Business Columns
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The Demise of Shopping Malls
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As with any business area, retail continues to change with online, customization, rental and new players daily. Malls are feeling the pain, and many are no longer a destination for American shoppers.
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Changing Jobs? Don’t Forget About Your Retirement Plan
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With job changes becoming more frequent, it’s important to know what you should do with your employer retirement plan when you change employers. Of course, there are different options to choose from.
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Understanding Municipal Bonds
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When discussing investing, many thoughts center on the next hot stock or the latest S&P 500 Index moves. However, if clients are conservative or closer to retirement, fixed income or bonds become a key part of most investors’ allocations.
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What Going Public Means for Businesses and Investors
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With the recent launches of Zoom, Pinterest and Lyft, there has been a lot of news about stock IPOs. An initial public offering, or IPO, of a stock is a company’s first sale of stock to the public. Before there is an IPO, a company is considered private.
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American Capitalism: To Be or Not to Be
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Do I believe that income inequality is harming America? Yes. I believe this comes from the changing business climate rather than capitalism. My belief and hope are that the cry for socialism is a cry for a reworking of American capitalism.
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Don’t Bet on the Lottery to Fund Your Retirement
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More than half of all U.S. adults collectively will spend approximately $50 billion each year in hopes of getting rich. Many of us look at the lottery as just one of those leisurely things we do in hopes to win a few extra dollars. But, for some folks, who often don’t have much discretionary incom
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Understand the Different Types of Income When Planning for Retirement
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When planning for retirement, it is important to consider all sources of income. There are three sources of income throughout life: social capital, human capital and financial capital.
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Why Are Companies Buying Back Their Stock?
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Typically, when people see the news of a buyback, they associate it as a negative action by the company. However, stock buybacks happen for many reasons and some of those reasons could be beneficial to the company.
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Generation Z Poised to Change the Workforce
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The Pew Research Center has now turned their focus to Generation Z after nearly a decade of research focused on the millennial generation. Many studies find that this generation could change the workforce and the way we all work together.
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It’s Not About the Money
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You may think being an advisor is all about numbers, growth and investments. It is certainly that, but it’s also a lot more. The realization hits home when the couple you have advised for more than a decade comes to their retirement date. The work, the savings and the plans come together to create