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		<description><![CDATA[The Pasadena Financial Planner has written extensively about personal financial planning and investment management on a variety of websites. When I work with clients to develop their customized lifetime financial and investment plans, they often ask what they should read to improve their financial literacy.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Pasadena Financial Planner has written extensively about personal financial planning and investment management on a variety of websites. When I work with clients to develop their customized lifetime financial and investment plans, they often ask what they should read to improve their financial literacy.</p>
<p>This article provides a list of recommended reading from among the many hundreds of articles that I have authored in the past several years. Note that I have personally written all the content that you will find on the six personal finance and investment websites referenced below. <span style="color: #FF0000;font-weight: bold;">You can reach us by using the contact form below.</span></p>
<p>Enjoy!</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Skilled Investor</a> website</h3>
<p>Note that you can find all of my other financial websites, by going to <a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >The Skilled Investor</a> website and clicking on the red colored links in the left hand column on any page of <a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >The Skilled Investor</a> website.</p>
<p>On the front page of <a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >The Skilled Investor</a> website you will find an index of pages with major categories and subcategories. Within the subcategories there are lists of articles and the front page tells you how many articles are in any subcategory. There are many articles in addition to those listed below, which you can find by clicking on the subcategory links below that have arrows in front of them.</p>
<p>Here are some suggested personal financial planning and investment management articles within the major categories and subcategories. Article titles are descriptive and should help you decide which articles you want to read first.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.category.40/personal-investment-management.html" target="_blank">Personal Investment Management</a></h3>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.category.1/asset-allocation.html" target="_blank">Asset Allocation and Personal Investment Risk Tolerance Articles</a></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.174/you-must-stay-invested-in-the-securities-markets-to-earn-market-risk-premiums.html" target="_blank">You must stay invested in the securities markets to earn market risk premiums</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.category.2/controlling-investment-costs.html" target="_blank">Commodity futures in your investment portfolio &#8212; Is there really any future for individual investors?</a></li>
</ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.category.2/controlling-investment-costs.html" target="_blank">Cost Control and Investment Performance Improvement Articles</a></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.2/how-much-do-hidden-mutual-fund-trading-expenses-cost-you.html" target="_blank">Excessive investment costs are a huge problem for individual investors</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.2/how-much-do-hidden-mutual-fund-trading-expenses-cost-you.html" target="_blank">How much do hidden mutual fund trading expenses cost you?</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.5/is-it-worth-paying-higher-bond-mutual-fund-management-fees.html" target="_blank">Is it worth paying higher bond mutual fund management fees?</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.235/pay-less-to-get-more-part-1-of-2.html" target="_blank">Pay less to get more (Part 1 of 2)</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.246/the-heavy-burden-of-recurring-investment-fees-part-1.html" target="_blank">The heavy burden of recurring investment fees (Part 1 of 2)</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.category.6/diversify-assets.html" target="_blank">Understanding one-time investment fees, such as sales loads</a></li>
</ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.category.6/diversify-assets.html" target="_blank">Investment Asset Diversification Articles &#8212; Reducing Your Portfolio Risk</a></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.30/what-is-the-cost-to-individual-investors-of-sub-optimal-portfolio-diversification.html" target="_blank">What is the cost to individual investors of sub-optimal portfolio diversification?</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.32/why-is-diversification-valuable-to-individual-investors.html" target="_blank">Why is diversification valuable to individual investors?</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.34/can-a-limited-number-of-stocks-provide-complete-portfolio-diversification.html" target="_blank">Can a limited number of stocks provide complete portfolio diversification?</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.36/how-many-mutual-funds-are-needed-for-a-well-diversified-portfolio-a-commentary.html" target="_blank">How many mutual funds are needed for a well-diversified portfolio? &#8211; Commentary</a></li>
</ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.category.7/luck-versus-skill.html" target="_blank">Investment Luck versus Investing Skill Articles</a></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.40/chance-creates-the-illusion-that-investors-can-beat-the-stock-market.html" target="_blank">Chance creates the illusion that investors can beat the stock market</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.42/the-illusion-of-superior-professional-investment-manager-performance.html" target="_blank">The illusion of superior professional investment manager performance</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.41/distinguishing-between-true-investment-skill-and-luck.html" target="_blank">Distinguishing between true investment skill and luck</a></li>
</ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.category.3/returns-and-risk-premiums.html" target="_blank">Investment Returns and Securities Market Risk Premiums Articles</a></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.8/what-have-average-investment-asset-class-risk-premiums-been-over-long-periods.html" target="_blank">What have average investment asset class risk premiums been over long periods?</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.9/asset-class-investment-risk-premiums-your-reward-for-taking-investment-risk.html" target="_blank">Asset class investment risk premiums &#8212; your reward for taking investment risk</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.10/how-stable-have-common-stock-equity-risk-premiums-been-over-time.html" target="_blank">How stable have common stock market returns been over time?</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.17/how-are-asset-class-risk-premiums-and-the-risk-free-rate-of-return-related.html" target="_blank">How are asset class risk premiums and the risk free rate of return related?</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.13/how-do-return-expectations-of-investors-compare-to-historical-stock-returns-and-risk-premiums.html" target="_blank">How do return expectations of investors compare to historical stock returns and risk premiums?</a></li>
</ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.category.18/personal-efficiency.html" target="_blank">Financial Planning and Investment Management Personal Efficiency Articles</a></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.111/calculating-your-investment-wage-and-the-opportunity-cost-of-your-time.html" target="_blank">Calculating your investment wage and the opportunity cost of your time</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.112/the-value-and-opportunity-cost-of-your-time.html" target="_blank">The value and opportunity cost of your investment time</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.113/scientific-investment-strategies-tend-to-be-more-time-efficient.html" target="_blank">Passive Personal Investment Strategies are More Time Efficient with Better Returns and Risk Control</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.114/value-added-and-value-diminishing-investor-activities.html" target="_blank">15 Value-Added Individual Investor Activities</a></li>
</ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.category.11/scientific-investing.html" target="_blank">Scientific Investment Best Practices Articles</a></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.68/what-else-should-you-read-about-investing.html" target="_blank">What else should you read about investing?</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.69/a-caution-related-to-classic-investment-books.html" target="_blank">A caution related to classic investment books</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.71/how-can-individual-investors-trust-when-so-much-investment-information-is-rubbish.html" target="_blank">How can individual investors trust, when so much investment information is rubbish?</a></li>
</ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.category.5/securities-valuation.html" target="_blank">How Stock and Bond Markets Value Investment Securities</a></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.23/how-investment-securities-are-valued-snapshots-in-time.html" target="_blank">How investment securities are valued &#8212; snapshots in time</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.24/introduction-to-investment-valuation-and-securities-risk.html" target="_blank">Introduction to investment valuation and securities risk</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.25/the-confusing-investment-securities-market-motion-picture.html" target="_blank">The confusing investment securities market motion picture</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.26/what-is-efficient-market-pricing-in-the-securities-markets.html" target="_blank">What is efficient market pricing in the securities markets?</a></li>
</ul>
<h3><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.category.39/personal-financial-planning.html" target="_blank">Personal Financial Planning</a></h3>
<p>This is a must shortened list of available articles, because there are many other personal financial planning articles posted on The Pasadena Financial Planner website. See a selected list below.</p>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.category.30/financial-decision-rules.html" target="_blank">Financial Decision Rules</a></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.165/the-problem-straight-answers-about-personal-financial-and-investment-planning-are-difficult-to-find.html" target="_blank">The Problem &#8212; Straight answers about personal financial and investment planning are difficult to find</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.166/the-solution-only-follow-financial-strategies-that-are-scientific-passive-diversified.html" target="_blank">The Solution &#8211; Only follow financial strategies that are scientific, passive, diversified, savings focused, risk controlled, low cost, and tax efficient</a></li>
</ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.category.8/retirement-planning.html" target="_blank">Retirement Planning</a></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.179/traditional-versus-roth-tax-advantaged-plan-contributions.html" target="_blank">Traditional versus Roth tax-advantaged plan contributions</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.180/factors-that-tend-to-favor-roth-tax-advantaged-plan-contributions-part-1-of-2.html" target="_blank">Factors that tend to favor Roth tax-advantaged plan contributions (Part 1 of 2)</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.269/summary-table-of-traditional-ira-and-roth-ira-tax-rules.html" target="_blank">Summary Table of Traditional IRA and Roth IRA Tax Rules</a></li>
</ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.category.19/vp.html" target="_blank">About VeriPlan &#8212; Personal Finance Software for Your Lifetime</a></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.153/executive-summary-of-veriplan.html" target="_blank">Executive Summary of VeriPlan</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.155/veriplan-s-10-personal-financial-decision-tools.html" target="_blank">VeriPlan&#8217;s 10 Financial Planning Tools and Financial Calculators</a></li>
</ul>
<h3><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.category.38/financial%20advisors.html" target="_blank">Financial Advisors, Investment Counselors, and the Financial Industry</a></h3>
<p><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.category.35/financial-services-industry.html" target="_blank">Are Your Best Interests the Same as the Financial Services Industry?</a></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.168/financial-science-drives-industry-product-development-but-not-necessarily-toward-the-best-interests-of-individuals.html" target="_blank">Financial science drives industry product development, but not necessarily toward the best interests of individuals</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.7/the-investment-industry-is-not-your-investment-partner.html" target="_blank">The investment industry is not your investment partner</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.261/how-to-lie-with-statistics-investment-performance-charts-part-1.html" target="_blank">How to lie with statistics: Investment performance charts (Part 1 of 2)</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.89/many-individual-investors-are-not-fooled-by-an-ethically-challenged-securities-industry.html" target="_blank">Many individual investors are not fooled by an ethically challenged securities industry</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.88/the-securities-industry-calls-marketing-and-selling-advising.html" target="_blank">The securities industry calls marketing and selling &#8211; “advising”</a></li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.category.13/payment-of-advisors.html" target="_blank">Payment of Investment Advisors, Financial Planners, and Investment Counselors</a></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.156/economics-of-the-financial-advisory-industry.html" target="_blank">The economics of the financial advisory industry</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.83/does-it-matter-how-financial-planners-and-investment-advisors-are-paid.html" target="_blank">Does it matter how financial planners and investment advisors are paid?</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.244/can-you-really-get-free-and-objective-investment-advice-when-you-pay-investment-sales-loads-part-1.html" target="_blank">Can you really get free and objective investment advice, when you pay investment sales loads? (Part 1 of 2)</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.250/how-expensive-is-advisor-compensation-paid-via-sales-loads.html" target="_blank">How expensive is advisor compensation paid via sales loads?</a></li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.category.16/selecting-an-advisor.html" target="_blank">Selecting a Financial Planning Advisor or Investment Adviser</a></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.103/preparing-to-interview-a-financial-planner-or-investment-advisor.html" target="_blank">Preparing to interview a financial planner or investment advisor</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.104/questions-to-ask-when-hiring-an-investment-advisor-part-1-background-and-training.html" target="_blank">Questions to ask when hiring an investment advisor &#8211; Part 1 &#8211; Background and training</a></li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.category.14/regulation-of-advisors.html" target="_blank">Regulation of Financial Advisors and Investment Advisers</a></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.90/regulation-of-financial-planners-and-investment-advisors-introduction.html" target="_blank">Regulation of financial planners and investment advisors &#8212; Introduction</a></li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.category.15/advisor-fraud.html" target="_blank">Frauds and Scams by Financial and Investment Advisers</a></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.99/avoiding-financial-planning-and-investment-advisor-frauds-and-scams-overview.html" target="_blank">Avoiding financial planning and investment advisor frauds and scams &#8211; Overview</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.100/avoiding-financial-advisor-frauds-and-scams-the-never-do-list-part-1.html" target="_blank">Avoiding financial advisor frauds and scams &#8211; The Never-do list &#8212; Part 1</a></li>
</ul>
<h3><a href="http://www.bestnoloadmutualfund.com/" target="_blank">Best No Load Funds</a> website</h3>
<p>Click “Sitemap” in top banner for a list of articles. Suggested reading:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.bestnoloadmutualfund.com/the-best-noload-mutual-funds-etfs-13.htm" target="_blank">7 Ways to Pick the Best Noload Mutual Funds and ETFs</a></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal">To find articles that focus on each of these seven selection criteria, either click on the numbered headings within this article or go to the Sitemap.</p>
<h3> <a href="http://www.bondmarketindexfund.com/" target="_blank">No Load Bond Funds</a> website</h3>
<p class="MsoNormal">Click “Sitemap” in top banner for a list of articles. Suggested reading:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.bondmarketindexfund.com/no-load-bond-funds-6.htm" target="_blank">No Load Bond Funds</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.bondmarketindexfund.com/united-states-taxable-bond-mutual-funds-9.htm" target="_blank">The Top 14 Low Cost Taxable United States Bond Mutual Funds (Low Minimum Deposit)</a></li>
