You’ve got mail! 

Sunday October 9th marks World Post Day, recognizing postal services around the globe.  Most of our communications today have moved electronically to phones and computers.  Where would we be without text messaging and email?  Yet, receiving a birthday card is still...

Save, Invest, Spend

These three words are very powerful when you right size them to fit your financial decisions today.  Saving to cash reserves for opportunities and planning margins.  Investing for future wealth.  Spending the rest with confidence. In a declining market, this approach...

So, you want to be an investor…

We (investors) love watching our accounts expand.  It’s nice to see forward progress in values so you get closer to what you want.  This calendar year so far has been “less awesome” from an investment perspective.  The roaring returns of the past several years, decade...

September

September will arrive later this week, so will our semiannual review meetings.  I learned years ago that attempting to squeeze all planning items into a single annual meeting was unproductive.  This didn’t allow time for clients to share personal updates or urgent...

Financial Plumbing

To make better decisions with your money it helps to set up a financial plumbing system.  What’s financial plumbing?  Simply put, it’s moving the right monies to the right account through automation.  Setting it up requires awareness of what’s coming in and what’s...

What matters  

The spotlight continues to shine brightly on increasing prices.  From big ticket purchases like a home to everyday shopping at the grocery store, stuff costs more.  What we need to recognize is that it will take time for the data to arrive to illustrate prices are in...