Posts by Financial Design Studio, Inc.
Earnings Season Has Started. And There’s Mixed Financial Results…
Over the past week, earnings season started! Right now we are watching to see if companies performed better than expected or reported less earnings per share than expected. Do you ever look back at the results of a project you’ve been working on to see how it performed? This is what we get to do with every…
Read MoreThe S&P 500 Hit 3000! What Comes First: Trade, The Fed, Interest Rates, or Yourself?
The S&P 500 hit 3000. Did you miss it this week? After news from Fed Chairman Powell the market rallied slightly to reach a new all-time high. We aren’t certain of whether the Fed will lower rates as the market hopes. Will it be by a full 1% when they do or just half of…
Read MoreRoth IRA Contributions [Video]
STEPHEN SMALENBERGER, EA ® So no matter what you read, what you listen to, you probably have heard max out your 401K. Put away money into retirement accounts. Max out maybe even your Roth IRA contributions. That’s all good advice, if you take it completely blind. But how many times have we taken advice blind, only to find after the fact that…
Read MoreSkills That Are Always In Demand [Video]
How often do you daydream in your head a job that you think would be really cool? Or maybe you dreamed about being a professional athlete? And maybe some of you had the skills that you could have done that. But you just missed an opportunity, or didn’t quite make the cut. There are things…
Read MoreSummer School
Summer School School is out for the year and your summer fun has probably already started! Remember before school ended that the teachers were telling you to keep reading or practicing something over the summer? There are statistics that show how important it is for kids to continue reading every day even during the summer…
Read MoreIt’s Not Typical: This Recent Financial High
Are you riding this week’s financial high? Remember these second chances we’ve discussed that you’re being given to make any allocation changes necessary to adjust your risk for volatility you don’t like to see. And maybe you’ve seen the past few days of gains the market has continued in. With the market near it’s high,…
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