Financial Blogger Wisdom: Spring 2018
Last week, Tadas Viskanta of Abnormal Returns rounded up some of the best finance writers around to answer a series of questions. Here are my responses along with links back to the full set of responses.
Disability Insurance: The Missing Piece in Your Financial Plan
When you’re in the early or middle stages of your career, there are few assets more valuable than your ability to earn an income. Here’s why you should protect it with disability insurance.
Plancorp and BrightPlan Featured in Financial Advisor Magazine
The Plancorp and BrightPlan alliance is grabbing more people’s attention. This month, Financial Advisor Magazine made our partnership the cover story of their latest issue.
How and Why I Gave My Four-Year-Old an Allowance
Paying an allowance is the first step towards instilling good money habits and introduces new opportunities to have meaningful money-related conversations.
Is This Normal?
Volatility was higher than a typical week in the market, but it wasn’t all that unusual from a historical standpoint.
How to Prepare for a Market Downturn
A safety net analysis allows you to understand how long you can withstand a downturn and what changes might be appropriate during this stage of a bull market.
My Top Articles for The Wall Street Journal in 2017
It was an honor to begin contributing to The Wall Street Journal last year. Even better, a few of my articles made their Top 5 Investing Posts of 2017.
Democratizing Investment and Financial Planning Advice
Just days after the launch of BrightPlan, I sat down with my friend Julie Cooling of RIA Database at Schwab IMPACT to discuss our new digital advice platform.
How to Automate Your Finances
Finances have a way of getting increasingly complicated in all stages of life. Putting your savings, bills, and investments on autopilot can greatly simplify things.
The Secret to Using Money to Buy Happiness
Why Doesn’t Stuff Make Us Happy? Does money buy happiness? Here’s the research on what might buy us the most happiness.
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Peter Lazaroff, CFA, CFP® is Plancorp’s Chief Investment Officer, a financial advisor, speaker, and author of the book Making Money Simple.
