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While honoring each client’s confidentiality, Gerald B. Goldberg has anecdotes aplenty about the issues a household may face should the most fiscally savvy member die or become incapacitated by age, illness or injury. All too often, that person has been remiss in sharing his or her knowledge with their spouse, partner or beneficiaries. But if […]

Dino Dionne loves getting stuck in traffic. The honking horns, the inching crawl through the concrete canyons of Manhattan—none of it fazes him. Once the classical music is cued, all the day’s demands seem to vanish. In their place, Dionne brings the bigger picture into focus. What is our firm’s role in the wider financial […]

Beirne Wealth Consulting Services (BWC) very nearly has an A-to-Z list of the causes and organizations it supports—from the American Cancer Society to the Make a Wish Foundation to YMCA Strong Kids. These wide-ranging philanthropic endeavors seem a testament to the Connecticut-based firm’s core principle that corporate responsibility isn’t an obligation—it’s fundamental. “We believe that […]

In 2011, at the height of the Occupy Wall Street protests, Lon Dolber took a walk down to Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan. Over the preceding days, thousands of demonstrators had gathered in and around the mostly concrete common to voice opposition to what they saw as a financial system run amok. Ever the conversationalist, […]

In the run-up to last Thanksgiving, the several hundred clients of Minneapolis-based Advanced Wealth Management Group (AWMG) got greeting cards from the firm they’ve long entrusted to guide their financial futures and plan their retirements. Only the cards were about more than just the usual good wishes. Recipients were given the choice of designating one […]

If you’re a millennial looking to enjoy the same retirement as your grandparents, veteran advisors like Randall Long recommend having a plan in place before the age of 30. Then again, if you’re really ambitious, you can always do what Long did: invest in a mutual fund at 12 years old. “I saw how hard […]

The biblical passage about it being better to give than to receive hit home early for Tad Hill. Son of a farmer father and a social worker mother, the young Hill often accompanied his mom as she tended to the elderly and infirm in and around Birmingham, Alabama. The old and disabled folks took a […]

Even the most capable business person might need assistance when it comes to managing his or her wealth for the long term. To that Scott Freund can well attest. For the easy-going president and founder of Family Office Research in Bethesda, Maryland, has many successful business people and respected professionals among his clientele. When Freund looks at […]

Ted Kakoyiannis was at a point of professional atrophy. As a transactional attorney in the real estate realm, he was negotiating and drafting contracts and loan documents and advocating for his clients—but he wasn’t really creating anything. Then, another possibility began to reveal itself: As his experience grew, he recalls, clients were increasingly asking him […]

Don’t ask the folks at The London Company to predict the future—even a little bit. That’s just not what they do. Instead, their approach is deliberate, measured and simple. Rather than jumping at the shiniest new objects—say, the trendiest and latest IPOs—and essentially betting on uncertainty, their focus is on purchasing companies with sustainable competitive advantages and […]