APRIL 24, 2014
It is alive!!!
The first post…
I begin with a question. Is there a need for another financial advice blog?
Or should we let the monster die?
You will be the ones to determine that. Can you benefit from subscribing and getting updates on money matters?
You can receive objective, results oriented advice and few chuckles along the way.
You can determine what is said on this blog as I will let you guide me with your questions. . I will provide the basics but your feedback will help me to help you.
I don’t want to get too biographical in this post but I want to offer you the opportunity to tap into my considerable experience. For your benefit I would like to offer up myself as an example of both what can go wrong and what can go right.
It would be easy for me to tout the many successes but I must also tell you about the dreadful things I have done wrong. In my career as a financial adviser and business developer I have been able to make exceptional investment returns, start many profitable ventures and consult with both individuals and corporation to help them achieve their financial objectives.But I have also screwed up
I have a wealth of experience in diverse areas of personal and corporate finance and believe that my unique skill set and broad base of experience can offer you a dose of reality and candor you are not likely to hear elsewhere.But sometimes I still screwed up.
It would be convenient to ignore the mistakes I have made but that would not serve you nor would it satisfy my need to be totally transparent. You don’t need to make financial mistakes; you see, I have done a great deal of “mistake making” for you. Please let me prevent you from making one or more of the painful mistakes I have made. I am willing to filet myself wide open and do what most advisers will not do… tell you about their mistakes.(see my bio on “About Me” tab if interested.)
I hope you can learn and benefit from both my successful experiences and those which did not go as planned. One of the reasons I wanted to pass this knowledge along is that as a young man I would have killed to have someone to talk finance with . Someone that could offer unbiased advice. Instead I became a prolific reader. I can’t begin to tell you the volumes of books I have read about business, investing and economics. I confess I am an economics nerd. I take three economics newsletters and spend time pouring over charts that most would find meaningless, useless and boring. I promise to pass along only the relevant info about economics and I will help you look out after your money.
I will distill my knowledge and hard earned experience down to bite sized chunks that will be easy to swallow. The advice will be actionable. I hope we can share a laugh or too and not take things too seriously. I will answer your questions and appreciate your comments. I will ask you to help guide me to help you and send along your questions.
I am not selling financial products. I am not going to allow paid advertising and won’t endorse anything for any amount of money unless I really believe in it.
One thing this blog will not be is un-opinionated. I will however let you know when an opinion is offered and differentiate it from fact.
To those of you that have invested with me over the years I thank for all you have done to make my business not feel like work. While I have so enjoyed the experience of knowing each of you, some much more than others (I said I would provide candor) I want to move to a new segment of my life and want to take you along with me.
For years I have not made any public solicitation for clients. I have been blessed with a small but loyal investor base and not needed to reach out to the masses to do what I wanted to do. I humbly thank you again for that luxury.
New horizons ahead. I hope we can keep in touch and enjoy a prosperous future together.
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