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Are you searching for a financial advisor to help with your financial planning and retirement planning? If that’s right, you’ve found the best place. We are Oklahoma City Financial Planning Pros and we are top notch financial advisors. First of all, congratulations on being brilliant enough to seek professional help in this very important area of your life.

As you already know, we only get this one chance at life and one chance to do this right. Life goes by much too fast. If we decide to go it alone and come in short of where we need to be, it’s often hard to make up for lost ground. The longer you wait, the harder it will be to catch up and reach your retirement goals. According to a recent Forbes survey, just 52% of individuals ask for the assistance of a financial advisor or financial planner. The survey also found that people who do secure professional help have better financial results than pre-retirees who do not. It’s smart to ask for help from a good financial advisor.

Many people start with basic questions like: (1) How much savings do I need to retire? (2) What’s the real difference between an Individual Retirement Account and an 401k? (3) How much should I save for retirement? (4) What alternative investments can I invest in? (5) ROTH IRA vs 401(k), which is better? The list of questions goes on and on. Finance and investing can be very complex and mind blowing sometimes.

We focus on providing simple, proven and very effective financial strategies to help our clients reach your financial and retirement goals. After all, we have learned if a solution it too difficult to grasp, it will be too challenging to use and review and thus will not be acted upon in the first place. That’s why we keep things simple.

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Our first goal in financial planning and helping you reach your financial goals is to first get a baseline of where you are today financially. Are you on track to obtain your financial and retirement goals? Lots of people have no idea in the world. As we know, before you can get to where you want to go, you first need to learn where you are at this time.

In our alignment with keeping things simple, we have produced a series of our own, custom retirement calculators like; a retirement savings calculator, a retirement planning calculator and various retirement planning tools that are super easy to use, yet very effective. Our simple retirement calculators are totally free to use and they are online, so you can access and use them at any time it is convenient with you and your schedule.

Lots of our clients use these all the time running various “what it” calculations to see how minor shifts in their financial planning can impact their net results. The first simple retirement calculator we suggest you start with could not be any simpler to use. You simply key in your age, the age you would like to retire, the amount you currently have saved for retirement now, how much you invest on an annual basis, your desired annual income during your retirement years, the approximate rate of return you are currently realizing on your accounts and the rate of return that you believe you will achieve during your retirement years. That’s all there is. Next you just click the calculate button.

The results of your inputs pull up instantly. It will tell you if you are on track to achieve your retirement goals or not, and if not, it will show you exactly how far away you are in funds, years and percentages. If you’re not on goal, the calculator will even show you the four key areas that you can make changes to to help you obtain your goals. Based on the findings you can go back and key in some different combinations of amounts and keep going back and forth and discover if you can reasonably make adjustments to reach your goals.

It’s really very fun to do. For most people it’s a real eye-opener. Discovering where you are now and being honest about your current situation is half the battle.

Note: We work with many high net worth people who love using our plans to grow their funds and protect themselves from rising tax rates, creditors, soaring fees and keeping their investments private and off the grid. However, lots of our clients consider themselves to be pretty average.

If you are not on track to achieve your financial goals, please don’t be discouraged. Today 61% of Americans fear running out of money during retirement more than they fear death itself! Our objective and our job is to work with you and help you get your finances on track and help you create a lifetime, tax-free retirement income that will last as long as you live.

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As financial planners, usually our next step is to help protect you from spending more than you need to on taxes and also protect you from what we think will be, future tax rate increases. Did you know that the amount most Americans spend on taxes is the single largest financial cost of their life? Many people have no clue, yet it is true for most of us. The average American spends more on taxes than they do on on any other single expenditure.

That’s why it is most important for us to focus on this major expenditure and reduce your taxes as much as possible. We believe that our main financial program that we happen to call The Barefoot Retirement Plan is the single most powerful way to protect yourself and save on taxes that is legally allowed in this great country of ours. It really is that powerful. In a nutshell, this is how it works.

You contribute after taxed dollars to The Barefoot Retirement Plan. Yes, unlike your IRA and 401(k) (which are called qualified plans) where you put in pre-taxed dollars, our plan requires you to pay the tax on the money before you contribute it. On the surface this may not look as good as your IRA or 401(k) but please keep an open mind. We will clearly demonstrate how our plan will beat the pants off of these other plans, bar none!

You funds then grow tax differed within your account. If you need the funds for any reason at all like emergency, an unexpected expense, an unexpected opportunity or investment, university savings or anything at all, you can simply take your funds out at any time. We will show you exactly how you will be able to get your funds at any time you wish with zero penalties, no fees and no taxes.

