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21 Apr 2022 The Four Pillars of Quality Leisure

Posted at 18:54h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

"People Who Hate Retirement—and What the Rest of Us Can Learn From Them." That was the title of an article from Monday's print edition of the Wall Street Journal—a title so click-baity that I actually tried to click the physical paper as I held it in...

17 Mar 2022 Your Portfolio Is A Bunch of Metal Parts

Posted at 18:05h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

I have a simple dream for Beacon's clients, and it is this: That each one, over time, would think less and less about their portfolio, or at least that they would start to think of it as a collection of metal parts that just needs...

17 Feb 2022 “Be quick, but don’t hurry.”

Posted at 14:03h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

The title for this blog comes from the legendary UCLA basketball coach, John Wooden, though I first heard it on an Optimist Club baseball field in Southern Pines, North Carolina when I was in fifth or sixth grade. I was playing third base--with a habit...

20 Jan 2022 “Buy Things, Not Experiences”

Posted at 20:55h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

I have since early childhood been fascinated by the idea that you can use something for a long, long time. The origin of that fascination, as best I can tell, is the fact that the house I was raised in was built in 1890. And...