Category: financial planning

You Are Not Average – Your Liability Coverage Shouldn’t be Either
You Are Not Average – Your Liability Coverage Shouldn’t be Either
In the game of Monopoly, it’s a bit of a bummer if you land on the “Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200” square....
What’s the Financial Plan for Your Aging Parents?
What’s the Financial Plan for Your Aging Parents?
Sooner or later, it happens in almost every family: Your parents are aging, and developing a few health issues. You’d like to be able to...
How to Preserve Your Wealth With a Better Investing Process
How to Preserve Your Wealth With a Better Investing Process
I’m Michael Evans, Founder, and CEO of Cogent Strategic Wealth. In my past career, I was a successful trader. In that career, I was fortunate...
Attorneys: Are You on the Right Financial Path?
Attorneys: Are You on the Right Financial Path?
As an attorney, you’ve probably been giving your all to your career, your clients, and your colleagues. 70-hour work weeks are the norm, as is...
Building Wealth as a Busy Professional
Building Wealth as a Busy Professional
As a busy, thriving professional, your life is going at a breakneck pace. At the same time, you want to build wealth for the future....
The Best Financial Advice is Not Just Financial
The Best Financial Advice is Not Just Financial
Get ready … Get set … Today’s Cogent Strategies in Action video takes on how to fit financial planning into your fast-action life. Step one:...
Reuniting You and Your Money
Reuniting You and Your Money
How to create a plan to reach your financial goals. Cogent Strategic Wealth Founder and CEO Michael Evans, shares how he experienced some of the same...
What Does it Mean to Have Enough in Retirement?
What Does it Mean to Have Enough in Retirement?
Your financial future depends on you. There is an irony at the heart of personal finance, financial planning, and the whole process of wealth management....
You’re Never Too Young (or old) to Have a Bucket List
You’re Never Too Young (or old) to Have a Bucket List
Start with a Bucket List, Finish with Financial Planning Last summer, my son came home from a sleepover at his grandparents’ house and handed me...
6 Financial Best Practices for 2019
6 Financial Best Practices for 2019
So, are you ready to get a jump on 2019? Around this time last year, we shared a list of 10 financial best practices for...
5 Financial Adages for Thriving in Volatile Markets
5 Financial Adages for Thriving in Volatile Markets
Sometimes the best, most rigorously developed financial advice is so obvious, it’s become cliché. And yet, investors often end up abandoning this same advice when...

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