“The lowest risk way to increase returns on your investment portfolio is to pay less to the financial services sector.” “If you want something different You Gotta do something different.” – Nathaniel Williams We love to read and share – here’s some notable things from the last week covering life, investing and financial planning. […]
Good financial planning is about exercising control over income, expenses and investments over time to achieve what you desire in life. Exercising control over those three areas pays off when you focus your efforts pulling levers that have an impact. While people seem to understand what the levers are that both matter and are […]
No matter how you feel about investing – whether you think it’s fun, a chore or you are totally indifferent – you can’t neglect it. It’s important for the financial well being of your family, to fund your children’s education, and of course to secure your future and restful retirement! Getting the “Where”, “What”, “How” […]
“Michelangelo was asked by the pope about the secret of his genius, particularly how he carved the statue of David, largely considered the masterpiece of all masterpieces. His answer was: “It’s simple. I just remove everything that is not David.” – from Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Antifragile I am currently reading this book. You may be […]
And I don’t mean sharing ice cream and I don’t mean little sisters…..I mean family budgets…… “Budgeting”, “tracking expenses”, “generally trying to figure out where the money goes”, whatever you want to call it…….everybody feels it should be important but it perpetually rides the to do list. Or else budgeting for some reason suddenly becomes relevant or […]
Carl Richards has a great column in the New York times called Sketch Guy where he boils complex financial issues down to simple concepts sketched on the back of a cocktail napkin. We recently saw Carl Richards speak and he talked about how people benefit from working with a financial planner. Here is our attempt at a Carl […]