Social Security: Nixing the Knowledge Gap It is estimated that Social Security has 2,728 different rules and that there are more than 8,000 claiming strategies for married couples alone. As these staggering numbers suggest, Social Security is a complicated topic. As a result, there is…
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…
As noted in the previous Digest, the Yeske Buie Financial Planning Team (Dave Yeske, Elissa Buie, Yusuf Abugideiri, Jennifer Hicks, Lauren Stansell, Sabina Smailhodzic, Russell Kroeger, Camille Bouvet, and Cody Daniels) attended the 2015 FPA Far West Round-Up Conference (FWR) on the UC Santa Cruz…
As Dimensional Fund Advisors embarks on its 25th year of working with financial advisors, they shared with us a series of Dimensional Stories, two minute videos featuring Nobel Laureate Eugene Fama and/or David Booth speaking on the themes and insights that influence Dimensional’s way of…
Estate Planning for Digital Assets It is no secret that we are rapidly becoming an ever more paperless society. This doesn’t mean that we are maintaining less “stuff”, however. In fact, I’d be inclined to believe the opposite. With mobile technology a societal norm, we…
Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. announced that it has completely revised and updated it’s popular reference guide for financial planning students and practitioners. John Wiley & Sons published the first-of-its-kind Financial Planning Competency Handbook in 2013. Elissa and Dave contributed 30 chapters to…