Business

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 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 [...]

By Michael Vaughn, CFP® With everything the past year has thrown at us, the last thing you probably feel like doing is thinking about taxes. But, like it or not, tax season is here, and the [...]