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Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) are, as the name indicates, minimum annual distributions that must be withdrawn from an IRA, as required by the IRS, beginning with the tax year within which the account holder turns 70½.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…
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 great time to reflect….
On January 1, 2015, Yeske Buie celebrated its 7th anniversary. Elissa and Dave have been in the profession of financial planning for more than 30 years and in business for themselves for 25 years, Yeske & Co. having been founded in 1990 and Financial Planning…
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…
If you are eligible for Social Security benefits, you’ve spent at least 10 years working and paying a portion of your income into the system. As you approach age 62, you are able to receive the return on your “investment” by claiming your benefit. However,…
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…
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…
Well, maybe we don’t really so much mean United States “against the world” as United States stock market “versus” the rest of the world. In any case, we’ve gotten a few inquiries of late from clients wondering why their portfolios haven’t been soaring as the…
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,…