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Medicare 101: Options for 2025

Navigating the complexities of Medicare is both a necessity and a burden. A variety of coverage options, pricing, and public/private coverage can leave people feeling uncertain and discouraged. With such an important choice, how can you be sure you're choosing the right coverage?

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Debt Pulls Your Future Forward (at a Cost)

Japan has 140 businesses that are more than 500 years old — operating around twice as long as the oldest companies in the United States. Nineteen of their businesses claim to have existed since the first millennium. Let that sink in for a…

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Keep Politics Out of Your Investment Strategy

In just over two weeks, Americans will head back to the polls to decide, among other things, who will lead our country for the next four years. Rest assured this won’t be a political article attempting to sway you toward any candidate. Instead, I want to share a story about a former client who, ahead of 2020 election, decided to sell his investments to avoid election uncertainty.

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Volatility: Seen and Unseen

A few weeks back, a colleague showed me an article on commercial real estate in the Denver Tech Center. Apparently a few well-regarded buildings had changed hands at prices that caught his eye. The surprising news was the sell price earlier this year...

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Market Forecasting: A Loser’s Game

It’s Friday, August 2, and I’m writing this article with CNBC open on my browser. The headline shouts, “Dow Loses 750 Points, Nasdaq Enters Correction After Weak Jobs Report.”

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Compounding Quietly

Compounding growth, whether in nature or finance, is similar: enough time can bring impressive results. Seemingly every few years, a familiar story is published. A quiet person from a forgotten town, typically with little or no education and a low paying job, accomplishes the unusual.

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The Effect of Presidential Elections in Charts

The most important takeaway: while elections may create some short-term uncertainty, focusing on long-term investing goals should always be the most important factor in investment decision-making.

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Selling Fear, Greed, or Both

Across social media and YouTube, there are no shortage of pundits, professional or otherwise, offering financial “advice.” I congratulate writers focused on educating readers about these concepts. But my sense is many of these “gurus’” acquire and grow their income not on the education they offer, but on the number of eyeballs they attract.