Ray Lucia will hold buckets of money seminar in Newport Beach with Bill Handel

Newport Beach, CA – (January, 2009) -- Ray Lucia, CFP®, best-selling author of “Buckets of Money®: How to Retire in Comfort and Safety,” and Nationally Syndicated Radio Talk Show host will be holding a seminar in Newport Beach on January 24th. The seminar will provide attendees with the unique opportunity to meet with Ray Lucia as well as receive answers to specific retirement questions. More than 50,000 thousand pre-retirees and retirees all over the nation have already attended this informative seminar and have learned how they may retire in comfort and safety with the Buckets of Money® strategy.

The seminar will be held on Saturday, January 24th from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the Fairmont Newport Beach Hotel. Registration is free of charge, however, space is limited and registration is required. The seminarwill include a presentation by Ray Lucia on his Buckets of Money® retirement strategy and will provide attendees with the opportunity to participate in a Q&A; with Ray Lucia and his “Brain Trust”, Rob Butterfield, Tax Attorney and Rick Plum, CFP®. The seminar will also cover how to use the Buckets of Money® strategy to design a retirement portfolio, as well as retirement income distribution strategies, suitable investment options for a retiree’s portfolio, and strategies for tax managing a retirement portfolio. Bill Handel, host of The Bill Handel Show on KFI AM in Los Angeles will be a special guest at the January seminar.

During the seminar Ray will be discussing risks faced by investors and will be presenting attendees with strategies for investing during bear markets and recessions. Many retirees have experienced significant losses in their portfolios – some as large as 30% or more during the 2008 bear market. Lucia’s Buckets of Money® retirement strategy is designed to potentially help counter the impact of these and similar market conditions. “The Ray Lucia Show” is heard Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM-12:00 PM at 1700 AM on CASH and Sundays from 2:00-5:00 PM on 600 AM on KOGO in the Newport Beach area.

Ray Lucia, CFP®, is a Registered Investment Advisor, best-selling author and nationally syndicated talk show host of The Ray Lucia Show. Ray was named as one of the “Top 10 Financial Advisors in America” in 2004 and as one of the “Top 100 Independent Financial Advisors in America” in 2008 by Registered Rep Magazine. As a national television personality Ray has been featured on CNBC, Bloomberg, FOX and FOX Business, as well as being a frequent Fox News contributor on Your World with Neil Cavuto, Forbes on Fox, Cashin’ In and Cavuto on Business. As a keynote speaker, Lucia partners with Economist Ben Stein for nationwide retirement seminars to teach his famous Buckets of Money® strategy. Ray Lucia is proud of his 35-year career helping over 6,000 clients invest more than 2 billion dollars. Securities offered through First Allied Securities, Inc., a Registered Broker/Dealer, member FINRA/SIPC. Raymond J Lucia Companies, Inc. and First Allied Securities, Inc. are not affiliated. More information available at https://www.raylucia.com.