This past week I taught a seminar on effective budget making. It broke down the basics on proper ratios of spending, saving, giving and debt repayment. As I presented, I jokingly said if I could gain access to Congress, I would love to enlighten Washington on these basic principles. As [...]
Last week I provided a concise breakdown of the major changes to retirement account regulations brought about by the passage of the SECURE act of 2022. For more information about this new law check out my article on the topic that ran on 1/11. Today however, I wish to comment [...]
In the midst of all the chaos that comes with the whole Christmas season, you may not have realized that as part of the massive Omnibus Bill signed by Congress to avert a government shutdown, significant legislation was passed related to your retirement accounts. The SECURE Act of 2022 commonly [...]
While it will be several weeks before we have a clear picture on total retail sales this holiday season, we do know that it started very poorly with November sales numbers, typically the highest month of the entire year, actually dropping .6% when compared to October. Many on Wall Street have interpreted [...]
At Stewardship Capital we recently celebrated our 25th anniversary in business. Before 1997, the idea of an independent advisor actively managing the portfolios of clients who were not high-net-worth was quite rare. (Honestly, in many ways it still is 25 years later.) At that time most individuals invested their money [...]
Recently the crypto industry was rocked to its core with the collapse of the third largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world FTX, and the still developing scandal revolving around the alleged securities fraud committed by its founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. With a value as high as 32 billion weeks [...]
It’s getting to be that time of year again when we all start thinking about taxes, and what we are going to owe in the spring. This probably goes without saying, but my goal is always to pay as little as possible to both Washington DC and Jefferson City. A [...]
With Halloween less than a week away, I thought there would be no better time to write an article on the undead. Yes, that’s right. This week I am going to opine on the topic of zombies and warn you all that a zombie apocalypse could be right around the [...]
It’s never fun to pay capital gains taxes on investments you hold. It’s significantly less fun to have to pay them in a year where your account balances have suffered heavy losses. That however, is the scenario many may face this year. Today, I want to provide some insight into [...]
One of the largest myths people believe about personal finance and investing is that it is simply a math formula to be solved. In fact, I would argue one’s emotional intelligence has infinitely more impact on their success in investing than their mathematical intelligence. Psychologist Peter Salovey defines emotional intelligence [...]
