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Kevin Olison | Jul 10, 2025

Why Patience Beats Perfection: The Long-Term Investor's Guide to Market Timing

Finance
Investments

Over the course of your investing life, you’ll encounter market lows and highs. Headlines often spotlight the extremes, especially when markets reach record

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Kevin Olison | May 21, 2025

Financial Spring Cleaning: 8 Ways To Refresh Your Finances

Retirement
Investments
Savings

As spring arrives and the weather warms up, many people turn their attention to cleaning out closets and organizing their homes. According to a recent survey

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Kevin Olison | May 1, 2025

5 Time-Tested Investment Strategies to Match Your Financial Mindset

Investments

What makes one investor stick with their strategy through market swings while another panics and pulls out?

Often, it comes down to mindset.

Your investing

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Kevin Olison | Jan 3, 2025

Planning for the Future: Essential Steps to Secure Your Retirement

Retirement
Savings

Is your retirement savings on track?

If you’re like most people, you may feel it’s not. In fact, concerns about running out of money in retirement are very

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Kevin Olison | Dec 20, 2024

How Hindsight Bias Hurts Investors

Investments

How many of your financial choices are based purely on logic?

It could be fewer than you think.

That’s because most of us make money decisions with our emotions

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Kevin Olison | Oct 2, 2024

How to Reprogram & Improve Your Money Mindset

Finance
Investments
Savings

What’s the first thing you think of when it comes to money?

Are your thoughts more positive or negative?

Whatever’s natural to you can speak to your money mindset

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Kevin Olison | Sep 4, 2024

4 Pervasive Myths About Inflation

Investments
Finance

4 Pervasive Myths About Inflation

Inflation can feel inescapable these days.

For most of us, it also feels like inflation is higher and more persistent than

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Kevin Olison | Aug 20, 2024

How to Beat Investing FOMO: The Power of Patient Wealth Building

Investments
Finance

Can you relate to any of the following?

  • “I should have bought that stock before the company went public!”
  • “What a shame — I wish I had invested in that new
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Kevin Olison | Aug 2, 2024

3 Investment Factors that Don’t Drive Long-term Returns

Investments

As a long-term investor, you’re always thinking about what factors drive your investment returns. Unfortunately, many investors focus on things that cause short

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Kevin Olison | Jun 19, 2024

Your Role & Responsibilities as an Agent in a Power of Attorney (POA)

Investments
Finance
Tax Planning
Insurance
Estate Planning
A power of attorney (POA) can grant you certain authority and specific responsibilities. While the extent and limitations of POAs can vary based on many factors
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Kevin Olison | May 20, 2024

Mastering Stormy Waters: Smart Strategies for Healthcare Costs in Retirement

Finance
Lifestyle
Retirement
Health
With healthcare costs often resembling an unpredictable market, and long-term care expenses looming, the post-work years require careful financial planning
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Kevin Olison | Feb 2, 2024

Investors & the Markets: What to Watch Out for in an Election Year

Investments
Finance

Smart investing doesn’t happen in a vacuum.

Current events matter, and this year, the 2024 Presidential Elections are taking center stage.

That’s rattling a

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