
Is Your Financial Plan Really in Your Best Interest?
Someone with fiduciary responsibility is meant to act in your best interest — a promise of loyalty, prudence, and care.
In principle, your advisor’s first obligation should be your financial
Best practices are meant to be shared. That’s why we observe the market and then share our insights on what’s happening, to give you context. We’ve organized every blog into categories, so it’s easier for you to find the answers that matter most to you.

Someone with fiduciary responsibility is meant to act in your best interest — a promise of loyalty, prudence, and care.
In principle, your advisor’s first obligation should be your financial

Once investors realized the degree to which the dollar’s value is at risk, from monetary and fiscal policy, and also that foreigners intend to reduce their exposure even after it

Global Bonds Signal Confidence Collapse In Policy. Bonds Trigger Risks For Banks, Credit And Equity Markets. Never before have investors been so committed and leveraged to a 10 year expected

Stagflation Allocations have already outperformed Conventional Stock and Bond allocations over the last 3 years.
Gold has outperformed both the S&P 500 and the Russell 2000. TIPS have substantially outperformed

Probably the biggest expense item of your lifetime is taxes. While tax returns are a requirement, by far the most important part of dealing with your taxes is tax planning

The disassociation between US equity market behavior and earnings is unprecedented. There is no history of declining GAAP earnings with the biggest and most leveraged equity bull market in history.

For most retirees “The American Dream” has become unaffordable.
With policy distorting markets and becoming increasingly unstable managing investment risk, while optimizing a retirement and tax plan requires the

Launching CCB Tax Pros has evolved by extending my service from Investment Management, to Financial Planning, to becoming an IRMAA certified planner, to the next logical extension which is tax returns and

US investors have generally failed to understand the appropriate allocation of gold in their own portfolios. This could be a major problem going forward.

Financial planning done well can materially change your life. Yet most people clearly avoid it for a range of reasons. One reason is that conventional financial plans are poorly conceived
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