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Professor Rene’s Market Update – March 2025

By |2025-03-14T20:09:02+00:00March 14th, 2025|Categories: Investment Planning, Single Point of View|

For now, the S&P 500 is down 8% from its recent (all-time) high on Feb 19. It’s an uncomfortable feeling not knowing whether an 8% drop will turn into a 25% bear market, but some things in life are unknowable – even to the most astute investors. It is key to remember that through all [...]

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Social Security Fairness Act: Are you impacted?

By |2025-01-15T18:19:01+00:00January 15th, 2025|Categories: Retirement Planning, Single Point of View, Social Security|Tags: , , |

On January 5th the Social Security Fairness Act was signed into law eliminating the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) that had previously impacted the benefits of millions of public sector employees and their widows/widowers.  If you were affected by either of these provisions this change likely means you are now [...]

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Important New Requirement for Businesses & LLCs

By |2024-10-31T16:15:49+00:00October 31st, 2024|Categories: General Planning, Single Point of View|Tags: , |

Owner of a small business?  How about a vacation home or investment property that you established an LLC to own?  Guess what?  You probably are subject to a new reporting requirement to the U.S. Department of the Treasury you may not yet be aware of. Why should you pay attention to it?  Because the proposed [...]

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Effect of the Magnificent Seven Stocks

By |2024-07-15T15:27:01+00:00July 15th, 2024|Categories: Investment Planning, Single Point of View|Tags: , , |

Rene Jarquin July 2024 Market & Portfolio Commentary The S&P 500 Index has become very lopsided due to the run up of the 7 largest stocks in the index. While we have benefitted from this run up as index investors, this level of concentration can cause some anxiety and questions of what we should [...]

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How Much Liability Insurance Do I Need?

By |2024-07-02T16:30:41+00:00July 2nd, 2024|Categories: Insurance Planning, Single Point of View|Tags: , |

How much liability insurance do I need? Should it be enough to cover a large settlement if I make a mistake? Should it cover my net worth? These are the questions we hear from clients when we are looking at premium quotes for $1m, $3m, $5m and $10m+ of excess liability insurance. I don't like [...]

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Avoiding IRS Penalties

By |2024-06-17T19:54:01+00:00June 17th, 2024|Categories: Single Point of View, Tax Planning|Tags: , , |

I've yet to meet someone who likes paying more to the IRS than they are required to.  The below article from the WSJ highlights a common IRS penalty that you want to make sure you are avoiding, penalties on under payments. You can click on the article below to read it all, but for the [...]

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Elections and the Markets

By |2024-05-17T18:07:07+00:00May 17th, 2024|Categories: Investment Planning, Single Point of View|Tags: |

With the U.S. presidential election approaching, many investors are asking themselves: “Should I adjust my portfolio ahead of this election?” While you may be seeing worrisome headlines from both sides of the aisle, it is important to understand the historical correlation between the U.S. stock market and our presidential elections. Our consensus is that although [...]

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Inside Out

By |2024-04-26T12:08:07+00:00April 26th, 2024|Categories: Single Point of View|

Money Isn’t Scary is a weekly podcast I host focused on supporting women in creating a healthy and empowered relationship with money. I have a huge passion for psychology and understanding the root cause of our thoughts, emotions and behaviors around money. I recently had the honor of talking with Meg Lefauve, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter [...]

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Feeling Stressed About Money?

By |2023-08-17T20:55:11+00:00August 17th, 2023|Categories: General Planning, Single Point of View, Uncategorized|Tags: |

Oftentimes as Financial Planners, we can get caught up in the numbers and deeper analysis of financial concepts for our clients. As helpful as this is, there’s another component to helping you feel comfortable and confident around your money: working through your relationship with it. Recently I was featured in an ‘Ask the Experts’ column [...]

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What’s New(s) with Seth: April 2023

By |2023-04-13T20:21:11+00:00April 13th, 2023|Categories: Single Point of View, Tax Planning, What's New(s)?|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Seth is back with another installment of “What’s New(s)?”  highlighting the topics that he’s following closely which might have an impact on you, as well as some others that he thinks you might find interesting or fun.  Maura Healey released a $750MM tax reform plan for the state of Massachusetts.  Among the notable proposals: [...]

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