By Matt Starkey One subject every student should master before heading off to college is how to manage his or her personal finances. Many students simply “spend as they go.” Unfortunately, overspending can easily become the rule, rather than the exception. An average...
By Matt Starkey 1. Save and Invest Traditionally, when your children are grown and leave home, you are released from being their financial “provider.” No more bills for everything from food and clothes to visits to the dentist. Along with this “freedom” may come the...
By Matt Starkey Investing is at best a risky proposition and sometimes even the best investment ideas don’t work out. However, avoiding these 9 mistakes may help improve your investing outcomes. 1. Investing without a plan When you take a road trip in your car you...
By Matt Starkey Although we all know that “time flies,” it seems to move particularly fast as we watch our children grow. It is understandable that new parents might procrastinate, since seventeen years seems so far in the future. However, when it comes to planning...
By Matt Starkey What is it? An incentive stock option is a right or option granted by the sponsoring corporation to its employees to purchase shares of the corporation’s stock at a certain price for a specified period of time, notwithstanding an increase in the...
