by Michael Lecours | Sep 13, 2016 | Finding Confidence, Uncategorized
It didn’t take long for someone to make a connection between Clinton’s health scare on Sunday and the stock market. How Hillary Clinton’s Health Scare Threatens The Markets The premise is that the markets have always expected Clinton to win the presidency, but...
by Michael Lecours | Aug 20, 2016 | Finding Confidence, Investment Behavior, Investment Strategies, Retirement, Uncategorized
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...
by Michael Lecours | Aug 18, 2016 | Finding Confidence, Investment Strategies, Personal Development, Retirement, Saving, Uncategorized
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...
by Michael Lecours | Aug 17, 2016 | Asset Allocation, Finding Confidence, Investment Behavior, Uncategorized
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...
by Michael Lecours | Jun 25, 2016 | Cash, Finding Confidence, Investment Behavior, Personal Development, Saving, Saving for College, Uncategorized
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...
by Michael Lecours | Jun 22, 2016 | Economy, Finding Confidence, Personal Development, Uncategorized
New research on the relationship between happiness and income is changing the rule of thumb. For years, it has been touted that an annual income of $75,000 is ideal and earning more than that results in a diminishing return of happiness. Contrary to the old rule of...
