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You Need A Solid Financial Plan

https://player.vimeo.com/video/299509435 You Need a Solid Financial Plan Here’s a quick recap of the importance of having a solid financial plan. Some of you will remember

What Makes Fee-Only Different?

https://player.vimeo.com/video/137504719 Hierarchy of Investment Advice and What Makes Fee-Only Different There are a lot of advisors, using a lot of different names to describe what

The Value of Financial Planning

We are often asked, “what’s the value of financial planning?” Fair enough question, and similar to others which could be asked in other areas of

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All You Need to Know About Investing

Investing is a great way to increase your net worth and reach your financial goals. However, there are numerous risks involved with investing in the

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The Retirement Crisis We Face

America’s Retirement Crisis Americans are currently facing a serious retirement crisis. While many retirees have a general sense that they have saved enough money for

Ignore the Volatility

Nobody likes market volatility. It can scare the heck out of the best of us, and certainly can prompt any of us to second-guess ourselves.

Bull Markets and Bear Markets and Whether They Matter

“If there is an argument to be made for a potentially waning bull market, or even a “bubble”, it’s in bonds, not stocks.” Each new

Top Performing Investment Managers

Performance Scoreboard for Investment Managers *Excerpted, with additions, from the Wall Street Journal. We have just begun a new year, which means that it is

Don’t Confuse Income With Cashflow

You would think that terms like income, earnings and cashflow would be simple. In a certain sense, they are “simple” because each has a relatively

The Essentials of Pensions, 401Ks, IRAs and Roths

Retirement and investment terms can be confusing; their names rarely give an accurate description of what they are, and most of our friends and neighbors

Bench Talk: 5 Things You Can Do

https://player.vimeo.com/video/221493105 5 Things You Can Do Today There is an old saying, part of Isacc Newton’s first law of motion, that states, “a body in

2017 Five Star Wealth Manager Award Winner

A Not-So-Humble Brag The urban dictionary defines “humble brag” as an attempt to brag by couching it in a phony show of humility, and we

Is Your Advisor an Eeyore?

https://player.vimeo.com/video/219585253 Video transcript: No, no, no, no! You can’t do that! That will never work! We’ve all run into that person – the “Eeyores” of

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Understanding Life Insurance

The Purpose Of Life Insurance Financial planning naturally focuses on the things you want to accomplish. What sometimes is missed is the fact that you

Retirement Income Strategies

Let’s face it; the changing social security, healthcare and investment landscapes make retirement planning more challenging than ever. Here is a walk-through of some of

Bench Talk: Habit of Generosity with Kids

https://player.vimeo.com/video/201204183 Bench Talk: Habit of Generosity with Kids Video Outline: Is your money like manure? For all you Broadway Musical buffs out there, who said the

5 Money Truths for Women

We all know that life is more complicated than it was in our grandparents’ day. That’s true across the spectrum of life’s issues, but it

Bench Talk: Why Do We Invest?

https://player.vimeo.com/video/186024916 Why Do We Invest? Investing is risky so why do it? The reason is inflation. Inflation is simply the rising cost of goods and