Jump-Start Your Financial Plan for 2022!

By Michael Vaughn, CFP® Welcome to 2022! Given that 2021 wasn’t quite the fresh start we’d hoped for, a new year can be overwhelming to think about. After the intensity of the last two years and [...]

By Michael Vaughn, CFP® Is investing an art or a science? If you want to succeed in investing, does it take a set formula or skill and talent? Either way, investing can seem intimidating and [...]

By Michael Vaughn, CFP® Most of us entered 2021 with a lot of hope—hope that the new year would bring an end to the pandemic and life would go back to normal. Instead, we saw the uncertainty [...]

By Michael Vaughn, CFP® Having employee benefits is a great perk, but if you know all the ins and outs, the chances of maximizing their potential are slim. That’s true of the thrift savings plan [...]

By Michael Vaughn, CFP® Adding a child to your family is arguably one of the most significant milestones in life. After months of preparation, a little one arrives and stirs up overwhelming [...]

By Michael Vaughn, CFP® You’ve likely heard the concept: don’t work for money, make it work for you. This concept isn’t new, but compound interest is a relatively new phenomenon. Albert Einstein [...]

By Michael Vaughn, CFP® If asked to list the most important things in your life, you’ll likely respond with family, or maybe health or a sense of purpose. Although money may not top your list, [...]

By Michael Vaughn, CFP® If we had felt in control of anything prior to the spring of 2020, the global pandemic loosened our grip—or broke it entirely. We were forced to pivot and adapt to changes [...]

By Michael Vaughn, CFP® Just because 2020 is behind us and COVID-19 restrictions are easing doesn’t mean our worries are over. We’re all still feeling the long-lasting effects of the global [...]

By Michael Vaughn, CFP® Few could imagine Apple’s wild success before 2001 when it released its iPod. Founded in Steve Jobs’s garage in 1976, Apple has enjoyed exponential growth over the last [...]