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The Guided Retirement Show103: Growth vs Value Investing in 2024 with Brad KasperBack for his eighth appearance on The Guided Retirement Show, LSA Portfolio Analytics President and Founder Brad Kasper joins Dean Barber to discuss growth vs value investing in 2024. Brad shares that value could potentially outperform growth as we look at investing for the rest of the year. Why might he think that? Brad has plenty of data to share with Dean to back up his reasoning. In this podcast interview, you’ll learn: Dean and Brad’s Assessment of the Markets for 2023 and Predictions for 2024 Attractive Opportunities in the Bond Market The S&P 500 Equal-Weight Outperformed the...2024-01-2340 min
America's Wealth Management ShowDisinflation vs Deflation: What Are the Key Differences?Inflation is a word we’ve become all too familiar with over the past couple of years, but it’s far from the only economic buzzword that’s been trending. Have you heard about disinflation and deflation and understand what each term means? Obviously, they sound similar, so there’s no shame in confusing them. Still, it’s important to know what disinflation and deflation mean and how they’re different. Dean Barber and Bud Kasper, CFP® are going to help us with that as they offer their insight on inflation, disinflation and deflation. Retirement Plan Checklist: https://bit.l...2023-10-1624 min
The Guided Retirement Show093: Reviewing the Fed's Actions with Brad KasperOur featured guest on this episode of The Guided Retirement Show is a very familiar one. LSA Portfolio Analytics President and Founder Brad Kasper made his seventh appearance on the podcast, as he joined Dean Barber to discuss some of the latest news with the economy, markets, interest rates, and the Fed’s monetary policy tools. The last time Brad appeared on The Guided Retirement Show was a little more than a year ago. It was a very tumultuous time for the Federal Reserve, so Brad broke down the multiple headwinds that the Fed and the markets we...2023-08-2939 minThe Guided Retirement ShowThe Fed and the Markets Face Many Headwinds with Brad KasperWelcome to Season 7 of The Guided Retirement Show! In our season premiere, I welcome back a return guest to the podcast in LSA Portfolios Analytics President Brad Kasper to discuss the many headwinds that the Fed and the markets are currently facing. And, boy, there are some significant ones. They include, but aren’t limited to: Supply chain issues Inflationary pressures Slowing inflationary without sending the economy into a recession (AKA: engineering a soft landing) Ongoing market volatility In today's episode, Brad and I will go in depth on each of those headwinds that the Fed and ma...2022-08-0250 minThe Guided Retirement ShowAssessing Risk During All-Time High Markets with Brad KasperOur markets are at or near all-time highs. There are threats of inflation. People seem convinced that risk isn’t really present, even though it certainly is. What’s going on here, exactly? To help make sense of market risks and how they apply to you, I’m thrilled to be talking with Brad Kasper, President of LSA Portfolio Analytics. He has extensive experience working with independent financial advisors all across the United States, giving them the tools and resources to make better investment decisions on their clients’ behalf. He aims not just to achieve better returns, but supe...2021-11-0937 min
Down Trails of VictoryS1 E9--Matt BurnettAll Aboard!!...Matt Burnett, Port Neches-Groves football legend, talks with Buck and his brother Brad about...growing up in Port Neches;family influences on him;his years at Port Neches Middle School;playing football Port Neches-Groves High School;the transition into the Coach Doug Ethridge era in 1973;the 1974 State Semifinalist football run, and its coaches, games, and players;and other topics!The podcast brings up a wide range of names from Southeast Texas, including Jimmy Burnett...2021-09-211h 24The Guided Retirement ShowHow to Build Better, More Predictable Portfolios with Brad KasperIn these first few months of 2021, we’re seeing extreme market valuations at levels we’ve never seen before. This means that it’s more important than ever that you know how to assess risk in your portfolio. Today’s guest is Brad Kasper. He’s the president of LSA Portfolio Analytics, where he provides investment advisors with the tools and infrastructure they need to deliver incredible client services. He’s also been on the podcast several times before to talk about the economy and how it affects markets, how to build portfolios, and how to assess risk. If you...2021-03-0244 minThe Guided Retirement ShowHow to Assess Risk In Your Portfolio with Brad KasperIn my 32 years in the financial industry, I’ve learned one thing: unless you’re working with a great financial planner, you likely don’t know exactly how much risk you’re taking on. There are countless investment products out there with different risk and return profiles, a number of ways to meaningfully assess risk, and more opportunities than ever before for retirees to be either overconservative or overextended. Today, I have Brad Kasper, the president and founder of LSA Portfolio Analytics returning to the podcast. If you haven’t listened to Episodes 10 and 11 of The Guided Retirement...2020-01-1448 min
The Guided Retirement ShowUnderstand the Economy and the Marketplace - Part 2There’s a lot that you need to understand before you set out to build your own retirement portfolio. In the first part of my conversation with Brad Kasper (episode 10), we had a big-picture discussion of what makes a portfolio successful, the dangers of emotional investing, and why math and data will always beat attempting to time the markets. If you haven’t already, go listen to that episode first. Today, I go deeper into my conversation with Brad. You’ll learn why so many people get derailed when they attempt to create financial plans on their own, ho...2019-07-2341 min
The Guided Retirement ShowUnderstand the Economy and the Marketplace - Part 1When it comes to retiring, nothing matters more than building a portfolio that allows you to achieve your goals, and no one knows this better than Brad Kasper. As the president of LSA Portfolio Analytics, Brad Kasper helps 440 financial advisors manage over $8.5 billion in assets by building better portfolios for his clients, working directly with them instead of tying into client assets. He believes in using math to create solid strategies to meet goals, and as simple as that may sound, it’s less common in the financial services industry than it should be. Today, Br...2019-07-2344 min