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Does the 2020 election have you thinking about your money? Every four years America goes through a Presidential election. Every four years clients ask where we can move their portfolios to be safe if one side or the other is victorious. This year is no different. With political passions higher than normal and a sharp contrast […]
Last week, Ben Rathbun, CAWC with the Rathbun Agency in Lansing gave a presentation for our clients on the changes to Michigan’s auto insurance law and how to evaluate the new choices available. We recorded Ben’s presentation and you can watch it here to learn more. Governor Whitmer signed historic auto no-fault legislation that […]
Financial planners love analogies. If we can find a mental image to explain a concept, you better believe we’re going to use it. That’s why Carl Richards with his brilliant sketches drawn with nothing but a black Sharpie™ marker became a New York Times weekly column and prints of his drawings now hang in advisor […]
Taxes are a fact of life, and investment accounts that are not an IRA or a Roth IRA can have an impact on your taxes. For non-retirement investment accounts, you will receive a 1099 at tax time that outlines the income that the account generated and ca…
“Every financial plan ever produced is wrong” – Joe Duran, United Capital I have to admit, as someone who creates financial plans, when I first heard one of our industry’s thought leaders make that statement in an interview I cringed a little. Bu…
Market volatility,while never fun, is a fact of life. Over the years, we’ve written about market volatility now and then, usually as questions are coming in from clients asking what they should do with their portfolios when things aren’t st…
“Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.” – Warren Buffett Nobody likes a volatile market. Behavioral economists have shown many different ways in which we fe…
After you turn 70 ½ years old, you will need to take a minimum amount out of your traditional IRA accounts each year, as well as your 401k or 403b accounts if you are no longer working for the businesses sponsoring those plans. The minimum required amo…
In order to plan for funding your student’s college education, you must understand the student loan landscape. I won’t take up space here with scary statistics about the amount of student debt American families are amassing and what that may mean for o…
Ten years ago, we were in the middle of the Financial Crisis. Between October 2007 and March 2009, the S & P 500 lost 50% of its value. Home values plummeted. Banks and mortgage companies went from boom to bust seemingly overnight, and our entire f…