with ETFs and mutual funds in the years ahead.

Longevity educator Scott Fulton shares the science behind how we can influence our rate of aging and how to make health investments that can pay us back in years.