Most financial advisors will tell you a variation of the same principle: in order to be financially successful, you need to make your money work for you. It sounds simple enough, but many people continue to chase money, working hard for every last dime, and then get...
Most people agree that saving a portion of your paycheck for retirement is a good idea. After all, no one wants to extend their working life or re-enter the workforce as a senior citizen. But how much SHOULD you save? This question is hotly debated, and at the center...
Here are a list of the most-read blog posts from North Financial this year. Do you work with a full-time fiduciary? As a consumer it can be difficult to tell from marketing information or an advisor’s website if he or she is, in fact a fiduciary at all times when they...
I’ve been asked recently, “If there’s one simple thing I could do by the end of the year to put myself on a good financial footing for 2017, what would it be?” The answer is, you should track your net worth! Watch my recent video to learn more....
Last week the Federal Reserve chose not to raise interest rates and the markets reacted, by going up. If you don’t follow the stock market, or the Fed, you probably didn’t even notice. The markets do this a lot. Since there was some expectation this would...
Getting smarter about investing means learning some new terminology. One key tenet I teach my clients is diversification. In essence, spreading your investments across industries, countries, different types of securities and account types. This way, if one...
