Blog Posts
Why Your Instincts Are Hurting Your Investment Returns?
Imagine you’re reading this post in a busy coffee shop. All of a sudden you look up and see people running out of the shop. What do you do first? Chances are, you get up and follow everyone else. You might not even know what’s going on at first. Are you getting...
The Secret to Growing Your Retirement Account
Stay the course. That’s the secret. The pain we experience when we see the account balance drop is much greater than the joy we feel when we see the account balance increase by the same amount. Imagine you have a retirement account with $500,000 in it and it declines...
How To Retire in 4 Years
The story about a couple’s desire to retire in 4 year is compelling. They have applied many of the important financial planning concepts: 1) The plan to live a very modest lifestyle in retirement – They plan to need 30,000 a year in retirement. 2) They have cut and...
Making A Plan To Save For College
Recently we introduced The Money Management Tool to help clients better organize their financial lives. The tool has lots of features and we will occasional explain how some of the features are being used by our clients (or should be used) to help them reach their...
Tracking Your Asset Allocation Across Multiple Accounts
Recently we introduced The Money Management Tool to help clients better organize their financial lives. The tool has lots of features and we will occasional explain how some of the features are being used by our clients (or should be used) to help them reach their...
Is a Creative Saving Strategy Right for Me?
Someone can reach an ambitious financial goal (such as saving for college education) despite having limited cash flow available to fund the goal. The goal can be accomplished by using a creative saving strategy called a serial payment. Many clients that I have worked...
The Most Overlooked Saving Strategy: The Serial Payment
In a recent post, I argued that there is a flaw in the most common approach saving for a big goal like college education. I argue that in some cases, saving for a goal should be done the way you would if you were to begin training for a road race. If you begin to...
The Three Flaws With The Most Popular Saving Strategy
The most common saving strategy is where the investor saves a specific and set amount of money on a regular basis. For example, $200 is automatically set aside (and possible invested) by a young family every single month to fund future college education expenses until...
Britain Exits
Sixty years ago, the nations of Europe began uniting under one European Union. The first goal was to define themselves as Europeans instead of separate nationalities which repeatedly started a war with each other. The second goal was to integrate their economies to...
Using The Money Management Tool: Setting a Budget
Recently we introduced The Money Management Tool to help clients better organize their financial lives. The tool has lots of features and we will occasional explain how some of the features are being used by our clients (or should be used) to help them reach their...
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