For the month of August, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.63%, the Nasdaq Composite rose 4.34%, and the S&P 500 rose 1.98%, all for their third consecutive monthly advance. Many of the meetings we have had with clients and prospective clients over the last month or so have shared two common questions. Obviously, we [...]
A few years back, I found this fabulous blog by Alison Van Dyke, and each time I read it I'm reminded how current the ideas still are today. She was a fee-only financial planner in San Francisco who worked specifically with new parents. The ideas she posted are easy, fun, and best of all- help [...]
This Rare Credit Expires April 16th, 2012 Have you been considering making a change with your IRA? Or do you have an old employer retirement plan just sitting around that you could rollover into an IRA? Well, here’s one more reason to consider Chladek Wealth Management. If you rollover an IRA or 401k/403b/457 to Scottrade [...]
Parsing the Fed Talk
The September Market Commentary was delayed by a week so that we could provide you with our comments about the important events that took place last week; specifically, Larry Summers removed himself from contention to be the next Federal Reserve Chairman at the beginning of the week, and the Federal Reserve released notes last Wednesday [...]