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21 Jan 2021 How Emily and I Invest Our Money (and How We Got to Beacon)

Posted at 22:26h in The Friday Brief by Ryan Smith, CFP®, RICP®, CTS™, MSFP

Over the past year there's been a spate of "How I invest my money" articles where a prominent financial advisor discusses what he or she actually does with his or her own money. It's a discussion that's long overdue and was started by Josh Brown,...

14 Jan 2021 The Passing of the Torch

Posted at 14:58h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

I don't watch It's a Wonderful Life every year, but I did this Christmas, and I noticed something I hadn't before. In a pivotal scene with George in his dad's old office at the Building and Loan, I saw this wall hanging in the background. It reads: "All...

07 Jan 2021 A Lot of Questions

Posted at 16:46h in The Friday Brief by Geoff Hall, CFP®, RICP®

I can remember walking into my first economics class back in 1992. The professor had drawn a chart titled something like, Supply, Demand and The Flow of Money, Goods and Services, on two huge chalkboards that covered the front wall of the theater style classroom....

30 Dec 2020 Five Charts that Summarize 2020

Posted at 22:08h in The Friday Brief by Ryan Smith, CFP®, RICP®, CTS™, MSFP

After a year like 2020, it is impossible to avoid a hyperbolic statement like, “it’s been a crazy year!” because it has been a crazy year. Here’s just a few of the significant occurrences: a worldwide pandemic that shuttered the global economy and claimed hundreds...