</ul>
<h3><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/wp/" target="_blank">The Skilled Investor Blog</a></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal">(associated with The Skilled Investor website)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You could read these selected articles:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/wp/wheres-waldo-the-illusion-of-superior-professional-mutual-fund-manager-performance-179.htm" target="_blank">Where’s Waldo? &#8211; The illusion of superior professional mutual fund manager performance.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/wp/why-only-one-warren-buffett-the-illusion-of-superior-professional-mutual-fund-manager-performance-180.htm" target="_blank">Why only one Warren Buffett? The illusion of superior professional mutual fund manager performance.</a></li>
</ul>
<h3> <a href="http://www.500indexfund.com/" target="_blank">Low Cost S&amp;P 500 Index Funds</a> website</h3>
<p class="MsoNormal">You could read these selected articles:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.500indexfund.com/top-10-sp-500-index-funds-9.htm" target="_blank">Top 10 S&amp;P 500 Index Funds</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.500indexfund.com/buy-an-sp-500-index-fund-with-low-costs-10.htm" target="_blank">Buy an S&amp;P 500 Index Fund with Low Costs</a></li>
</ul>
<h3><a href="http://www.financialplannerpasadena.com//" target="_blank">The Pasadena Financial Planner</a> website</h3>
<p class="MsoNormal">Click “Sitemap” in top banner for a list of articles.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Suggested reading:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.financialplannerpasadena.com/your-family-financial-planning-11.htm" target="_blank">Your Family Financial Planning</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.financialplannerpasadena.com/family-financial-planning-process-12.htm" target="_blank">Your Family Financial Planning Process</a></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in">The two articles above summarize “10 Financial Planning Steps in the Right Direction,” a recommended personal financial planning process. There are individual articles with more details about each of these 10 steps. You can find them by clicking on the bold section headers within the two articles above, or you can find them by clicking the “Sitemap” link on any page and looking for the articles that are numbered 1 through 10.</p>
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<p>Families need an objective financial planning process. In addition, they need to be in control &#8212; whether or not they have a family financial planning consultant. With a well-designed and personal financial plan, you can optimize your financial affairs over your lifetime. You can greatly reduce the waste of your money and your time. I recommend the 10 steps below for personal financial planning and personal investment management.</p>
<p>To find an in depth article for each step, just click on the <a href="http://www.financialplannerpasadena.com/pasadena-financial-planner-sitemap">Sitemap</a> link at the top of this page and look for the articles numbered from 1 to 10. <span style="color: #FF0000;font-weight: bold;">You can reach us by using the contact form below.</span> Please enjoy reading this article. Thank you!</p>
<h3>1 &#8211; <a href="http://www.financialplannerpasadena.com/your-personal-financial-planning-skills-14.htm">Personal Financial Planning</a></h3>
<p>Because you must live with the results, you need to take full responsibility for your financial and investment success or failure. Delegating financial planning and investment decisions to advisers largely on faith can be very dangerous. Naive hope without adequate personal financial knowledge, attention, and control can be very risky to your personal and family welfare. The only practical solution is for you to increase your personal financial planning and investment knowledge and skills.</p>
<p>Educating clients about scientific investment and financial planning is extremely important to me. As such, I have written many educational materials that are of interest to my clients and the general public. My objective financial publications on <a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Skilled Investor</em></a> website and blog are often the reason that people learn about my fee only independent financial planner and investment advisor services.</p>
<p>Your questions are important to me, and you should expect there to be a factual basis for any strategies and recommendations that I make. Please ask any and all of your questions, as we work together. During the course of developing a comprehensive, personalized plan for you, if you are interested, I can provide copies of educational materials that I have written and copies of original scientific finance papers that are particularly applicable to your situation.</p>
<h3>2 &#8211; <a href="http://www.financialplannerpasadena.com/personal-savings-and-the-use-of-financial-planning-tools-16.htm">Financial Planning Tools</a></h3>
<p>The single most significant financial lever that individuals control directly is their management of personal expenditures. The second is their lifetime effort to obtain sufficient income. Most people simply do not save enough of their current income to fund adequately their future needs.</p>
<p>To analyze your financial affairs in detail, we will use VeriPlan. VeriPlan is a very sophisticated and customizable computer planning model that I have developed. VeriPlan enables you to view graphical projections of your family’s income, expenses, assets, and debts across your lifetime. Data inputs reflect your particular situation and include all your assets, including cash, bonds, equities, property, real estate, private equities, and business interests.</p>
