Cash Management

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As the Fed has finally lowered rates and signals that it anticipates up to another half of a percent decline by the end of the year, both accumulators and retirees are faced with the question of what to do in a declining rate environment. For many clients, a relatively straightforward strategy for cash management for the past two years has …

The Economics of Developing a Financial Planner

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It’s no secret that I’m incredibly interested in the development of the financial planning profession. My area of research is compensation, with a focus on financial planners. I’ve presented on career tracks and hiring at multiple national conferences, and I’ve written an Amazon best-seller on financial planner careers. It is, with some Jane Goodall-observing-the-gorillas interest that I’ve started to peruse …

Hybridization of Financial Planning & Tax Professionals

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I’ve opined multiple times over the past few years that there’s a bright future of collaboration and possibly integration between financial planners and tax professionals. After all, both frequently are on other sides of the same coin, and the divide between them often boils down to whether work is being done in arrears (e.g., tax professionals taking what’s already been …

Our New Associate Wealth Planner – Emily Green

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We’re forgoing our usual weekly education and commentary to share some special news. Today marks the first day for our team’s new Associate Wealth Planner, Emily Green! Emily has spent the past year studying to become a wealth planner, and we’re delighted at her accomplishment and to share her promotion. For those who’ve never taken the time to learn more …

Never Discount

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It has been observed in one form or another that the only store in which people will run screaming when a sale starts is the “stock market.” Yet, despite the strange inclination of consumers to flee deep discounts when they present themselves in the world of investments and to only be tempted to buy when prices go up, today we …

Avoiding Career Bottlenecks

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It is not uncommon for a financial planner to find that many clients have hit a proverbial “ceiling” in their career trajectory. As we’d observe it, this is seldom because of any limitation in their capabilities or capacity but because of a classic problem: The person on the next rung of the career ladder is happy where they are, or …

Boulder County Minimum Wage Research

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For several months, an economic analysis has explored the possibility of installing a “regional” minimum wage in the Boulder county area, which would technically be implemented as a county-level and city-by-city level minimum wage, including the cities of Boulder, Erie, Lafayette, Longmont, and Louisville. Curiously, as this study got off the ground, a video produced by the research task force …

Who’s Paying Your Planner?

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For those who wondered, “What happened to the blog last week? Heck, where was the blog yesterday?” The answer is as fun as it is mundane. Rather than writing a blog for July 30th, I was in Chicago attending the summer leadership meeting for the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors, or “NAPFA,” for which I sit on the west …

The Age of AI?

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In 1961, during an Antarctic expedition, Leonid Rogozov came down with appendicitis. While this condition is typically solved with relatively minor surgery, there was just one problem: there was only one doctor on the expedition, Leonid Rogozov. Faced with a choice between certain death or an insane attempt at performing his own appendectomy, Dr. Rogozov chose to live. With a …