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Women Face Many Challenges in Retirement and Planning Ahead is Key to Achieve Financial Security As healthcare costs continue to skyrocket, it’s becoming more and more important for American workers to develop a plan for…
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Lauren Hunt, Senior Advisor Twitter laid off approximately 3,700 employees in early November as part of Elon Musk’s $44 billion purchase of the company. While no one likes to lose a job, many of the…
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Kevin Ward – Advisor Einstein is often credited—perhaps apocryphally—with identifying compound interest as the world’s eighth wonder. Benjamin Franklin was also famous for his comments on the power of money compounding: “Money makes money. And the…
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I often hear individuals, both young and old, reference how they don’t need to worry about estate planning or who they’ve selected as beneficiaries because they’ve executed a Will. Let’s set the record straight. A…
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By Ryan Martin and Lauren Hunt, Senior Advisors Investors know the drop in stock prices for many companies and funds in 2022 has hurt their portfolios. Even historically stellar investments have tumbled this year. For…
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Lauren Hunt, Senior Advisor With year-end quickly approaching, taxpayers still have several weeks left to plan a strategy that could provide meaningful tax savings. Here are five year-end tax planning ideas that may work for…
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James Chalmers – Senior Advisor Some people are planners; others are procrastinators. Some are one-thing-at-a-timers, and some are a combination, depending on the topic. Retirement, though, is an area for which planning is not just…
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Moneta Partner Peter Racen recently celebrated entrepreneurship and recognized the contributions of five outstanding individuals in the St. Louis area. The UMSL Accelerate Entrepreneur of the Year Award was established by Racen and his wife…
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Kevin Ward – Advisor Life is full of unknowns—simultaneously a source of tremendous potential joy and anxiety. But with thoughtful planning, you can mitigate some of the unknowns—or at least better position yourself to handle surprises…
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Kevin Ward – Advisor Life is full of unknowns—simultaneously a source of tremendous potential joy and anxiety. But with thoughtful planning, you can mitigate some of the unknowns—or at least better position yourself to handle surprises…
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Kevin Ward – Advisor Life is full of unknowns—simultaneously a source of tremendous potential joy and anxiety. But with thoughtful planning, you can help mitigate some of the unknowns—or at least better position yourself to…
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Hello everyone and welcome to this month’s Ask the CFP segment. This month’s question is, “how do I avoid probate with real estate?” If you’re familiar with probate court, you may know it can take…
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Kevin Ward, Advisor Life is full of unknowns—simultaneously a source of tremendous potential joy and anxiety. But with thoughtful planning, you can mitigate some of the unknowns—or at least better position yourself to handle surprises…
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Want to take the guesswork and the stress of timing the market off your plate? History and statistics tell us that timing equity markets is not generally a successful long-term portfolio strategy. At Moneta, we…
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Kevin Ward, Advisor Private equity’s popularity has soared over the past couple of decades among institutional and qualified-high-net-worth investors—perhaps a response to mutual and exchange-traded funds’ massive rise in the 1980s and 1990s. But popularity…
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Kevin Ward, Advisor Real estate markets—particularly metropolitan markets like Chicago—can be challenging to navigate for home buyers (and sellers, for that matter—a topic for another day). Home prices in popular metro markets may only seem…
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By Ryan Martin & Lauren Hunt, Senior Advisors What is the right percentage of stocks, bonds, and other investments I should have in my investment portfolio? This is one of the most important questions each…
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Matthew Erker – Advisor Executives face a host of challenges which can differ dramatically depending on their industry, company size, and other variables. But many executives often share at least one challenge: information overload—which can…
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Kevin Ward, Advisor For many, retirement increasingly represents a meaningful share of our lives—the benefit, partly, of the miracles of modern medicine which have extended our lifespans. But without a daily job to go to,…
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Research shows that the cost of education has risen 3-fold over the last 20 years. Here’s a chart from U.S. News & World Report that illustrates the average tuition growth across universities from 2002 through…
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Kevin Ward, Advisor As life expectancies have extended and as wealth in many developed countries has grown exponentially over the last century-plus, retirement not only has increasingly become a reality for many, but it also…
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Kevin Ward, Advisor Retirement is a sprawling topic. The word alone can raise questions, emotions, and concerns—about how exactly your future will look, what life will entail as the day-to-day changes, how the financial situation…
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Local Denver 7 News turned to Moneta Partner Lynn Dunston to discuss the topic of retirement planning in a volatile market environment. Here is an excerpt of Dunston’s insight from an article posted on thedenverchannel.com:…
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This article, written by Franklin Distributors, LLC, provides great insight on how to approach today’s investment environment. 1. Watching from the sidelines may cost you When markets become volatile, a lot of people try to…