by Springwater Wealth | Aug 29, 2014 | Financial Planning, Services
Consumers today have more tools that ever to help decipher college prices, and the financial aid packages that may be offered by those schools. College websites are required by law to have net-price calculators, to help applicants estimate what they will really be...
by Springwater Wealth | Aug 28, 2014 | Investment Management, Wealth Management
The financial services industry spends millions of marketing dollars every year trying to convince investors that the key to financial success is picking the right stocks (or mutual fund) or correctly timing the market. Yet study after study over the past four decades...
by Springwater Wealth | Aug 27, 2014 | Investment Management, Services, Wealth Management
In trying to understand the concept of active management, and its potential for success, let’s begin with the question: What is a stock? A stock is simply an ownership share in a company. Each share of stock in a company represents a part ownership for the...
by Springwater Wealth | Aug 26, 2014 | Investment Management, Services, Wealth Management
In an August 19, 2014 article on the CBS MoneyWatch website, author Larry Swedroe tackles the question of whether active management can generate superior results to index or asset class-oriented strategies in less developed market segments, like emerging markets...
by Springwater Wealth | Aug 21, 2014 | Financial Planning, Investment Management, Retirement Plans, Services, Wealth Management
Increasingly, American workers are retiring with multiple types of investment and retirement accounts, including taxable accounts like bank or brokerage accounts; tax-deferred accounts like 401(k), 403(b), SEP IRA and traditional IRA retirement accounts; and Roth...