“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” –The Dalai Lama As the year winds down, I find myself thinking of the year ahead and how to make it better. Regular readers may know that my father passed away this year and that event has inspired …
financial advice
Does an inverted yield curve predict a recession?
I got asked about the coming recession at the soccer field this weekend. For people in the real world like my clients and the parents of my son’s soccer team, the economy is not an important topic unless they lose their job or if nobody calls for take-out from the restaurant they own. But recently there’s been …
11 tips on financial planning for new graduates
My daughter graduated from high school on June 2. This fall will be the start of a special year in our family’s financial life: I will have two college students at the same time. These are the days. With graduation at the top of my mind, I thought I’d share some tips and advice for …
How much should you pay a financial advisor?
I refer to most financial broadcasting as “financial pornography” because the majority of this information is based on fantasy that’s all very exciting and engaging. There are flashing visuals about stock price movements and a constant stream of talking heads and broadcasts from the chaotic, noisy floors of the exchanges. The goal of all this …
How should I start preparing for retirement?
As a financial advisor, I don’t think it’s ever too early to start planning for retirement. Ideally retirement planning starts as soon as an individual starts earning money, even on their very first job. However, specific planning really ramps up in the years and decades just before retirement. That’s when it’s important to start visualizing …
What’s keeping me from retiring?
If you are asking this question, you are not alone. A new survey from PWC, a global tax and business services firm, shows that baby boomers want to retire soon, but many have doubts about how to make that happen. Almost 60 percent of survey respondents say they want to retire in the next five …
