January Recap and February Outlook As goes January, so goes the year. That old stock market canard...
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How To Retire Early: A Step-By-Step Guide
For those of us in our working years, a common daydream is that nebulous date when we might retire and spend all of our time exactly how we want to. Suppose you want retirement to be a reality for you sooner rather than later. In that case, you will have to take some...
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The Top 12 Credit Card Mistakes People Make
The Top 12 Credit Card Mistakes People It’s all too easy to make financial mistakes when you have your first credit card. If you don’t know how to preserve your financial standing and your credit score, it can be easy to fall into trouble. Millions of people every...
Tips for Retiring in a Volatile Market
Retirement during a volatile market is unsettling. Whether you are on the cusp or have already made the leap, a market downturn’s impact on your savings will be felt now and potentially for years to come. Here are a few tips to help you keep your plan on track and...
Retiring in a Volatile Market: Control What You Can
Retiring in a Volatile Market: Control What You Can With contributions from Mark Essenfeld, CFP®, AIF® Retirement during a volatile market is unsettling. Whether you are on the cusp or have already made the leap, a market downturn’s impact on your savings will be...
March Market Commentary – Why Aren’t Rate Hikes Working?
February Recap and March Outlook If there's an aphorism for February that you could embroider on a pillow, it would be, "The more things change, the more they remain the same." Markets appear to have finally started taking Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's...
Tips for Achieving a Comfortable Retirement Savings Plan
Tips for Achieving a Comfortable Retirement Savings Plan Although most of us recognize the importance of sound retirement planning, few of us embrace the nitty-gritty work involved. With thousands of investment possibilities, complex rules governing retirement plans,...
February Market Commentary – Powell’s Not Done
January Recap and February Outlook The market adage is “as January goes, so goes the year.” Is it true? According to an analysis by Fidelity, January returns are positive about 75% of the time the full year turns out positive. The rally was certainly a relief after...
Everything You Need to Know About the SECURE Act 2.0
Everything You Need to Know About the SECURE Act 2.0 Retirement. It’s one of the biggest, if not THE biggest, stressors for those in the working world. Are you saving enough? What’s happening to Social Security? How can you know? While those questions may not have...
How Successful People Save Money
How Successful People Save Money For many of us, discovering the key to monetary success has been an elusive lifelong quest. And while the simplest way to be financially successful is to be born into wealth, most of us don’t have that advantage. (We promise “be born...
January 2023 – Market Commentary
The Fed Goes Meta December Recap and January Outlook While the equity markets, as measured by the S&P 500 index, was up in the third quarter, December was a disappointment from the gains seen in October and November. For context, Dow Jones Market Data indicates...
December 2022 – Market Commentary
November Recap and December Outlook We're on the home stretch of a year in which "unprecedented" doesn't even begin to capture it. Nothing went according to plan, for anyone, from Russia's invasion of Ukraine to the Fed's domestic attempts to combat inflation. Along...