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28 Sep 2018 Health Savings Accounts as a Retirement Planning Vehicle

Posted at 13:03h in The Friday Brief by Ryan Smith, CFP®, RICP®, CTS™, MSFP

Health Savings Accounts, or HSAs, were created in 2003 through the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act. Early adoption was slow, but growth in recent years has been impressive as more and more Americans become familiar with their many benefits. For years, HSAs have been...

21 Sep 2018 Disaster Relief? A Call To Action.

Posted at 13:48h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

[caption id="attachment_9815" align="alignright" width="500"] LUMBERTON, NC - SEPTEMBER 15: Members of Colorado Task Force 1, on the swift water team, head out to check on residents during Hurricane Florence on September 15, 2018 in Lumberton, North Carolina. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)[/caption] What an odd...

14 Sep 2018 The Cone of Uncertainty

Posted at 15:28h in The Friday Brief by Sam Bass Jr.

As Hurricane Florence continues endangering lives and destroying property, many of us wait in uncertainty, wondering how homes, boats, and treasured landmarks are faring. It's personal and emotional kind of uncertainty, the kind that can't be addressed by probabilities. But on the statistical side, the National Weather service...

07 Sep 2018 In Defense of a Working Retirement

Posted at 14:32h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

On Sunday, this "news" came out that Geoffrey Owens--an actor who had a recurring role on The Cosby Show--was spotted working at a Trader Joe's somewhere in New Jersey, and then shamed for it. The sentiment seems to have been something like, "Poor Geoffrey. If only his former fame had...