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.
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 →
IM Reports, Dementia
If you are an investment client of Financial Planning Associates, Inc., your preliminary 2nd quarter reports have been posted to your secure web portal. Final reports will replace the preliminary reports after June 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 →
About the yield curve…
Earlier today, June 25 I observed an interview with Jim Bullard, Pres. of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Jim is also a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the group of (mostly) economists who make policy decisions regarding our central bank. Subsequent to that I observed an interview with the current Fed chairman, Jerome Powell.… Read more →
Changes To Online Payments.
For the past three years, many of our clients have preferred to pay their personal financial planning fees using our online payment facility, which until now made use of the Amazon Pay system. Well, a few days ago the good folks at Amazon Pay suspended our account with no prior notice after deciding that “regulated financial service” companies were not… Read more →