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Proactive Year-end Tax Planning for 2023 and Beyond
One of our main goals as holistic financial professionals is to help our clients recognize tax reduction opportunities within their investment portfolios and overall financial planning strategies. Staying current on the ever-changing tax environment is a key component...
Traditional and ROTH IRAs – Strategies for Building Your Retirement
Everyone saving for retirement knows being proactive is very important. The concept of not preparing and relying on a government-sponsored retirement is a risky and unreliable practice. Having healthy retirement savings can help you live comfortably in your golden...
Quarterly Economic Update | Second Quarter 2023
The second quarter of 2023 tested even the most seasoned of investors. It was a quarter that included the U.S. reaching a debt ceiling agreement, the Federal Reserve pausing their aggressive interest rate hikes, and bank failure fears starting to subside. During the...
Ideas to Help Prepare for a Recession
For the last several months, talk of a recession has been making news headlines. Analysts and investors have been speculating if, when, and how bad of a recession the U.S. could experience. News sources have resembled Paul Revere proclaiming, “a recession is coming!”...
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Quarterly Economic Update First Quarter 2024
The first quarter of 2024 continued to reward investors who stayed the course and enjoyed strong returns in 2023 as the momentum of 2023’s year-end rally took another step forward. Both equity and bond markets performed well after the Federal Reserve confirmed that...
That Was Quite A Week | Weekly Market Commentary | April 29, 2024
Stocks passed the test, with the S&P 500 up 2.7% for the week, recapturing most of the prior week’s losses despite a mixed GDP report and a double digit decline in shares of social media giant Meta (META) on April 25, after its results. Here we recap the week’s events and check in on sentiment.
The Ever-Changing Market Narrative | Weekly Market Commentary | April 22, 2024
Volatility has come back into the market as the narrative shifted toward a higher-for longer monetary policy backdrop.
The Ever-Changing Market Narrative | Weekly Market Commentary | April 22, 2024
Volatility has come back into the market as the narrative shifted toward a higher-for longer monetary policy backdrop.