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Meet Cogent’s New Client Relationship Specialist Liz Winkle
If there’s one thing we love, it’s a sense of adventure. We’re also fond of familiar faces. On both counts, we’re delighted to welcome Elizabeth...
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What’s Missing From Your Financial Experience?
In the course of our business, we talk to a lot of people about their financial experience so far. You know what we often find...
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Are Your Retirement Dollars Being Trimmed by Taxes?
If you’re an attorney or similar high-end professional earning $400,000+/year, let’s face it: Your basic tax-advantaged retirement contribution limits won’t cut it. If you max...
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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....
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Does Money Buy Happiness?
There’s a cliché that money can’t buy happiness. Is that true? Thanks to research from Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton, authors of...
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Substantial New Tax-Break Options for Business-Owning Attorneys
A Timely Tip for Business-Owning Attorneys: How the TCJA Can Help You Plan for Retirement Let’s take a little journey today, you and I, to...
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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...
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Strategic Networking for Attorneys: Solve Your 3 Biggest Challenges
In a past piece, “Attorneys Aren’t Omnipotent,” we talked about how even super-hero attorneys can benefit from effective networking. That said, not just any old...
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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....
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Are Your Politics Affecting Your Investment Results?
The fourth quarter of 2018 was a pretty miserable one for investors, with the S&P 500 Index losing 13.5%. And it was looking a lot...
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Attorneys: You Think Differently
What’s the worst that could happen? Your average person doesn’t worry so much about this question. Lucky them! As an attorney, you probably live by...
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Getting to the Point of a Point
A quick online search for “Dow rallies 500 points” yields a cascade of news stories with similar titles, as does a similar search for “Dow...