Tax Planning Starts After Tax Filing
April 27, 2025  | By Manisha Gupta, CFP®, MBA

While tax season may be behind us, thoughtful income tax planning is a year-round effort—and a critical piece of long-term financial success. Reviewing your completed tax return reveals inefficiencies and missed opportunities from the prior year. However, navigating a complex…Read More

Tariff-Related Trauma and Your Portfolio
April 16, 2025  | By Kevin Smith, CFA

When the headlines scream tariffs, investors flinch—and markets tend to lurch. That’s exactly what happened recently as new tariff announcements triggered a sharp decline in the U.S. stock market. But what’s really going on? Let’s unpack it. Who Actually Pays…Read More

An Alternative Stock Market Story
April 4, 2025  | By Kevin Smith, CFA

Imagine you’re baking a cake, but instead of carefully measuring the ingredients, you you overdo it on sugar to appeal to your inner child. The cake might taste okay at first, but it’s not balanced—and eventually, it could collapse or…Read More

I Inherited an IRA. Now What?
March 31, 2025  | By Nikki Yates CFP®

An Individual Retirement Account (IRA) is one of the most common assets to inherit. By some estimates, $84 trillion of assets could move from older generations to younger generations in the next two decades. If you inherited an IRA, it…Read More

Matt on Markets: Palpable Concerns
March 31, 2025  | By Matt Pierce, CFA

It is generally an exercise in futility to ascribe a single issue to a decline in market prices, particularly on a day-to-day basis. The raft of policy measures being proposed and the speed with which they’re being implemented by the…Read More

Market Forecasts, Mega Stocks, and the Year Ahead
January 25, 2025  | By Kevin Smith, CFA

The image below reflects what I imagine the world’s greatest stock market forecaster envisions when she closes her eyes. All of the millions of variables perfectly connected into a beautiful coherent understanding of how it all works: Imagine a formula…Read More