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What defines an excellent financial advisor? If you asked five different people, you’d likely get five different answers. However, when you ask thousands of people, clear trends emerge. Much like Dimensional Fund’s survey of 19,000 investors, these shared attributes give us a pretty clear idea of what separates a truly effective advisor from the rest.

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Inflation is a reality we can’t ignore, but we don’t have to let it derail our financial goals. If you’ve read these missives for a while, you know I always come back to the same principles: intentionality, awareness, and long-term thinking. While inflation makes things more expensive, it’s our plan and the implementation of that

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