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Inflation and Other Hot Topics

When Your Dollar Shrinks The best of financial planners must consider what happens to investors when their dollar begins to shrink. They planned on spending a certain amount per month in  retirement, for example, but … oops … the prices of gasoline and Cheerios went...

John Dough’s Investment Strategy

John Dough’s Investment Strategy Buy and Hold Back in the late 1990s, John Dough had it all figured out. He had worked for the same government agency for more than 30 years, he made a nice salary, he would get a solid pension upon retirement, he was careful with...

ABCD’s of Investment Professionals

Many investors are confused by who’s who, much less knowing who’s in whose corner. By J Thomas Knight, CFP®, CPA Advisors, Brokers, Commissions, Designations, etc., can confound many an investor.  There is an abundance of “advisors” and even more “designations”...

Bear Market History & Industry Failures

Our industry is failing you because too many Advisors ignore history and thus are not loaded and ready for bear.  By J Thomas Knight, CFP®, CPA Bear Market Definition: A bear market is when a majority of stock prices are declining and declining substantially over...

PRICE vs. COST

Many investors fail to ask the BEST question to get the TRUE cost of working with a financial advisor.  By J Thomas Knight, CFP®, CPA Money, income, savings, portfolio, retirement, estate, legacy; it’s so important that there are multiple ways to say the...

Painful Losses and Grueling Recoveries!

Still recovering from the pain of the 2007-2009 market drawdown?  By J Thomas Knight, CFP®, CPA Market drawdowns are like experiencing a major injury. The initial pain can be debilitating, but the on-going “torture” of recovery or physical therapy can be more than...