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13 Jul 2023 What Counting Crows Get Right About Memories

Posted at 12:43h in The Friday Brief by Ryan Smith, CFP®, RICP®, CTS™, MSFP

Somewhere on my desert island, all-time top five list of bands (s/o High Fidelity) sits Counting Crows. They released their first album, August and Everything After, in 1993 and you couldn't turn on the radio or switch on MTV without coming across Mr. Jones, the...

29 Jun 2023 How To Retire On Purpose

Posted at 13:26h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

In the TV series The Bear—which, incidentally, is the best show I've ever seen—one of the main characters goes through a crisis of identity. Richie, or "Cousin" as he's affectionately known, needs a job and knows he needs it, but he is struggling with a deep...

22 Jun 2023 Money Stories

Posted at 18:03h in The Friday Brief by Ellen Martin

Someone recently asked me when I learned how to use Excel/Word/PowerPoint. I honestly couldn’t remember so I asked my older sister, who could pinpoint learning to use Excel formulas and create graphs during 8th grade computer lab. Before then, we just learned on our own...

15 Jun 2023 Beacon Summer Reading List

Posted at 15:51h in The Friday Brief by Geoff Hall, CFP®, RICP®

The summer season is finally here, and for many that presents an opportunity to slow down. If you’re like us at Beacon, you might plan to use some of your extra downtime reading a good book. We all have a long list of books that...