Sharing your COVID Cookies

No one could predict the year we’ve had - toilet paper almost became a new form of currency, people got used to waiting in line to enter stores (even when it wasn’t Black Friday), and we embraced Zoom as the ultimate digital connection platform.

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Lyndsay Fearnall
Retirement: The elephant in the room

Retirement is new- very new.

Only in the last couple generations have the systems necessary for people to save and stop working been in place. The greatest generation (depression era) were the first group to accomplish retirement en masse. And what did they do with this ‘retirement’? They saved more.

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Lyndsay Fearnall
It’s true: you may lack retirement confidence

Practice makes perfect, but what about in retirement?

Confidence comes from that which we repeatedly do- also known as practicing. But it’s very difficult to practice retirement. It’s even harder to find planners with first hand experience to help you along. Over the years I’ve learned a lot about the retirement mindset.

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Lyndsay Fearnall
The financial planning fee-for-all

Over the last few years there has been a huge focus on fees in financial planning. The general message: cheaper means better. While competition and fee disclosure is great for clients, the focus really should be on the value received for those fees.

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Lyndsay Fearnall
Full Speed Retirement

The lottery is a thing that dares you to imagine “what if?” Its commercials depict people living their dreams - celebrating together; spending together; relaxing together - and inspire millions to imagine what they’d do if they had the time, energy and money to do whatever they wanted.

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Lyndsay Fearnall