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Bring it on COVID-19.  I am healthy.  I am strong.  I’m not your target.  I’m in my mid-forties, in the right weight class, eating the right foods, doing the right things….  Shoot!  Before the pandemic I was practicing yoga three to four times per week.  Then why stay at home?  I miss my friends… Taking the kid

In your investing lifetime, you may only see a situation like the current novel coronavirus (COVID-19) a few times.  This is a circumstance where complete candor is necessary.  The truth is that we can’t yet gauge the full economic impact, however, by the time we can, the volatility may have passed.  Therefore, let’s look at some interesting financi

“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes” – Mark Twain

Vacation season is almost upon us and, for many Americans who haven’t traveled abroad in several years, their vacations have been years in planning. However, even the best laid plans can quickly come unraveled if you don’t take some extra measures to ensure that your finances are protected before you leave on your trip.

The term beneficiary crops up every now and again. Usually you’ll see it on an insurance form or hear about it in relation to a will, but despite the nonchalance we toss the term around with, beneficiaries are incredibly important. Let’s break down the details on how and why beneficiaries matter.

If you’ve ever played the Game of Life board game, it becomes clear that compressed into the colorful path there are various stages of life. Each stage holds its own major financial challenges as well as prospective profits in addition to surprises (new baby!) and forks in the road.

Because there isn’t a one-size-fits-all plan that could possibly fit the unique needs of every family, risk management is a process that focuses on the problem of risk at every level of a family’s lifestyle in order to ultimately arrive at a solution for each. Each risk calls for separate measures, which usually require separate forms of insurance.

Life happens, and, when it does, it sometimes has a tendency to get in the way of the things we are trying do for ourselves and our families.

When people warn you that having kids is expensive, it’s no joke. From diapers to food, braces to sports activities the costs add up quick. For a middle-income family in the U.S. raising a child up until age 18, costs an estimated average of $245,340 (or $304,480, adjusted for projected inflation), according to the 2013 “Cost of Raising a Child” report from the U.S.