Trusted Financial Advisors – Gary Miller: Certified Financial Planner®
serving Orange County, California and
investors throughout the United States.
We are authorities in the following services:
- IRA Rollover
- Financial Planning
- Retirement Planning
- Investment Advice
- Wealth management
- Portfolio management
- Insurance needs analysis
- Annuity review
- Income tax analysis
- Estate Plan analysis
- Business planning
Why We Are Unique:
Few financial advisors match the depth and variety of our years of investment experience. We have advised people during market crashes, high inflation, soaring stock markets, wars, political uncertainty – you name it – over a 30 year span. We have direct experience in stocks, bonds, options, real estate, estate planning, financial analysis, corporate cash management and risk management.
Why We Are Proud:
We are proud of the strong relationship of trust we have developed with our current clients and urge sincerely interested prospective clients to speak with those we currently serve. Please contact us for references.
Why We Enjoy Our Work:
We enjoy being trusted by our clients. Our name is also our calling.
Investment Principles
We have learned through many years of investment experience that it is vital to have clearly articulated investment principles and to follow them.
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Service & Fees
We offer two services: Investment Management and Financial Planning. First we define the financial planning assignment, then assemble our proposals.
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Current Commentary
We relate the latest business news and how it is affecting our clients. We offer many helpful tips, advice for all investors including our valuable 2 cents.
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Trusted Financial Advisors’ Latest Commentary
Quarter end and mid-year report June 30, 2018
Year to Date Statistics (through June 30, 2018)
Morningstar U.S. Equity index + 3.08%
MSCI International Index -2.75%
Long term bonds -4.25% Intermediate Term bonds -1.19%
Preferred Stock index down -1.19%
The Virtue of Worry
Worry is suffering felt for an injury that has not yet and may not happened, but we worry anyway. In finance, worry is a useful tool. A worry wart is well suited for the financial world-he/she is unlikely to plunge or become over confident. Financial Planning and investment positioning involves worrying about what could go wrong. In this report, we will examine some factors supporting this bull market and others that are threatening to the current forward momentum. Many factors can cripple the forward march of an army: dwindling supplies of fuel, inability to find food, second rate technology in weaponry. During World War II, Patton’s lightening progress through Europe and toward a reeling German military late in World War II was halted largely due to supply shortages. On August 28, 1944 Patton summed it up this way: “At the present time our chief difficulty is not the Germans, but gasoline. If they would give me enough gas, I could go all the way to Berlin!”. At the same time, the Germans themselves were suffering from a lack of fuel. In a similar vein, financial expansion draws its fuel from multiple sources. Right now, the economic expansion is being propelled by a surplus of available investment cash, corporate buybacks, and consumer optimism fueled largely by the highest employment rate since the year 2000[…]