Category: TechKnowledgey

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3rd Quarter Investment Results and More.

by Carl Goodin on October 3, 2019 in FPAI Operations, Investing, TechKnowledgey

If you are an investment client of Financial Planning Associates, Inc., your preliminary 3rd quarter reports have been posted to your secure web portal. Final reports will replace the preliminary reports after inflation information becomes available. Our strategy of owning a broad range of investable assets tends to result in a smoother, steadier growth curve than strategies which limit the… Read more →

We live in interesting, dangerous times.

by Carl Goodin on September 27, 2019 in FPAI Operations, Investing, TechKnowledgey

Many of our client relationships go back decades, the longest goes back to the mid-1980s. Therefore, some of our clients have heard this recurring theme from yours truly a time or two before. Yet, I will state it again because I think it is important. We live in interesting, and dangerous times. Interesting and dangerous because we humans are gaining… Read more →

A Very Quick Note About fpai.net.

by Carl Goodin on August 17, 2019 in FPAI Operations, TechKnowledgey

A few days ago a technical error caused the FPAI.net firewall to disconnect the website Extended Validation SSL security certificate. As a result, if you attempted to connect to our site you may have encountered an error message instead of seeing the normal landing page. The problem has now been identified and the basic SSL security certificate has been applied.… Read more →

A Good Quarter and 3D Printing.

by Carl Goodin on April 2, 2019 in Investing, TechKnowledgey

If you are an investment client of Financial Planning Associates, Inc., your preliminary 1st quarter reports have been posted to your secure web portal. Final reports will replace the preliminary reports after March inflation information becomes available. Note: The calculation used to determine our clients’ returns is called the internal rate of return. It is cash flow specific and is… Read more →

Warning: Scams abound.

by Carl Goodin on March 7, 2019 in Financial Planning, FPAI Operations, TechKnowledgey

Warning: Scams abound. This is a quick note to remind you that these are perilous times. There are phone scams, email scams, phishing scams, tax scams, website hijacking scams, etc., etc., the list goes on. Why do you care? Because the scammers are getting cleverer, and the potential cost of being scammed is great. So, we are including a few… Read more →