Updates

Why You Won’t Make Any Progress on Your Financial Goals in 2017  January 16, 2017 by Jonathan Harrison, CFP®

What do you want to accomplish in your financial life during this new year? Do you need to get a better handle on your investments? Get out of debt? Change your spending? Switch advisors? Create a pla…

What Should You Do With That Old 401(k)?  January 9, 2017 by Jonathan Harrison, CFP®

If you have money in a retirement plan at a previous employer, what should you do with it? Assuming your balance is in a plan like a 401(k) or 403(b) defined contribution plan, you have three basic ch…

How To Donate $50,000 or More Without Making Things Worse  December 19, 2016 by Jonathan Harrison, CFP®

No one wants to make a charity worse off, especially those who are giving large donations. Yet this is exactly what Dale was afraid he was doing. Dale was a successful business owner in Portland, Ore…

What If Scrooge Was Right?  December 15, 2016 by Jonathan Harrison, CFP®

The character Ebenezer Scrooge doesn’t get much love. Charles Dickens described him so meanly in A Christmas Carol that his name has become synonymous with miserliness. But does Scrooge get a bad ra…

Planning for senior care? The four questions you should ask  December 6, 2016 by Matt Syverson, CFP®

I began my journey into senior care in 1996, going to all sorts of long-term care facilities, from assisted living to residential and everything in between. On every visit, I was wearing a uniform and…