<p>Step 2 is a very important step, because this is where we construct your baseline financial plan and measure your current financial circumstances and goals and intentions for the future. To develop your customized lifecycle model, we will work together to gather information, adjust assumptions, and evaluate the effects of different financial decisions across your lifecycle. For more information about VeriPlan, see:   <a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.category.19/vp.html" target="_blank">Personal Finance Software</a> for Your Lifetime.</p>
<p>VeriPlan can vary future expected investment returns by asset class, and it automatically analyzes the details of your taxes and investment expenses. Any and all assumptions can be changed for instant “what-if” testing. The model’s risk analysis capabilities evaluate how well your future assets would cover normal and extraordinary expenses, if market or personal circumstances were to disrupt your plans.</p>
<p>Excessive and unnecessary investment costs can substantially undermine your lifetime investment returns. VeriPlan automatically projects the returns you will waste with such fees, if you do not choose more cost-efficient investments.</p>
<h3>3 &#8211; <a href="http://www.financialplannerpasadena.com/your-investment-risk-tolerance-for-risky-investments-17.htm">Investment Risk Tolerance </a></h3>
<p>Investors with different levels of risk tolerance are more satisfied investment strategies that are better aligned with their risk preferences. Differences in risk tolerances mean that more risk-averse investors are personally more satisfied with a lower risk portfolio despite its lower expected returns. Less risk-averse investors are more satisfied with portfolios characterized by higher risk and higher expected returns.</p>
<p>While there are a variety of approaches to the measuring relative investment return and risk preferences, we do not believe that a simple &#8220;check-a-few-boxes&#8221; survey is sufficient. Therefore, you can expect that we will discuss your feelings about risks and rewards. We will assess together your likely behavior in the face of financial risks that might actually materialize.</p>
<p>We will also discuss the implications of adopting a particular investment risk profile relative to that of the average investor. Furthermore, we will test the financial projection implications of your risk preferences using VeriPlan. With VeriPlan modeling your particular financial situation, you can better appreciate the projected outcomes of different investment allocations associated with your risk preferences.</p>
<h3>4 &#8211; <a href="http://www.financialplannerpasadena.com/use-a-global-investment-diversification-strategy-18.htm">Investment Diversification Strategy</a></h3>
<p>Diversification is genuinely a financial planning and investment &#8220;free lunch.&#8221; A fully diversified portfolio is a key contributor to improved investment risk management. Diversification has become an axiom of personal investing, because the specific risks of businesses and other investment entities can be reduced or eliminated from a portfolio without reducing expected returns. As such, our investment recommendations will usually focus on very low cost mutual funds and very low cost exchange-traded fund (ETF) investments.</p>
<p>A significant portion of a portfolio may sometimes become concentrated in a single investment entity, which increases the overall risk of the portfolio. While undesirable, there sometimes are good or unavoidable reasons for investment concentration. In such circumstances, we will provide recommendations on possible ways to ameliorate the associated risk. If there are not good reasons to maintain the current level of concentration, then we will discuss how to reduce this concentration.</p>
<h3>5 &#8211; <a href="http://www.financialplannerpasadena.com/your-investment-asset-allocation-19.htm">Investment Asset Allocation</a></h3>
<p>Your risk preference relative to the average investor with the average portfolio will influence your asset allocation. Appropriately setting your personal asset allocation in line with your personal risk tolerance is a critical decision for every investor. Because the average risk-averse investor holds the average portfolio asset allocation, this becomes the starting point in determining how a specific individual’s portfolio might diverge from that average allocation.</p>
<p>VeriPlan supports several mechanisms for allocating assets permitting a comparison of projections based upon different asset allocations. Anticipating allocation adjustments that may be needed in the coming year, we will also discuss how near-term net income might be invested to reduce the need to reallocate some of your portfolio in the future. If asset withdrawals are required to cover anticipated retirement expenses or other living expenses, we will recommend how to do this most cost and tax efficiently. Our goals will be to establish a durable approach to asset allocation and to minimize costs and taxes.</p>
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<p align="center"><strong><big>Larry Russell, Managing Director</big></strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong><big>MBA &#8211; Stanford University, MA &#8211; Brandeis University, and BS &#8211; M.I.T.</big></strong></p>
<p align="center">Lawrence Russell and Company Pasadena, California 91103</p>
<p align="center">(626) 399-9579</p>
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<p>This is one of the “10 Steps in the Right Direction” that make up the <a href="http://www.financialplannerpasadena.com/the-pasadena-financial-planner-6.htm">Pasadena Financial Planner</a>&#8217;s personal financial planning and personal investment management process. For a summary of these ten steps, see &#8220;Your <a href="http://www.financialplannerpasadena.com/your-family-financial-planning-11.htm">Family Financial Planning</a>.&#8221; To find an in depth article for each step, just click the <a href="http://www.financialplannerpasadena.com/pasadena-financial-planner-sitemap">Sitemap</a> link at the top of this page. <span style="color: #FF0000;font-weight: bold;">Also, you can reach us by using the contact form below.</span> Please enjoy reading this article. Thank you!</p>
