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10 Mar 2020 Beacon Flash: Are We OK?

Posted at 10:50h in The Friday Brief by Sam Bass Jr.

Times are scary. Virus numbers are growing, countries are closing their entire borders and ordering their citizens to stay in their homes, and uncertainty over how long it will last and how bad it will be for economies prevails. Yesterday's shock to stocks was caused...

06 Mar 2020 Is Now The Right Time to Invest That Cash?

Posted at 07:00h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

When I got to the office on Monday, the market had just had an awful seven-day period that looked something like this: The Vanguard Total Market Index was down nearly 13% in about the same amount of time it takes my four year old to find...

28 Feb 2020 What Should You Do When the Market Drops?

Posted at 07:00h in The Friday Brief by Geoff Hall, CFP®, RICP®

There are a lot of scary headlines in the news right now. I’ll forgo the commonly accepted blogging practice of listing a few examples here to avoid unnecessarily exposing you to more of them than you are already reading. Along with the scary news headlines...

21 Feb 2020 Maybe You Will Downsize

Posted at 12:07h in The Friday Brief by Sam Bass Jr.

Last week, Ryan did a great job in his Brief titled Your Home is Not an Investment (You Probably Won't Downsize), explaining how a home is a lifestyle or 'use' investment, behaving differently than stocks, bonds or other impersonal investments that produce income or can...