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Presidential Election Year Tops Investor Concerns List

South Carolina Public Radio | By Mike Switzer

Published June 21, 2016 at 5:49 AM EDT

For investors, there always seem to be concerns: whether it’s overseas conflict, market declines, potential for recession, weather-related calamities, civil unrest and protest, labor market struggles, and now we have a presidential election year. How important to your money are all of these controversies and uncertainties?

Mike Switzer interviews Chris Beard, a certified financial planner with Gateway Wealth Strategies in Greenville, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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