Doug Carey

President at WealthTrace
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I am the owner and founder of WealthTrace, which provides web-based financial planning software to both financial advisors and consumers.. I have over 20 years of experience in the financial markets and I am a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). I hold a masters degree in Economics from Miami ...more
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Preparing For Retirement
Saturday, January 7, 2023 3:00 AM EDT
Everybody needs to plan for retirement. Unfortunately, too many people stick their heads in the sand and just hope everything works out. This is not a strategy.
In this article: VTI, BND
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Stocks For The Next Recession
Thursday, February 3, 2022 10:42 AM EDT
We know that stocks generally do very poorly in a recession. But not all stocks do poorly and some even go up when the economy is in the doldrums.
In this article: PG, WMT, COST, VDC
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Inflation Is Back: What To Do?
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 2:48 PM EDT
Inflation has reared its ugly head and it is downright frightening to many people. There are a lot of investors who have never even had to see inflation in any sort of major way. But how times have changed.
In this article: JNJ, WMT, XOM
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What GameStop Reminds Us
Thursday, May 6, 2021 2:14 PM EDT
Let me get this straight. A currency created as a joke and that you can't buy anything with has run up 500% in the first few months of the year?
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What Do We Do Now?
Thursday, September 24, 2020 3:30 AM EDT
Nobody likes to go through bear markets, recessions, crashes, but they're just part of the deal if you're going to be an investor. So you may as well make the best of it, which can mean using it as an opportunity.
In this article: PG, WMT
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Reasons To Invest In Dividend Payers For Retirement
Friday, July 10, 2020 11:14 AM EDT
When investing for retirement when one is younger, it makes sense not only to take more risk in the stock market, but to invest more in growth stocks rather than value stocks that pay a higher dividend.
In this article: JNJ, PG, TGT
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AAPL Apple Inc.
GB Greatbatch Inc.
GOOG Alphabet Inc. (Google)
MSFT Microsoft Corporation
TWTR Twitter Inc
YHOO Yahoo! Inc.

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Dividend Payouts Keep Breaking Records
For the first time in at least 15 years, no S&P 500 company cut its dividend in the first quarter. A lot of this has to do with lower corporate tax rates, which now top out at 21% instead of 35%.
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Converting To A Roth IRA Could Be A Great Move
Using the publicly available WealthTrace Financial Planner, you can enter your spending, saving, and investment information, and then use the Roth IRA Conversion tool to see what might happen if you converted your traditional IRA to a Roth.
In this article: CVX, KO, SO
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Preparing For Retirement While In Your 40s
Crossing the 40 line shouldn't mean any wholesale changes to your strategy should be needed. As long as your risk tolerance and life goals are about the same as before, just keep checking your financial plan periodically.
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Work Experience

President
WealthTrace
September 2011 - Present (11 years 10 months)

Education

Miami University
M.A.
1994 / 1995
Economics
Ball State University
Bachelor of Science
1990 / 1994
Economics

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