Investing

This Is Not Financial Advice Hits Tribeca Film Festival

Yesterday the film This Is Not Financial Advice premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in front of a sold-out audience and I couldn’t be happier for Chris Temple and everyone involved with the project. Last summer at the FutureProof conference, a conference I highly recommend all of the financial advisor readers to attend this summer, attendees were able to see…

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Financial Planning, Investing

Not Investment Advice

This morning I emailed a client’s grandsons with a few recommendations for blogs and podcasts to help them continue their interest and education in personal finance and investing; I sent them home the other day with a copy of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, The Psychology of Money, and How I Invest My Money but wanted to make sure they…

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Cryptoassets, Investing

Are Your Cryptoassets Trapped?

With the excitement around Robinhood’s S-1 filing yesterday and its upcoming IPO, I have no doubt more investors will be giving the company a look, which is hard to believe given that it has over 18 million accounts and $80 billion in assets on the platform. Those numbers are bonkers, especially if you look at how it grew from 7…

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Investing

NFT’s On Saturday Night Live

I don’t know if this is the top for NFT’s or the beginning of the general public learning about the latest investment phenomenon–if I had to pick, I think it’s the latter. I’m on the record saying that I believe NFT’s are here for the long run, will make an impact in the music industry and with artists, NBA TopShots…

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Investing

Be Wary Of Quick Dismissals

If you haven’t heard about NFTs (non-fungible tokens) yet, you certainly will soon. There’s a chance you’ve heard of them and just don’t know it yet–if you have sports fans in your family, maybe you’ve heard of NBA Top Shots. These collectibles are the modern-day/future version of sporting cards; if you haven’t seen what’s going on with sporting cards over…

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Financial Planning, Investing

Harvesting Gains

It’s year-end tax planning time… I’m sure you’ve heard of tax-loss harvesting—the process of selling investments in a taxable investment account at a loss to realize the loss and be able to offset future capital gains. Financial advisors and CPAs often recommend this strategy and robo-advisors will even take care of it for you. It’s a strategy worth exploring and…

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