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Jeffrey B. Snyder, CFP® | Jan 24, 2023

A Service That Helps Seniors Transition Houses or Living Situations

Recommendation

This is a different type of blog post, one that has nothing to do with the markets, but one that I think some of my clients might find very useful.

I know one

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Jeffrey B. Snyder, CFP® | Jan 17, 2023

Market Update for January 17. 2023

Market Update
RMD

Three items today, one looking backward, one looking forward, and one piece of news related to a recently passed piece of legislation:

1)  2022 was a tale of

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Jeffrey B. Snyder, CFP® | Dec 12, 2022

Market Update for December 12, 2022

Market Update
Growth vs. Value
Tax Planning

On July 20, 2022 I wrote in this blog, “I previously wrote about how the S&P 500 seemed to be holding the 4,070 area, and we remain around 100 points or 2.75%

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Jeffrey B. Snyder, CFP® | Nov 29, 2022

Market Update for November 29, 2022

Market Update

Picture two theoretical stock markets:  

Market A goes up consistently indefinitely.  There are no downticks, just consistent growth.  This is a great market

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Jeffrey B. Snyder, CFP® | Nov 15, 2022

Market Update for November 15, 2022

Market Update
interest rates

We are over a week past the midterm elections, and most of the races have been decided.  The Democrats will seemingly end up with 50 or 51 Senate seats, on the

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Jeffrey B. Snyder, CFP® | Oct 21, 2022

2023 Tax Brackets Released

Tax Planning

For you early planners, here are the 2023 tax brackets and a few related items for the upcoming tax year.  Please note this information does not affect anything

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Jeffrey B. Snyder, CFP® | Oct 19, 2022

Market Update for October 18, 2022

Market Update
US Dollar

After a ton of daily movement pro and con, the S&P 500 is trading just above 3,700 today, 10/18/22., the same level it traded at in mid-June 2022.  October is

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Jeffrey B. Snyder, CFP® | Sep 26, 2022

2-year Treasury Yields top 4.2%

Fed
Recession
Yield Curve

After another round of interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, the 2-year Treasury hit a 15-year high of 4.266% earlier today.  The rate retreated a small

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Jeffrey B. Snyder, CFP® | Sep 13, 2022

Market Update for September 12, 2022

Inflation
Market Update

It is so easy to be dour and pessimistic with the world - I came across this article today and wanted to share it just because it points out some positives. 

I

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Jeffrey B. Snyder, CFP® | Sep 2, 2022

Market Update for September 2, 2022

Market Update
Fed

Two pieces today, one on general retirement planning thoughts and one on our current market:

1)  You may have noticed in our discussions and meetings I spend

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Jeffrey B. Snyder, CFP® | Aug 26, 2022

Withdrawals in Retirement and Portfolio Performance

Withdrawals
Performance
Retirement

For those of you interested in the interrelationship between during-retirement withdrawals and portfolio performance, please check out this article.  

The

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Jeffrey B. Snyder, CFP® | Aug 10, 2022

Market Update for August 10, 2022

Market Update
Growth vs. Value
Fed

Part of the benefit of writing consistent blog posts is one can look back and see the date where I wrote XYZ and compare it to the current situation.  I am not

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