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Our fee schedule

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Our relationship with Geneos Wealth Management

We choose to keep a relationship with a broker dealer because certain resources and investments can only be offered through a broker dealer. We believe our fiduciary duty to our clients is best fulfilled with the broadest array of investments to choose from. Some new clients come to us having purchased investments from a broker dealer representative that we would not be able to help them with if we did not keep a relationship with Geneos or another broker dealer. That being said, the vast majority of our clients do not have a relationship with Geneos Wealth Management. For particular questions or concerns, please contact your financial advisor.

A & I Financial Services and Geneos Wealth Management, Inc. do not provide tax or legal services. Individuals should always consult their own legal or tax advisor regarding their specific situation before acting on any information provided.

Third-party Rankings

Karl Frank of A&I Financial Services, LLC was named to the Five Star Professional (FSP) list of Five Star Wealth Managers for 2023. This award was issued on 10/01/2023 by Five Star Professional (FSP) for the time period 12/12/2022 through 06/30/2023. Self-completed questionnaire was used for rating. This rating is not related to the quality of the investment advice and based solely on the disclosed criteria. 2,580 Denver-area wealth managers were considered for the award; 247 (10% of candidates) were named 2023 Five Star Wealth Managers. 

Awards, third-party rankings and other recognitions are not indicative of future performance. Awards and other recognitions should not be interpreted as a guarantee or suggestion that a client or prospective client will experience a certain level of results if our firm is engaged, or continues to be engaged, to provide investment advisory services, or as an endorsement of our firm by any past or present client. FSP is not affiliated with our firm, the award is not based on client evaluations of our firm and we have not paid a fee to be considered or placed on the final list of Five Star Wealth Managers. As a FSP award winner we may pay for marketing tools, including this advertisement.

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Asset Allocation and Portfolio Management

1. On asset allocation:
   Ibbotson, Roger & Paul D. Kaplan (2000) Does Asset Allocation Policy Explain 40, 90, or 100 Percent of Performance?, Financial Analysts Journal, 56:1, 26-33 <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2469/faj.v56.n1.2327> 

2. On timing and selection of investments:
   Kinnel, Russ. Aug 30, 2019. Morningstar.com. How Does the Timing of Fund Selection and Sale Impact Investor Returns? Accessed January 5, 2024. <https://www.morningstar.com/insights/2019/08/30/investor-returns-fund>

3. On S&P 500 average returns:
   Maverick, JB. January 3, 2024. Investopedia.com. S&P 500 Average Return and Historical Performance. Accessed January 5, 2024. <https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042415/what-average-annual-return-sp-500.asp>

4. On Dalbar, the research is behind a paywall:
   Coleman, Murray. April 3, 2023. Dalbar QAIB 2023: Investors are Still Their Own Worst Enemies. Accessed January, 2024.<https://www.ifa.com/articles/dalbar_2016_qaib_investors_still_their_worst_enemy>

Asset Protection and Reducing Risks

1. On dollars lost:
   Statista. March, 2024. Annual amount of monetary damage caused by reported cybercrime in the United States from 2001 to 2023.  Accessed May 18, 2024. <<https://www.statista.com/statistics/267132/total-damage-caused-by-by-cybercrime-in-the-us/>>

2. On number of breaches and number of individuals affected by the breaches:
   Statista. March, 2024. Annual number of data compromises and individuals impacted in the United States from 2005 to 2023. Accessed May, 2024. <<https://www.statista.com/statistics/273550/data-breaches-recorded-in-the-united-states-by-number-of-breaches-and-records-exposed/>>

Business Succession Planning

1. Colorado Chamber of Commerce. May 1, 2023. CoChamber.com Accessed December 27, 2023. <https://cochamber.com/2023/05/01/colorado-small-businesses-a-look-at-the-economic-profile/>

Charitable Planning

1. National Center for Charitable Statistics. https://nccs.urban.org/nccs/ Accessed 2020.

Concentrated Stock Strategies

1. Source: Fisher, Lawrence & Lorie, James H, 1970. “Some Studies of Variability of Returns on Investments in Common Stocks,” The Journal of Business, University of Chicago Press, vol. 43(2), pages 99-134, April https://www.jstor.org/stable/2352105

Elder Care Planning

1. Statistics on the percentage of Americans who want to live at home and will die at home come from the Financial Planning Association certification course, Elder Planning Specialist. September to November, 2023.

Inflation

1. How CPI is calculated: Investopedia, “Inflation.” https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/consumerpriceindex.asp. Verified April 29, 2024.

2. Recent CPI information: US BLS. “CPI”. https://www.bls.gov/cpi/ Verified April 29, 2024.

3. UPenn Wharton School of Business. March, 2004. “Value Stocks vs. Growth Stocks: Timing Counts.” https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/value-stocks-vs-growth-stocks-timing-counts/ verified April 29, 2024

Paying for College

• Hanson, Melanie. November 18, 2023. Average Cost of College. Education Data Initiative. <https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-college/> accessed May 2, 2024.

