Take Ownership

It’s YOUR Money After my parents first met with a wealth planner, my mother told me, “I felt stupid in there.” I had listened to the conversation and felt the…

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Keep It Simple

Making the Complex Simple   If you’re affluent, you know all about complicated. The assets that make up your wealth are complex, and so are the solutions for handling them.…

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Forget the Jargon

Find Someone Who Speaks Your Language My dad’s estate plan confused him. He was an intelligent man, but the attorney’s complex legal language might as well have been in a…

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Plan Now Or Pay Later

Think Planning Is Too Expensive? We are all going to die one day. Call it morbid or glass half empty—it’s just the truth. The government is counting on it; and…

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Bargains Can Cost You

Deceived by a Good Deal My father was a car enthusiast. He started with Cadillac and Lincoln and eventually graduated to Bentley and Rolls Royce. Despite his ability to pay…

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Don’t Be a Statistic

Count the Costs… and Beat the Odds   What is failure? While it is different things to different people, one definition of failure for the affluent could be “the involuntary…

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