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Our world today is permanently partially distracted. This is true of most everyone who has a mobile phone with apps, text messaging, email, and social media connects. With so many conversations and contacts, it’s like having hundreds of balls in the air at one time. It’s a barrier to concentration and focus. It’s the urgent...

It’s that time of year. If you go to cocktail parties at all, you’ve likely been to one or more in the last few weeks. You bump into people that you know, and many people that you only see at the annual cocktail soiree around the holidays. And you have the same chats and discussion...

You ask, “How do you make money in stocks?” Some will say you buy low and sell high, using a trite phrase offered with a simple grin. But, in fact, what do people do, especially unadvised investors? They buy high and sell low because they react to their “gut instinct,” which is almost always wrong...

Stock market-sensitive investments, including mutual funds that own stocks, can realize an attractive return when considered over long periods of time. By “long” I really mean 20-year time periods or greater. If you’re one of my college students, or former students with a 30- or 40-year timeframe to be invested, you have a wonderful opportunity...

The conventional wisdom, in recent years, was that a retired person could withdraw 4 percent of their retirement account balance annually for income and very likely never deplete their nest egg. Though a good financial plan would go much deeper into the numbers regarding longevity, expected return based on risk, and spending patterns, this old...