Each year, Americans spend hours filling out more than 70 million brackets for the NCAA March Madness tournament. Many will carefully review the stats for each of the NCAA teams in the hopes of predicting the perfect brackets, while others will choose teams using unorthodox…
Despite the title, we’re not writing to offer our suggestions on where you may find the best fireworks show this upcoming holiday weekend! Rather, we’re writing to bring your attention to a recent negotiation between Yeske Buie and Schwab that will save you money. Effective…
As we prepare this edition of the Digest, we’re hoping that you had a great end to 2015 and celebrate the start to 2016 with your close family and friends. The end of one year and the beginning of another is a great time to…
Creative is not a word that always comes to mind when you think of wealth management. But at Yeske Buie, our firm, our culture, and our Client relationships are built around our talent for thinking creatively to help our Clients recognize their unique needs, goals,…
“It takes skill and discipline to bat away the pests of bad perceptions, to separate reliable signals from deceptive ones, to filter out prejudice, expectation, and fear. But it’s worth it, for what’s left is truth. While others are excited or afraid, we will remain…
It is estimated that Social Security has 2,728 different rules1 and that there are more than 8,000 claiming strategies for married couples alone2. As these staggering numbers suggest, Social Security is a complicated topic. As a result, there is often a knowledge gap for hopeful…
The idea that one should plan for their death and formalize an estate plan can certainly be grim and even a bit despairing. Consequently, without the aid of financial planning professionals, estate planning all too often becomes a seemingly forgotten aspect of many people’s financial…
At their most basic form, stock options are an incentive offered by an employer to an employee to buy a certain number of company stock shares on a certain date at a certain price. The employee is then incentivized to do what is in his/her…