If you are an OPERS employee, you may or may not already know that you have a choice in the type of retirement plan you participate in....

With the quarter ending Thursday, March 28th, 2024, and the S&P 500 returning over 10%, the Russell 2000 coming in around 5%, and the...

How about some good news as it relates to your retirement and investment portfolio? It's 2024, and it's an election year! That might seem...

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The Santa Claus Rally sounds great, right?! The Jolly Saint Nick comes to town, bringing little Johnny a nice new toy and simultaneously...

I recently stumbled upon a stat that got me thinking. It said, "that people who work longer are living longer". We've all heard the...

We truly are blessed in America. A phrase we often say but it's meaning takes on a crisper form when you can compare how easy our lives...

By a mile, the most asked question I get is, "am I ready to retire?" Retirement is technically the single largest expense you'll ever...

Ben and Arthur - I wonder if any parents having two sons have ever named their children Ben & Arthur. I would assume so, but hopefully,...

My wife is a high school women's basketball coach. As such, and considering we have one daughter in junior high and one in late...

About two weeks ago, we were all hit with the clickbait headline, "credit card balances hit $1 trillion". Immediately, people used this...

Hopefully, you'll excuse my two-week hiatus from "What We Learned in the Markets." I'll be back next week and better than ever when I...

Activate Baby Step 5. Your mission, should you choose to accept it is to create financial independence for yourself by saving 15% of your...

A few highlights to hit before we dig into "market stuff" over the following few paragraphs. This last Friday, the Whitaker-Myers Wealth...

That's right! For those of you with kids that are nearing college or college planning has been in your mind lately - it's a two-for July!...

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Major stock market indices made significant gains in the first half of the year due to improving inflation, slowing Fed rate hikes, the...

Things like a savings rate for retirement seem so trivial in the grand scheme of life, right? I’m reminded of that as I watched my...

Lately I’ve been engrossed in the world of watching my LinkedIn feed. Now, remember, LinkedIn is supposed to be the anti-Facebook social media website. Anti-social media in the sense that for busy professionals, it’s a way to share their expertise in a given area, congratulate other professionals on their success regarding awards and promotions, and even learn something along the way with tools such as LinkedIn Learning. However, lately, it’s been a barrage of me watching so