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How Smart Investors Factor in Themselves as an Asset
How Smart Investors Factor in Themselves as an Asset
Connecting Your Career with Your Financial Capital Part 2: Your Human Capital as an Investment Welcome back to our multipart series on how to balance...
Paying for College: Take a Pragmatic Point of View
Paying for College: Take a Pragmatic Point of View
Part 3 of College Funding: How do you Finance a Dream? Last time we discussed how to speak with your child about choices you should...
Attorneys: Not Every Risk is Worth Avoiding
Attorneys: Not Every Risk is Worth Avoiding
Here we continue our series for attorneys and how they can overcome their unique financial challenges. Read about Challenge 1: Time is NOT on an attorney’s side. Read...
Connect Your Career to Your Financial Capital
Connect Your Career to Your Financial Capital
Part 1: What’s Your Human Capital Worth to You? Most of us spend plenty of time thinking about how much our wealth matters to us....
College Funding Factors: First Are Candid Family Conversations
College Funding Factors: First Are Candid Family Conversations
Last week we talked about how families are seriously overdue for some candid, in-depth conversations about the costs and benefits of higher education. You can...
Funding College: Have You Talked Through the Monumental Family Decision?
Funding College: Have You Talked Through the Monumental Family Decision?
College Funding: How Do You Finance a Dream? Part I: It’s a Family Affair It’s no wonder that planning for their children’s educational aspirations is...
Attorneys: Overcome Your Financial Challenges
Attorneys: Overcome Your Financial Challenges
There are few professions that demand as much advanced education and on-the-job proficiency as that of the attorney. However, many attorneys remain at a disadvantage...
Love, Marriage and Money: A Triangular Tryst
Love, Marriage and Money: A Triangular Tryst
Ah, spring is in the air, to be swiftly followed by the usual flurry of June weddings. Cake, venue, invites, rings … so many details...
Options for Charitable Giving Under New Tax Laws
Options for Charitable Giving Under New Tax Laws
No matter how the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) may alter your tax planning, we’d like to believe one thing will remain the...
Imagine Sailing With the Tides
Imagine Sailing With the Tides
Embarking on a financial plan is like sailing around the world. The voyage won’t always go to plan, and there’ll be rough seas. But the...
How to Overcome the Top Financial Challenges Attorneys Face
How to Overcome the Top Financial Challenges Attorneys Face
There are few professions that demand as much advanced education and on-the-job proficiency as that of the attorney. However, many attorneys remain at a disadvantage...
Timely Spotlight on the Market’s Peaks and Valleys
Timely Spotlight on the Market’s Peaks and Valleys
Today’s post may be one of my favorites, not only for its direct message, but because of the story behind it. I happened to write...

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