Buying a home is one of the most financially significant events of your life. But even after closing, your financial work isn’t done. There are a few more steps you should take to incorporate your home into your greater financial picture. 1. Adjust Your Budget After buying a home, the makeup of your monthly and annual expenses will…

Planning for marriage should involve more than just picking out invitations and deciding whether you should serve chicken or fish at the reception. More importantly, you'll want to take a look at how marriage will impact your financial situation. And while there are a number of issues you'll need to think about, careful planning can increase the…

What are the tax considerations associated with refinancing and home equity loans? Generally, interest paid on loans to acquire an existing home or to construct a new home is tax-deductible, with certain limitations. In addition, interest paid on refinanced mortgages is deductible (also subject to certain limitations). From 2018 to 2025, the…

As a successful business owner, you don't want to think about your operations being interrupted by a natural disaster or other unexpected event. Yet the possibility is a real one. Natural catastrophes represent just a portion of the crises that your business could face. Although you may not be located in an area prone to hurricanes, blizzards,…

As a wealth management firm, we have worked with many clients who are widowed. Oftentimes, when a spouse passes away and leaves the surviving spouse with a large family of investments and things to manage, it can be overwhelming. Especially if the surviving spouse did not manage their finances. Often, these clients don’t know what they spend, how…

Stoicism amid market turmoil comes hard when a  tsunami of dire investment headlines and plunging prices hits you, as we’ve seen for the first 2+ months of 2022. Your financial future rides on Wall Street. What should you do? Is it Dejà vu All Over Again? Let’s look at recent history. In 2008, the problem was credit risk fears, rising inflation,…

Cliff Hodge, CFA, Chief Investment Officer   "As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and…