Forecasting!
What happens when the predictions are wrong?
Is it time to panic?
Is it time to ditch your strategy?
It’s a fascinating question because it cuts right down to the question of what it means to live in an uncertain world.
Financial Planning
Alternative Investments Are Just For Fun
Alternative investments are having a moment right now. Collectibles, coins, tokens, fractional shares of real estate and art, cryptocurrency— they are all over the news, social media, and discussed in line at Starbucks with friends and strangers alike.
Major Retirement Planning Missteps
Retirement planning is a process. It takes careful planning and years of hard work to achieve success. It’s easy to slip or make some missteps along the way so we wanted to write a post about some of the common stumbles we see.
Calling them “mistakes” may be a bit harsh, as not all of them represent errors in judgment. Yet whether they result from ignorance or fate, we need to be aware of them as we plan for and enter retirement.
Post Pandemic Travel Planning
For the first time in a long time, travel is becoming a real possibility.
The pandemic hasn’t disappeared (and it’s not going away any time soon) but we’re turning a corner. More of us are getting vaccinated against COVID-19 every day, and more of us have a ready-to-travel mindset.
Art vs. Science
You could say that personal finance is a scientific art. On the one hand, it is about money and math. On the other, it’s about values, goals, and self-control. It’s easy to say that the key to financial security is to spend less than you make. Surely, subtracting a smaller spending number from your larger income number will result in a remainder which can be saved or invested. But that is not so simple.
