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5 Questions To Ask Fee Only Planning Professionals

So you’ve been asking around—your friends, your co-workers–for referrals to planners they use and trust and you’ve got a list going–NOW,...

Updated Retirement Planning Questionnaire For 2014

2014 and beyond has much to behold for retirees and soon-to-be-retirees—now is the time to re-evaluate your retirement plan needs by...

What Does Holistic Financial Planning Mean, Exactly?

“What Does Holistic Financial Planning Mean, Exactly” uttered the woman sitting next to me in seat 8B.  She didn’t know planning...

Exhale or Market Correction? Quiet the Noise! Part III

AND….Exhale WINS! Congrats for staying the course and shunning all the NOISE that 2014 has delivered. The fact is, the S&P...

Mid-Quarter Update: Exhale or Correction?

This week’s losses mark the biggest losses on the S&P 500 since June of 2012, putting the S&P 500 YTD -3.1%....

Mid-Quarter Update: Exhale or Correction? Part II

Through Tuesday’s market the S&P 500 Index is down -5% for the year, an exhale that has not gone unnoticed by...

Q1 2014 Newsletter Alphavest “Angles”

Quiet the Noise (Listen to the Data) Below you will find a “temperature reading” on the market and the risk level...

Gobble Gobble–Weekly Post; Why Not to “DIY” and trade your own account

Retail season is here. Will Black Friday disappoint Wall Street? Will you buy or sell AAPL, COST, WFM? Scary twitter quote...

Weekly Post: Why NOT to Trade Your Own Account

Dow tops 16,000 and S&P 1,800….to buy or not to buy, that is the question. An MSN poll suggests mixed answers...

Investing, Trains and Hobos…Don’t OVERCOMPLICATE IT

This is a classic excerpt from our friends at Dorsey Wright & Associates from today’s daily equity report: Investing, at its...