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Flexible Trading Provides Real Cost Reductions
Who cares about how the mutual funds or ETFs in your portfolio implement their trading policies? We do! We look to partner with those who...
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Protecting What’s Yours (After You Pass) Part 2: Step-by-Step Estate Planning
In our last piece, we emphasized the importance of estate planning as the greatest gift you can bequeath to your loved ones, to reduce their...
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Inflation Risk: Is the Wolf at the Door?
Who’s afraid of big, bad inflation? A lot of people are, and not entirely without reason. With the economy starting to recover from the COVID-19...
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Building Robust Processes in Fixed Income
In the first of a four-part series on real-world fixed income investing, Dave Plecha, Global Head of Fixed Income at Dimensional Fund Advisors, discusses the...
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Protecting What’s Yours (After You Pass) Part 1: The Importance of Estate Planning
Fact: When you pass, you will leave behind an estate, and somebody will need to settle it. Your estate may be worth a little or...
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Building Your WELLth and Achieving Health Through Your Daily Habits
We interrupt our regularly scheduled financial conversations to cover a subject that’s even more important than your money. How are YOU holding up? Even...
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Do Downturns in the Stock Market Lead to Down Years?
Stock market declines over a few days or months may lead investors to anticipate a down year. But the US stock market had positive returns...
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Congratulations to Kelly Stanley: Now a Cogent Partner
Kelly Stanley, CFP® was such a good fit when she joined Cogent Strategic Wealth in 2015, it’s hard to remember what it was like without...
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The Next Normal by David Booth, Dimensional Fund Advisors
A year ago, at the end of March 2020, the S&P 500 was down nearly 20%1 and the world was scrambling into lockdown. Many experts...
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5 Steps to Take to Prepare to Care for Aging Parents … Before It’s a Crisis
Taking care of aging parents is one of the most important, daunting, and demanding roles many of us face in our lifetime. Unfortunately, it’s also...
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It’s a Bumpy Road to the Stock Market’s Long-Term Average
What is the Long-Term Average of the Stock Market? There has never been a simpler, more compelling one-page insight in the true nature of volatility...
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The Illusion of a Linear Life—and Your Financial Plan
“For the simplicity that lies this side of complexity, I would not give a fig, but for the simplicity that lies on the other side of complexity,...