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Seth Corkin – My Personal Story

By |2018-03-16T03:26:22+00:00October 6th, 2017|Categories: Single Point of View|Tags: |

I believe traditional wealth management is broken – but I have a vision for the future standard of financial advice, and I am incredibly lucky to have found two partners who share that vision.  Before I tell you how and why I joined Single Point, let me tell you a little about how I found my [...]

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Seth Corkin – My Personal Story

By |2017-10-06T19:43:43+00:00October 6th, 2017|Categories: Personal CFO, Single Point of View|Tags: |

I believe traditional wealth management is broken – but I have a vision for the future standard of financial advice, and I am incredibly lucky to have found two partners who share that vision.  Before I tell you how and why I joined Single Point, let me tell you a little about how I found my [...]

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Equifax Security Breach – What to do?!

By |2018-03-16T04:04:28+00:00September 15th, 2017|Categories: Single Point of View|Tags: , , |

Equifax – one of the three primary credit bureaus – announced last Thursday, September 7th, that they were the victims of a massive cyber-attack spanning from May – July 2017.  While cyber-attacks have unfortunately become more common in recent years, this attack is particularly notable as it is considered the largest breach of consumer data in [...]

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Seth Corkin: SPP Welcomes New Personal CFO

By |2018-03-16T01:43:58+00:00September 14th, 2017|Categories: Single Point of View|Tags: |

Single Point Partners is very excited to announce the addition of our newest Personal CFO, Seth Corkin. I was first introduced to Seth through a pro-bono financial planning initiative we are both engaged in.  Through these initial interactions, it was immediately clear to me that he is a highly talented individual with a passion for financial [...]

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When a “Dream College” Isn’t So Dreamy

By |2018-03-16T01:59:02+00:00July 5th, 2017|Categories: Single Point of View|Tags: , |

For a few weeks this summer we were once again lucky enough to have Liam Cronan join our office as a summer intern.  Liam has just finished his freshman year in college, he'll be spending the second half of his summer working on a political campaign.  While Liam was here he worked on a number of [...]

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Stock-picking Mutual Funds die hard… for now

By |2018-03-16T03:30:10+00:00June 16th, 2017|Categories: Single Point of View|Tags: , , |

The ability of traditional Mutual Fund stock-pickers to deliver out-performance has been decaying for 2 decades. A recent WSJ editorial by renowned finance scholar Burton Malkiel sites the most recent stats published by Standard-&-Poor's and they are absolutely ugly. •“More than 90% of active US managers under-performed their benchmark indexes over a 15-year period.”  •“Over 85% [...]

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Making Your Estimated Tax Payments Online

By |2018-03-16T03:34:08+00:00June 14th, 2017|Categories: Single Point of View|Tags: , , |

With tomorrow being June 15th, we wanted to update this post from last year as a reminder to pay your quarterly tax estimates.  Below are the links to simplify things and make these payments online. For many of us who have income that is not subject to tax withholding (for example: earnings from self-employment, interest, dividends, [...]

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Who is an Aging Life Care Professional, and What Do They Do?

By |2018-03-16T01:38:04+00:00June 5th, 2017|Categories: Single Point of View|Tags: , |

As financial planners, we are often tasked with answering the question of how our clients will fund their advanced care needs later in life.  However, who is helping you make the choices on how, and by whom, that care is provided?  In this Guest Blog Post, Kate Granigan (CEO) & Anna Pollard (Dir of Clinical Services) [...]

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Markets are not always efficient, nor right

By |2018-03-16T01:38:49+00:00May 24th, 2017|Categories: Single Point of View|Tags: , |

Of the 46 previous declines of -10% or more in the stock market (S&P500), a little more than a third (19) became bear markets, defined as a drop of at least -20%.  Most of the -10% pull-backs – as sharp and painful as they are - turned out to be just false signals and momentary detours [...]

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Big Planning Opportunity with Health Savings Accounts

By |2018-03-16T01:39:37+00:00May 1st, 2017|Categories: Single Point of View|Tags: , , , , |

In short: fund it and invest it, don't use it.   Potentially, the best way to use your Health Savings Account (HSA) is to maximize the funding of it, but, instead of using the funds year-by-year to cover your out-of-pocket health care expenses, invest the funds and allow them to grow for the future.  The reason [...]

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