Coping with Identity Theft In general Whether they're snatching your purse, diving into your dumpster, stealing your mail, or hacking into your computer, they're out to get you. Who are they? Identity thieves. Identity thieves can empty your bank account, max out your credit cards, open new … [Read more...]
Windward Passages: Protect Yourself From Identity Theft
Windward Kansas City Financial Advisors Tax Bulletin: Help! I Can’t Pay My Tax Bill
You're almost done with your federal income tax return, and you're already thinking of ways to spend your refund. Then, the unthinkable happens — instead of a refund, you find that you owe $3,000. Or perhaps you've just received an IRS notice in the mail claiming that you owe $9,000 for the … [Read more...]
Windward Kansas City Financial Advisors Tax Bulletin: Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
529 Plans Expanded In December 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a sweeping $1.5 trillion tax-cut package, became law. College students and their parents dodged a major bullet with the legislation, as initial drafts of the bill included the elimination of Coverdell Education Savings Accounts, the … [Read more...]
How to Invest Sensibly In Uncertain Times
Over the last few weeks we’ve been discussing bull markets. Particularly, how different investors react to them and why it is so hard to predict when they will end. The market has been on a pretty good run over the last 8 or so years. We know this has to end, but we don’t know when. So how … [Read more...]
Why is it impossible to predict when a bear market will begin?
The market has risen or been relatively flat every year since 2009. When will this end? When will the next bear market begin? Unfortunately these questions are nearly impossible to answer. Even more unfortunate, billions of dollars are lost each year by individual investors trying to guess the … [Read more...]