Personal Financial Advice that’s Critical: Take Charge of Your Own Funds, Learn How to Analyze Investments, says Glen Mather

Personal Financial Advice that’s Critical: Take Charge of Your Own Funds, Learn How to Analyze Investments, says Glen Mather, head of Entrust Administrative Services

ORLANDO, Fla. - Whether you’re 35 or 60, three things are certain in today’s economic climate: things aren’t the way they once were, you can’t trust anyone to manage your savings, and you must learn how to think for yourself.

Those are strong words, and they come from someone who should know: Glen Mather, president of Entrust Administrative Services, LLC, which administers more than 2,000 self-directed retirement accounts valued at more than $200 million.

“The handwriting’s on the wall and it’s a topic on just about every evening news program,” said Mather, whose company won’t offer investment advice, even when asked. “From financial meltdowns to financial scandals to economic downturns, it’s clear that people who want to save for their future, and especially for their retirement, must take charge of their own destiny,” Mather said.

That’s not easy in a world where Wall Street speculators and high-powered fund managers have upended markets, invented bubbles and shaken some of the bluest blue-chip corporations like rag dolls, Mather sympathized.

Mather doesn’t mean to point fingers. “That’s a job for the courts and the regulatory agencies,” Mather said. “Our goal is to educate, motivate and facilitate individuals who are making their own best decisions,” he said.

“Over the past few years we have seen an incredible amount of capital erosion,” Mather explained. “What we used to think of as safe bets have proved no more predictable than a Vegas roulette wheel. Real estate has shed 40 percent of its value, impacting good neighborhoods and benchmark commercial properties as much as the rest. Blue chip corporations, the bastions of the American economy, are filing for bankruptcy protection and standing in line for government bailouts. Some of the most trusted names in financial services are victims to greed and manipulation, threatening the financial security of our nation,” Mather said.

The only antidote is for each of us to mend our ways.

“It is imperative that we take control of our own financial future,” Mather warned. “If we simply hand our savings over to financial managers, don’t get involved, and wait for the returns to roll in, we may end up broke and hungry and---like 50 percent of people over the age of 65 today---working part or full-time through our retirement,” he said.

The antidote is education---lots of it.

“We have to learn the fundamentals of the financial markets. We have to learn how to analyze the news, read between the lines, and understand the difference between market indicators and marketing propaganda,” he said.

For more information, contact:
Glen Mather, President, Entrust Administrative Services, Inc. 407-367-3472; gmather@entrustfl.com
Larry Vershel, Larry Vershel Communications 407-644-4142 lvershelco@aol.com

Builders, Developers Can Solicit Financial Support from Owners of Self-Directed IRAs

Builders, Developers Can Solicit Financial Support from Owners of Self-Directed IRAs

LAKE MARY, Fla. - Builders and developers who are finding it difficult to secure financing from traditional lenders can solicit owners of self-directed retirement accounts, says a leading funds administrator.

Glen Mather, president of Entrust Administrative Services, which administers more than 2,000 retirement accounts that total more than $200 million from offices in Lake Mary, Boca Raton and Jacksonville, told the Latin Builders Association in Miami recently that they should go directly to the source to seek alternative funding for worthy projects.

“It’s not just homes, it’s commercial too,” Mather told the more than 70 builders in the audience. “Builders and developers can gain access to finance through individual IRAs if they take the time to learn the correct approach,” he said.

Mather said IRAs can lend to companies, limited partnerships and individual ventures and serve as a stockholder.

Mather said one representative in the group was raising funds to finance individuals who wanted to buy mortgages.

“They are pooling resources to provide financing for distressed properties at a very low price so that individuals can acquire and remodel properties for resale or rental,” Mather said. “The IRAs would then become the lien holders---in effect, the bank---to make these transactions happen.

For more information contact:
Glen Mather, President Entrust Administrative Services, Inc. 407-367-3472 gmather@entrustfl.com;

Larry Vershel, Larry Vershel Communications 407-644-4142 lvershelco@aol.com

Entrust Administrative Services Posts Record Growth In March

Entrust Administrative Services Posts Record Growth In March

LAKE MARY, Fla. - Entrust Administrative Services, Inc., which administers more than 2,000 self-directed retirement funds worth more than $200 million from offices in Lake Mary, Boca Raton and Jacksonville, reported record growth in March.

