Waiting For Fed & Trade Tension Direction

From trade tension to the Fed, the best way to describe this week’s market movement is simply with the word patience. The Fed Slowing Economy We learned from the Fed that they are watching economic data to point toward any interest rate changes or balance sheet changes needed ahead. This is welcome news to investors.…

Read More

There’s Always A Market Risk

Financial Design Studio Market Risk Edge

We’ve seen a nice week of markets moving higher which brings some welcome relief from all of the worries we had just a week or two ago.  Much of this relief was brought by easing concerns that global tensions with China are getting better. So now that the government shutdown and global tensions are getting…

Read More

[Video] Life Insurance: Should I or Shouldn’t I?

Financial Design Studio LIfe Insurance II

STEPHEN SMALENBERGER, EA ® [Video] Life Insurance: Should I or Shouldn’t I? Here are a few questions around life insurance: Should I start, maintain, or stop a life insurance policy? Here are two different situations with different life stages and we will analyze the role of life insurance to help answer these questions! Starting A…

Read More

The State Of Your Portfolio

Financial Design Studio Winners of Portfolio

This week was the President’s annual State of the Union address.  As of just a couple weeks ago we didn’t know if this address would take place.  But the temporary end to the shutdown allowed for that talk to subside. And as a reminder, the looming deadline of February 15th still remains for the next…

Read More