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How Does Credit Card Debt Destroy Your Savings?
As long as we have people writing about personal finance, we will have people writing about the destructive nature of debt. It’s one of...
Mar 10, 20165 min read


What Can Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Teach You About Investing?
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Feb 14, 20165 min read


How to Stay Focused When the Stock Market Throws a Tantrum
The world of investing hasn’t been much fun since May/June of 2015. Last year, the stock market experienced its first real correction in...
Feb 10, 20166 min read


Market Worries–Some Perspective Is Needed
(Original content written Friday, January 15th to VCA clients) As I was returning from my lunch meeting today, I was weighing out the...
Jan 20, 20164 min read


Should Your Kids Inherit Your IRA?
It is often reported in the financial media that Boomers are under-saving for their retirement years, and a significant portion of...
Nov 23, 20159 min read


Are You Lost in a Sea of Information?
One of the most difficult things about the internet is the constant deluge of information. I heard it said very recently that one of the...
Oct 27, 20154 min read
What Can We Learn From A Market Correction?
In the next few days, many investors are going to see their quarterly performance reports for 3Q of 2015. While we financial planners...
Oct 2, 20152 min read
Why Is Budgeting So Hard?
This is an interesting topic, and to be honest, the truth is that even I, a financial pro, hate to budget (gasp!). That’s right, I don’t...
Sep 24, 20154 min read


7 Reasons Why Clients Fail At Retirement
Retirement: The land of hopes and dreams and peace and quiet and blissful adventures, right? For the Baby Boomer generation, retirement...
Jul 10, 20159 min read


Can Your Retirement Survive a Low Return Environment?
What kind of retirement income can you expect if the stock market doesn’t produce the types of returns you’re anticipating? It’s no...
May 26, 20156 min read
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