AssetBuilder's Scott Burns to Sign Copies of "Spend 'Til the End" in Dallas on Thursday, July 10.The Personal Finance Writer and AssetBuilder Chief Investment Strategist Challenges Wall Street Conventional Wisdom in His New Book DALLAS -- Scott Burns
Scott Burns (born December 23, 1974) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. The boy from Norwood was picked up by the Magpies at ninety overall in the 1992 National Draft. , chief investment strategist for the Plano-based investment firm AssetBuilder, will appear at the Borders bookstore at 10720 Preston Road in Dallas on Thursday, July 10, to sign copies of his new book, "Spend 'Til the End: The Revolutionary Guide to Raising Your Living Standard -- Today and When You Retire." The event runs from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Burns -- a personal finance columnist for the Dallas Morning News from 1985 to 2006 whose column is currently syndicated nationwide -- takes on Wall Street financial planning Financial planning Evaluating the investing and financing options available to a firm. Planning includes attempting to make optimal decisions, projecting the consequences of these decisions for the firm in the form of a financial plan, and then comparing future performance against myths and offers alternative strategies in "Spend 'Til the End," co-authored by Laurence J. Kotlikoff and published by Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster U.S. publishing company. It was founded in 1924 by Richard L. Simon (1899–1960) and M. Lincoln Schuster (1897–1970), whose initial project, the original crossword-puzzle book, was a best-seller. . Burns has taken a hands-on approach to helping investors since leaving the Dallas Morning News, co-founding AssetBuilder, a fast-growing Registered Investment Advisor Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) is a designation obtainable in the United States by an individual who has registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or state regulatory agency (where the primary business is situated or multiple States in some cases) in (RIA (Rich Internet Application) A Web-based application that approaches the speed and elegance of a local application. An RIA may refer to a browser-based application that uses AJAX or another enhanced coding technique. ). In just over a year in business, AssetBuilder has added more than 300 clients across 24 states, representing $124 million in invested assets. About AssetBuilder AssetBuilder offers weary investors a science-based alternative to the unnecessary costs, risks and complexity of traditional Wall Street firms. With fees that rank among the lowest in the financial services industry, AssetBuilder provides customers a menu of pre-constructed, risk-managed portfolios that make choosing and implementing a personal investment strategy simpler than ever. Co-founded by personal finance writer Scott Burns, AssetBuilder's portfolios are an extension of Burns' widely praised "Couch Potato couch potato An Americanism for a sedentary person, usually ♂, whose predominant non-work activity consists in lying on a couch, watching TV. See Television intoxication 'syndrome.'. Cf Vigorous exercise. " methodology. Based in Dallas, AssetBuilder is a Registered Investment Advisor. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.AssetBuilder.com. |
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