This morning was a morning filled with pleasant unexpectedness. I had the opportunity to attend a small career fair at my local high school. I was nervous and genuinely excited! Would these kids even know what a financial planner was? How do I describe what I do?
Growing interest in the impact of fossil fuels on the global climate may spark questions about whether individuals can integrate their values around sustainability with their investment goals and, if so, how.
With school back in session, many parents are likely thinking about how best to prepare for their children’s future college expenses. Now is a good time to sharpen one’s pencil for a few important lessons before heading back into the investing classroom to tackle the issue.
Another benefit of the new tax law which is in effect for 2018, is a change in the so called ‘kiddie tax’ which served to simplify the rule to some degree.
In early June the trustees who run Medicare and Social Security released a report that said that the Medicare program will become insolvent in 2026 and Social Security will face a similar fate in 2034. For the first time in many a decade the combined Social Security trust funds as well as the Medicare hospital insurance trust fund will begin eating into their reserves later this year.
One of the little discussed provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 is one that impacts alimony payments. Prior to the new law, alimony payments were deductible off the payer’s income, just like mortgage interest or real estate taxes; and the payments were counted as income by the recipient spouse. The new law makes alimony payments nondeductible for the payer and non-taxable for the recipient.
We are getting many questions on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 which is now law. One item in particular has generated a lot of questions: changes in the mortgage and home equity loan interest deduction.
Since the financial crisis in 2009 the Dow Jones Industrial Average steadily rose from about 6,000 to over 26,000 in January of this year; it has declined nearly 10% in recent days.
On Tuesday morning, Wall Street traders woke up to something they haven’t experienced much of lately: actual market volatility.
It’s not always easy to grasp the value of diversification—why, in other words, it’s better to own many stocks inside a mutual fund than one or two stocks on their own.
