Perspectives

As a financial advisor for nearly 20 years, it’s been gratifying to help people strategize, plan for, and pull the trigger on retirement. For some...

At some point during the pandemic, I needed to step away from listening to the news and focus my brain on something complex, interesting and...

As a financial advisor, I’ve witnessed clients dealing with end-of-life with their parents. Sometimes it goes smoothly and other times not. If a...

My husband and I worked remotely from southern California last year. We’d always talked about wintering somewhere warm during retirement, and we had...

We have a lot of generous clients! As financial advisors, we often hear that our clients would like to share some of their wealth with the people...

You’ve completed your financial plan and are basking in the pride that such an accomplishment grants – and you should! Creating a plan is the first...

After all the planning, number-crunching, endless discussions, dreaming, and plotting, how often is retirement what people expect it to be? As...

We’ve all heard the stories of lottery winners who find themselves penniless a decade after winning large sums of money. Whether they spend the...

As Boomers, helping our parents out in their elder years or remembering them wistfully, we start to realize that we are becoming the next oldest...

When I mentioned to my friend Kathy that my next blog assignment was on financial self-care, she became very animated and explained how her financial...