The Yeske Buie Playbook Super Bowl XLIX will see the New England Patriots square off against the Seattle Seahawks in Glendale, Arizona this Sunday, February 1st. Just as each team will arrive at University of Phoenix Stadium armed with a playbook that blends hours of…
Required Minimum Distributions Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) are, as the name indicates, minimum annual distributions that must be withdrawn from an IRA, as required by the IRS, beginning with the tax year within which the account holder turns 70½. The IRS requires these annual distributions to…
Best of 2014 As we prepare this edition of the Digest, we’re hoping that you had a great end to 2014 and celebrated the start to 2015 with your close family and friends. The end of one year and the beginning of another is a…
How to Invest When Your Crystal Ball is on the Fritz If you could see the future, diversification would be a bad idea. It’s simple logic: if you knew which assets were going to outperform all the others in the coming year, you’d simply put…
Decision Architecture: Building Better Choices Elissa and Dave’s latest paper, Policy-Based Financial Planning as Decision Architecture, was just published in the December issue of the Journal for Financial Planning. Financial planning policies are compact decision rules that make it easier to stick with a consistent…
With all the noise and turmoil that sometimes fills our daily lives (not to mention our daily newspapers), we all cherish the opportunity for quiet reflection and the joyful fellowship of family and friends that Thanksgiving Day brings us each year. On this eve of another…
Elissa on Financial Times Top 100 Women Financial Advisers List Financial Times, the venerable 126 year old London based newspaper, has named Elissa Buie to its inaugural FT Top 100 Women Financial Advisers list for 2014. In compiling the list, FT set out to identify the 100…
Medicare: Making Enrollment Make Sense While one’s 65th birthday no longer signifies reaching the “Full Retirement Age” milestone for Social Security retirement benefits, turning 65 still has a unique perk – gaining eligibility for Medicare. Being eligible for the program, however, doesn’t mean that it’s…
To Roth or Not A Roth Conversion is a taxable transfer of assets from your traditional/SEP/SIMPLE IRA to a Roth IRA in an effort to take advantage of the tax and withdrawal benefits of a Roth IRA. Not only do assets grow tax-deferred in a Roth…
Bad news can be like waves sweeping in and breaking along a sandy shore. The quiet rumble as the watery walls form, break, and lap upon the shingle fades from our conscious awareness until the surge from a sudden harmonic convergence leaves us scrambling for higher ground. It feels like one of those moments right now,…