Account Consolidation

A recent article on Yahoo! Finance lists four retirement regrets and costly mistakes that you should avoid. One of these mistakes is having too many accounts. ‘The most I’ve seen is 16 different retirement accounts at different institutions. It becomes…

When Is a Plus 3.9% Return Really a Minus 7.7% Return?

It doesn’t seem there should be any difference when calculating investment performance, but there are actually two methods for calculating annualized investment returns.  Time Weighted and Dollar Weighted. When evaluating how a manager has performed, Time Weighted is usually the…

Can You Help Me Rollover My Old 401(k)?

“Can you help me roll over my old 401(k)?” It’s a question that comes up often, but the answer isn’t always simple.  Many of our clients come to us with old 401(k), 403(b), 457 and Simple IRA accounts from previous…

FSI Featured in InvestmentNews Magazine

Our operations specialist, Grace Kvantas, was recently featured in InvestmentNews Magazine.  The article explains how financial advisors can find and hire new talent since many financial advisors are nearing retirement and are unsure how to find someone younger to take…

Is the US Stock Market Expensive?

“We are about to enter the greatest bull market in 85 years.” CNBC 6/8/14 “Bull Has Legs to Run Another 10 Years.” Bloomberg 6/23/14 Anyone remember the book Dow 36,000 published in 1999 shortly before the dot-com bubble burst?    Fifteen…

Why We Are Embracing Social Media

We realize how quickly the world is changing, and with the lightning fast technologically-driven world in which we live, we understand the desire to have information in a quicker, more relevant way. In response to this, we want to describe…

FSI Tees Up for Golden on the Green

For the past nine years, Financial Symmetry has had the privilege of sponsoring and participating in the charity golf tournament, Golden on the Green.  This tournament, which has been an annual event held at River Ridge Golf Course for the past…

When Will the Federal Reserve Raise Interest Rates?

As the economy improves and the Federal Reserve (“Fed”) ends its quantitative easing program in October the next question for investors is when will the Fed raise rates? Which Factors Are Most Important to Raise Interest Rates? The Fed will…

Company Credit Cards

I was recently quoted in a News & Observer article on how credit cards can be used effectively by small business owners and their employees. While I agree that company credit cards are a useful tool that can provide flexibility…

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