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AAII-SV April Event: Social Security Claiming Strategies and Predicting Market Trends with Barron's

Learn about market trends/intensity and the Dow Theory with Barron's statistics expert! With a workshop on maximizing Social Security!

Join us for our April event where we will have two presentations....

Social Security Claiming Strategies

This is the seventh in a series of interactive Financial Planning Workshops covering investing, retirement planning, safe withdrawal rates, estate planning and much more. This session will focus on Social Security Claiming Strategies. These workshops assume no prior knowledge, and are suitable for people of all stages of life.

About Fred Smith: Fred Smith is a longterm board member of the Silicon Valley Chapter of AAII. He retired in 2006 from the semiconductor industry, where he held various engineering and management positions. Fred is currently a registered investment adviser with a financial planning practice in Los Gatos.

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Predicting Market Trends with Barron's

This presentation will begin with an overview of Barron’s Market Week section, covering how and why the paper is arranged the way it is. The primary focus, however, will be on how to use various tables and data points in Barron’s Market Week to trend the market. Peter Miller will discuss market direction, market intensity, breadth of movements, market tops/bottoms, investor sentiment and yield curve analysis.

About Peter Miller: Peter Miller is the statistics director for Barron’s where he coordinates production and quality assurance of the magazine’s statistics. He has 33 years of experience with Dow Jones & Company, 19 of which were spent with The Wall Street Journal working on statistical pages. Miller has spent the past 12 years analyzing Barron’s statistics and how they relate to the market.

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Event Details

When: Saturday, April 9th from 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM (PST)
Where: AMC Cupertino Square Theatre - 14, 10123 N. Wolfe Rd, Cupertino, CA 95014 Google map at: tinyurl.com/njkqk5x. Detailed photo tour to AMC Theater 14 at: http://www.siliconvalleyaaii.org/pictures/AMC_Theater14_Map_And_Photo__Tour.pdf

EVENT SCHEDULE
8:30 AM - Registration / Social / Book Swap
9:00 AM - Financial Planning Workshop
10:30 AM - Main Presentation
11:30 AM - Q & A

Additional Information:

  • An investment book will be raffled off during the meeting
  • Students under 25 (with ID) Free. (No registration required, show ID at Registration Desk)
  • Visit our book swap table before the meeting; Bring a book, take a book!
  • Visit our Concierge Table where we have our presentations, AAII information, raffle books, book swap and more.

More information and tickets for this event can be found at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/two-topics-1-social-security-claiming-strategies-2-predicting-market-trends-with-barrons-tickets-21607570826?aff=fbmarketing4cp

More information about AAII-Silicon Valley can be found at: http://www.siliconvalleyaaii.org/ and at https://www.facebook.com/sv.aaii/

AAII-SV can be contacted at: mailto:aaiichapter_siliconvalley@yahoo.com

General information about AAII can be found at: http://www.aaii.com/

AAII Silicon Valley is affiliated with the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII), a nonprofit corporation founded in 1978 for the purpose of assisting individuals in becoming effective managers of their own assets through programs of education, information and research.

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