By Gary Silverman, CFP®
The president of my firm, Michelle Kuehner, recently blogged about grocery spending at FixOurBudget.com. One question she posed to her
By Gary Silverman, CFP®
When I first started my business here in Wichita Falls, I was planning on doing mostly financial planning and offering investment
By Gary Silverman, CFP®
Recently there have been proposals to index the cost basis of securities when it comes to taxing capital gains. That got me thinking
By Gary Silverman, CFP®
A few months back I was attending a conference for investment advisors (one of the many labels I carry). There was the requisite
By Gary Silverman, CFP®
Today we are wrapping up a little series about whether you can do fine in retirement even if you are not saving anything. This came
By Gary Silverman, CFP®
Last time we looked at some findings from a survey on retirement savings. As you can guess, it didn’t look good. Most Americans aren’t
By Gary Silverman, CFP®
As a follow-up to a conference I recently attended, one of the vendors sent me some information from a Time.com article. Apparently, I
By Gary Silverman, CFP®
Last time we started looking at Socially Responsible Investing (SRI). We saw that mutual funds working in this area can use one of two
By Gary Silverman, CFP®
Over the last couple of decades, a new style of investing has emerged: Socially Responsible Investing (SRI). Letting more than your
By Gary Silverman, CFP®
Social Security provides benefits to about 50 million people. Yet the system’s troubles are so well known that most middle-aged people
By Gary Silverman, CFP®
For the last two weeks we looked at the trouble with Social Security (the program is bringing in less money than it pays out and
By Gary Silverman, CFP®
Last week I opened a discussion of Social Security and how to fix it. The proposed fixes are numerous but fall into two basic camps