What Is a Fee-Only Financial Advisor & Why Does it Matter?

By Lee Sherbakoff, CPA/PFS™, CFP®, RICP® Finding a financial advisor to guide you through your financial journey is an important step to reaching your financial goals. In your research for the right advisor for you, you may have come across the term “fee-only.” This...

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Of Beanie Babies and Bitcoin

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!” -Puck, A Midsummer Night’s Dream As a young investment advisor, I got my first taste of what psychologist’s call, very appropriately, Fear Of Missing Out, (FOMO) with the Beanie Babies craze.  In 1995 a new and novel tool, the...

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May 2021 Monthly Insight – A Bumpy Ride

“A good summary of investing history is that stocks pay a fortune in the long run but seek punitive damages when you try to be paid sooner.” —Morgan Housel, partner at The Collaborative Fund and former columnist at The Motley Fool and The Wall Street Journal By this...

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Happy Holidays From The Nalls Sherbakoff Group

By Lee Sherbakoff, CPA/PFS, CFP®, RICP® It’s been a wild ride, but we have finally arrived at the holidays. Our team at The Nalls Sherbakoff Group would like to take this opportunity to wish you and yours a happy holiday and a refreshing new year! The holiday season,...

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Your Financial Plan & COVID-19

Your Financial Plan and COVID-19 From Lee Sherbakoff, The Nalls Sherbakoff Group, LLC. Dear friends, We all vividly recall the global financial crisis of 2008. The economy was quickly contracting, several financial institutions required bailouts, layoffs abounded, and...

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What You Need To Know About Recessions And Bear Markets

On Thursday, the S&P 500 dropped 9.5%, or 260.74 points, in its largest percentage decline since the Black Monday crash of October 19, 1987. As markets continue their roller coaster ride due to fears surrounding the coronavirus, our most recent bull market...

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Panic 2020 – March 10th, 2020

Panic 2020 From Lee Sherbakoff, The Nalls Sherbakoff Group, LLC. Dear friends, Yesterday – March 9 – was the eleventh anniversary of the climax of global panic that marked the bottom of the Global Financial Crisis bear market of 2007-09. On March 9, 2009, the S&P...

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What I Do And How I Can Help

By Kim Spencer, CFP®, CDFA® Even though women make up almost 47% of the workforce these days, (1) they face financial challenges not often faced by men. Women typically earn 85 cents of every dollar earned by men, (2) and they usually spend fewer years in the...

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Coronavirus Cogitation — February 5th, 2020

Coronavirus Contagion from Lee Sherbakoff, The Nalls Sherbakoff Group, LLC. Dear friends, On Friday, January 17 – after a spectacular 40% run-up that started the day after Christmas 2018 – the Standard & Poor’s 500-Stock Index closed at 3,329.62. Two weeks later...

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Thoughts on October 2018 Market Volatility

After a period of relative calm in the markets, in recent days the increase in volatility in the stock market has resulted in renewed anxiety for many investors. From September 30–October 10, the US market (as measured by the Russell 3000 Index) fell 4.8%, resulting...

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