by Springwater Wealth | Apr 22, 2014 | Investment Management
We’re pleased to have added a new video to our Springwater Wealth website. This video introduces the conceptual underpinnings of proper portfolio diversification, discusses its benefits, and explains how to implement it. You can watch the video on our Videos...
by Springwater Wealth | Apr 21, 2014 | Investment Management, Services
Many investors mistakenly assume that buying an index fund or exchange-traded fund that tracks a major benchmark, like the S&P 500 index or the NASDAQ, will provide them with adequate diversification. What they fail to recognize is that these funds or ETFs...
by Springwater Wealth | Apr 18, 2014 | Financial Planning, Retirement Plans, Services
In a new paper titled, “Borrowing from the Future: 401(k) Plan Loans and Loan Defaults,” Olivia S. Mitchell, Wharton professor of business economics and public policy, analyzes the loans people take from their 401(k) plans, why they take these loans and what happens...
by Springwater Wealth | Apr 14, 2014 | Financial Planning, Retirement Plans, Services
When it comes to negotiating a divorce, many couples – or their advisors or attorneys – pay little or no attention to retirement and investment accounts, assuming that they can simply be split in two. However, that’s often a mistake, and a...
by Springwater Wealth | Apr 11, 2014 | Financial Planning, Investment Management, Retirement Plans, Services
In a draft working paper entitled “The Separation of Intelligence and Control: The Retirement Savings Crisis and the Limits of Soft Paternalism”, Jacob Hale Russell, an academic fellow at the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford Law School,...