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Geoffrey Wight on the Retire Happy Hour

Geoffrey Wight

Friday, June 10, 2022

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Indexed Annuities: The New Retirement Pensions?

Geoffrey Wight

Sunday, June 5, 2022

Defined-benefit plans. Those of us who are older might remember them better as “pensions,” but in 2021 they seem about as common as a rotary phone. (Sorry, but we don’t have time to explain what that is.)...

Retiring or Re-firing?

Geoffrey Wight

Saturday, June 4, 2022

Retirement today is being redefined and transformed by retirees. Living a fully engaged, rich life, filled with adventure and growth is highly sought after by those who burst into this final stage of life firing on all cylinders. Going...

Retire on Purpose

Geoffrey Wight

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Everything in life has a price. We pay a price for everything we have, and this goes way beyond things. We pay a price to be healthy and fit through wise choices and the regular effort of exercise and activity. We pay a price to...

Do I have what it takes to be successful in retirement?

Geoffrey Wight

Sunday, May 22, 2022

Do I have what it takes to be successful in retirement? This may sound like the dumbest question ever. All I have to do is show up with enough money to live for the rest of my life. Right? Yes and no.

Natalie Dean’s Big Win in the $25,000 IDA Development Grand Prix

Geoffrey Wight

Sunday, May 15, 2022

The Assets Risk Management “Winning Round Replay” Natalie Dean and Dotcom D’Authuit placed the winning jump-off ride in the $25,000 IDA Development Grand Prix to capture the final Grand Prix win of the Spring Series.

Kent Farrington and Electrique

Geoffrey Wight

Monday, April 25, 2022

Kent Farrington, Member United States Equestrian Team, Olympic Silver Medalist, Tokyo 2021 - Awarded the Assets Risk Management Rider Bonus, May 24, 2022

Ashlee Bond (ISR) made it two-for-two thanks to a victory aboard Donatello 141 in Friday’s highlight jumper event on the grass Derby Field.

Kent Farrington and Orafina Sweep the Competition in the $140,000 Bainbridge Companies Grand Prix CSI3* See Kent’s “Winning Round Replay” sponsored by Assets Risk Management.

ARM Winning Round Replay - Congrats to Kaitlin Campbell, winning the $35,000 Wellington National Golf Club Grand Prix on Saturday evening under the lights of the International Arena in the final Saturday Night Lights event of the season.

Todd Minikus in 1st Winning Round Replay Presented by Assets Risk Management

There is an African proverb that says: “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Success is a team sport with players and coaches, and player/coaches. Leadership at its best is building ladders...

The recent past months have seen a fair share of market volatility. Stock market investors have gone from worried to euphoric and back again as various industries recover and others languish. All the while, some of us keep thinking of...

Failure can be frightening, but what if it was in fact the key to success? Failure gives us the opportunity to bounce back, to learn from our mistakes, and helps us appreciate success. Winston Churchill reminds us, "success is all...

Being a life-long equestrian with a passion for horses, I accept the risks inherent in the sport. The tradeoffs are worth it. Nothing compares to being connected with the horse, in my book. When I was younger, the risks hardly entered...

Success in sports and in life, by its very most fundamental nature, emerges out of the soil of difficulty and adversity. Success in sports is only engaging and interesting because of the overwhelming possibility of failure, by the...

BREAKOUT OF TYPICAL MUTUAL FUND FEES - From Money - Master the Game by Tony Robins Expense Ratio. This expense is the main “price tag”—the number they want us focused on. But it certainly doesn’t tell the whole...

Play the Money Game to Win — Retire Happy! Are you prepared for 30 years in retirement? Our working years yield us a regular income, either through a job or a business, as our particular professional path lies. With that regular,...

As so many of you know, on August 30, 2019, I suffered an uncommon and unforeseeable hyperextension of my cervical spine during a Grand Prix jumping competition. This fall from a horse, a horse I had ridden for years in high...