Glen Mather, president of Entrust Administrative Services, said the company enrolled 61 new accounts in March worth an estimated $5 million.

Since Jan. 1, Entrust Administrative Services has enrolled 115 new accounts with an estimated value of $11 million.

“March ranks as our third best month since we opened our doors in 2003,” Mather said.

“Given current economic conditions, more people are taking control of their retirement accounts and making their own their investments,” Mather said. “We see this as an indication that American citizens are beginning to play a more important role in the direction of economic recovery,” Mather said.

For more information contact:

Glen Mather, President Entrust Administrative Services, Inc. 407-367-3472 gmather@entrustfl.com;

Larry Vershel, Larry Vershel Communications 407-644-4142 lvershelco@aol.com

Small Investors must Focus on Fundamentals in light of Financial Scandals, Economic Downturn, says Entrust Administrator

Small Investors must Focus on Fundamentals in light of Financial Scandals, Economic Downturn, says Entrust Administrator

LAKE MARY, Fla. - In light of epic financial scandals and a history-making economic downturn, small investors must take every precaution to protect their assets and that means a return to fundamentals, according to one of the most active small investment fund administrators in the U.S.

Glen Mather, president of Entrust Administration Services, LLC, which has offices in Lake Mary, Chicago, Boca Raton and Jacksonville and administers more than 2,000 self-directed retirement accounts worth more than $200 million, said small investors are already responding to the “perfect storm” of financial scandals and economic turmoil that have clouded the U.S. economic picture.

“I think we’re already seeing smarter money in the market,” said Mather. “While big fund managers worry about a new Mercedes or a vacation home in the Caribbean, small investors have their entire livelihoods at stake. They are more cautious, less trusting and more anxious about learning the facts than they were before the scandals, and that’s a good thing,” Mather said.

Entrust Administrative Services won’t offer investment advice, Mather said.
“We deal in facts and documentary evidence. We help private individuals take control of their own investments. And what we are seeing is that most individual investors adhere to market fundamentals and study their opportunities closely. The ones who don’t, usually invest in safer opportunities such as money markets or certificates of deposit.”

“But almost all of them know you can’t just trust the investment funds blindly,” Mather said.

Mather recently spoke at the Crisis in the Financial Markets breakfast panel discussion sponsored by the Miami Finance Forum in Miami. More than 150 top CPAs, lawyers and corporate officials attended the event.

For more information, contact:,br>Glen Mather, President Entrust Administrative Services, Inc. 407-367-3472 gmather@entrustfl.com
Larry Vershel, Larry Vershel Communications 407-644-4142 lvershelco@aol.com

Entrust Administrative Services Chief Executive Officer Glen Mather tells Miami Finance Forum to Stick to the Fundamentals

Entrust Administrative Services Chief Executive Officer Glen Mather tells Miami Finance Forum to Stick to the Fundamentals

LAKE MARY, Fla. – Entrust Administrative Services president Glen Mather recently told the Miami Finance Forum that most small investors have learned that financial scandals and a general economic downturn have put more emphasis on individual control of investment decisions and a return to fundamental investment principals.

The recent Miami Finance Forum discussion topic---Crisis in the Financial Markets, How to Protect Yourself and Your Company in a TARP and Post-Madoff World---invited four panelists, including Mather, to offer their perspectives on financial strategies.

The breakfast session, which was open to Miami Finance Forum members and guests, focused on how corporate money managers are dealing with the recession.

Mather, whose offices in Lake Mary, Boca Raton, Chicago and Jacksonville administer more than 2,000 self-directed retirement accounts with assets worth more than $200 million, said he is already seeing a change in the markets.

“Individual investors have learned that you can’t just trust funds managers,” Mather said. “They are studying their investment opportunities closely, and they are following the fundamentals. They are taking control, and they are smart enough to know they have to learn their way around investment strategies before they take a position,” he said.

Mather said small individual investors want documentary evidence from investment managers.

“These investors want to know track records, their manager’s ability to report, how they are regulated how they are managed and how they protect investors assets,” Mather said. “They aren’t interested in blindly trusting money managers,” he explained.

For more information, contact:
Glen Mather, President Entrust Administrative Services, Inc. 407-367-3472 gmather@entrustfl.com;
Larry Vershel, Larry Vershel Communications 407-644-4142 lvershelco@aol.com