Category: Financial planning

What Women in Tech Need to Know about the Recent Stimulus Package

As you might be aware, in late December 2020, the president signed into law another round of economic stimulus. In March 2020, we had the CARES Act. Now we have the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021.

Are you in a committed, but unmarried, partnership? You need to think about a few things.

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A lot of our clients are in committed, unmarried relationships. Sometimes we work with only one member of the couple. Sometimes we work with both members. Most couples haven’t thought about the effects of their decision to remain unmarried.

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Meg’s Musings: The Unknown

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Welcome back to another round of Meg’s random thoughts of the last few months. I hope you enjoy.

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Reasonable but Arbitrary: The Best You Can Do with Many Financial Decisions.

Have you ever had questions like these about your own finances? Wondered how to figure out the answer?

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Reflections on Four Years of Flow.

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Every year for Flow’s May 9 anniversary, I write a retrospective. (I also have a dinner of champagne and pan-seared halibut, but that is mostly beside the point.) Flow’s fourth year has been, by most objective standards, amazing. And I love writing, especially about myself. Yet I have struggled to write this post.

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Are You Suddenly Aware of Just How UNPrepared You Are for a Crisis?

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Last week, I walked into my kitchen and exclaimed to my husband, “I sure am glad we both have life insurance.”

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Meg’s Musings: Coronavirus Edition

Even as the coronavirus pandemic has upended much of how we understand our lives to work, it has made me wonder about a potential good impact:

Will our lives feel more time abundant, now that we can’t go anywhere?

That and another tangentially related item in this edition of Meg’s Musings.

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Yes, vetting a financial planner is still entirely on you. Sorry. Here are some questions that can help.

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I’m guessing you don’t follow the financial-services media, so you probably missed the recent Giant Kerfuffle: the CFP® Board decided to remove compensation method from its Find a Planner tool.
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Confessions of a Comprehensive Financial Planner

I am not the expert.

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Meg’s Musings (Inaugural!)

One of the most wonderful parts of being a personal financial planner is that I get to see inside the lives and heads (and neuroses…of which I have my fair share, too) of lots of people. My clients share a touching amount of their lives with me. I try quite hard, indeed, to cultivate a relationship and environment in which people feel comfortable doing that. I believe the fleece jacket goes a long way.Continue reading

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Report from the Women-in-Tech Front (a.k.a. GHC19)

Things I learned at Grace Hopper this year:

I cannot do basic arithmetic while standing in front of an audience of 200 people. 100 x 1000 really should be doable.
Yes there is a wrong way to hold the slide clicker, Mr. “You can’t mess it up” A/V guy. Just Watch Me.

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Flow Is Hiring!

Specifically, hiring an Associate Advisor.

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Category: Financial planning

What Women in Tech Need to Know about the Recent Stimulus Package

Are you in a committed, but unmarried, partnership? You need to think about a few things.

Meg’s Musings: The Unknown

Reasonable but Arbitrary: The Best You Can Do with Many Financial Decisions.

Reflections on Four Years of Flow.

Yes, vetting a financial planner is still entirely on you. Sorry. Here are some questions that can help.

Confessions of a Comprehensive Financial Planner

Meg’s Musings (Inaugural!)

Report from the Women-in-Tech Front (a.k.a. GHC19)

Flow Is Hiring!

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