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Staying Financially Grounded Earlier this week, we wrote to you to share our thoughts on the correct way to think about “corrections” as market volatility, strangely absent last year, has come roaring back. We’ve had a bit of a bumpy ride over the past two...
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During times of market volatility, investors can feel like they're riding a bumpy roller coaster ride. And while our worldview about the markets is that human beings are fundamentally growth seeking and resilient, we recognize that the bumps along the way can make investors feel...
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All Our Clients Are 'Round' Flashback to your high school English class. While you were busy passing notes, your teacher was likely sharing some information actually worth retaining. In this case, we’re referring to the two, well-known categories of literary characters: round and flat. While...
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Credit scores are used by individuals and organizations as a method of assessing a person’s financial responsibility. The “grading scale” ranges from 300, being the weakest, to 850, being the strongest. As a reference, Experian assesses a credit score above 670 as “good”. It is...
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Get More from Your Credit Score In today’s world, there are dozens of numerical expressions that make up one’s financial life. Credit scores are one example of those digital expressions, and are used to assess a person’s financial responsibility. It is widely understood that this…

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Long-term care is defined as the need for assistance with normal activities of daily living for a period of greater than 100 days. Additionally, when long-term care is needed, it is not a one-time need, but rather is a “continuum of care” that starts at...
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Olympic Overlap The 2018 Winter Olympics are officially upon us! This year’s festivities are being held in PyeongChang, South Korea and began (last night) with figure skating and will further kick off with the opening ceremony today. While these upcoming competitions may vary widely with…

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As was surely inevitable, volatility has returned to the markets after an historically quiescent couple of years. As this is being written, markets in Europe are down nearly 5% after a similar drop in the US on Monday. What should we make of this and...
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Having risen from $1,000 per coin to a high of nearly $20,000 in the past 12 months (although as we write, it has fallen back to $11,000), Bitcoin has garnered more than a little attention and spawned a host of imitators. We recently came across...
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