by MKD Wealth Coaches | Sep 30, 2020 | Wealth Coaching
It can be hard to see what is appropriately valued when there are so many variables, pressures and external forces at play. Despite how calm or chaotic your day might look, the environment that we live, plan, and invest in is fractured, unprecedented, and shifting...
by John Dankovich | Sep 16, 2020 | Wealth Coaching
The SECURE (Setting Every Community Up For Retirement Enhancement) Act of 2019 was signed into law on December 20, 2019. It makes significant changes in how those who inherit an IRA account must make withdrawals from such accounts. Before 2020, if an individual owned...
by MKD Wealth Coaches | Aug 27, 2020 | Wealth Coaching
A funny thing about noticing things is that you see what you’re looking at. That may not sound particularly clever or genius, but let’s be clear, if you’re looking at a dump, you’ll see garbage, and if you’re looking at a diamond ring, you’ll see gold and diamonds –...
by MKD Wealth Coaches | Jul 23, 2020 | Wealth Coaching
It is an onslaught of bad news: COVID-19 resurgence, social unrest, market volatility, electoral mud-slinging, contentious geopolitics and so much more. Your social feed, mainstream media and socially distant conversations are stacked deep with enough to make most...
by MKD Wealth Coaches | Jul 7, 2020 | Wealth Coaching
This weekend the nation took pause to celebrate Independence Day. It’s usually seen as a day to celebrate freedom, but it’s actually something close, but slightly different. Independence Day is a celebration of the detachment from feudal loyalty to an oppressor. It’s...
by MKD Wealth Coaches | Jul 2, 2020 | Wealth Coaching
Good and Bad are tricky words but can make a good title. More accurately, however, we should probably say Growth: When It Works and When It Doesn’t. In general, growth is viewed as a good thing. It means ‘more of something,’ not necessarily better and not necessarily...
by MKD Wealth Coaches | Jun 26, 2020 | Wealth Coaching
There is a Bull-Bear battle underway that is more complex than ever. Recently we’ve seen a rally in the markets that seems to defy the underlying indicators, so let’s take a quick look at this. Financial plans are designed for the long term and focus on discipline and...
by MKD Wealth Coaches | Jun 19, 2020 | Wealth Coaching
Bloomberg Businessweek titled last week’s edition as The Great Disconnect, and it was aptly named. This is a time of disconnections. We’ve been feeling disconnected from friends, from family members, from social gatherings, and even from our regular sense of reality....
by MKD Wealth Coaches | Jun 10, 2020 | Wealth Coaching
“Tell me what we should do next.” It was a simple request and one that needed some complex thinking if we were to give a clear answer. Here’s how we answered it… When we bring advice to help you get where you want to go, it’s driven by a desired future state, a vision...
by MKD Wealth Coaches | Jun 4, 2020 | Wealth Coaching
Sound bites are great. They’re short. They’re catchy. They make great headlines. And they’re rarely the entire story. As a matter of fact, they’re meant to not be the whole story, but to have enough of a sensational or curiosity-generating effect that we read on....
