We recommend that you not attempt market timing. Mutual fund company Dimensional Fund Advisors recently crunched the numbers on how much it can cost. It's not pretty. Market timing can cost more than a third of your investment assets if you miss out on just 6 months. For details, including the … [Read more...]
Summer 2023 Financial Planning Newsletter
Our summer 2023 financial planning newsletter is now available. In addition to the investment market updates, it includes tips on retirement contributions including the new rules for 2024 401(k) catch-up contributions. We also cover last week's IRS guidance about Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) … [Read more...]
Cash vs. Bonds in 2023
Now that interest rates are higher, you may be wondering whether it makes sense to invest in a bond fund when you can earn a relatively high rate of return on cash through money market, CDs, treasuries, or a savings account. These feelings are especially understandable after 2022, a rare year in … [Read more...]
Should you make changes to your portfolio in anticipation of the debt ceiling “X” date?
We’re recommending that our clients do not make any portfolio changes based on the debt ceiling issue. We can’t predict the timing of any downturn or subsequent recovery. Even this morning (May 25) when we’re within a week of the X date, the S&P 500* is up a half percent one hour into trading. … [Read more...]
Spring 2023 Financial Planning Newsletter
The spring financial planning newsletter is now available. It includes an investment market update, as well as insight on FDIC and SIPC coverage. We also provide links to adjust your tax withholding if needed now that the 2022 tax filing deadline has passed. In addition, we highlight Rachel Songer's … [Read more...]
Buying a car in the 2020s
Buying a car? I’d always heard that your vehicle was a depreciating asset. Outside of classic cars, the joke was always “you lose 50% of the value the minute you drive it off the lot.” Then COVID came along and it seemed that the reverse might be true. Used cars were suddenly appreciating … [Read more...]
Financial Planning 2023 Q1 Newsletter
The 2023 Q1 financial planning newsletter is now available. It includes highlights of the Secure Act 2.0 and how it will affect you, as well as student loan and investment market updates. In addition, we cover 2023 retirement plan contribution limits and tax season reminders. Please click here to … [Read more...]
Family Glitch 2023 Fix
There's a 2023 fix for the ACA "Family Glitch." Since the inception of the affordable care act (ACA), if your employer offered affordable health insurance coverage for you as an employee, you were ineligible for ACA subsidies for your family members even if adding them to your employer plan was not … [Read more...]
Recessions and Investments
Whether we have a recession coming and how the investment markets will react is on many people's minds right now. While we can't predict either of those things, we can gain insight from how the investment markets behaved during the global financial crisis from January 2007 - December 2010. … [Read more...]
Best Financial Planners and Top Wealth Managers – D Magazine 2022
D Magazine has once again released their Best Financial Planners and Top Wealth Managers lists for 2022. We're super thrilled to be included in both of them. Patty Priddy and Jean Keener have been named to the Best Financial Planners list. According to D Magazine, they compile the list by … [Read more...]
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