Compardo Wienstroer & Janes
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By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer While the US Fed paused for breath in this week’s rate decision, markets were a little more flustered. With a focus alternately on whether Jerome Powell was definitely committing…
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By Aoifinn Devitt CFP® – Chief Investment Officer Now that the debt ceiling storm has passed and pundits have moved on to breathless analysis of the growing Presidential primary field, there’s been time for regulators…
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[button link=”https://monetastl.com/cwcj/cwcj-insider/#signup” type=”big” color=”black”] Sign-up to receive these pieces in your inbox[/button] Advisor – Matt Schaller MBA, CFA, CFP® Economic indicators are, in their most simple terms, a statistic or data point about economic activity. …
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By Aoifinn Devitt CFP® – Chief Investment Officer It is still tech that is the apple of the stock market’s eye at present as the NASDAQ outperformed the S&P 500 and the Dow for the fourth week…
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Chris Kamykowski, CFA®, CFP® – Head of Investment Strategy and Research Rich McDonald, MBA – Head of Portfolio Management and Fixed Income Back in January, we wrote about the extraordinary measures being undertaken by the…
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[button link=”https://monetastl.com/cwcj/cwcj-insider/#signup” type=”big” color=”black”] Sign-up to receive these pieces in your inbox[/button] Senior Advisor, Benjamin Trujillo J.D., LL.M. – Qualified Spousal Trusts (QSTs) are a type of estate planning tool in certain states, like Missouri…
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Diane Compardo & Mark Conrad Named to Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Advisors List in 2023.
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Aoifinn Devitt – Chief Investment Officer It was a week that saw great pomp and fanfare across the Atlantic as the official coronation of King Charles III took place in the UK. On this side of…
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Aoifinn Devitt – Chief Investment Officer Although only early April, violent Spring storms have already worked their way across much of the Midwest, disrupting flights and wreaking havoc in small communities. In a similar fashion, the…
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[button link=”https://monetastl.com/cwcj/cwcj-insider/#signup” type=”big” color=”black”] Sign-up to receive these pieces in your inbox[/button] Senior Advisor, Benjamin Trujillo J.D., LL.M. – A spousal lifetime access trust (SLAT) is a type of irrevocable trust that offers numerous benefits…
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Chris Kamykowski, CFA, CFP®, Head of Investment Strategy and Research “That will be 20 bucks.” Ever wondered why people say “20 bucks” in reference to a transaction today? At one point, the “buck” served as…
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The saying goes that there are two things certain in life: death and taxes. This past month reminds us that a close third is that a failed bank will create ample fear and anxiety for…
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[button link=”https://monetastl.com/cwcj/cwcj-insider/#signup” type=”big” color=”black”] Sign-up to receive these pieces in your inbox[/button] Senior Advisor, Benjamin Trujillo J.D., LL.M. – Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) have long been a popular tool for retirement savings, with many people…
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Moneta ranked in the top 25% across all similarly sized companies in six of 12 key culture categories evaluated in the survey: Company Direction, Cross-Team Collaboration, Leaders In-The-Know, Meaningful Work, Open Minded Culture, and Supportive…
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Tim Side – Research Analyst Markets were roiled last week following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest U.S. bank with more than $200 billion in assets. Depositors went into the weekend with…
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[button link=”https://monetastl.com/cwcj/cwcj-insider/#signup” type=”big” color=”black”] Sign-up to receive these pieces in your inbox[/button] Senior Advisor, Benjamin Trujillo J.D., LL.M. – Premium financing is a technique that can be used in estate planning to allow individuals and…
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Chris Kamykowski, CFA®, CFP® – Head of Investment Strategy & Research Markets are flummoxed with changing expectations for how long the Fed will raise rates and for how long they hold at the eventual terminal…
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Aoifinn Devitt – Chief Investment Officer The US CPI data for January was not exactly a sweet-smelling Valentine’s Day bouquet. Although it showed a seventh consecutive month of lower inflation than the previous month, it still…
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[button link=”https://monetastl.com/cwcj/cwcj-insider/#signup” type=”big” color=”black”] Sign-up to receive these pieces in your inbox[/button] Senior Advisor, Benjamin Trujillo J.D., LL.M. – Estate planning is an important aspect of financial planning that helps individuals and families protect and…
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[button link=”https://monetastl.com/cwcj/cwcj-insider/#signup” type=”big” color=”black”] Sign-up to receive these pieces in your inbox[/button] Senior Advisor, Benjamin Trujillo J.D., LL.M. – An irrevocable life insurance trust (ILIT) is a trust that is designed to hold a life…
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In 2014, our team’s Athlete & Entertainment Service was born with the addition of Jordan Janes CFP®. Jordan quickly advanced in his career with CWCJ and was promoted to Partner in 2018. The practice has…
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Diane Compardo CFP®, CPA, PFS, AWMA®, founding partner of Compardo, Wienstroer & Janes at Moneta has been recognized five times this year by Barron’s and Forbes as a top financial advisor in the U.S. 2022…
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CWCJ – Senior Advisor This could be the perfect time to convert a traditional Individual Retirement Account (IRA) to a Roth IRA. Roth IRAs have often provided significant benefits to investors. Money in these accounts…
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Aoifinn Devitt | Chief Investment Officer Chris Kamykowski CFA®, CFP® | Head of Investment Strategy & Research The second quarter was dominated by the Fed finally moving to interest rate “lift-off” and beyond, growing inflation…