Guest Written by Samantha Rauch Hello! It’s the end of an era, my nine weeks with MY Wealth Planners has flown by and it’s crazy to think I’ll be back in class in a few short weeks. Dan asked me to write this piece to talk about what I’ve learned about people and their personal finances as a student who …
A unique opportunity has arisen in the financial services world over the past decade or so: Investing in your beliefs. Now that isn’t to say donating to non-profits or your church, but the actual advent of investment products designed to allow you to invest in companies representing your beliefs or to avoid investing in those you don’t want to support. …
We all have money scripts. They’re immutable psychological principles that were founded in our early childhood and that have been informed by the terms and perspectives we’ve observed in others around money as we’ve grown up. Positive examples can be “a penny saved is a penny earned” or “pay yourself first”, while more destructive versions can be “there is never …
We’ve all had that job. Whether it was THE job or just part of A JOB, we’ve all found ourselves staring at the clock and waiting to go home. But what does that say about the expectations we have for our work and the expectations our employers have? After all, if I’m AT work, shouldn’t I HAVE work to do? …