February 2016

Savage Award Banquet for Excellence 2016

Excellence continues to shine at Savage & Associates

We pride ourselves on excellence through continuous improvement and learning at Savage & Associates. In honor of this achievement, the “Glass Awards for Excellence” are presented at our annual agency banquet. The award tradition is to present an exceptional piece of glass from The Toledo Museum of Art to the advisor who achieves and exceeds their annual goals in production. We honored six advisors this year who demonstrated excellence in their category and a commitment to our core values of integrity, client focus, accountability, excellence and balance. The 2016 awardees are:

Excellence in Securities – Jason Elchert, presented by Russ Karban
Excellence in Risk Management – Jamie Monagan, presented by Mark Smigelski
Excellence in Group Insurance – Matt Holzemer, presented by Scott Walsh
Rising Star – Tamy Hagan, presented by Phil Johnson
Lifetime Achievement Award – Roger Peluso, presented by Joel Tschantz
1st time Million Dollar Round Table Qualifier – Tom Lindsay, presented by Bill Kanary

Rankings and recognitions are no guarantee of future investment success and do not ensure that a client or prospective client will experience a higher level of performance or results. These ratings should not be construed as an endorsement of the advisor by any client nor are they representative of any one client evaluation.

Qualifying membership in the MDRT is based on minimum commission and gross business generated within a year. Each MDRT status designation is granted for one year only. All members must apply every year to continue their affiliation with the Million Dollar Round Table.

Roger Peluso honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award

The evening was highlighted with a special recognition award for Roger Peluso, who has been with Savage & Associates for over 40 years. Roger and wife Lillian were presented with a special glass award, flowers and video testimonials from their fellow agents, family and friends. It was a moment of pride and thanks for a great career.

Award Recipients

Excellence in Securities
Jason Elchert (L)
presented by Russ Karban (R)
Excellence in Risk Management
Jamie Monagan (L)
presented by Mark Smigelski (R)
Excellence in Group Insurance
Matt Holzemer (L)
presented by Scott Walsh (R)
Rising Star Award
Tamy Hagan (R)
presented by Phil Johnson (L)
First Time Million Dollar Round Table Qualifier
Tom Lindsay (R)
congratulated by Bill Kanary (L)

Sean Savage In Investments

Investment Advice from Warren Buffett

By: Sean E. Savage, Professional Wealth Management

“As a financial advisor, I believe my clients need someone who understands how to build wealth and has applied it to their own life.”

Several years ago Alice Schroeder, the author of The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life called me. The purpose of her call was to recommend her literary agent to my wife Carolyn and I. I was sitting in my car when I answered her call and Alice began to espouse the tremendous virtues of her literary agent. I was not listening to anything she said about her literary agent. What was running through my mind while she spoke is that I am speaking with a highly accomplished professional who had personally spent thousands of hours with Warren Buffett, the greatest investor of our time. Of course,as soon as I had a chance to speak, I asked numerous questions about Warren Buffett and none about her literary agent. I have read so many books about Warren Buffett and writings from Mr. Buffett that I considered it an absolute privilege to speak with Alice. Warren had given Alice incredible access to him for a prolonged period of time and she wrote an extraordinary book which captured Warren Buffett well. How does a story about Warren Buffett apply to you and your investments?

2016 has arrived in the market with a bear’s roar globally and I am reminded of a couple of golden nuggets of advice from Warren Buffett which are worth repeating at this time.

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Occasional outbreaks of those two super-contagious diseases, fear and greed, will forever occur in the investment community. The timing of these epidemics is equally unpredictable, both as to duration and degree. Therefore we never try to anticipate the arrival or departure of either. We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
- Warren Buffett

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The market is the most efficient mechanism anywhere in the world for transferring wealth from impatient to patient people.
- Warren Buffett

Fear seems to be ruling the day in the markets, but this fear will eventually come to pass. I believe you should avoid allowing fear or impatience to drive investment decisions. Instead, make investment decisions which are rationally based with your long term objectives in mind.

Sean E. Savage, CLU, ChFC, AIF is a financial advisor with clients in 23 states. Sean developed the Sean E. Savage Wealth Management Process™. Minimum portfolio size for new clients is $500,000. You may reach Sean at 419‐725‐7272 or at [email protected]