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17 May 2019 What’s the point of giving your money away?

Posted at 09:00h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

Now that the 2018 tax season is over (unless you extended, but you know what I mean), we've gotten through our first official tax year of higher standard deductions, which, among other things, means for most people the relative value of each dollar given to charity has gone down...

10 May 2019 Consider Your Savings Account

Posted at 11:21h in The Friday Brief by Geoff Hall, CFP®, RICP®

I started banking with my current bank almost 30 years ago. I chose NCNB because they had a branch a short walk from my dorm room. As a college freshman, proximity and the fact that they were willing to give me a credit card was...

26 Apr 2019 How much should you tip? And other questions.

Posted at 10:38h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

In 1992, during the Barcelona Olympics (where the greatest basketball team of all time was assembled), Seinfeld began its fourth season with a two-part opening called "The Trip." Like almost all Seinfeld episodes, there's no point in me trying to recap what happens in those...

12 Apr 2019 The Trouble With Biometric Investment Monitors

Posted at 08:30h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

I mean this in the best possible way: You do not keep yourself alive. The breathing, the movement of blood, the functioning of the kidneys and liver and all the rest--you and I have no role whatsoever in making it all work. The most we can...