Blake Street on All About Your Benjamins Podcast Listen to Blake discuss all things esports & gaming for him and Warren Street Wealth. Blake Street CFA, CFP® was recently asked to join a personal finance podcast to discuss all things esports. From the evolution of the scene, modern sport culture melding with gaming culture, his […]
The Retirement Handbook: El Segundo Refinery Edition Retirement is just around the corner, and you should be excited. But some of us have many questions and concerns about retirement causing us to feel more nervous than anything else. We understand these feelings. At Warren Street Wealth Advisors, we’ve helped many El Segundo Refinery employees navigate […]
Rate Watch 2018 – July We are only a couple month away from the August segment rate announcement. Where could rates land for SCE grandfathered pension holders as we head into the fall? Welcome to another edition of Rate Watch as we track the interest rate that is vital to the grandfathered pension at Southern […]
Case Study – Minimizing Taxes, Maximizing Social Security Learn how we helped an individual client get their desired income level in retirement all while minimizing their tax liability and maximizing their Social Security. Blake Street CFA, CFP® Founding Partner Chief Investment Officer Warren Street Wealth Advisors Blake Street is an Investment Advisor Representative of […]
Periodic Table of Investing Dust off your memories of high school chemistry and think of your investment returns and your investment risks as two separate and distinct members of the periodic table. Certain elements (in this case, securities) are prone to interact when mixed, while others may remain neutral. Each element (security) will always have […]
Case Studies With each case study, we hope to show the value we deliver to clients through comprehensive financial planning and keeping the client first, always. People ask us: “what makes Warren Street different?” We like to mention that we are a true ensemble practice. That means you don’t just get one advisor, you get […]
Rate Watch 2018 – May & June Heading into the summer, what do segment rates look like and how could that impact grandfathered pension holders? Welcome to another edition of Rate Watch as we track the interest rate that is vital to the grandfathered pension at Southern California Edison. If you’ve missed any of our […]
72t Distributions Sometimes you can take penalty-free early withdrawals from retirement accounts. Do you need to access your retirement money early? Maybe you just want to retire before you turn 60 and plan a lifelong income stream from the money you have saved and invested. You may be surprised to know that the Internal Revenue […]
Warren Street Sits Down with Partner Genene Dunn At Warren Street, we want to ensure we are continuing our education to give our clients a financial edge. This applies to all aspects of their overall financial picture. We recently had the opportunity to sit down with one of the partners of the law […]
The Solo 401k A retirement savings vehicle designed for the smallest businesses. A solo 401(k) lets a self-employed individual set up a 401(k) plan combined with a profit-sharing plan. You can create one of these if you work for yourself or for you and your spouse.(1) Reduce your tax bill while you ramp up your […]
Form 5498 – What is it? If you have an IRA open, then you might have received a form in the mail. This is Form 5498, and it summarizes the type of IRA that you have (traditional, Roth, SEP, or SIMPLE) and the total annual contributions made to the account for the previous tax year. […]
Less SALT for Taxpayers to Subtract What does the new federal cap on state and local tax deductions mean for you? Have you routinely itemized your federal tax deductions? In 2018, you may decide to take the standard deduction instead. One possible reason: the new limit on state and local tax deductions set by the federal […]
Welcome to another edition of Rate Watch as we track the interest rate that is vital to the grandfathered pension at Southern California Edison. If you’ve missed any of our previous articles, you can find them here: Rate Watch 2018 – March Rate Watch 2018 – February Rate Watch 2018 – January Rate Watch 2017 – August […]
Welcome Our Newest Wealth Advisor Welcome our newest Wealth Advisor, Justin Rucci, CFP® Justin Rucci, CFP® joins Warren Street Wealth Advisors after spending 5 years at Ayco, a Goldman Sachs Company. Rucci graduated from the University at Albany, State University of New York with a degree in Finance & Economics and is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™. As […]
Why Having a Financial Professional Matters A good financial professional provides important guidance and insight through the years. What kind of role can a financial professional play for an investor? The answer: a very important one. While the value of such a relationship is hard to quantify, the intangible benefits may be significant and long […]
Welcome to another edition of Rate Watch as we track the interest rate that is vital to the grandfathered pension at Southern California Edison. If you’ve missed any of our previous articles, you can find them here: Rate Watch 2018 – February Rate Watch 2018 – January Rate Watch 2017 – August Rate Watch 2017 – July The […]
Welcome to another edition of Rate Watch as we track the interest rate that is vital to the grandfathered pension at Southern California Edison. If you’ve missed any of our previous articles, you can find them here: Rate Watch 2018 – January Rate Watch 2017 – August Rate Watch 2017 – July Rate Watch 2017 – June As our […]
If you followed along with us last year, you may remember our Rate Watch 2017 articles where we tracked the interest rate used for the Southern California Edison grandfathered pension. Rate Watch 2017 – August Rate Watch 2017 – July Rate Watch 2017 – June Rate Watch 2017 – May Since our last Rate Watch […]
Tax Deductions Gone in 2018 What standbys did tax reforms eliminate? Provided by Aileen Danley, CFP®, MBA Are the days of itemizing over? Not quite, but now that H.R. 1 (popularly called the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act) is the law, all kinds of itemized federal tax deductions have vanished. Early drafts of H.R. 1 left […]
We’ll wrap our series, the ABCs of Behavioral Biases, by repeating our initial premise: Your own behavioral biases are often the greatest threat to your financial well-being. We hope we’ve demonstrated the many ways this single statement can play out, and how often our survival-mode brains trick us into making financial calls that foil our […]
We’re coming in for a landing on our alphabetic run-down of behavioral biases. Today, we’ll present the final line-up: sunk cost fallacy and tracking error regret. Sunk Cost Fallacy What is it? Sunk cost fallacy makes it harder for us to lose something when we also face losing the time, energy or money we’ve already […]
So many financial behavioral biases, so little time! Today, let’s take a few minutes to cover our next batch of biases: overconfidence, pattern recognition and recency. Overconfidence What is it? No sooner do we recover from one debilitating bias, our brain can whipsaw us in an equal but opposite direction. For example, we’ve already […]