<h3>Your personal savings rate is the single most important personal financial planning lever that you control directly through your lifetime efforts to earn income and to manage personal expenditures and your family budget.</h3>
<p>Economists call the potential of each person to earn money, pay expenses, and still set aside financial savings their “human capital.” For most people, their personal human capital is all they have financially, until they convert some of their human capital into more durable investment assets.</p>
<p>Over their lives, individuals must rely increasingly upon assets to replace earned income. Without the good fortune of receiving substantial inheritance and gifts or winning the lottery, you can invest &#8211; only if you save. When saving to fund an investment program, you must live within both your current and future economic means.</p>
<h3>Saving money adequately across your lifetime is the most difficult challenge that you and your family face.</h3>
<p>Prior to retirement, you must produce earned income to cover current expenses. Furthermore, you must produce excess income and control your expenditures to allow for adequate personal savings rates. Your personal savings rate will largely determine whether you will build up enough assets for the unknown and uncertain future that lies decades in front of you. In retirement, your cash flow management challenge shifts from saving for retirement to retirement expenditure management. Your retirement investment assets and investment income must be adequate for your retirement expenses, yet you cannot know how long your retirement savings will last.</p>
<p>In relative terms, your lifetime investment management strategy is a piece of cake compared to the challenge of earning, controlling expenses, and savings. Personal savings and cash flow planning are relatively difficult, while optimal lifetime investing is relatively straightforward.</p>
<h3>A positive difference between current earned income and household expenditures &#8211; or plain old financial savings &#8211; usually results from awareness and intentional control of personal consumption.</h3>
<p>Expense control allows for personal savings, personal investing, and eventually deferred consumption of investment returns and the investment principal, if necessary. Those who are better at managing their savings plan tend to be much more conscious of their expenditures. They tend to be more aware of the level of their current personal expenses relative to their current earned income. In short, they are better at personal financial planning and family cash flow management.</p>
<p>Personal savings rates increase with conscious planning and better expenditure decision-making. Better expenditure control results from a conscious decision made at the time of each purchase. Across your lifetime, the quality of your personal financial decision making at the point of purchase will determine much of your overall financial success.</p>
<p>Each purchase potentially involves a &#8220;need versus desire&#8221; decision. Some people do this better than others. Some plan ahead and understand their limitations. Many simply do not.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.financialplannerpasadena.com/the-pasadena-financial-planner-6.htm">Pasadena Financial Planner</a> believes that lifetime financial success is dominated by both the quality of personal consumption decision making and knowledge of one&#8217;s current financial limitations. In the long term, many frugal people of modest means will end up more secure financially, when compared to higher earners with less conscious understanding and control of their expenditures.</p>
<h3>Most people simply do not have a high enough personal savings rate to meet their retirement savings and other future financial needs.</h3>
<p>Your cumulative lifetime labor earnings are variable and uncertain. Your human capital is perishable. Personal income volatility has increased significantly at all income levels in recent decades and people must exercise increased discipline to restrain spending in a fluctuating income environment. The passage of time steadily diminishes your total personal earning potential. Furthermore, illness and injury can randomly slash the value of your potential human capital, while disrupting your life, while permanently altering your best-laid financial finance and savings plans.</p>
<p>The Bureau of Economic Analysis of the U.S. Department of Commerce has tracked the national personal savings rate since 1952, as part of its &#8220;National Income and Product Accounts&#8221; and &#8220;Flow of Funds&#8221; reporting. From the 1950s through the 1980s the national national savings rates fluctuated around the 9% to 10% range. In the early 1980s, these rates began to decline. In 2006 and 2007, they have turned slightly negative. Only after the dreadful global credit crunch of 2007 to 2009 had devastated credit availability and forced both lenders and borrowers to change dramatically their easy borrowing and lending practices did this trend reverse. In 2009, the US savings rate began heading toward the high single digit percentages and people spent less, saved more, and paid down their debts more quickly. Whether the national savings rate will approach or exceed 10% and stay there is a significant question. This savings rate will have a great impact on the long-term financial security of many millions of US families.</p>
<p>A negative national personal savings rate means that for every dollar someone saves, another American goes more than a dollar into additional debt. This American savings trend (or lack thereof) is very disturbing, since a sustained long term savings rate of 10% to 20% is usually required to save adequately for secure and comfortable retirement.</p>
