How Are Financial Advisors Like Congress?

June 24, 2015

If you voted for your congressman then they’re great but the rest are bums and if you voted against him then he’s a crook like all the rest. The same feelings are often held about financial advisors. How can the industry have such a bad reputation if so many people think that they have the only good one? Continue reading “How Are Financial Advisors Like Congress?”

Why Every Couple Needs A Joint Account

June 16, 2015

I was recently talking to a couple that I initially thought was talking to me about their debate over getting a joint account. But as each of them spoke, they may had been looking at me but what they were saying was clearly directed at the other person until they forgot I was in the room and they just started arguing. I then remembered some guidance my buddy Kelley, a fellow financial planner, wrote about joint accounts and shared the following guidance from her: Continue reading “Why Every Couple Needs A Joint Account”