Patrons curious about whether their favorite restaurant was awarded a grant from the Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RRF) can now access a database containing the names and amounts for all RRF grants approved by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). The SBA released the RRF information July 9 in a comma-separated values file that can be […]
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5 questions for Baird financial advisor diversity manager Ashley Price
In a new episode of the Financial Planning podcast, Baird recruiting executive Ashley Price explains how the wealth manager is working with advisor practices and a state university to help usher in the next generation of planners. Price is Baird’s private wealth management diversity and recruiting manager, leading the expanding employee channel firm’s inclusion, training […]
Buying mortgage backed securities is Boomer Stimulus
(you can listen to this podcast above, or find The Goldmine wherever fine podcasts are streamed) By flooding the mortgage market with wave after wave of liquidity, more than one year after the start of the pandemic and in an environment of zero percent interest rates, the Fed is still stimulating the sellers of homes. […]
Planning For The Expiration Of The CARES Act Student Loan Payment And Interest Freeze
Executive Summary Beginning on March 20, 2020, most Federal student loan borrowers were given a break from having to make student loan payments, with interest rates set to 0% and no payments required. This policy began as an Executive Order, was then included in the CARES Act, and was repeatedly extended by both the Trump […]
FCA bans IFA for failing to disclose bankruptcy
The FCA has banned former IFA Matthew Creed, a director of financial advisory firm AAA Management Ltd, from performing any regulated activity following an investigation into his bankruptcy. The regulator said that Mr Creed had failed to inform the watchdog about his bankruptcy in 2014 and disqualification as a company director. Mr Creed was an […]
New federal lockdown support for NSW businesses amid Sydney COVID-19 outbreak
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Why Would Anyone Ever Sell?
[embedded content] 5:30pm ET LIVE premiere today – Subscribe for the alert! Join Downtown Josh Brown and Michael Batnick for another round of What Are Your Thoughts? On this week’s episode, Josh and Michael discuss the biggest topics in investing and finance, including: ►Why Would Anyone Sell? – Securities-based loans provide all the benefits of […]
My custom indexing call plays out
I called custom indexing THE investing mega trend of 2021 back in December. You can read what I had to say here. This morning, Vanguard announced their entrance into the field via acquisition. If you know Vanguard, you know that they don’t make acquisitions. Which should tell you how strategically important they think this technology […]
Garden-variety affluent investors embrace estate planning of the ultra-rich
Ordinary affluent people increasingly share an emerging challenge with their extremely moneyed peers: Figuring out how to minimize taxes when passing wealth to heirs. On the surface, President Joe Biden’s proposals for sweeping tax hikes appear to hit ultra-rich individuals the most. A higher top individual rate, a near doubling of the capital gains rate […]
These are America’s 10 worst states for remote work
Getty Images One aspect of life during the pandemic that many experts believe may be here to stay is the move toward remote work. Even as the U.S. economy reopens, some major employers are allowing many of their people to continue working from home, at least part of the time. Twitter, which was already on […]