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      <image:title>Blog - Demystifying the Planning Process - Your first meeting with Aurora is all about discovery: the advisor has an opportunity to learn more about the client’s personal life and financial circumstances. The client gets a chance to learn more about the advisor and our team. This initial meeting is almost like an interview as it provides the client with the opportunity to figure out if our team is the right one to handle their questions and concerns. At the end of this meeting, the client and advisor will decide if they are a good fit and would like to work together.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Demystifying the Planning Process - To ensure that we have the necessary information to create a financial plan for you, we ask our clients to fill out a “fact finder,” which is a document that asks the client for various pieces of information. This information includes contact information, questions about you and your household, a list of potential financial goals, a list of your assets and liabilities, your current life and health insurance coverage, and your desired age of retirement and retirement spending amount.  In addition to a completed fact finder, we may also ask for statements that help us determine your level of income, such as pay stubs, pension or 401(k) statements, Social Security benefits statements, previous tax returns, and more. All of this information paired with the advisor’s notes from the initial meeting is used in creating your financial plan. Once all the needed information has been gathered, we then need to have a conversation about your risk tolerance.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Demystifying the Planning Process - The next step on our list is helping you determine your risk tolerance. Your tolerance is often determined by how you view risks in general, the goals you have for the future, and your understanding of how investments and the overall market work. We like to have conversations about risk tolerance before beginning the planning process. Our goal is to make our clients as comfortable and as confident as possible with the plans we create for them; therefore, it is important to us that we understand the level of risk a client is willing to take so that we do not suggest recommendations that they are uncomfortable fulfilling.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Demystifying the Planning Process - Once we have your data gathered and risk tolerance determined, we can start entering your data into our planning software eMoney. To calculate your net worth, eMoney will subtract the sum of your liabilities from the sum of your assets. It’s really that simple! Your household’s total annual income will also be needed as the present day’s earnings affect future results. Income can come from several different sources, including wages, self-employment income, investment income, rental income, and more. No matter what your source of income is, your annual income is essential for your advisor to know as it will help them better understand your tax implications, savings and contributions, and living expenses.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Demystifying the Planning Process - At Aurora, each of our clients has unique needs and desires, so it is important that we create a plan geared toward each client. We do not make cookie-cutter suggestions as nobody’s financial situation looks exactly the same. In order to create a personalized financial plan, Aurora will analyze your debt, insurance, and tax situations, help you prioritize and fund your financial goals, and help you invest your money in a way that makes the most sense for your circumstances and risk tolerance. Creating your unique plan will consist of five steps.</image:title>
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      <image:caption>Source: FactSet, Standard &amp; Poor’s, Thomson Reuters, J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Returns are 12-month and 60-month annualized total returns, measured monthly, beginning 8/31/96. R² represents the percent of total variation in total returns that can be explained by forward price-to-earnings ratios. Price-to-earnings is price divided by consensus analyst estimates of earnings per share for the next 12 months as provided by IBES since July 1996, and J.P. Morgan Asset Management for September 30, 2021. Guide to the Markets – U.S. Data are as of September 30, 2021.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Figure 1 Chart depicts price return of the S&amp;P 500 for the given dates each president was in office. Source: FactSet Research Systems</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Economic Moats in the defense industry are wide due to long-term government contracts, the necessity of security clearances, and specialized technology that is difficult to replicate.  Northrop Grumman is the prime contractor on the new B-21 long-range bomber and ICBM (long-range missiles) programs that I believe are essential to future US military budgets.  They also have exposure to other key areas such as space, cyber, jet fighters, and various weapon and mission systems.   I also believe that Northrop is well managed with a reputation for making savvy capital allocation decisions.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Figure 2 NOC is historically cheap relative to the S&amp;P 500.  Chart shows relative valuation to the S&amp;P 500 based on a multiple of forward earnings per share.  Data and analytics provided by FactSet</image:caption>
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