By Carl Trevison and Stephen Bearce Help Take the Guesswork Out of Choosing Investments Asset allocation is a strategy that can help take the guesswork out of choosing investments for your portfolio. Instead of putting all your eggs in one basket, you spread your eggs (dollars) among a variety of baskets (stocks, bonds, and cash). […]

By Carl Trevison and Stephen Bearce Is Your Portfolio as Efficient as It Could Be? When you look at a line chart of an investment’s historical performance, one feature to note is its volatility – how frequent and how extreme the ups and downs have been. This is significant because volatility is the most commonly […]

By Carl Trevison and Stephen Bearce   Four Things to Know About Risk   Whether you’re already investing or are just thinking about it, you should understand risk and the role it plays in a portfolio. And although it may seem simple enough on the surface, risk can be one of the most difficult concepts […]

By Carl Trevison and Stephen Bearce   Planning for Incapacity: Four Essential Documents   Preparing for worst-case scenarios brings peace of mind during the best of times. Here’s why. Tom was a healthy 43-year-old approaching the height of his earning power and living the happiest days of his life. He had a great job that […]

By Carl Trevison and Stephen Bearce   Stretch IRA Strategy and Your Estate Plan   Most Americans understand an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) can provide a powerful way to save for retirement. But what many don’t know is an IRA can also be an effective estate-planning tool.   If one of your goals is to […]

By Carl Trevison and Stephen Bearce   Decipher Your Investment Puzzle   When you set up your investment portfolio, you probably also settled on an asset allocation strategy — for instance, 60% stocks and 40% bonds. You, perhaps with the help of your Financial Advisor, determined that this particular balance of investments could help you […]

By Carl Trevison and Stephen Bearce   Challenges of Fixed-income Investing   Your parents and grandparents may have known better about lots of things when you were younger. But you probably shouldn’t be following their example when it comes to managing your money in retirement.   “Most retirement income for [our] parents’ and grandparents’ generation […]

By Carl Trevison and Stephen Bearce   Investing vs. Paying Off Debt   The debt dilemma   The process for eliminating debt is anything but an easy-to-solve financial equation. Many people wonder if they should pay off their debt as quickly as possible or invest their money, letting debt payments run their course.   The […]

Challenges of Fixed-income Investing   Your parents and grandparents may have known better about lots of things when you were younger. But you probably shouldn’t be following their example when it comes to managing your money in retirement.   “Most retirement income for [our] parents’ and grandparents’ generation came from Social Security and a defined-benefit […]