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September 12, 2024
VC Dealmaking Begins to Rotate
After a decade of strong performance, early-stage and growth companies have faced significant challenges since early 2022. These challenges include rising interest rates, reduced exit activity, and falling valuations. To illustrate the shift from a bull to a bear market for VC-backed companies, consider the following two charts. The first shows that the post-IPO performance […]
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September 11, 2024
More than Just a Will: Understanding Your Estate Plan
Estate planning is often misunderstood as simply drafting a will, but it involves much more. A comprehensive estate plan includes a range of documents that outline who will inherit your assets and who will manage your affairs if you're incapacitated. It’s important to understand the key components of an estate plan, common pitfalls, and why […]
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September 9, 2024
Is Your Estate Plan Up to Date? Essential Questions to Ask
Your estate plan isn't just a set-it-and-forget-it kind of thing. It's like a living, breathing document that evolves with you. Just as your life changes, so too should your estate plan. That’s why it’s crucial to review your will and other documents every 3-5 years to make sure they still reflect your current wishes, as […]
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September 6, 2024
Top Strategies for Medicare Open Enrollment
As we dive into the Medicare Open Enrollment period, it’s a great time to get a handle on your healthcare options. This annual event, running from October 15th to December 7th, is your chance to review, adjust, and potentially enhance your Medicare coverage. For many, navigating through the various plans and changes can be quite […]
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September 5, 2024
The Successful DIY Investor Trifecta
Readers may be surprised to know that in the process of interviewing clients to work with our firm, we often encourage them to continue self-managing their investments. While it is beneficial to any business to onboard more clients, people who are legitimately equipped to do it themselves can have success managing their own portfolio. The […]
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September 3, 2024
Concentrated Stock Risks: How to Protect Your Wealth and Achieve Long-Term Goals
Many investors find themselves with a substantial portion of their wealth tied up in a single company. This might come from executive compensation, an inheritance, or just savvy stock picking. What starts as a well-balanced portfolio can easily become dominated by one stock, especially in regions with booming tech sectors. When a single stock makes […]
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August 30, 2024
10 Tips for Women to Maximize Their Retirement
Women face unique financial challenges when planning for retirement. Expectations that they will assume the majority of caregiving responsibilities toward children and aging or ill family members can hamper retirement saving options—plus, women tend to live longer than men, so in heterosexual relationships they require a greater pool of savings or income. Understanding and addressing […]
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August 28, 2024
Why You Should Hire a Financial Advisor
The role of a financial advisor has evolved significantly over the past few decades. With advancements in technology, individual investors now have the tools to research, trade, and build portfolios directly from their smartphones. So, what value do advisors provide in this modern landscape? Traditionally, advisors focused on giving stock tips and executing trades. Today, […]
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August 22, 2024
US Housing And Government Action
In setting out their election platforms, both Democrats and Republicans want to address housing affordability, which has become a hot-button issue for US voters. Two and half years of tight monetary policy has left potential homebuyers unable to afford a new property and persuaded potential sellers that they should sit tight and keep enjoying cheap […]
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August 15, 2024
Why Sitting in Money Markets May Prove Costly
This week’s article discusses what to do with cash balances that have become unwieldy, something we’ve started to notice a lot more frequently with investors. Frankly, the significant increase in money on the sidelines due to attractive risk-adjusted returns from cash equivalents has been a pain point for many financial planners, like myself. While money […]
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