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Stay Cautious about Stimulus Scams
One provision of the CARES act is a stimulus check for millions of taxpayers. These payments began to roll out the weekend of April 11 and will continue to be deposited to taxpayer bank accounts, with paper checks possibly following in May. The stimulus checks have created a ripe environment for fraudsters, likely heightened by…
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Harold Evensky’s musings on the Coronavirus.
I know that “experts” on what’s happening in the world have inundated you (and me) with pontifications, but I can’t resist putting my two cents in too, so I’ll start with the obvious. It’s scary as hell out there and with good reason. Covid-19 is expanding at a geometric rate, global economies are being decimated,…
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Wealth Managers Urge Calm Amid Market Storm
Matt McGrath, managing partner and wealth manager at Evensky & Katz/Foldes Financial, an advisory in Coral Gables, Fla., says what unsettles his most anxious clients is the unprecedented nature of the crisis.
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Do you really need that individual stock?
Individual stocks end up in portfolios for various reasons—possibly some speculation along the way, maybe inherited from a family member and kept for sentimental reasons, purchased many years ago and now with a cost basis so low that selling the stock would incur high taxes, or through acquisition of company stock options. We don’t recommend…
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The December Rout
BLOOMBERG, DECEMBER 26, 2018, 10:23 AM INVESTORS SCRAMBLE TO PULL CASH OUT OF MUTUAL FUNDS Investors withdrew $56.2 billion from mutual funds during the week that ended Dec. 19, according to data from the Investment Company Institute. The mutual fund market hasn’t experienced a one-week outflow so large since October 2008. REMEMBER THESE HEADLINES DURING…
