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Here are a few tips for saving on taxes in your business. Did you know that you can take the home-office deduction, even if you spend more time at a separate location? You may also want to be aware of the survival of the Employee Recreation and Parties tax code through TCJA Tax Reform and how to claim the most benefit.

Another quarter has come and gone; a tick of the second hand in your lifelong financial journey.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere,” retells the story of a patriot who shouts a harrowing warning to his fellow colonists, “A recession is coming! A recession is coming!”

Doctors write prescriptions. Auto mechanics perform tune-ups. Lawyers prepare briefs. Financial advisors help you manage your money. Ultimately, it’s that simple. However, like any other profession, we sometimes have a funny way of saying it.

By Jenny Anderson - March 12, 2019

On a blustery March day five years ago, I locked arms with my mother and walked into a church in Maplewood, New Jersey to bury my brother. Bagpipes played “Amazing Grace.” I remember shivering and worrying: that my dad would slip, my mom would collapse, and that I would botch the eulogy.

A quick online search for “Dow rallies 500 points” yields a cascade of news stories with similar titles, as does a similar search for “Dow drops 500 points.”

by Allan Roth

You can reap big savings by giving up an hour.

Have you ever heard someone say that experience is the best teacher? Here’s another one. There are no mistakes, just lessons.

Well, we would like to take a slightly different tack. Experience isn’t the best teacher - someone else’s experience is. Learn from other peoples’ mistakes and you can save yourself a lot of grief.

Asset allocation. It’s so ingrained in how we manage our clients’ investment portfolios, we talk about it all the time - but what is it? What are assets, and what happens when you allocate them?

Asset Allocation: A Classy Subject