Real Estate Planning

1. Home ownership percentage: US Census Bureau. October, 2023. Quarterly Residential Vacancies and Homeownership. Accessed December, 2023. < https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/current/index.html>
2. Renter occupied housing units: US Department of Housing and Urban Development, March, 2023.National Housing Market Summary. Accessed December, 2023. < https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/National-Summary-4Q21.pdf>
3. Commercial units: US Energy Administration, December 3, 2020. Commercial buildings energy consumption survey. Accessed December, 2023. <https://www.eia.gov/consumption/commercial/>

Retirement Planning

1. Thapa, Anuz. APR 10, 2019. TheStreet.com. Accessed December 27, 2024. <https://www.thestreet.com/video/how-to-find-happiness-in-retirement-14923063>
2. Nationwide. Nationwide.com. Accessed December 27, 2024. <https://news.nationwide.com/062023-investors-near-retirement-delaying-plans-due-to-financial-uncertainty/>

Social Security Benefits Options

1. Source:  Statista. “Average monthly Social Security payment to retired workers in the United States from 2010 to 2023.” Release date, January, 2024. <<https://www.statista.com/statistics/194307/average-monthly-payment-to-retired-workers-from-us-social-security/>>. Referenced May 17, 2024.
2. Source: Statista. “Social security outlays and forecast in the United States from 2000 to 2033.” Release date February, 2023. <<https://www.statista.com/statistics/217654/outlays-for-social-security-and-forecast-in-the-us-as-a-percentage-of-the-gdp/>>. Referenced May 17, 2024.
3. Source: Statista. “U.S.: How confident are you that Social Security system will continue to provide benefits of at least equal value to the benefits received by retirees today?” Release date April, 2023.  <<https://www.statista.com/statistics/292118/retiree-confidence-social-security-provisions-usa/>>. Referenced May 17, 2024.

Starting Out

1. Source: US Census Bureau. Updated July, 2023. Accessed February 2024. Census.gov. 
2. Source: Deer, Paul. January 23, 2024. The average net worth by age in America. Accessed February, 2024. https://www.empower.com/the-currency/life/average-net-worth-by-age

Stock and Stock Fund Investments

1. World Federation of Exchanges.  Dashboard May 2024. Accessed May, 2024. <<https://focus.world-exchanges.org/issue/may-2024/dashboard>>
2. Statista. Distribution of countries with largest stock markets worldwide as of January 2023, by share of total world equity market value. Accessed May, 2024. <<https://www.statista.com/statistics/710680/global-stock-markets-by-country/>>
3. Statista. Number of Regulated Funds Worldwide. Accessed May, 2024. <<https://www.statista.com/statistics/278303/number-of-mutual-funds-worldwide/>>

Tuna Caserole: the case against early retirement

1. Shell, Robbie. April 19, 2019. “Older People Used to Seem So Odd. Now I Get It.” Wall Street Journal. 
   https://www.wsj.com/articles/older-people-used-to-seem-so-odd-now-i-get-it-11555519390?mod=searchresults and amp;page=1 and amp;pos=3 verified April 29, 2024.

2. Tergeson, Anne. April 23, 2019. “Workers, Retirees Are Feeling Better About Retirement Finances” Wall Street Journal. 
   https://www.wsj.com/articles/workers-retirees-are-feeling-better-about-retirement-finances-11555992060?mod=hp_lista_pos1 and amp;mod=djem_WealthJournal verified April 29, 2024.

3. Johnson, Richard. April 21, 2019. “The Case Against Early Retirement” Wall Street Journal.
   https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-case-against-early-retirement-11555899000?mod=searchresults and amp;page=1 and amp;pos=2 verified April 29, 2024.

Wealth Transfer Planning

1. Wolff, Edward. January, 2011. Inheritances and the Distribution of Wealth Or Whatever Happened to the Great Inheritance Boom? Working Paper. Access February, 2019. https://www.bls.gov/osmr/research-papers/2011/pdf/ec110030.pdf 

Various Blog posts

1. Creating A Budget? Here’s What to Consider. Nerd Wallet, March, 2020. Gen Zers: How America’s Newest Adults Are Doing Money. Accessed January, 2024 <https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/finance/generation-z-money-survey>
2. FIRE: Financial Independence Retire Early. Kurutz, Steven. September 1, 2018. How to Retire in your 30’s. Verified May, 2024 <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/style/fire-financial-independence-retire-early.html?mod=article_inline>
3. Waiting for Precedented Times? Build Your Portfolio With Change in Mind. Wikipedia. End-of-history illusion. Accessed January, 2024. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-history_illusion>
4. What is important about money as we age? DiJulio, Bianco et al. Kaiser Family Foundation. Serious Illness in Late Life. Nov 02, 2017. Accessed 23 December 2023: https://www.kff.org/other/report/serious-illness-in-late-life-the-publics-views-and-experiences/
5. What’s the biggest determinant of financial success? Statman, Meir. September 23, 2018. “A Better Way to Think About Portfolio Rebalancing.” Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-better-way-to-think-about-portfolio-rebalancing-1537754941?mod=searchresults%20and%20amp;page=1%20and%20amp;pos=1 Verified April 29, 2024.
6. Who Would Buy a Bond That Is Guaranteed to Lose Money? from 2019
   1. Cox, Jeff. August 21, 2019. “Surge in corporate debt with negative yields”. CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/21/negative-yielding-debt-poses-major-risks-for-investors.html verified April 29, 2024.

   2. Davies, Paul. April 21, 2019. “Germany for First Time Sells 30-Year Bonds Offering Negative Yields.” Wall Street Journal.
      https://www.wsj.com/articles/germany-for-first-time-sells-30-year-bonds-offering-negative-yields-11566385847 verified April 29, 2024.

   3. Wiltermuth, Joy. August 22, 2019. “Near–$17 trillion pile of negative-yielding…” Marketwatch.com https://www.marketwatch.com/story/that-near17-trillion-pile-of-negative-yielding-global-debt-its-a-cash-cow-for-some-bond-investors-2019-08-22 verified April 29, 2024

7. You May Live to Age 100 According to Stanford’s Map of Life.  <https://longevity.stanford.edu/the-new-map-of-life-report/> verified May 2, 2024.

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