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15 May 2025 Is Your 401(k) Too Boring?

Posted at 15:56h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

If you are in the market for some excitement and exoticism in your boring old 401(k), then boy was this a good week of headlines for you. First there was Basic Capital building a product that allows leverage within 401(k)s, and then there was Empower beginning to...

27 Mar 2025 “It Doesn’t Go Away With Money”

Posted at 16:41h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

As far as I can tell, wealth, by itself, is a bit of a nothingburger. But it isn't by itself, because nothing ever is. If anything, in a culture like ours that celebrates money and excess to an alarming extent, there appears to be a...

27 Feb 2025 It’s Gotta Be The Shoes!

Posted at 19:47h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

In her phenomenal book In This Economy?: How Money & Markets Really Work, Kyla Scanlon writes about what she calls the "vibes economy." So much of what happens at the macroeconomic level seems to be based on sentiment—or, vibes—and it's crazy how much power those vibes...

30 Jan 2025 What The Big Guys Are Doing

Posted at 17:42h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

Having never been on a pair of skis in my life, I did not realize until reading an article in Bloomberg this week what dominant forces the "Epic Pass" and "Ikon Pass" are in that world. Products of Vail Resorts, Inc. and Alterra Mountain Co.,...