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Financial Planning Challenges for Corporate Executives

By Russell Holcombe, MTx, CFP® “What do you think?” she asks with a rhetorical tone. I look at the numbers, but we both know what they’re telling us. I...

Bad Investing Strategies Can Be Addictive
Posted in: Financial Planning, Investment
By Russell Holcombe, MTx, CFP® One of the hallmarks of any successful financial outcome is a strong and realistic...
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Why Maxing Out Your 401(k) Is Not Always Ideal
Posted in: Financial Planning
By Russell Holcombe If you’re like most employees, you’ve probably heard about the importance of a 401(k) plan from...
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Top Financial Planning Challenges for Startup Employees
Posted in: Financial Planning
By Russell Holcombe, MTx, CFP® Working for a startup can be an amazing opportunity. Being at the cutting edge of...
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Why I Became a Financial Advisor
Posted in: Financial Planning
By Russell Holcombe, MTx, CFP® Do you know how hard it is for an ambitious 8-year-old to find a job? Thankfully, I was...
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Your S&P 500 Index Fund Costs More Than You Think
Posted in: Investment
Here’s an investment opportunity for your consideration. It’s managed by an investment committee that seeks to...
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Sir Isaac Newton: Brilliant Physicist. Miserable Investor.
Posted in: Decisions, Investment, Risk
At Holcombe Financial’s recent client learning event about “Behavioral Biases and Their Investment...
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What I learned losing ONE MILLION dollars?
Posted in: Decisions, Financial Planning
“Experience is the worst teacher. It gives the test before giving the lesson.” Unknown The book “What I...
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Can Money Buy Happiness?
Posted in: Financial Planning, Happiness
Yes, but not in the ways that most people think. When someone experiences a liquidity event, it is often accompanied...
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4 tips to survive divorce as an entrepreneur
Posted in: Financial Planning
Corrected as of May 11, 2015. Original draft blog was inadvertently published April 29, 2015. Divorce is never easy and...
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Big Data Must Die
Posted in: Decisions, Financial Planning, Investment
On our annual ski trip, we decided to ride the California Zephyr, which cuts an unimaginable path through the Rockies....
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Never A Good Time To Invest
Posted in: Risk
The last five years have been nothing more than spectacular for those that endured the stock market collapse of...
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How much will my 401(k) pay per month?
Posted in: Financial Planning
I have written about retirement before, even arguing “Don’t save for retirement” at times to make the point that...
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How hard is it to ‘make it ends meet’ on $400,000 per year?
Posted in: Cash Flow
The Wall Street Journal posted a video of an imaginary couple making $400,000 and how they would still only ‘just get...
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How many millionaires in Georgia?
Posted in: Financial Planning
The list below (Source: WSJ / Phoenix Marketing International) shows the number of households with at least $1 million...
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Looking for Investment Advice?
Posted in: Financial Planning, Investment
A policeman sees a drunk searching for something under a streetlight and asks what he has lost. The man answers he has...
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