Then, when you retire, 100% of your retirement funds that you pull out to live on are completely and totally free of taxes. This is such a big thing. At the time this is being written, Bernie Sanders is running for President. He is proposing a 92% top Federal marginal tax rate. Wow! Plus last week the US debt just surpassed the 19 Trillion mark. (If you look at our National Debt Clock, it will amaze you.) It only took us 13 months to go from 18 trillion to 19 trillion. With the way things are going now, most experts believe that the future tax rates will have no choice but to rise significantly.

By setting up a Barefoot Retirement Plan you can completely protect yourself from having to pay any taxes on the money you pull out. This one benefit alone can make or break most people’s retirement hopes and dreams.

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The next action we take in our retirement planning is to get you protected from market losses. Next to taxes, market losses are the next big issue that can destroy your retirement dreams and keep you working for much longer than you hoped to. Many investors lost upwards of 50% of their money in the Dot Com crash of 2000. Then, just as many of them were just getting back to where they were before the last crash, we had the next market crash of 2007/2008 and many investors lost another 40% to 50% of their money.

Millions of hard working Americans were just getting ready to enter into retirement. When the crash happened and they lost about half of everything they had spent a lifetime working for, it was devastating. That is why our team at Oklahoma City Financial Planning Pros works so hard every day. We want to get our clients 100% protected from stock market losses and crashes, and yes, it truly is possible.

With our powerful plan you are 100% guaranteed not to lose a single dime due to market downturns, losses or crashes. I cannot even begin to express to you how much peace of mind this makes possible to our clients. Imagine how much better you could sleep at night knowing that you were 100% guaranteed not to lose a cent in stock market declines. This one feature by itself can make the difference between you having the retirement of your dreams or being wiped out.

When you get our plan set up, when the stock market goes up, you lock in your gains each year. When the market goes down, you lose nothing and all of your previous gains are locked in and protected from losses. This plan is smart on steroids.

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We also assist our clients with wealth management to insure they reach their investment and financial goals. One of the amazing benefits of our unique and patented flagship plan that we offer is that our plan gives you the option, if you wish to use it, to leverage your returns and actually earn 2 different returns, on the same funds, at the same time. Yes, we know the first time you hear this, it sounds too good to be true and may even question if it is legal. We promise you this is squeaky clean and as legal as legal gets.

Until recently plans like ours have mainly been used by wealthy families, politicians and mega corporations. Believe me, they do know the best ways to protect their money from taxes and losses. That’s why they use these plans so widely. Now these plans are more available to the average investor and not just the wealthy.

Here is a high level look at how the leveraging option could work. Many of our clients choose our blended index option that has a zero percent floor and a seventeen percent cap. So if the value of the indexes’ tracked goes up 20% in a given year, you earn seventeen percent on your funds, and your gains are always locked in. Or, if the value of the indexes goes down twenty percent, you maintain your 0% floor and suffer no losses at all.

You then have the option to borrow the majority of the money from your account. (You have to do this correctly and we’ll show you how), and you can then invest those funds into ANYTHING under the sun that you wish. You don’t have to get permission from anyone to do this. You are not limited to a list of investment options. You can choose to put your funds into anything you want or need to, no problem.

Let’s use an example. Say you have $100,000 in your Barefoot Retirement account. That $100,000 earns between zero percent to 17% each year. Then you decide to borrow 80k from the account and put it into a sweet real estate deal you found. Since you borrowed the funds from your account and did not take them out, your account value remains $100,000 and you continue to earn the zero percent to seventeen percent on the entire $100,000 account value.

Additionally you earn whatever return you get on your 80k that you put into your real estate deal. So you are actually earning 2 different returns on the same funds at the same time. This is a powerful strategy and can have a very positive impact on your total returns.

We could go on and on about all of the many benefits of this patented plan but we are limited in space here. The best way to get more information on this program is to give us a call. We’re happy to talk with you and answer any of your questions. More importantly we are happy to schedule a free 15 minute phone consultation with you to best determine if this may be a good fit for you and if so, we can run some numbers and show you exactly what a Barefoot Retirement Plan would look like for you.

I encourage you to take action now. You know how things pop up and our attention can be lost in a moment. This is far too important to leave to chance. Don’t hesitate. You have nothing to lose. Give us a call right now and at least take the first step towards what could be the best move of your life. We’re looking forward to talking with you.