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Peter Locke

What’s the value? 

This is the untold story of what happens to most people that meet with financial advisors not CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERS™.  Whether you’re at a big brokerage firm, insurance company, or on a robo advisor platform, the stories are the same.  

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Peter Locke

Should you pay off your credit card or save?

The short answer is usually to always pay off high interest erosive debt like a credit card first (The First 8 “Good” Money Habits). You cannot consistently return more than credit card interests rates, therefore, you should pay it off

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Private Placements
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Peter Locke

Private Placements in your IRA & 401(k)

A Self-Directed IRA (SDIRA) is very similar to a traditional IRA but gives you more ways to diversify your investments and retirement savings and can include using Private Placements. The SDIRA gives you greater control and flexibility by investing in

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Kevin Taylor

Not just outperformance, the right performance

We are a firm that believes the majority of a client’s ability to generate wealth happens from decisions made outside of their investment portfolio. However, we take our role as active managers seriously and have developed a fundamentals-driven process to

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tax planning
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Kevin Taylor

Year-End Tax Planning Under the Biden Administration

A lack of political clarity means not knowing whether Democrats can push their legislative agenda faster. If Democrats gain control of the US Senate, Republicans won’t have the control to force legislation gridlock. Therefore, without this crucial information year end

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Peter Locke

Sudden Wealth Planning

For those that are thinking about passing wealth on, they must think about how they want that wealth to be spent. For the people that are inheriting wealth, you may have other ideas in mind.  Both people have their own

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Peter Locke

Backdoor Roth 

If you’re looking for tax free income in retirement getting as much money into your Roth is the way to go. Tax free growth turns into tax free income. Executing on backdoor Roth strategies can be a little confusing but

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