T his Week from Jesse Hurst
Jesse W. Hurst, II
CFP® CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™
AIF ® ACCREDITED INVESTMENT FIDUCIARY
 
The 2020 Retirement Challenges Part 3 - Longevity and
Climate Change


Over my 30+ years in the financial planning field, I have walked with my clients through many retirement challenges. A partial list of events our clients have witnessed and survived include two Persian Gulf wars, a presidential impeachment, the dot.com bubble, 9/11, the subprime mortgage crisis, the Great Recession, the fiscal cliff, the downgrading of the United States credit rating by Standard & Poor's and a significant rise of political drama and partisanship over the last several years.
 
Each time, the media has screamed that the end of the world was coming. However, patience, perseverance and a belief in free markets and innovation has allowed people to continue to achieve their goals and lead lives of meaning and purpose. The 2019 Global Retirement Index released in September by Natixis Investment Managers, cites new issues causing concern for people seeking to maintain standard of living throughout their retirement years.
 
Not surprisingly, life expectancies and healthcare costs are continuing to put a strain on retiree's financial resources. We continue to see significant advances in technology, biomedical engineering and healthcare advancements that allow us to lead both longer and healthier lives. However, these new technologies come at a significant cost.  As we have seen in Washington DC, they continue to battle over both health insurance costs and funding, as well as the cost of prescription drugs and the profitability of pharmaceutical companies.
 
What was surprising to see, but probably should not have been, is that climate sensitive events such as wildfires, extreme heat and hurricanes have played an outsized role in this dynamic leading to significantly higher health related costs. I have witnessed firsthand over the last few years as Hurricanes Dorian, Matthew, Irma and Maria have forced a number of my clients in Florida and the Carolinas were forced to temporarily relocate. The cost and stress of this for people living on a fixed income in their retirement years can be a struggle.
 
As you can see, there are a whole host of issues that need to be thought through as you plan for a successful transition from work life to retirement life. These issues need to be addressed in your personal financial plan, based on your family's unique and individual goals and objectives.  We at Impel Wealth Management look forward to helping you address these issues and tailor a plan to allow you and your family to keep "Moving Life Forward".


Jesse


Weekly Market Commentary
October 21, 2019
 

The Markets
 
Last week was like an overstuffed suitcase that busts open on the baggage carousel. A lot was unpacked in a surprising and disorderly fashion.
 
There was some positive news for investors who prioritize fundamentals. Third quarter's earnings season - the period of time when companies let investors know how they performed during the previous quarter - got off to a strong start.
 
Fifteen percent of companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index have reported so far and 84 percent had earnings that beat analysts' expectations. FactSet said better than expected earnings from companies in the Healthcare and Financials sectors balanced the weaker performance of companies in the Energy sector.
 
There was some negative economic news, too.
 
In the United States, retail sales declined in September. It was the first monthly decline since February, reported MarketWatch, and analysts had expected an increase.
 
In China, gross domestic product growth was 6 percent year-over-year, the slowest growth rate since the 1990s, reported Reuters.
 
On the geopolitical front, The Wall Street Journal reported U.S. and European investors were cheered by news that Britain and the European Union (EU) had reached an agreement under which Britain could amicably exit the EU. That optimism was dashed on Saturday when Parliament withheld approval of the deal until all supporting legislation has been passed, reported The Washington Post.
 
The world was also rocked by Turkey's invasion of Syria.
 
At the end of the week, the Standard & Poor's 500 Index and Nasdaq Composite had held onto gains while the Dow Jones Industrials finished lower.


Data as of 10/18/19
1-Week
Y-T-D
1-Year
3-Year
5-Year
10-Year
Standard & Poor's 500 (Domestic Stocks)
0.5%
19.1%
7.9%
11.8%
9.4%
10.5%
Dow Jones Global ex-U.S.
1.2
10.8
4.2
4.5
2.0
2.0
10-year Treasury Note (Yield Only)
1.8
NA
3.2
1.8
2.2
3.4
Gold (per ounce)
0.7
16.3
21.8
5.8
3.7
3.7
Bloomberg Commodity Index
-0.2
2.5
-8.3
-3.1
-7.6
-5.4
S&P 500, Dow Jones Global ex-US, Gold, Bloomberg Commodity Index returns exclude reinvested dividends (gold does not pay a dividend) and the three-, five-, and 10-year returns are annualized; and the 10-year Treasury Note is simply the yield at the close of the day on each of the historical time periods.
Sources: Yahoo! Finance, MarketWatch, djindexes.com, London Bullion Market Association.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Indices are unmanaged and cannot be invested into directly. N/A means not applicable.


It's that time again.
During the past few weeks, Nobel Prize winners have been announced as well as Ig Nobel Prize winners. The Igs are awarded for improbable research that makes people laugh and then think. A lucky few have won both Ig Nobel and Nobel prizes.
 
The honorees at the Ig Nobel ceremony received their awards from "a group of genuine, genuinely bemused Nobel Laureates, in Harvard's historic and largest theater." This year's winners included:
  • Medicine: Cancer researcher Silvano Gallus and associates researched and wrote the paper, Does Pizza Protect Against Cancer? They received the Ig Nobel for "collecting evidence that pizza might protect against illness and death, if the pizza is made and eaten in Italy."
  • Biology: A group of researchers from the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore were recognized for "discovering that dead magnetized cockroaches behave differently than living magnetized cockroaches."
  • Engineering: Iman Farahbakhsh of Iran was recognized for patenting an infant diaper changer and washer. The patent explained, "...once the infant is placed inside the apparatus, various steps may in some cases be carried out automatically without needing the operator to touch the infant or interact manually with the diaper or infant during the changing process..."
  • Economics: Father and son, Timothy and Andreas Voss, and their associates received an Ig Nobel for "testing which country's paper money is best at transmitting dangerous bacteria."
Other winners explored the pleasure of scratching an itch (Peace Prize), the volume of saliva produced daily by a five-year-old child (Chemistry Prize), and whether holding a pen in your mouth increases happiness (Psychology Prize).

Weekly Focus - Think About It

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Best regards, 
 
Jesse Hurst CFP ®, AIF®
Investment Advisor Representative
 
Impel Wealth Management 
 
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