According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United States’ health expenditures as a percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) were an astonishing 17.4% in 2013. That’s $2.9 trillion dollars or $9,255 per person! With more than one in six dollars of the…
Robert Powell recently wrote an article featured in USA Today that reports that one in two Americans who planned on working past age 65 found themselves retiring unexpectedly for various reasons. As a result, Powell suggests that those who do plan on working past age…
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Apr 28, 2015 (Marketwired via COMTEX) — Golden Gate University (GGU) has announced that noted financial planner Dr. Dave Yeske, CFP(R) will become the Program Director for its Financial Planning program effective May 1, 2015. Dr. Yeske has built a reputation as…
Dimensional Stories: Empirical Work DFA founder David Booth likes to say, “it’s about ideas,” and we certainly don’t know of another fund company that has been more about ideas than Dimensional Fund Advisors. As Dimensional embarks on it’s 25th year of working with financial advisors…
Expert Spotlight: Dr. Jim McCabe on Authentic Conversations Eldercare expert, Dr. Jim McCabe, recently took some time to reflect on many of the families he has worked with over the years and the challenges they have faced together. One of those challenges, is the ability…
Yeske Buie’s Financial Literacy Program Financial Literacy is a widely under-taught subject matter in the education of today’s youth. Some students can go through their entire education, including college, without some of the most basic financial knowledge required for them to succeed. Yeske Buie has…
Fiduciary Focus: Putting Clients First President Obama has instructed the Department of Labor to develop a new set o rules requiring those who advise plan participants to act as fiduciaries. Anyone acting as a fiduciary is required to put Clients’ interest first. The brokerage world…
Phishing Season is Here As if coming to terms with our annual obligations to Uncle Sam isn’t stressful, tax time is also prime “phishing” season for scammers and identity thieves. As defined by Wikipedia, phishing is an attempt to fool someone into revealing sensitive personal…
As if coming to terms with our annual obligations to Uncle Sam isn’t stressful enough, tax time is also prime “phishing” season for scammers and identity thieves. Phishing is an attempt to fool someone into revealing sensitive personal or corporate information by “masquerading as a…