#057: The Amazon Effect and What It Means For Your Retirement
Big Picture Retirement®
Devin Carroll
4.7 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Looking at changes from the investment perspective: The change in the environment of shopping may impact your investments. Investment in these new technologies may provide solid returns.
On the other hand, investments in physical retailers and certain types of real estate may do poorly.
It's definitely worthwhile to consider what the future might look like when you're selecting your investments, because changes in the economy may significantly impact your retirement portfolio.
For more information about the Amazon Effect on investments, visit the show notes at http://www.bigpictureretirement.net/057
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, real quick, before we go any further, I'm going to clear up something that I misspoke on |
| 0:05.2 | back on episode 55. Here's what I said. So what I'm telling my clients is if you're born in |
| 0:12.0 | 1953 or later, go ahead and include that as part of your retirement plan. But honestly, |
| 0:17.5 | if you're born before that, or if you're born after that, rather, don't include it. |
| 0:23.0 | What I meant to say was that if you are age 53 or less, don't include it. |
| 0:28.7 | Now, I got the 53 in there, but I used it as a date of birth instead of your current age. |
| 0:34.7 | So that's what I meant. |
| 0:35.6 | And big thanks to Paul McGuire for asking me about that |
| 0:39.3 | saying, hey, are you sure that's 1953 and sent me a really nice email and wanted to verify that |
| 0:45.0 | that information was correct. If you ever hear something that you're not real sure about, |
| 0:49.7 | don't hesitate to send that to us questions at big picture retirement.net. Thanks again, Paul. |
| 0:56.5 | The Big Picture Retirement Show does not provide specific tax, legal, or financial advice. |
| 1:01.6 | Listeners are encouraged to seek out their own advisors in these areas. |
| 1:09.6 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Big Picture Retirement show where we deliver insight on what you need to know for a meaningful and successful retirement. |
| 1:18.7 | If you're planning for or living in retirement, this is the show for you. I'm Devin. With me is John Ross, my lovely co-host. Hi, John. |
| 1:45.8 | Howdy. So, John, we finished Christmas not long ago. Yep. Where did you buy most of your gifts? Internet. Yeah, Amazon. Uh-huh. Amazon. Amazon got my money. Yeah. Not all of it. Nope. Uh-uh. We did some shopping and we went out Sam's Club, T.J. Max, things like that. |
| 1:46.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:50.3 | Although, and I shopped a few other internet retailers as well. |
| 1:54.2 | Oh, just maybe some direct-to-the-store type thing. |
| 1:58.8 | Yeah, so you're talking about maybe like a best buy, but you're going online. |
| 2:02.4 | So someone that has a physical store location, but they also have an online presence. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Some of that. And some of the more, I guess, |
| 2:06.9 | specialty online retailers. Gotcha. Right. So no brick and mortar, but they're offering products |
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