William F. Davis, CFP® 
When seeking help with your finances, you may be contemplating the merits of fee-only vs fee-based financial advisors. While there’s been much said on this topic, we feel other explanations fail to analyze past the obvious. There is an important aspect that is being overlooked by other discussions, which we’ll address in this article. Before you get … Read more
While we’d all like to think that we are capable of handling the stock market on our own, investor biases play a big part in interfering with our ability to do so. Don’t let them! This article covers the eight major psychological investing biases that get in our way, and what to do about each … Read more
Confirmation bias affects many investors, and it often goes overlooked. In this blog we are going to talk about the definition of confirmation bias, and an example of how it may affect an investor. Lastly, we’ll discuss how to manage it and the role a financial advisor plays in helping clients manage confirmation bias. What … Read more
Good afternoon. It’s been a turbulent week for markets, driven by key developments across multiple sectors. From major AI breakthroughs that could reshape the tech industry to the Federal Reserve’s latest policy stance and newly imposed tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China, investors are navigating a shifting landscape as we head into February. Each of … Read more
One of the newest investment vehicles on the scene is interval funds. We’ve found other discussions of interval funds to be quite uninformative. In this blog we’ll discuss what they are, what their inner workings typically look like, and when it does and does not make sense for an investor. Before we get started, you … Read more
The SALT cap workaround is not well understood by most pass-through entity owners, and as a result it is underutilized. If you are the owner of a pass-through entity such as a business and are seeking to reduce your tax liability, here are some tips for how to leverage the SALT workaround. And by the … Read more
Despite the availability of lower cost options, investors continue to buy A share mutual funds. They shouldn’t. In this blog we’ll talk about why we think investors should run away as fast as they can from A share mutual funds, and we’ll refute the fake logic of the hollow sales pitches that people are often … Read more
Happy New Year! Not sure about you, but I’ll still be writing 2024 until at least the middle of February. And speaking of 2024, if inflation was the word investors feared in 2023, AI was the word they couldn’t get enough of in ’24, as the hype for generative AI surged, reached fever pitch, and … Read more
As a national wealth management firm, we serve clients from our local Philadelphia, PA area as well as across the country. In this blog we’ll provide you with all the information needed to make a smart decision about how to find a good financial advisor in Philadelphia, PA, from what questions to ask to what resources … Read more
If you are buying mutual funds, we believe you should avoid paying 12b-1 fees at all costs; they bite off a bigger part of your wealth than you are probably realizing. In this blog we’ll talk about what these charges are, the impact they could potentially have on your portfolio, and how to tell how … Read more
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