Are You Prepared For A 30 Year Retirement?

The good news? Retirees are living longer. The bad news? Many aren’t planning for it financially. Life expectancy is a key piece of retirement planning. After all, you’ll need to estimate your lifespan to determine how much money you’ll need to retire comfortably. Many pre-retirees speculate on this figure or overlook it entirely. So, how…

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3 Biases That Can Sabotage Your Wealth

Making financial decisions can often be more challenging than it appears. A variety of subtle influences can cloud our judgment. Among these, behavioral biases like anchoring, loss aversion, and herd behavior have been found to shape our choices significantly. In this article, we’ll explore each of these biases and ways to counteract their influence.  Anchoring …

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Riches to Rags: Poor Money Choices of 5 Celebs

An increase in assets doesn’t come with an increase in financial acumen. Financial Literacy Month is a great time for us all to expand our knowledge. It’s also a great time to raise awareness of the many scams, frauds, or predatory lending practices that affect too many families every year. Sometimes we analyze “best practices”…

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Why You Need an Evolving Financial Plan

Financial planning is not a set-it-and-forget-it activity. Rather, financial plans are ever-evolving based on your changing life circumstances. Your goals and priorities may shift as your career evolves and big changes like marriage, having a child, or getting a new job may warrant adjustments to your long-term plan.  Here is a look at the situations…

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3 Major Financial Challenges of High-Net-Worth Individuals

High-net-worth individuals face unique financial challenges. Here are the three of the biggest we typically encounter. Wealth Transition You want to pass on your wealth to the people and causes of your choosing, not to the government. This requires ample preplanning with your advisors, attorneys, and insurance providers. Tax Complexities Reducing your tax bill during…

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An Introduction to Bond Ladders

Bonds play an important role in a diverse investment portfolio. As fixed-income securities, they can provide a stable return until they mature. As with any investment, bonds are subject to a certain amount of risk. Interest rate risk, for one, is the possibility that interest rates will rise after an investor buys bonds, causing them…

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The Sequence of Returns Risk in Retirement

Markets go up and down in ways that are not entirely predictable. For long-term investors, what the market is doing in the present isn’t that troubling; they’ve got a long time to ride out potential downturns. But for recent retirees, an ill-timed market downturn can have a negative impact on their nest egg, increasing the…

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Why Investors Should Avoid Overconcentration

A concentrated position in a single stock can happen to investors for many reasons. They may receive company stock as part of their employee compensation package or they may have bought shares of a single company, hoping to choose a big winner. However, it’s unlikely that a single stock will outperform the market as a…

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Rising Interest Rates

Did you know that consumer prices climbed 6.8 percent in November from the past year – the quickest pace of increase since 1982? Inflation is real and the Federal Reserve is about to take action. The federal funds rate (currently set at zero) is expected to be increased three times in 2022. Let’s talk about…

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Building A Socially Responsible Investment Portfolio

Our values impact the ways in which we shop, socialize, and even invest. When it comes to investments, more and more people are wanting to invest in companies with whom they share values. In this video we will discuss one of the more simple approaches: Socially Responsible Investing (or SRI). What is SRI (or Socially…

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