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26 Jan 2023 The Intersection of Market Narratives and Personal Responses

Posted at 19:20h in The Friday Brief by Ellen Martin

The Beacon office is located within the heart of Five Points neighborhood in Raleigh, appropriately named after the five-pointed intersection of Glenwood Avenue and neighborhood roads. That intersection is known for having confusing traffic patterns, speeding cars, distracted pedestrians, and unfortunately, many accidents. You need...

19 Jan 2023 One For The Books

Posted at 15:05h in The Friday Brief by Geoff Hall, CFP®

2022 was a tough year to be an investor. Supply chain bottlenecks, the highest inflation we've seen in 40 years, the war in Ukraine and a very aggressive Federal Reserve all ran headlong into elevated stock and bond valuations creating an unpleasant scenario for most...

12 Jan 2023 How SECURE Act 2.0 Impacts IRAs, 401(k)s, 529s, and RMDs

Posted at 06:00h in The Friday Brief by Ryan Smith, CFP®, RICP®, MSFP

As 2022 came to a close, Congress passed a spending bill that included a retirement bill commonly referred to as "SECURE Act 2.0." Its predecessor, 1.0, passed at the tail-end of 2019 and lifted the starting age for Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) from 70 to...

05 Jan 2023 You Aren’t Too Big To Fail (And That’s Okay)

Posted at 17:06h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

An over-simplified story about the Global Financial Crisis is that when the housing market blew up, causing subprime mortgages to start drowning, causing the collateralized debt obligations backed by securitized versions of those subprime mortgages to implode, causing mass panic and the threat of bank...