<p>Therefore, the first thing you must get right is your financial savings program. To ensure that your personal savings rate is high enough to build up an adequate asset base, you must understand, track, and project your cash flows. You cannot know the adequacy of your savings rate and your progress toward your investment goals without measuring your current progress and projecting your future cash flows.</p>
<p>Any comprehensive cash flow projection must also include planned future cash requirements for living expenses and special requirements, such as a down payment on a house, college expenses, retirement, charitable giving, and estate bequests. Projected personal financial requirements provide the baseline expenditure plan over which you can overlay various income and investment return scenarios to test the adequacy of your current savings and investment plans.</p>
<h3>When you work with <a href="http://www.financialplannerpasadena.com/the-pasadena-financial-planner-6.htm">The Pasadena Financial Planner</a>, we will use VeriPlan to analyze and project your lifetime financial affairs in comprehensive detail.</h3>
<p>VeriPlan is a very sophisticated and customizable computer planning model that I have developed. VeriPlan enables you to view graphical projections of your family’s income, expenses, assets, and debts across your lifetime. Data inputs reflect your particular situation and include all of your significant assets, including cash, bonds, equities, property, real estate, private equities, and business interests.</p>
<p>This comprehensive lifetime financial planning and cash flow modeling process is very important. We measure your current financial circumstances and model your goals and intentions for the future within this framework. To develop your customized lifecycle model, we will work together to gather information, adjust assumptions, and evaluate the effects of different financial decisions across your lifecycle. For more information about VeriPlan, see: Lifetime <a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.category.19/vp.html" target="_blank">Financial Planning Software</a>.</p>
<p>VeriPlan can vary future expected investment returns by asset class, and it automatically analyzes the details of your taxes, investment expenses, and retirement investment plans. Any and all assumptions can be changed for instant “what-if” testing. The cash flow model’s risk analysis capabilities evaluate how well your future assets would cover normal and extraordinary expenses, if market or personal circumstances were to disrupt your plans. Because excessive and unnecessary investment costs undermine the lifetime investment returns of most people, VeriPlan automatically projects the returns you will waste with such excessive investment fees, if you do not choose more cost-efficient investments.</p>
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<p align="center"><strong><big>Larry Russell, Managing Director</big></strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong><big>MBA &#8211; Stanford University, MA &#8211; Brandeis University, and BS &#8211; M.I.T.</big></strong></p>
<p align="center">Lawrence Russell and Company Pasadena, California 91103</p>
<p align="center">(626) 399-9579</p>
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<h3>A truly independent financial planner and fee only investment advisor</h3>
<p align="left">(Regarding how I am compensated, I provide financial planning services solely on a fixed fee or hourly fee for service basis, and only under a contract agreed upon with you. You do not have to pay any form of asset fee. Furthermore, in the interest of avoiding all conflicts-of-interest, I do not accept commissions or compensation of any kind from the industry.)</p>
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<p><span style="color: #FF0000;font-weight: bold;">(Note that you can reach me by using the contact form below.)</span></p>
<p>The Pasadena Financial Planner (Larry Russell) is an experienced business executive with a background in corporate business management, technology start-ups, financial modeling, investment management, economics, statistics, taxation, and accounting. This article provides the biography of the Pasadena Financial Planner and explains how his expertise in comprehensive financial planning and investment management has developed over his career.</p>
<h3>The Analytical Education of the Pasadena Financial Planner</h3>
<p>The Pasadena Financial Planner is me, Larry Russell. I grew up in a rather small town in the Midwest. I was 6’ 6” tall by age 16, and my pants were always too short. In 1970, I left for college on a Greyhound bus with one box and two suitcases. I arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts to study at MIT. </p>
<p>As a child growing up in the America&#8217;s endless rural heartland in the 1950s and 60s, I lacked a genuine appreciation for the word &#8220;metropolitan.&#8221; I did not realize that the edge of one &#8220;town&#8221; near Boston was not a field or pasture, but just another crowded suburb. A modern Paul Revere would have been stuck in traffic all the way to Lexington and Concord. And, the British Army would have been way back in that traffic jam.</p>
<p>At freshmen orientation in MIT&#8217;s old gymnasium, various university dignitaries welcomed the incoming freshmen. One gentleman gave us the “look-to-your-left-look-to-your-right-one-of-you-won’t-be-here-in-four-years” speech. I got the point and decided that I would still be there in four years, and I was. While MIT’s core science and math curriculum was a required rite of passage that I still value over three decades later, I found studying human behavior to be much more interesting.</p>
