On this Happy Halloween day, hopefully you caught our funny parity title, which this time, was NOT a typo, we wanted to share with you another example of Diversification’s importance. Today a Broker Dealer Firm, mostly involved with commodity trading and…
In the 1999 (hard to believe it was that long ago) Kevin Costner movie “For the Love of the Game” Billy Chapel leans forward and utters the words “Clear the Mechanism” forcing himself to tune out the noise, distractions, and focusing…
For the first time since 2009, much to the happiness of Social Security recipients, a 3.6% raise beginning in January of 2012 will go into effect. Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but to stay grounded, here are…
A Will is one of the most fundamental devices in Estate Planning and organization of funds, but many may accidentally stumble, rendering this tool ineffective. One of the most important items to know when reviewing your, or any other Will, is not to write on it. While…
Undoubtedly the record-breaking low yield on the US Government treasury security has caught the attention of most. Weather mortgage rates, car loans, or even the collaterally changed checking account rates, most understand rates are very low and have experienced this in one…
We have found http://www.missingmoney.com to be one of the best websites to find forgotten and unclaimed funds. Within a few seconds, you should be able to check for your own, and other family member’s unclaimed accounts across the country. Usually there are not…
We have commented various times on the importance of taking a few moments to review your annual social security statement, most recently in our in our Q 1 2011 Newsletter which can be found on our Newsletter page. One of…
Settlement checks from various large Financial Companies are being mailed again. We occasionally alert investors to keep an eye out for possible money coming to them in the mail, this again is one of those times we want to alert investors. If…
In April of this year (2011) Standard & Poor’s issued a warning report to the United States prompting our Tap’s related post “I saw my duty and did it”. As a refresher, credit rating agencies issue report cards for almost…
Alcoa’s, (AA) earnings release Monday April 11th, marks the unofficial start to the 90 day treadmill confession season, better known as earnings season. Over the next several weeks thousands of public companies will report their results for the last 90 days, with…