<p>I studied politics and economics and picked up a BS from MIT and later an MA from Brandeis University. After Brandeis, I embarked upon a career in social science research. First, I conducted survey research and performed statistical analyses of corporate employee benefit programs at the private, non-profit National Manpower Institute in Washington, D.C. Then, I moved to Northern California to join the Institute for the Future, a think tank in Menlo Park that built automated economic, demographic, and technological models to explore scenarios about the future.</p>
<h3>An early understanding of the strengths and limitations of future-oriented financial planning tools</h3>
<p>The Institute for the Future provided opportunities for me to apply my econometric, statistical, and political education to supposedly predictive, automated modeling projects. We used sophisticated projection methods to develop long range planning scenarios for Fortune 100 clients that incorporated financial, econometric, demographic, and technological factors.</p>
<p>Through my work experience at the Institute for the Future, I became convinced that the future is fundamentally unpredictable from the standpoint of forecasting reliably any specifics about the future. I came to realize through experience that the quality and comprehensiveness of any analytical projection model and its associated data will significantly affect the forecasting model&#8217;s usefulness in developing insights about what might happen in the future.</p>
<p>I also learned to appreciate the value of comprehensive and automated scenario planning. While any specifics about the future cannot be predicted reliably, computer modeling permits the evaluation of a range of internally consistent future projection scenarios. (And, when it comes to planning your personal lifetime finances, such a rigorous projection modeling approach is a heck of a lot better than relying upon uninformed, random guessing!)</p>
<p>While I did not expect my experience at the Institute for the Future to be useful 30 years later, the insights I gained have strongly shaped my approach to delivering comprehensive personal financial planning and investment services to clients. During the past several years, I designed and developed VeriPlan, which is a comprehensive, automated personal lifecycle <a href="http://www.myfinancialfreedomplan.com/" target="_blank">financial planning application</a>.</p>
<p>I use VeriPlan with clients who want to develop a comprehensive picture of their financial affairs projected across their lifetimes. In addition, for do-it-yourselfers, I have also made VeriPlan available for licensing through one of my other websites, <a href="http://www.myfinancialfreedomplan.com/" target="_blank">Financial Planning Software</a>. Individuals can buy a copy of VeriPlan for a very modest fee and do their own lifecyle personal financial planning, if the have the time and energy it takes to enter their data and do their own planning.</p>
<p>In designing <a href="http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.category.27/veriplan-overview.html" target="_blank">VeriPlan</a>, I knew that this <a href="http://www.myfinancialfreedomplan.com/" target="_blank">Financial Software Tool</a> must enable detailed modeling and rapid development of lifecycle scenarios in a highly personalized financial context. Over the last several decades, computer resources have vastly increased. The average PC today can handle the intensive computational demands of VeriPlan and still produce results instantly after any change is made to a family&#8217;s financial projection model. Thirty years ago you had to line up with all the other nerds to use some hulking room-sized computer in a distant building. You had only one chance to run your program correctly, before you went to the back of the line to restart the cycle.</p>
<p>Most days that I worked at the Institute for the Future, I peddled my bicycle across the Stanford University campus and huffed and puffed up Sand Hill Road. The Institute for the Future was nestled in the foothills along with all the venture capital firms that made Sand Hill Road famous. </p>
<p>My commute became much easier when I stopped halfway to attend Stanford Business School starting in 1980. At Stanford Business School, I developed expertise in business management and increased my knowledge of economics, finance, and investments.</p>
<p align="right">Continue to Part 2 of this biography:  <a href="http://www.financialplannerpasadena.com/information-on-the-pasadena-financial-planner-7.htm">Pasadena California Financial Planner</a>  &gt;&gt;&gt;</p>
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<p align="center"><strong><big>Larry Russell, Managing Director</big></strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong><big>MBA &#8211; Stanford University, MA &#8211; Brandeis University, and BS &#8211; M.I.T.</big></strong></p>
<p align="center">Lawrence Russell and Company Pasadena, California 91103</p>
<p align="center">(626) 399-9579</p>
<p align="center">A California Registered Investment Adviser &#8212; Certificate 133101</p>
<p align="center"><strong>KNOWLEDGE &#8212; OBJECTIVITY &#8212; HONESTY &#8212; DILIGENCE &#8212; SATISFACTION</strong></p>
<h3>A truly independent financial planner and fee only investment advisor</h3>
<p align="left">(Regarding how I am compensated, I provide financial planning services only on a fixed fee or hourly fee for service basis, and only under a contract agreed upon with you. You do not have to pay any form of asset fee. Furthermore, in the interest of avoiding any conflict-of-interest, I do not accept commissions or compensation of any kind from the financial services industry.)</p>
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<h3>Serving clients throughout the greater Pasadena, California area including these cities: Altadena, Glendale, La Canada, Pasadena, Pomona, Rancho La Tuna Canyon, San Gabriel, San Marino, South Pasadena, Sunland, and Tujunga.</h3>
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<p align="right">Also, see: <a href="http://www.financialplannerpasadena.com/your-family-financial-planning-11.htm">Pasadena CA Financial Planning</a>  &gt;&gt;&gt;</p>
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